ARTS BRIEFING
By Lawrence Van Gelder
HIGHLIGHTS MUSIC: PAYMENT BY THE NOTE? -- If one musician in an orchestra plays more notes than another, shouldn't he or she be paid more? That is the question being posed by the 16 violinists of the Beethoven Orchestra in Bonn, the BBC reports. The case goes to court in May, but meanwhile the orchestra's director, Laurentius Bonitz, has a word for the claim: ridiculous. He said, ''Maybe it's an interesting legal question, but musically it's very clear to everyone.'' According to The Daily ...
March 25, 2004, Thursday .
Scalpel! Sutures! Sponge! Hemostat! Psychic!
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
In ''Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital'' a German shepherd speaks with an Arnold Schwarzenegger accent. Comical talking animals may not be the most distinctive feature of Mr. King's 13-part series, which starts tonight on ABC, but they could be the scariest. Channels have been switched for far less. Mr. King has always leavened his horror stories with humor, and his storytelling has been captivating even when his jokes fall flat. ''Kingdom Hospital,'' set in a spookily empty hospital where th...
March 03, 2004, Wednesday .
A Hospital That's a Real Horror Show
By BILL CARTER
AT the start of Stephen King's new 13-part horror series, ''Kingdom Hospital,'' a character named Peter Richman, an artist living in Maine, is taking a quiet walk on a peaceful road near his home when, from out of nowhere, he is struck by a speeding van. The event is a parallel to the devastating accident in 1999 that almost took Mr. King's life and left his body and his psyche shattered. Mr. King has been writing about the accident in various forms ever since, apparently in search of some ...
February 29, 2004, Sunday .
The Quest for the North Central Positronics
By Andrew O'Hehir
Wolves of the Calla The Dark Tower V. By Stephen King. Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson. 714 pp. Hampton Falls, N.H.: Donald M. Grant in association with Scribner. $35.
January 04, 2004, Sunday .
ARTS BRIEFING
By Lawrence Van Gelder
HIGHLIGHTS BROADWAY: ALL ABOUT (NEW YEAR'S) EVE -- The producers of ''The Producers'' say their plans for a $1,500-a-ticket New Year's Eve theater and dinner party for 300 people, including a reception with the musical's stars, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, are a flop. So the event has been canceled. As first reported in The New York Post on Friday, the event, including fine orchestra seats for the show at the St. James Theater, followed by a postperformance reception with the stars an...
December 22, 2003, Monday .
BOLDFACE NAMES
By Joyce Wadler; with Campbell Robertson
Bloom: Was That the Guy In 'The Producers'? Could it be? An actual red carpet at the National Book Awards, on which writers could tread in glory, rather than -- as is usual for them -- be trod upon.
November 21, 2003, Friday .
Shirley Hazzard a Winner At National Book Awards
By RANDY KENNEDY
Shirley Hazzard, who twice before was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction, won the award last night for ''The Great Fire'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a love story set in devastated post-World War II Japan and her first novel in 23 years. She accepted the award before a crowd of 900 writers, editors and publishers, and urged American writers to remain aware of their immense power in the world and their consequent responsibility not to degrade the language they had been given.
November 20, 2003, Thursday .
ARTS BRIEFING
By Lawrence Van Gelder
HIGHLIGHTS LONDON: DAVID BLAINE, DOWN AND OUT -- Reportedly 56 pounds lighter than when he began, the illusionist David Blaine ended his 44-day fast in a clear plastic box suspended from a crane in London on Sunday and was hospitalized yesterday in what a spokesman called a ''critical phase of his recovery.'' After Mr. Blaine, suffering from stomach cramps, spent a sleepless first night, doctors at a private hospital where he has round-the-clock nursing started him on small quantities of a ...
October 21, 2003, Tuesday .
The Shining Moment
When they call the roll of the great figures of modern American literature -- Bellow, Miller, Morrison, Updike, Roth -- they can now add a name: Stephen King. Yes, the Stephen King who wrote ''Carrie,'' ''The Shining'' and ''Christine,'' not to mention ''The Dark Tower'' books, I through V. The National Book Foundation, which hands out the prestigious National Book Awards, has decided to bestow its annual medal for distinguished contribution to American letters on the man who bestowed pig's ...
September 16, 2003, Tuesday .
A Literary Award For Stephen King
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Under pressure from publishers to shake up its sleepy image, the organization that presents the National Book Awards is planning to give its annual medal for distinguished contribution to American letters to Stephen King. Mr. King's selection is the first time that the organization, the National Book Foundation, has awarded its medal to an author best known for writing in popular genres like horror stories, science fiction or thrillers. Very little of Mr. King's work would qualify as literar...
September 15, 2003, Monday .
Some Best-Seller Old Reliables Have String of Unreliable Sales
By BILL GOLDSTEIN
Some of America's most popular authors are finding that being big isn't what it used to be. Tom Clancy, Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark and Sue Grafton, usually among the most bankable of best-selling writers, sold far fewer copies of their books than expected this past year. The disappointing sales numbers, possibly the result of too many books from the same authors or the book-buying public's changing tastes, contributed to a dismal holiday season for book retailers, particularly chain st...
January 20, 2003, Monday .
Not Your Father's Roadmaster
By Laura Miller
FROM A BUICK 8 By Stephen King. 356 pp. New York: Scribner. $28.
September 29, 2002, Sunday .
Cruising the Dark Side (Forget About Seat Belts)
By JANET MASLIN
FROM A BUICK 8 By Stephen King 356 pages. Scribner. $28. Stephen King was driving from Florida to Maine in 1999 when nature called. He pulled off the highway, found a gas station and used the restroom. Then he walked behind the building and lost his footing, sliding down a slope and almost landing in a stream. That was when nature -- his nature -- called upon him to dream up ''From a Buick 8.''
September 23, 2002, Monday .
In Those Days, Too, Blood and Sex Could Make a Best Seller
By Emily Eakin
In 1796, a 20-year-old Oxford University graduate named Matthew Lewis published ''The Monk,'' a Gothic shocker unlike anything English society had ever seen. The novel told a lurid tale of sex and murder involving a Roman Catholic priest: Ambrosio, the revered head of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, rapes and stabs Antonia, a local beauty of noble descent, in the crypt of the convent next door. The macabre nature of his crime is conveyed in graphic detail. The priest drugs her with an opiate so...
August 31, 2002, Saturday .
Two Men Are Sentenced to Life For Slayings Above Carnegie Deli
By SUSAN SAULNY
Two gunmen convicted of killing three people and wounding two others in an execution-style shooting above the Carnegie Delicatessen in Midtown Manhattan were sentenced to life in prison yesterday. The sentences by Justice Carol Berkman completed an emotional day in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. During the proceedings, prosecutors said they did not believe the two men, Joseph Sean Salley and Andre S. Smith, could ever be rehabilitated, and the victims' relatives recounted their enduring p...
July 30, 2002, Tuesday
By Lawrence Van Gelder
HIGHLIGHTS MUSIC: PAYMENT BY THE NOTE? -- If one musician in an orchestra plays more notes than another, shouldn't he or she be paid more? That is the question being posed by the 16 violinists of the Beethoven Orchestra in Bonn, the BBC reports. The case goes to court in May, but meanwhile the orchestra's director, Laurentius Bonitz, has a word for the claim: ridiculous. He said, ''Maybe it's an interesting legal question, but musically it's very clear to everyone.'' According to The Daily ...
March 25, 2004, Thursday .
Scalpel! Sutures! Sponge! Hemostat! Psychic!
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
In ''Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital'' a German shepherd speaks with an Arnold Schwarzenegger accent. Comical talking animals may not be the most distinctive feature of Mr. King's 13-part series, which starts tonight on ABC, but they could be the scariest. Channels have been switched for far less. Mr. King has always leavened his horror stories with humor, and his storytelling has been captivating even when his jokes fall flat. ''Kingdom Hospital,'' set in a spookily empty hospital where th...
March 03, 2004, Wednesday .
A Hospital That's a Real Horror Show
By BILL CARTER
AT the start of Stephen King's new 13-part horror series, ''Kingdom Hospital,'' a character named Peter Richman, an artist living in Maine, is taking a quiet walk on a peaceful road near his home when, from out of nowhere, he is struck by a speeding van. The event is a parallel to the devastating accident in 1999 that almost took Mr. King's life and left his body and his psyche shattered. Mr. King has been writing about the accident in various forms ever since, apparently in search of some ...
February 29, 2004, Sunday .
The Quest for the North Central Positronics
By Andrew O'Hehir
Wolves of the Calla The Dark Tower V. By Stephen King. Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson. 714 pp. Hampton Falls, N.H.: Donald M. Grant in association with Scribner. $35.
January 04, 2004, Sunday .
ARTS BRIEFING
By Lawrence Van Gelder
HIGHLIGHTS BROADWAY: ALL ABOUT (NEW YEAR'S) EVE -- The producers of ''The Producers'' say their plans for a $1,500-a-ticket New Year's Eve theater and dinner party for 300 people, including a reception with the musical's stars, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, are a flop. So the event has been canceled. As first reported in The New York Post on Friday, the event, including fine orchestra seats for the show at the St. James Theater, followed by a postperformance reception with the stars an...
December 22, 2003, Monday .
BOLDFACE NAMES
By Joyce Wadler; with Campbell Robertson
Bloom: Was That the Guy In 'The Producers'? Could it be? An actual red carpet at the National Book Awards, on which writers could tread in glory, rather than -- as is usual for them -- be trod upon.
November 21, 2003, Friday .
Shirley Hazzard a Winner At National Book Awards
By RANDY KENNEDY
Shirley Hazzard, who twice before was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction, won the award last night for ''The Great Fire'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a love story set in devastated post-World War II Japan and her first novel in 23 years. She accepted the award before a crowd of 900 writers, editors and publishers, and urged American writers to remain aware of their immense power in the world and their consequent responsibility not to degrade the language they had been given.
November 20, 2003, Thursday .
ARTS BRIEFING
By Lawrence Van Gelder
HIGHLIGHTS LONDON: DAVID BLAINE, DOWN AND OUT -- Reportedly 56 pounds lighter than when he began, the illusionist David Blaine ended his 44-day fast in a clear plastic box suspended from a crane in London on Sunday and was hospitalized yesterday in what a spokesman called a ''critical phase of his recovery.'' After Mr. Blaine, suffering from stomach cramps, spent a sleepless first night, doctors at a private hospital where he has round-the-clock nursing started him on small quantities of a ...
October 21, 2003, Tuesday .
The Shining Moment
When they call the roll of the great figures of modern American literature -- Bellow, Miller, Morrison, Updike, Roth -- they can now add a name: Stephen King. Yes, the Stephen King who wrote ''Carrie,'' ''The Shining'' and ''Christine,'' not to mention ''The Dark Tower'' books, I through V. The National Book Foundation, which hands out the prestigious National Book Awards, has decided to bestow its annual medal for distinguished contribution to American letters on the man who bestowed pig's ...
September 16, 2003, Tuesday .
A Literary Award For Stephen King
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Under pressure from publishers to shake up its sleepy image, the organization that presents the National Book Awards is planning to give its annual medal for distinguished contribution to American letters to Stephen King. Mr. King's selection is the first time that the organization, the National Book Foundation, has awarded its medal to an author best known for writing in popular genres like horror stories, science fiction or thrillers. Very little of Mr. King's work would qualify as literar...
September 15, 2003, Monday .
Some Best-Seller Old Reliables Have String of Unreliable Sales
By BILL GOLDSTEIN
Some of America's most popular authors are finding that being big isn't what it used to be. Tom Clancy, Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark and Sue Grafton, usually among the most bankable of best-selling writers, sold far fewer copies of their books than expected this past year. The disappointing sales numbers, possibly the result of too many books from the same authors or the book-buying public's changing tastes, contributed to a dismal holiday season for book retailers, particularly chain st...
January 20, 2003, Monday .
Not Your Father's Roadmaster
By Laura Miller
FROM A BUICK 8 By Stephen King. 356 pp. New York: Scribner. $28.
September 29, 2002, Sunday .
Cruising the Dark Side (Forget About Seat Belts)
By JANET MASLIN
FROM A BUICK 8 By Stephen King 356 pages. Scribner. $28. Stephen King was driving from Florida to Maine in 1999 when nature called. He pulled off the highway, found a gas station and used the restroom. Then he walked behind the building and lost his footing, sliding down a slope and almost landing in a stream. That was when nature -- his nature -- called upon him to dream up ''From a Buick 8.''
September 23, 2002, Monday .
In Those Days, Too, Blood and Sex Could Make a Best Seller
By Emily Eakin
In 1796, a 20-year-old Oxford University graduate named Matthew Lewis published ''The Monk,'' a Gothic shocker unlike anything English society had ever seen. The novel told a lurid tale of sex and murder involving a Roman Catholic priest: Ambrosio, the revered head of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, rapes and stabs Antonia, a local beauty of noble descent, in the crypt of the convent next door. The macabre nature of his crime is conveyed in graphic detail. The priest drugs her with an opiate so...
August 31, 2002, Saturday .
Two Men Are Sentenced to Life For Slayings Above Carnegie Deli
By SUSAN SAULNY
Two gunmen convicted of killing three people and wounding two others in an execution-style shooting above the Carnegie Delicatessen in Midtown Manhattan were sentenced to life in prison yesterday. The sentences by Justice Carol Berkman completed an emotional day in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. During the proceedings, prosecutors said they did not believe the two men, Joseph Sean Salley and Andre S. Smith, could ever be rehabilitated, and the victims' relatives recounted their enduring p...
July 30, 2002, Tuesday
What a creepy poster this is!
