Andrew SzantonLew Wasserman: the Talent Agent at His Height — and in DeclinePART TWO OF A TWO-PART PROFILESep 19Sep 19
Andrew SzantonLew Wasserman, Who Made a Talent Agency into Hollywood RoyaltyLEW WASSERMAN, born in Cleveland in 1913, was brilliant, relentless and a visionary. He never owned or ran a movie studio, but as the head…Sep 17Sep 17
Andrew SzantonAnita Hill and the Battle Against Sexual HarassmentANITA HILL is a professor and a legal scholar, most famous for having publicly accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of having…Sep 9Sep 9
Andrew SzantonJames Baldwin: The Fire Next TimeJAMES BALDWIN, the writer, was born a century ago, grew up poor in Harlem, and wrote about it as a place of amazing but stunted energy…Aug 31Aug 31
Andrew SzantonKay Redfield Jamison, a Psychologist Fighting Manic DepressionKAY REDFIELD JAMISON, the psychologist and author, spent her early childhood in an Air Force family in Virginia. Military life was…Aug 222Aug 222
Andrew SzantonSam Rayburn: An Old-Fashioned Texas DemocratSAM RAYBURN, born on a farm in Roane County, Tennessee in 1882, grew up outside Bonham, Texas and became a famous and powerful Speaker of…Aug 9Aug 9
Andrew SzantonThe Extraordinary Mary Tyler MooreMARY TYLER MOORE, born in Brooklyn in 1936, and raised mostly in Los Angeles, starred in two of the great TV sit-coms of all-time: “The…Aug 3Aug 3
Andrew SzantonRaymond Chandler: Master of a Moral Shadow LandRAYMOND CHANDLER has written more evocatively about Los Angeles than anyone else. Chandler wrote “The Big Sleep” (1939), “Farewell My…Jul 291Jul 291
Andrew SzantonThe Andrews Sisters: Singing Through World War TwoWhen Olga Sollie, a Norwegian-American Lutheran, married Greek-American Peter Andreas in Minnesota in 1910, Olga’s parents were unhappy…Jul 201Jul 201