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2001 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• Visions of Grandeur

  published December 26, 2001

  Appropriately, A Beautiful Mind does not offer a literal translation of the life of John Forbes Nash Jr., the mathematician whose... More >>

• Setting Son

  published December 26, 2001

  It took Andre Dubus all of 18 pages to communicate the grief that fills every frame of Todd Field's two-hours-plus In the Bedroom, a... More >>

• Sly Foxx

  published December 26, 2001

  When he first auditioned for Any Given Sunday director Oliver Stone to play quarterback Willie Beamen, an embittered bench-warmer prone to... More >>

• Talkin' Tolkien

  published December 19, 2001

  David Salo's colleagues and classmates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have absolutely no idea how he spends his free time. It's not that... More >>

• Eyes Half-Open

  published December 12, 2001

  Beneath the hazy, mystifying layers of Vanilla Sky lies a remarkable Tom Cruise performance -- one that, to a large extent, takes... More >>

• Dark Victory

  published December 12, 2001

  It is December 5, the day AOL Time Warner-owned DC Comics has been anxiously awaiting for almost 15 years--the day writer-illustrator Frank Miller... More >>

• Hunger Strike

  published December 5, 2001

  "Mr. Human Rights," they once called him, and though his was never the most famous name on the bill--that was Bono or Bruce Springsteen, Sting or... More >>

• Flaming Wreck

  published November 28, 2001

  Though Behind Enemy Lines, set in Bosnia, was originally due for release next year, already it feels antiquated; that conflict is a distant... More >>

• Michael Jackson

  published November 21, 2001

  Even the most jaded soul's at least this bit interested in MJ's latest -- a disc three-plus years in the making, at the cost of some $30... More >>

• War on War Books

  published November 21, 2001

  Only a couple of months ago, it looked as though Donald Miller had a publishing home run on his hands--a thoughtful, exhilarating, inclusive book... More >>

• A New Tune

  published November 7, 2001

  Natalie Merchant finished recording her third solo album, Motherland, on September 9, so by no means should anyone listen to the disc's... More >>

• Boo Who?

  published October 31, 2001

  As the year winds down, breathlessly and apprehensively, the most anxiously awaited releases left on the schedule offer nothing less than whimsy... More >>

• Hell of a Long Day

  published October 31, 2001

  There cannot be man, woman, child or beast alive who does not know that on November 6, Fox will debut its new series 24. Long before the... More >>

• Emmy or Not to Emmy?

  published October 24, 2001

  On November 4, some 1,800 television personalities--actors, writers, producers, show-runners, network executives--will, finally, parade into a Los... More >>

• Reel War

  published October 17, 2001

  Two weeks ago, it would have been possible to use the name of the man interviewed below; indeed, it would have been expected, as he is no mere... More >>

• God's Gift

  published October 17, 2001

  There is perhaps no explanation for why the soundtrack to Joel and Ethan Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou?, crammed full of bluegrass... More >>

• Hairy Situation

  published October 10, 2001

  Plot aside -- way aside, because it's almost a nonissue in a film that telegraphs its final scenes during its opening moments --... More >>

• Arabian Knight

  published October 10, 2001

  On October 3, there appeared in The New York Times an article about how movie studios are struggling to find new villains in a... More >>

• The Brave & the Bold

  published October 3, 2001

  Before he was editor in chief at Marvel Comics--which, by all rights, makes him the man who tells Spider-Man what he can do with himself and the... More >>

• Stand By Them

  published September 26, 2001

  The cynic may notice only how Hearts in Atlantis plays like a Stephen King best-of compilation, a reheating of familiar stories and... More >>

• Law & Disorder

  published September 26, 2001

  Rene Balcer, like you and everyone you know, can't stop talking about what we now refer to simply as The Attack. We may resume our lives, fall... More >>

• Amused to Death

  published September 19, 2001

  On Sept. 13, at 11:30 a.m., Bryce Zabel was to have met with USA Network executives about a miniseries he was pitching to the cable outlet. Zabel,... More >>

• Feel His Pain

  published September 12, 2001

  The cold-bloodedness of some entertainment journalists is a thing to be admired; they've balls for brains, which gets you far in this profession.... More >>

• Metal Meltdown

  published September 5, 2001

  A year after Cameron Crowe climbed back aboard the tour bus for one last spin through rock's golden days of giddy hedonism and phony heroism comes... More >>

• Back to School

  published August 29, 2001

  Judd Apatow tries not to think of what became of Sam and Lindsay Weir, Neal Schweiber, Bill Haverchuck, Daniel Desario, Nick Andopolis and the... More >>