Actually, most of the criticism has been from people who believe the film excuses the main character's culpability in allowing the incineration of 300 Jews. But the joint statement from the movie's director, Stephen Daldry, Mr. Weinstein, the producer Donna Giglotti, and the screenwriter, David Hare...

After Sir David Hare was accused of antiSemitism for the crude caricature of a financier that he created in his play Gethsemane the same charge has been levelled at another playwright. Caryl Churchill has been accused of being "antiIsrael" by The Board of Deputies of British Jews which was invited t...

Michael Billington: This BFI season covers the period of your television work from 1975 to 1996 - and the most obvious thing to say is that it's very hard to imagine similar seasons devoted to an original writer 10 or 20 years from now, for the simple reason that the single play has virtually disapp...

There is a moment in Revolutionary Road that sums up why Kate Winslet is such a stranger to bad reviews. Her character, April Wheeler, is a former drama student and mother of two, who is living a cramped existence with her cramped husband, Frank, in a cramped house in Connecticut. It's the kind of l...

We celebrated 20 (or 40, depending on how you're counting) years of Vera Wang's career at the opening of her Soho store. Michael Bloomberg and Lauren Bush agreed on recyling strategies at the UNICEF Snowflake Ball at Cipriani.  The Reader screenwriter David Hare told us he preferred Kate Winslet to...

The red carpet is hardly the place for meaninful discussions - questions are more along the lines of, "Who are you wearing?" - but the Baguette tried to get in at least one serious question at Wednesday's night premiere of "The Reader."...

Rupert Everett confirmed that he’s writing and acting in a movie about Oscar Wilde. And, of course, the increasingly vocal actor used the occasion to criticize his peers. No, he didn’t question George Clooney’s sexuality, but Everett did piss on screenwriter David Hare and director...