A friend sent me the text of a recent WSJ editorial entitled “Will This Crisis Produce a ‘Gatsby’?� I’ll link to it later—for now I want to recreate my bad-faith reading experience in all its glory.  My first reaction was to the title, even though I know authors never write their own ti...

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Fasting in the desert for forty days, Jesus is tempted to turn the rocks around him into bread. Instead of giving in to the temptation, he reaches back for...

Don't let Baz Lurhmann's narrowed, suspicious eyes fool you. Behind the icy glare lies a mind hard at work on once again bringing something called "Great Gatsby" to screens: The director, as Risky Biz first reported last month, also said that he has officially acquired rights to "Gatsby." Luhrmann s...

F. Scott Fitzgerald is becoming Hollywood’s hottest commodity. His short story, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” has been turned into an award season heavyweight, and now Baz Luhrmann is set to bring Fitzgerald’s most famous work back to the screen again. In an attempt ...

According to Nikki Finke, Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet director Baz Luhrmann (we’ll pretend Australia never happened) has signed on to helm a big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby . I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve never read F. Scott’s ...

Baz Luhrmann takes a long time to make a movie. His Australia came out seven years after Moulin Rouge!, which came out five years after Romeo + Juliet. The gestation periods are so long that nothing is ever set in stone, in terms of his future projects, until cameras have started rolling. Which is w...

“Return to Queens Boulevard” November 24th, 2008 In the interest of full disclosure, I despised the fourth season of Entourage. It was, to my mind, a show with the absolute worst sense of direction: nowhere. They finished the movie, an admittedly really intriguing little exercise for the...

It is hard to imagine how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legacy would be different today if not for the loving attention of Matthew J. Bruccoli, who died Wednesday, June 4 of a brain tumor.  In the Great Gatsby Treasure Hunt that I adapted from Valerie Arbizu’s work, students are introduced to t...

As part of DC’s participation in the NEA’s Big Read program, I recently read  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I should say re-read, because I distinctly remember reading the book in high school and then again in college. But that was awhile ago, so I was reading with fairly fre...

“The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)” at New York Theater Workshop features, in foreground, Susie Sokol and Vin Knight. Photo by: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times I was so pleased to wake up this morning and read Chief New York Times Theater Critic Ben Brantley's rave review of ...