PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Culture B-Movie Auteur Larry Cohen Dies At 77
Larry Cohen’s script for “Phone Booth” was dreamed up in the 1960s, filmed in less than two weeks in 2000 on a budget of $13 million and released in 2003 just before its premise – about a guy trapped in a phone booth – collapsed into period conceit with the mass extinction of pay phones….
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Film & TV ‘Us’ Gives Viewers A Biblical Warning
Jordan Peele’s second film, “Us,” all but demands a second viewing. The box-office-breaking horror flick, while light on its feet, is packed with pop culture signposts, character pay-offs and a script-flipping twist that has audiences lining up for a later showing before the lights come up on the end credits. But one reference that may…
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Film & TV 9 Questions For ‘Working Woman’ Director Michal Aviad
It’s a familiar story that nonetheless demands retelling: A woman, a job and a boss who doesn’t respect boundaries. So runs the plot of Michal Aviad’s “Working Woman,” which premieres in New York March 27. The film arrives in the United States amid a monumental cultural reckoning surrounding the way we behave in the office,…
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Culture Anish Kapoor Does His Part For Refugees While Another Artist Sets A Trap For Him
After Anish Kapoor was awarded the 2017 Genesis Prize, he pledged to donate the $1 million that accompany the award to causes aiding refugees. But the sculptor, most famous for his Chicago work “Cloud Gate,” colloquially known as “The Bean,” is also planning to make a difference with his art. A new drawing by Kapoor…
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Culture Rodgers And Hammerstein Are Making A Bundle With Ariana Grande’s ‘7 Rings’
There may be no hit more ubiquitous for the musical team of Rodgers and Hammerstein than “My Favorite Things.” Despite being written by two Jews and sung, in its original context, by an ex-nun to her charges during a thunderstorm in an Austrian summer estate, the tune from “The Sound of Music” developed an unshakable…
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Culture In A First, A Major Museum Turns Down A Gift From The Sackler Family
In a landmark move, London’s National Portrait Gallery has decided not to take money from the Sackler family — at least for now. The gallery and the Sackler Trust jointly announced Tuesday that a £1 million gift the Sacklers awarded the museum in 2016 for the development of the museum’s £35.5m “Inspiring People” project would…
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Film & TV Behold Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Bold Thoughts On #MeToo And Roman Polanski
Bernard-Henri Lévy is a man of ideas. A celebrity philosopher of the kind that has no equivalent this side of the Atlantic, he’s nonetheless picked the United States as the subject of his latest book, “The Empire and the Five Kings: America’s Abdication and the Fate of the World,” in which he lays out how…
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Culture Anish Kapoor Understands Why Young Muslims Might Join ISIS
Anish Kapoor is used to having ugliness added to his work. In 2018, Kapoor, the artist responsible for “Sky Mirror” and “Ark Nova,” sued the National Rifle Association for using his sculpture “Cloud Gate” in an advertisement accused of stoking fear and division. But while he succeeded in getting the NRA to remove the unauthorized…
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