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David Denby

David Denby is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is working on a group biography of Leonard Bernstein, Norman Mailer, Betty Friedan, and Mel Brooks.
  • Ryan Melgar

    Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man: Mel Brooks in His 90s

    The comic has stormed through 75 years of show business; he remains prodigal in expression, memory, and imagination.

    • David Denby
    • July 22, 2018
  • All the World's a Tube

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    • November 1985 Issue
  • Stranger in a Strange Land: A Moviegoer at the Theater

    • David Denby
    • January 1985 Issue
  • Media Orgy

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    • April 1973 Issue
  • Obsessions

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    • January 1973 Issue
  • Rohmer's Men and Women

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    • December 1972 Issue
  • Getting Whitey

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    • August 1972 Issue
  • Spring Moviegoing

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    • June 1972 Issue
  • It Hurts to Look Back

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    • May 1972 Issue
  • Violence Enshrined

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    • April 1972 Issue
  • Pop Nihilism at the Movies

    • David Denby
    • March 1972 Issue
  • Visions of the End

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    • December 1971 Issue
  • Our Misanthropic Movies

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    • November 1971 Issue
  • The Sense of Period

    • David Denby
    • September 1971 Issue
  • It Only Hurts When We Laugh

    • David Denby
    • August 1971 Issue
  • Making Out vs. Talking It Out

    • David Denby
    • July 1971 Issue
  • The Inhuman Future

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    • June 1971 Issue
  • On Fracturing the Funny Bone

    • David Denby
    • April 1971 Issue
  • Americana

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    • March 1971 Issue
  • Stalinism on Film

    • David Denby
    • February 1971 Issue
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