Todd S. Purdum
-
![]()
Hillery Smith Garrison / AP What Nancy Pelosi Learned From the Clinton Impeachment
Interviews with the House speaker’s old friends and colleagues offer a window into her reluctance to pull the pin on a political grenade.
-
![]()
Courtesy of Tina Whatcott Echeverria What Keeps Hollywood’s Oldest Restaurant Running
One hundred years after it first opened, the Musso & Frank Grill is mixing the old and the new with verve.
-
![]()
Associated Press Doris Day, the People’s Actor
The late film icon’s ordinariness was most extraordinary, and the secret of her success.
-
![]()
Associated Press The Three-Letter Word That Triggered a Revolution
Fifty-five years ago, a congressman made a single addition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that changed everything.
-
![]()
Dan Steinberg / Invision / AP Why Hollywood Writers Are Firing the Agents They Love
The conflict comes at a time when economic realities are changing for both parties in the digital era, but the tension dates back to 1962.
-
![]()
Little Fang Oklahoma! Gets a Dark, Brilliant Remake
More than 75 years after the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical debuted, a daring new production seeks to re-create the frisson of the original—with some changes.
-
![]()
Eric Liebowitz / FX Moving Past the ‘Singular Genius’ Version of the Bob Fosse Story
The new FX limited series Fosse/Verdon explores the director-choreographer’s complicated relationship with the dancer Gwen Verdon.
-
![]()
Evan Vucci / Associated Press California Is at War With the Trump White House
Governor Gavin Newsom called President Trump’s border wall and immigrant bashing “a national disgrace.”
-
![]()
Bettmann / Getty The 1969 Academy Awards Captured a Shifting Moment in Movie History
Fifty years ago, the Oscars showed old Hollywood giving way to the new—in ways that feel strikingly resonant today.
-
![]()
Filippo Monteforte / AFP / Getty The Hollywood Producer Behind Bryan Singer’s Stalled Movie
With his Barnumesque persona and mixed reputation, Avi Lerner has gained significant success—and notoriety—in the film industry. But who is he, really?
-
![]()
J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press The Second Coming of Nancy Pelosi
“Trump’s a silly man, and she knows it,” says one admirer. “He’s not going to be a problem for her.”
-
![]()
J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press Kevin McCarthy’s Pyrrhic Victory
The California Republican has a thankless job leading an outgunned minority, but says, “We gotta try harder.”
-
![]()
Associated Press City Hall to the White House: Can’t Get There From Here
Before Bill de Blasio and Eric Garcetti decide to run, they ought to look back on Lindsay and Yorty in 1972.
-
![]()
Chris Wattie / Reuters Trumpworld Follows a Godfather Script—Literally
Roger Stone allegedly urged an associate to “do a ‘Frank Pentangeli,’” in reference to a Corleone-family capo.
-
![]()
Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press Jerry Brown’s Greatest Legacy Is Proving California Is Governable
After disparate tours in which he served as California’s youngest and oldest governor, Brown never lost his quirky asceticism.
-
![]()
Annapurna Pictures Humanizing Dick Cheney
In the biopic Vice, Adam McKay explores the dichotomy between the vice president’s mild, private personality and dark, public persona.
-
![]()
J.Scott Applewhite / AP Gingrich Shut Down the Government in a Tantrum 23 Years Ago
And American politics have never been the same.
-
![]()
Chris Fabregas / Shutterstock Christmas in La-La Land
Holiday magic in Los Angeles comes down to the thing that always sets California apart: the quality of light.
-
![]()
Jim Young / Reuters A Kinder, Gentler Republican President Is Dead
And so is everything he represented about the office.
-
![]()
Frank Masi / Sony Pictures The Question at the Center of the New Gary Hart Movie
The Front Runner, starring Hugh Jackman, wonders: To what extent did the 1987 scandal fuel the brand of freak-show politics that produced a Donald Trump presidency?
