By JOE SHARKEY The Romans purportedly had a phrase, “De gustibus non est disputandum,” which means, roughly, there is no disputing matters of taste. Actually,
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‘Above Suspicion’ Podcast
I talk about the tragic twists and turns of ‘Above Suspicion’ for an hour today on Pete Lieb’s excellent podcast “Prove Me Wrong.” Pete, who
Now we’re killing the nuns
Catholic nuns are already vanishing from the scene, and now the Coronavirus is killing some of the old ones remaining. From the website Global Sisters
Early ‘Above Suspicion’ Reviews
Both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter assigned British reviewers to the online release of Above Suspicion in the UK. The reviews are now starting to
The ‘Above Suspicion’ Distribution Clusterf***
Jeffrey Wells’s influential “Hollywood Elsewhere” column has done the movie world the favor of running down the story of the years’-long fiasco of distribution of
‘Above Suspicion’ Review in UK GUardian
There’s a review of Above Suspicion, the movie, in The Guardian, which is the only UK newspaper I take seriously. The Guardian has a strong
Priest Sexual Abuse Claims Tripled Last Year, and an Update on My In-Progress Book About the Catholic Church, “Wreckage”
Given the limited attention span of our national media and its strong disinclination to offend religion, you might think that the scandal of Catholic priests
A catastrophe over the Amazon, 13 years ago today
Late on the afternoon of September 29, 2006, I was on assignment on a business jet flying at 37,000 over the central Amazon in Brazil
A podcast on ‘Death Sentence’
Dan Zupansky interviewed me recently about “Death Sentence: for his popular podcast True Murder.
‘Death Sentence:’ the New Epilogue
My first true-crime book, Death Sentence: The Inside Story of the John List Murders, was published in 1990, shortly after the atrocious List had been
‘Above Suspicion’ in the Middle East
“Above Suspicion” seems to be doing pretty well at the multiplexes in Cairo and Doha. I am told August release in the U.S., but no
The Amazing Emilia Clarke
In the current New Yorker, she writes eloquently about something few people knew: Surviving two brain aneurysms, with major brain surgery between seasons of Game
