It’s inevitable, really. Every 007 movie brings forth new books about the Bond phenomenon. Some are updated versions of older books, some are new. But they appear as part of the vast Bond marketing machine that hasn’t stopped since the early 1960s. This fall’s release of Spectre, the 24th film in the series, saw its share. Here’s a look at three. The best by far is The James Bond Archives (Taschen). Created with the full cooperation […]
We all know the names of superstars. We all know the names of supermodels. But do we, any of us, know the names of any superagents, much less the first one? Maybe we know Michael Ovitz because he made so much news as his ship sank. Anyone else? If you were into the making of movies in the 1970s, you know who Sue Mengers was. In her own way, she was as big a star as the […]
The word “decade” starts the word “decadence,” and while that’s only a twist of linguistic fate, at no time was that more apt a pairing of words than the 1980s, a period when excess was the way of the day, when too much was not only not enough but just the beginning. Further, in the 80s there was perhaps nowhere on earth that excess was more on garish display than on Wall Street and in […]
Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses and buildings from 1886 to 1959. Thomas Heatherwick established his design studio in London in 1984 and is still working. The two could not be more different, except in my mind there are key similarities. Both men changed the way we look at spaces and the buildings that occupy them. Both created eye-popping, imagination-inspiring structures that satisfy expectations and challenge limitations at the same time. Both worked with a singular vision that […]
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