Quentin Tarantino
Remembering Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard died this week at age 87, with more than forty novels and sixty years of publication behind him. Stephen King once called Elmore Leonard “the great American writer” – not crime writer, just writer – but Leonard was inclined to be self-effacing. “Literary writers,” he told Kurt Andersen, “tell practically everything. Because they […]
Glourious Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” is up for eight Oscars. Though far-fetched (it features Jewish-American GIs taking Nazi scalps), some would say it’s his least gory picture yet. Kurt talks to Tarantino about his influences, from Leni Riefenstahl to Stan Lee’s “Sergeant Fury.”
Pam Grier on her rise as a blaxploitation film star
Actress Pam Grier is best known for her roles as a blaxploitation star in the 1970s films ‘Coffy’ and ‘Foxy Brown.’ She’s written a new memoir detailing her rise to fame and her struggles as a young girl dealing with sexual violence and racial prejudice.