David Thomson

David Thomson is the author, most recently, of Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire.

In the LRB Archive:

• Deal of the Century: As Ovitz Tells It · 7 March 2019

  • Who Is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz

• On the Sofa: ‘Babylon Berlin’ · 2 August 2018

• Diary: ‘Vertigo’ after Weinstein · 21 June 2018

• Merely an Empire: Eighteen Hours in Vietnam · 21 September 2017

  • The Vietnam War directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

• Red silk is the best blood: Sondheim · 16 December 2010

  • Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-81), with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim

• Diary: Alcatraz · 26 March 2009

• What does a snake know, or intend?: where Joan Didion was from · 18 March 2004

  • Where I Was From by Joan Didion

• Why Goldwyn Wore Jodhpurs · 22 June 2000

  • The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper by Dominick Dunne
  • Gary Cooper Off Camera: A Daughter Remembers by Maria Cooper Janis

• The Nephew · 19 March 1981

  • Charmed Lives by Michael Korda

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