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Article: NEW YORKER, NEW YORKER
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2005
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Let's play word association. I say "movies" and "magazine," you
say . . . "Premiere"? "Sight & Sound"? "Photoplay"? Maybe even
(pourquoi pas!) "Cahiers du Cinema"?
Consider another answer: "The New Yorker." Those other magazines
are about the movies. With The New Yorker, it's the other way around:
There are movies about the magazine, a surprising number of them.
Philip Seymour Hoffman's title character in "Capote" (which opens
tomorrow) is on assignment for The New Yorker, and a major character
is the magazine's then-editor, William Shawn (played by Bob Balaban).
In "Adaptation ," Meryl Streep plays New Yorker reporter Susan
Orlean.
In "Joe Gould's Secret ," Stanley Tucci plays another New ...