Articles by Richard Schickel Page 2

I DON’T KNOW if “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” is a good movie or not – I haven’t seen it. Read more

I was always glad to see Jack Valenti’s dapper, diminutive form across a crowded room. Read more

“NO girl was ever ruined by a book.” Read more

THE MOST grating words I’ve read in a newspaper recently were in a New York Times report on the shrinkage of book reviewing in many of the nation’s leading newspapers. Read more

IN 1992, when he was 82, Gene Autry was the only show business figure to make Forbes magazine’s annual list of the 400 richest Americans. Read more

LENI RIEFENSTAHL was a slut. Read more

FILM noir remains a genre in search of its roots – and perhaps even a proper definition. Read more

Humphrey Bogart died on Jan. Read more

BRUNO SALVADOR (known to one and all as “Salvo”) is a young translator, working in London for a variety of masters – lawyers, doctors and (how can it be otherwise, since he’s the creation of John Le Carre?) Read more