‘Alice’ Review: American Slavery and Black Power Collide

Writer-director Krystin Ver Linden’s main character of the same name (Keke Palmer, “Akeelah and the Bee” “Hunters”) successfully escapes a malevolent enslaver (Jonny Lee Miller), only to discover that the year is actually 1973. Yes, it’s 1973 and he and the other “natives” are trapped in a century-old bubble on the Georgia plantation, not much …

Anthony Broadwater Convicted of Raping Alice Sebold. Then Case

‘I don’t know how they did this to you’ While in prison, Mr. Broadwater got his GED and studied law, repeatedly trying to get his case to be looked at. At one point, she saved $1,000 in disability payments and custody work, hoping to keep Johnnie Cochran. The attorney’s firm, however, returned the money, reporting …

Alice Sebold Apologizes to Man Wrongfully Convicted of Raping Him

Alice Sebold, best-selling author of the memoir “Lucky” and the novel “The Lovely Bones,” apologized Tuesday to a man wrongfully convicted of raping her in 1982 after identifying as her attacker in court. Apology came eight days later The man’s conviction was vacated by Anthony J. Broadwater, a state court judge In Syracuse, NY, in …

Alice Waters Helps a Museum Serve Art Lovers’ Pleasures

LOS ANGELES — As the Hammer Museum emerges from last year’s pandemic close, it has gathered a host of big names from the University of California, Los Angeles, to its campus down the street, which it hopes will draw crowds back: Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec. And Waters. That would be the restaurant’s founder, Alice Waters. …

Alice Waters Helps a Museum Serve Art Lovers’ Pleasures

LOS ANGELES — As the Hammer Museum emerges from last year’s pandemic close, it has gathered a host of big names from the University of California, Los Angeles, which it hopes will draw crowds back to its campus down the street: Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec. And Waters. That would be the restaurant’s founder, Alice Waters. …

Alice Neel’s Apartment A Portrait of the Artist Still at Work

ROOMS ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT in Alice Neel; His focus was people. Confirming the clear-eyed compassion she feels for people from all walks of life, Neel’s work reveals the deep interiority of her subjects, with vivid, almost cartoon-like depictions of wide-angle eyes, sunken chins, and speckled skin in green or its shades. spotted with blue-violet …

Alice McDermott Is Reading ‘Frankenstein’ For The First Time

In a more contemporary way: Kirstin Valdez Quade’s “The Five Wounds” has a scene that reminds me of why the term “heartbreaker” has been so popular with critics. The novel’s hapless protagonist has pinned his hopes for a new life on a windshield repair kit, which he believes will profitably put him in the ranks …