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Charles McElwee

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Gay Talese on a Writer's Life

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By Charles McElwee 
| Yahoo Entertainment
AP An unrelenting winter and circumstance dictated a most uncustomary form of interview with Gay Talese: a phone call. Another ice storm in New York kept Talese in his Upper East Side townhouse, where he first occupied a bachelor pad as a New York Times reporter at 26 and then bought the whole property with his wife, Nan, by 1973, when he was a writer - and subject - at Esquire.
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Robert Redford, the Last All-American Movie Star

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By Charles McElwee 
| City Journal
“All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars,” wrote Gore Vidal. Robert Redford was an exception. He was an aspiring painter who made a truce with his professional destiny. His handsomeness enchanted moviegoers and magazine editors, but he was more motivated by the acting craft than vanity.
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Empire of the Elite Captures Condé Nast’s Enduring Legacy

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By Charles McElwee 
| City Journal
Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America, by Michael M. Grynbaum (Simon & Schuster, 345 pp., $29.99) In the mid-1980s, an office executive attempted to show Condé Nast editorial director Alexander Liberman, who joined the magazine empire in 1943—the year that one of the foundational concepts for artificial intelligence was articulated—how to use a new digital system. “‘Computers!’ Alex declared, with his usual haughty flourish.
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