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Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears."

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Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears."

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John Leguizamo Is a Noble Fellow

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By Michael Schulman Verified
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Now that moviegoers have Odyssey fever, thanks to Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster, audiences are revisiting characters that they first encountered in English class: wily warriors, cool monsters, island temptresses. Be honest, though. Did you remember Eumaeus, Odysseus’ faithful swineherd, who waits in Ithaca for his master’s return? Neither did John Leguizamo, when Nolan took him out to lunch a while back, at the Odeon, and offered him the role.
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A Celebrity Photographer’s Hidden Stash of Polaroids

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By Michael Schulman Verified
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For the rest of the decade—the years represented by these Polaroids—she was booked and busy. “It was such a period of growth for me as a photographer,” Shur told me. “I really found myself, I’d say.” (She’s since released monographs exploring her travels to Japan and her neighborhood in L.A.) The Polaroids, meanwhile, tell some unexpected tales. Some of her subjects, then at the pinnacle of fame, have since gone down strange paths.
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David Wain’s Wet Hot American Comedy

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By Michael Schulman Verified
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It’s possible to see David Wain’s career as a skeleton key for the past thirty years of comedy. In the nineties, he was part of the State, an eleven-member troupe that formed at N.Y.U. in 1988 and had its own antic sketch show on MTV from 1994 to 1995. With its dumb-smart, self-conscious brand of anti-comedy, the eponymous show was a Gen X answer to “Saturday Night Live”—and MTV’s attempt to bottle coolness through humor the way it had with music videos.
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