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Sam Kashner

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Contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 2007. Author of Sinatraland, When I Was Cool & co-author, with Nancy Schoenberger, of Hollywood Kryptonite .
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Honoring Umm Kulthum, the Egyptian Singer, 50 Years On From Her Death

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By Sam Kashner
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They moved like a great river, four million souls pulsing through the streets of Cairo for the 1975 funeral of the Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, perhaps the most renowned Egyptian woman since Cleopatra. For much of the 20th century, it was said that the sole single event that could compel the Arab world—from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean—to listen as one was when Kulthum performed on the last Thursday of every month, a practice that continues, through her recordings, to this day.
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The Photo Booth at 100: From J.F.K. to Andy Warhol

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By Sam Kashner
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“You couldn’t hold the photobooth to take the picture, but by allowing yourself to be encompassed by the booth. It was akin to stepping into a camera.” —Gerard malanga Before the photo booth, if you wanted a photograph of yourself and/or a loved one, you had to book an appointment with a photographer, sit still for several poses, and then wait weeks for the final product, usually for a relatively hefty fee. Suddenly, self-portraits were available to anyone who had 25 cents to spend.
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Cornell Woolrich, Pulp Fiction's Forgotten Master, Revisited

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By Sam Kashner
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No one much liked the solitary writer Cornell Woolrich, except Hollywood, which devoured many of his noir novels and short stories, with their ingenious plots, solitary losers, and complicated protagonists. Alfred Hitchcock turned one of Woolrich’s novelettes into Rear Window, for which Woolrich was paid the grand sum of $650. (“But that’s not what bothered me,” Woolrich later recalled. “What bothered me was that Hitchcock wouldn’t even send me a ticket to the premiere in New York.
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