All posts tagged: Glickman

The President of Brooklyn | Nawal Arjini, Willa Glickman

The President of Brooklyn | Nawal Arjini, Willa Glickman

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It has been the curse of many New York City mayors to see themselves as viable presidential candidates, indeed with one foot already in the White House. If Eric Adams nurtured similar ambitions—as some commentators speculated early in his mayoralty—the difference was that his presidency of the mind was unusually focused on foreign policy. “If you are a mayor that only stands on your block, you are not going to solve the problems of the globe,” he said to reporters in 2022. That year, Adams met with the emir of Qatar and representatives from the country’s wealth fund at the World Cup, then stopped by Athens for a dinner with the president of Greece. In 2023 he visited Israel “to learn about Israeli technology” and discuss antisemitism. That same year he visited Mexico, Ecuador, and Colombia—where he sported quasi-military fatigues and sunglasses—to dissuade migrants from coming to the United States. “Here’s where I have been,” he said in 2023 at an Arab heritage event in New York City, wearing a fez. “I have been to …

‘An Internal Colony’ | Olivia Paschal, Willa Glickman

‘An Internal Colony’ | Olivia Paschal, Willa Glickman

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Hurricane Helene devastated the southeastern United States when it hit in early October—killing about 230 people and causing over $50 billion in damages—particularly in North Carolina. “Those with financial resources may be able to rebuild,” writes Olivia Paschal in a November 3, 2024, essay for the NYR Online. “In the meantime, those without them—including renters and mobile-home owners—may be forced to pick up and leave.” Paschal, a scholar of the history of capitalism in the Ozarks, argues that concerns about gentrification and displacement in the rebuilding process are connected with decades-long struggles against consolidated land ownership in Appalachia. She writes that a generation of scholars and activists at progressive Southern organizations like the Highland Center, who turned their attention to Appalachia in the 1960s and 1970s, came to see the region “as an internal colony—a place peripheral to America’s capitalist development, where coal magnates from outside the region extracted natural resources, paid locals poverty wages, and left open wounds on the mountain landscape.” Paschal is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Virginia …

In the Path of Totality | Andrew Katzenstein, Willa Glickman, Daniel Drake, Lucy Jakub

In the Path of Totality | Andrew Katzenstein, Willa Glickman, Daniel Drake, Lucy Jakub

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I. Andrew Katzenstein in Mason, TexasII. Willa Glickman in Rochester, New YorkIII. Daniel Drake in Warren, VermontIV. Lucy Jakub in the Rangeley Lakes, Maine  ????              ????              ????              ????  Riders in the Sky Andrew Katzenstein in Mason, Texas I learned about this year’s eclipse in late 2016, when I read an article in The New York Review by James Gleick, who mentioned it in a discussion of scientific determinism: There is a strain of physicist that likes to think of the world as settled, inevitable, its path fully determined by the grinding of the gears of natural law…. If scientists say the moon will totally eclipse the sun in New York on April 8, 2024, beginning at 12:38 PM, you can bank on it. If they can’t tell you whether the sun will be obscured by a rainstorm, a strict Newtonian would say that’s only because they don’t yet have enough data or enough computing power. And if they can’t tell you whether you’ll be alive to see the eclipse, well, maybe they haven’t discovered all the laws yet. …

Jonathan Glickman in Talks to Lead Miramax as CEO (Exclusive)

Jonathan Glickman in Talks to Lead Miramax as CEO (Exclusive)

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Miramax may have found its new leader. Jonathan Glickman, the former MGM executive, is in talks to join Miramax as its CEO, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. He would step in for former CEO Bill Block, who departed last year after a six-year run. Glickman served as motion group president at MGM for nine years, where under his tenure James Bond became a billion-dollar franchise. He also shepherded the rejuvenation of the Rocky franchise, relaunching it as the Creed movie series starring Michael B. Jordan. He departed the studio at the top of 2020 for a first-look producing deal with MGM, and two years later launched Panoramic Media. As part of his deal to become CEO, Miramax would acquire Panoramic, which has its hand in several noteworthy properties, including the Addams Family animated movies and the Netflix Addams-centric series Wednesday, which helped propel star Jenna Ortega to the A-list. Prior to running MGM, Glickman spent the first decade of the 2000s as president of production at Spyglass, racking up credits on such as the Rush …

How To Film A City | Willa Glickman

How To Film A City | Willa Glickman

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New York City’s greatest natural resource—its cast of characters—inevitably attracts prospectors, but attempting an industrial-scale mining operation can be unwise. Efforts like the Facebook-page-turned-coffee-table-book Humans of New York or the Instagram empire of “New York Nico,” the city’s “unofficial talent scout,” illustrate how easily documentarians trying to represent such a vast and various range of people can end up repeating themselves, relying on memeified stock figures, or hanging around Washington Square Park when business is slow. How To with John Wilson, which recently aired its third and final season on HBO, has captured New York’s tapestry of oddballs nearly as well as I can imagine by taking a more nonchalant approach, letting the city’s street theater unfold in the background as John Wilson pursues his various preoccupations. Each episode intersperses extensive B-roll of unusual things Wilson sees on the street with extended interviews of (mostly) New Yorkers and is loosely structured around interpersonal dilemmas or urban issues—“How to Make Small Talk,” “How to Throw Out Your Batteries,” “How to Find a Spot.” How To takes …