Randy Cohen, who wrote The New York Times' "Ethicist" column for many years, has gotten the green light to move ahead in his slander lawsuit targeting the movie trailer for Learning to Drive.
The 2015 movie, starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley, is based on a story in The New Yorker by Katha Pollitt, Cohen's ex-wife.
Cohen is unhappy with two scenes. In one, the main character — allegedly a proxy for Katha Pollit — tells her daughter, "Instead of buying a motorcycle, Daddy decided to give adultery a spin." In the second, after Cohen is allegedly referenced, the main character...
The 2015 movie, starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley, is based on a story in The New Yorker by Katha Pollitt, Cohen's ex-wife.
Cohen is unhappy with two scenes. In one, the main character — allegedly a proxy for Katha Pollit — tells her daughter, "Instead of buying a motorcycle, Daddy decided to give adultery a spin." In the second, after Cohen is allegedly referenced, the main character...
- 10/26/2017
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The former Nyt writer claims that abusive husband character in the 2015 film is not based on him but a boyfriend of his ex-wife Katha Politt, who wrote the original book
Writer and humorist Randy Cohen has launched legal action against the makers of Learning to Drive, the Patricia Clarkson comedy based on a book by his ex-wife Katha Pollitt.
According to the New York Daily News, Cohen’s complaint is that the abusive, unfaithful character who at the start of the film is married to the protagonist, played by Clarkson, is in fact based on a former boyfriend of Pollitt’s, who she met after their marriage had ended.
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Writer and humorist Randy Cohen has launched legal action against the makers of Learning to Drive, the Patricia Clarkson comedy based on a book by his ex-wife Katha Pollitt.
According to the New York Daily News, Cohen’s complaint is that the abusive, unfaithful character who at the start of the film is married to the protagonist, played by Clarkson, is in fact based on a former boyfriend of Pollitt’s, who she met after their marriage had ended.
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- 6/30/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Getty People celebrating Osama bin Laden’s death at Ground Zero
Late Sunday evening, just after President Obama announced that U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden, a Mark Twain quote quickly bounced around Twitter: “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
New Yorkers took that message to heart, gathering in Times Square and near Ground Zero and celebrating with paper-bagged beer, flag-waving and chants of “U! S! A!”
Pittsburgh...
Late Sunday evening, just after President Obama announced that U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden, a Mark Twain quote quickly bounced around Twitter: “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
New Yorkers took that message to heart, gathering in Times Square and near Ground Zero and celebrating with paper-bagged beer, flag-waving and chants of “U! S! A!”
Pittsburgh...
- 5/3/2011
- by Julie Steinberg
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Last evening, at the 2010 Moth Ball, literary well-wishers gathered at New York’s Capitale to fête journalist and author Calvin Trillin, this year’s recipient of the Moth Award, an annual prize given by the Moth, a New York City–based nonprofit that arranges storytelling events. The gala’s theme was the 1930s, in particular, the 1934 Frank Capra screwball comedy It Happened One Night. Partygoers interpreted the theme as an invitation to bring out hats of all stripes: bowler hats, tiny hats, top hats, even, yes, a striped hat. The motif occasionally trended toward the 20s: many women, slouching under the weight of long strands of pearls, clung to delicate clutches likely to have been traded for studier fare during the Depression. The event’s emcees, comedian Mike Birbiglia and Bored to Death creator Jonathan Ames, wore simple, smart suits in lieu of the boxy jackets favored by their 30s forebears.
- 11/17/2010
- Vanity Fair
In the second episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, "Ted and Mary," a smitten Larry goes shopping with Mary in an effort to be her friend. Curb: The Discussion host Susie Essman and panelists Randy Cohen, Patti Stanger, Dr. Todd Boyd and Rob Zombie comment.
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- 6/3/2010
- by TV Guide News
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Curb: The Discussion host Susie Essman and panelists Randy Cohen, Patti Stanger, Hill Harper and Jon Hamm talk about breast implants, sparked by a scene in Curb Your Enthusiasm's first episode, "The Pant Tent", where after a woman in a theater accuses Larry David of staring at her breasts. Larry then defends his behavior, referring to her breast implants as "chemical balls." Watch the video and vote in our poll after the jump.
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- 5/26/2010
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Curb: The Discussion host Susie Essman and panelists Randy Cohen, Patti Stanger, Hill Harper and Jon Hamm talk about breast implants, sparked by a scene in Curb Your Enthusiasm's first episode, "The Pant Tent", where after a woman in a theater accuses Larry David of staring at her breasts. Larry then defends his behavior, referring to her breast implants as "chemical balls." Watch the video and vote in our poll after the jump.
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- 5/26/2010
- by TV Guide News
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I just came across the most in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the Letterman-Palin brouhaha, by Randy Cohen at The New York Times. His analysis is long and cogent, but here’s the gist: Letterman’s version had three targets — Alex Rodriguez for his sexual shenanigans, Sarah Palin for her abstinence-only politics and Bristol Palin for personifying the futility of that advocacy. All three are fair game, including Bristol, who, unlike, say, the Obama kids, is now over 18 and chose to be a public figure as a 17-year-old by participating in the presidential campaign and promoting teenage abstinence. Audiences enjoy irony. Comics mock hypocrites. Whether you agree with Cohen’s breakdown of the joke, this is another issue:...
- 6/23/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Manny Ramirez is gone, suspended for 50 regular season games for testing positive for a banned substance, but should he be allowed to play in this year's All-Star Game? Ramirez's suspension ends July 3. The All-Star Game is played on July 14th. Legally, Ramirez is eligible to play. Ethically? New York Times ethicist, Randy Cohen writes: "There are potent arguments against the use of these substances [steroids], invoking respect for the law, esteem for baseball's history, regard for the players' health and concern about poor role models for young fans. But to frame this problem as one of individual moral failure is neither persuasive nor apt to yield an effective solution. "Sports evolve, and technology plays its part," Cohen says. "In modern, professional basketball... footwear [is] so high-tech that James Naismith, the game's inventor, would barely recognize those things on LeBron James's feet as...
- 6/11/2009
- by Jim Lichtman
- Huffington Post
In the 9/21 edition of The NY Times Magazine, Randy Cohen, a.k.a. “The Ethicist,” responding to a writer inquiring about the morality of a professor patronizing a strip club, offered this little admonishment, “Nobody should attend strip clubs, those purveyors of sexism as entertainment. Strip shows are to gender what minstrel shows are to race. But while I endorse your conclusion about these sad displays…” To which I respond, Oh, brother. (Yes, who better an expert on female strippers than a gay guy who pens a column for The Grey Lady?) Between this sweeping, condescending – not to mention unethical – judgment of “gentlemen’s clubs,” and the latest crackdown on NYC’s houses of domination (which sent the NY Post into a “slap-happy” tizzy) I ...
- 10/1/2008
- by Lauren Wissot
- Spout
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