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2000 Stories by Brendan Bernhard

• Do the Clothes Make the Man?

  published November 30, 2000

  Looking like the broker from another planet, Thomas Frank stood on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue in a pinstripe suit, a... More >>

• J’Accuse!

  published November 16, 2000

  At this point in history, it‘s hard to term anyhing so old-fashioned as a novel ”shocking.“ What a novel can still be, though, is annoying... More >>

• Parlor Games

  published November 2, 2000

  Director Tonie Marshall on love, boring explanations and Venus Beauty Institute At a time when so many French films are set in... More >>

• Belle de Jour

  published October 12, 2000

  Wearing lightly tinted sunglasses and smoking a profusion of slim cigarettes, Catherine Deneuve, aging goddess of French cinema, neither quite... More >>

• The Shadowers

  published August 31, 2000

  The first night of the “Rapid Response Panel,” the convocation of acid-tongued pundits that held forth each night last week at Arian... More >>

• Expanding Microminiaturists

  published August 10, 2000

  The Museum of Jurassic Technology, that cabinet of curiosities so stumblingly dark and intricately laid out as to make even a ballerina feel... More >>

• Schmooze Dot Com

  published July 20, 2000

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• Experiencing Martin Amis

  published July 6, 2000

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• East Is South

  published July 6, 2000

  It was a decidedly multinational crowd that gathered a couple of months back at Louis XIV, the French restaurant on La Brea Avenue, to hear the... More >>

• Melville Unbound

  published June 8, 2000

  Beau Travail, the new film by the French director Claire Denis (Chocolat, I Can’t Sleep), is a hypnotic meditation o... More >>

• The Labyrinths

  published May 11, 2000

  “It’s often been said of my work that the search for style has resulted in a want of feeling,” says the dying novelist played by John Giel... More >>

• Love Among the Ruins

  published May 4, 2000

  On closing one of English novelist (and occasional Weekly contributor) Tim Parks’ books, I suspect that more than one reader has foun... More >>

• Beauty and the Beast

  published April 27, 2000

  Bertrand Tavernier, the distinguished French film director, was lying flat on his back in his Paris apartment, blind in one eye and temporarily... More >>

• Going Postal

  published April 27, 2000

  In the fall of 1949, V.S. Naipaul left his native Trinidad to go to Oxford University on a government scholarship. He was 18 years old and... More >>