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Eliza Berman
Eliza Berman is a senior editor at TIME. She has covered movies, TV, music, books, and theater.
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Spike Lee and Dee Rees first met at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2005, where he is artistic director and she was a film student. Since then, Rees has become one...
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Sure, Dustin Hoffman caught his big break 50 years ago seducing a lonely mom in The Graduate. But some of the actor’s most memorable roles have been as fathers of all varieties: doomed (Death of...
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Quick Talk With Ansel Elgort
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By Eliza Berman
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In The Hero, the veteran actor, 72, charms as a fading star of westerns who reckons with his failures as he faces his mortality. The role was written specifically for him.Between this film and his...
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By Eliza Berman
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Ansel Elgort was in the sixth grade when he had his first style awakening. He fashioned a sort of self-imposed uniform — red Adidas sweatpants, white tee, blue sneakers — and wore it daily for...
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