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Children’s movies are made, in part, for grownups—their allegories are meant to pacify both parent and child—but the teen movie, like its audience, is more intemperate. Alternately generous and cruel, it teaches its viewers that life isn’t fair, but that,…
“Can you stand back a little?” That’s what the photographer Larry Fink remembers Jerry Brown, the governor of California, asking him on a Monday in December. Fink was at the capitol building in Sacramento to photograph Brown for Connie Bruck’s…
The popular Instagram account Shia’s Outfits has, for the past year, documented a variety of looks sported by the actor Shia LaBeouf—on his way to a West Hollywood gym, as he grabs an iced coffee in Studio City, as he…
I hate to blow my cover, but I fear the Iraq war may have been my fault. I was in high school in early 2002 when military operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan began winding down (or so we thought…
FAIRFAX, Va.—Strangers I meet are always surprised when they discover they’ve met a third-generation Northern Virginian. “Wow, a native!” they exclaim, “you don’t meet many of those!” This surprise is often accompanied by a strong opinion about NoVA, as it’s…
When I first saw Disney’s 2010 film version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I was nervous that the most overtly Christian moment in the entire book series—Aslan’s revelation to Edmund and Lucy that “In…
