Send us a text Perhaps we should have known all along that David Silverman would pursue a life in animation and would make us laugh. When his father, a professor of chemical engineering, read to him at night, it wasn’t “Goodnight Moon” or “Oh, The Places You’ll Go.” It was Walt Kelly and the classic comic strip “Pogo.” At the movies, it was Charlie Chaplin and “Modern Times” and “The Gold Rush,” when David was all of five. All these years later, after decades of worki...
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Send us a text Perhaps we should have known all along that David Silverman would pursue a life in animation and would make us laugh. When his father, a professor of chemical engineering, read to him at night, it wasn’t “Goodnight Moon” or “Oh, The Places You’ll Go.” It was Walt Kelly and the classic comic strip “Pogo.” At the movies, it was Charlie Chaplin and “Modern Times” and “The Gold Rush,” when David was all of five. All these years later, after decades of worki...
Send us a text New York has long played an important role in sweeping works of fiction and non-fiction, as if the city were a character itself. That’s certainly the case in the work of Jonathan Mahler, first in his 2005 book “Ladies and Gentleman, The Bronx is Burning,” subtitled “1977, Baseball, Politics And The Battle For The Soul Of A City.” Now comes a sequel of sorts: “The Gods Of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, And The Birth Of The Modern City: 1986-1990.” Mahle...
Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin
Send us a text Perhaps we should have known all along that David Silverman would pursue a life in animation and would make us laugh. When his father, a professor of chemical engineering, read to him at night, it wasn’t “Goodnight Moon” or “Oh, The Places You’ll Go.” It was Walt Kelly and the classic comic strip “Pogo.” At the movies, it was Charlie Chaplin and “Modern Times” and “The Gold Rush,” when David was all of five. All these years later, after decades of worki...