Sarah Vowell

Lights, cameo, action!

Alfred Hitchcock's first rule of directing was to treat actors like cattle -- and even in his own cameos, he was no sacred cow.

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Aug 11, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Directors, Roman Polanski, Music

The mockumentary cometh

Documentaries are huge. Their perverse cousins are nipping at their heels.

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Jul 28, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

To Paris Las Vegas, with love

A few tips on keepin' it real for the folks who are bringing the City of Light to America.

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Jul 14, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

Vive la diffirence

A melting pot of several stories, "Summer of Sam" is a sprawling urban epic from Brooklyn's native son.

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Jun 30, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

Cheese royale

Where's the shame in liking "The Cable Guy"? It's my devotion to fluffy French designers that I'm embarrassed about.

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Jun 16, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Bruce Springsteen, Music

Love, truth and videotape

Everything I know I learned from Video Rodeo.

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Jun 2, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Sex, Music, Love and Sex

La vie en “Melrose”

Amanda/You came and you gave without taking/ And I need you Mondays/Amanda.

Sarah Vowell Monday, May 24, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

I feel fine

In Steve Erickson's visionary new novel, it already is the end of the world -- and we don't know it.

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Apr 21, 1999 4:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Fiction, Music

The psycho next door

Gianni Versace's murderer: Everyman, or marginalized monster? Two new Cunanan biographies battle it out.

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Apr 7, 1999 8:04 AM UTC
Entertainment Music

Crime and punishment

Thanks to 'creative sentencing,' bad art finally has some redeeming social value

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Mar 24, 1999 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

At home in a crowd

Sarah Vowell's 'American Squirm' column appears every other Wednesday in Salon

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Mar 10, 1999 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment HBO, Music

Roger and him

Remembering Gene Siskel, 1946-1999.

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Feb 24, 1999 8:00 PM UTC
Life Sex, Roger Ebert, Love and Sex

From Bauhaus to tract house

Architect Michael Graves turns his folly to the mass market.

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Feb 10, 1999 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

Canuck yuk

When it comes to American humor, Canada is Comedy Central.

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Jan 27, 1999 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Canada, Saturday Night Live

The greatest degeneration

Did the heroes of WWII really know what they were fighting for?

Sarah Vowell Wednesday, Jan 13, 1999 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Bill Clinton, Music

Where it's Art

Sound Salvation is a biweekly music column by Sarah Vowell. Beck puts his collages onto canvas alongside those of his late grandfather, Fluxus artist Al Hansen

Sarah Vowell Monday, Jun 1, 1998 7:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

20th Century Vox

A farewell to Frank Sinatra -- and to the America he embodied

Sarah Vowell Friday, May 15, 1998 2:53 PM UTC
Entertainment Music

I Want My Camp TV

Sound Salvation is a biweekly music column by Sarah Vowell. New MTV VJ Jesse Camp rocks Music Television's regimented world.

Sarah Vowell Tuesday, May 5, 1998 7:00 PM UTC
Life Music, MTV

Wild man blows

As the recent efforts of Woody Allen and Kevin Bacon show, playing at being a musician is an actor's most challenging role

Sarah Vowell Friday, May 1, 1998 7:00 PM UTC
Life Documentaries, Music

Sleeping Where I Fall

Sarah Vowell reviews 'Sleeping Where I Fall' by Peter Coyote.

Sarah Vowell Friday, Apr 17, 1998 7:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Books

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