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David Thomson

David Thomson is the author of The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film and a book on Nicole Kidman, to be published in September (all from Knopf). He lives in San Francisco.

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  • The Sheltering Shy

    May 11, 2006 Subscribe

    Satirist Alan Bennett's Untold Stories is a packed suitcase of a book by one of Britain's finest writers.

2005

  • I Act, Therefore I Am

    November 16, 2005

    Admired from a distance and reviled up close, Laurence Olivier could establish a relation with his audience that was like an infection. His official biography chronicles a personal life of an actor who altered the cultural compass of a nation.

2004

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