The New York Times Magazine - USA (2022-02-12)

Ta l k By David Marchese Photo illustration by Bráulio Amado 13 Christopher Walken has secret things going on in his head. ‘I’ve ...

Ta l k 14 2.13. Christopher Walken is seemingly inca- pable of being boring. He can carry star- ring roles, as in the great gang ...

1 IMDb lists a hefty 139 film and television credits for Walken. 2 To Georgianne Walken, a casting director for ‘‘The Sopranos,’ ...

Illustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy I have had the same woman come once a week to clean my house for the past 10 years. Seve ...

Kwame Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at N.Y.U. His books include ‘‘Cosmopolitanism,’’ ‘‘The Honor Code’’ and ‘‘The Lies That ...

18 Photograph by Stephanie Gonot As with any good legend, the origins of Cheetos Crunchy Flamin’ Hots are con- tested. For years ...

in Van Nuys or Rowland Heights, where my grandma shops. In school, my preteen insecurities became indistinguishable from my inse ...

In her sophomore year of college, Melissa d’Arabian studied abroad in France, living with a host couple i n a town in the Loire ...

21 It took several years for me to recognize the impact on my life, on my palate and, most of all, on my cooking. Seared Scallop ...

BY WESLEY MORRIS ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES ZUCCO THE MAJESTY, LEGACY AND COMPLICATED POWER OF A GOOD SOB. ...

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD 23 ...

in a movie theater. It was at ‘‘E.T.,’’ after the gov- ernment seizes Elliott’s house in order to con- duct experiments on the a ...

Illustration by James Zucco The New York Times Magazine 25 ‘‘How’s my crying,’’ and had attached to it, with droll contempt, the ...

HE WAS A COMEDIAN’ S COMEDIAN — UNTIL ‘B ETTER CALL SAU L’ REVEA LED HIM AS A PEERLESS PORTRAYER OF BROKEN SOULS. WHAT WILL BOB ...

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hen Bob Odenkirk’s agent fi rst called him about playing an oily bus-stop-ad lawyer named Saul Goodman on ‘‘Breaking Bad’’ — at ...

INSIDE THE HOUSE, a cameraman captured a beguiling tableau: There was a glass-topped watch winder, lined with felt and fi tted w ...

of ‘‘Better Call Saul’’ is that Jimmy’s truly unfor- givable transgression isn’t that he behaves unethically but that he does so ...

Bob was 22, by which point the two were fully estranged — with remarkable coolness: ‘‘Saying goodbye to him was a shrugging aff ...

The Mystery of Michael Flynn By Robert Draper Photographs by Mark Peterson To the MAGA faithful, the general was the great marty ...