More than 11 million people visited Shanghai Disneyland in its first year of operation.

“The medium is the message,” said Marshall McLuhan in 1964, in his seminal book Understanding Media. McLuhan’s work prefigured not just contemporary media theory, but contemporary media itself. Numerous artists and intellectuals like Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, Neil Postman, Seth Godin, Barbara Kruger have drawn extensively from his work. In 1974, McLuhan and his […]

A. R. Gourney, the playwright who chronicled the mores of Waspish Americans in plays such as “The Dining Room,” “The Cocktail Hour,” and “Love Letters,” died Tuesday at his Manhattan home. He was 86. Gurney was a member of the upper class society he anatomized onstage in shows like his 1981 breakout “The Dining Room,” […]

Some of the most memorable moments from the night varied from host Kevin Spacey’s impersonations to a star-studded opening number.     Share this: