In 1939, Janet Flanner, The New Yorker’s correspondent in Paris, wrote a profile of Marthe Hanau, a notorious con woman who defrauded the French financial markets during the nineteen-twenties and thirties. Hanau, Flanner observed, “was the greatest, brainiest, most convincing and comical confidence woman France ever produced.” Her outlandish actions […]
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New York Comic Con’s first-ever virtual convention kicks off Thursday, with a slew of panels for new TV series like “Utopia,” “The Stand” and “The Walking Dead: World Beyond,” plus reunions of fan-favorite shows like “Lost” and “Smallville,” along with events for movies “Freaky” and “Spontaneous” and a few other […]
12:00 PM — Star Trek Universe The beloved panel returns to New York Comic-Con with a special virtual edition, featuring exclusive back-to-back conversations with casts and producers from the Star Trek Universe on CBS All Access, alongside a few special surprise guests. Join the creator of STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, […]
German heiress Anna Delvey Paywall down Every few years, a story will capture the public imagination and become something akin to a parable for our times. In an age in which the Kardashians and their ilk can earn billions out of their ‘curated’ lives, these stories tend to be ones […]
Love Fraud Love Fraud Courtesy of SHOWTIME When Tracy met Richard Scott Smith, she was a single mother who describes her life at that time as consisting of working, paying bills and not much else. Her whirlwind romance with Smith began with a motorcycle ride that gave her a taste […]
Permit me one more Donald Trump story in order to share a theory making the rounds on Wall Street about how the former conniver in chief is going to make more money now than ever before. It involves a con, of course. It’s important to remember why the twice-impeached former […]