New York. The first 30 years.

A weekend online browsing tip via Fimoculous: Google Books is now hosting a digital archive of the first 30 years (1968 through 1997) of New York. As you bumble around in here, not everything that catches your eye will necessarily be related to cinema, of course, but I've plucked out a few cover stories of likely interest that are:

• Mel Gussow on Darryl F Zanuck, "The Last Movie Tycoon" (February 1, 1971).

• Mario Puzo on "The Godfather Business" (August 21, 1972)

• Harold Clurman and Julie Bovasso on New York actors (February 11, 1974).

• John Simon on Lina Wertmüller and her Seven Beauties (February 2, 1976).

• Molly Haskell on "The Night Porno Films Turned Me Off" (March 29, 1976).

• Cliff Jahr asks "Is This the End of Jerry Lewis?" (February 7, 1977).

• Paul Gardner on Robert De Niro (May 16, 1977).

• "Mailer on Monroe: He Defends His New Book - Before You Can Attack It" (November 10, 1980).

• "Here Comes the Videodisc" (November 17, 1980).

• Jennifer Allen on Robert Altman directing Cher in Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean on Broadway (February 1, 1982).

• Marie Brenner on "The Liz and Dick Show" (May 9, 1983).

• Rhoda Koenig on Jeremy Irons (January 23, 1984).

• Tony Schwartz on "Hollywood's Hottest Stars," Michael Eisner and Barry Diller (July 30, 1984).

• David Blum on "Hollywood's Brat Pack" (June 10, 1985).

• "Paradoxically, it took death - for Warhol, the ultimate act of conceptual art - to focus, frame and fix his ever-changing image." Jesse Kornbluth (March 9, 1987).

• David Blum on "The Road to Ishtar" (March 16, 1987).

• Phoebe Hoban on "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Woody and Mia (But Were Afraid to Ask)" (September 21, 1992).

• Dinitia Smith: "Much Ado About Branagh" (May 24, 1993).

• Dawn Steel on becoming president of Columbia Pictures (September 6, 1993).

• Jesse Kornbluth on "Robin Williams's Change of Life" (November 22, 1993).

• Pete Hamill, Martin Kihn and John Powers on Ron Howard's The Paper (March 21, 1994).

• An excerpt from Robert Evans's The Kid Stays in the Picture (July 25, 1994).

• Douglas McGrath profiles Woody Allen (October 17, 1994).

• Lynn Hirschberg profiles Paul Newman (December 12 1994).

• Chris Smith: "The Inside Story of the Decline and Fall of Saturday Night Live" (March 13, 1995).

• "Who Took the Fun Out of the Funny Business?" Larry Doyle asks Steven Wright, George Carlin, Richard Lewis, David Brenner, Paula Poundstone, Richard Jeni, Milton Berle and Richard Belzer (June 19, 1995).

• "Is Hollywood Too Wholesome?" asks Michael Hirschorn (September 4, 1995).

• Rebecca Mead on Liza Minnelli's return to Broadway (January 13, 1997).

Posted by dwhudson at December 13, 2008 3:57 AM