Tad Friend: Noah Emmerich before “The Americans.”

From the ramparts of Belvedere Castle, in Central Park, Noah Emmerich looked down on the Delacorte Theatre with a half smile. It was a spring day, and Emmerich, in jeans and an indigo T-shirt, was recalling another spring day at the Delacorte, thirty-one years ago. In 1982, Emmerich . . .

via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/05/06/130506ta_talk_friend

Tad Friend: Bryan Cranston’s old stomping grounds.

The Upper West Side, shrine to the pricey pillow sham, is no longer much of a frontier. But, on a recent sparkling Tuesday, Bryan Cranston revisited the proving grounds that—when he arrived here as a callow redhead, in 1983, to star in the ABC soap opera “Loving . . .

via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2012/11/26/121126ta_talk_friend