  The Ballad of Ron and Dorinda Around the nursing home where she lives, in Phoenix, Dorinda Lopez, seventy-one, mostly keeps to herself. People can tell she's from somewhere else, on account of her southern accent. When she gets angry, as she sometimes does when she talks about the past, it gets thick. The word "aggravate gets like ten syllables."
Only Lisa, who lives across the hall, has heard the whole story. But Lisa is forgetful. She recently complimented Dorinda on her pretty nightgown.
"Lisa, you gave it to me!"
"Oh, I did?"
Lisa is not a risk to spread gossip.
Abby knows the story, too. Dorinda tells it to her in fragments, before bedtime. But Abby is a cat. She's not talking, either. Abby is a lot like Dorinda in that she likes to escape; when the door is open, Abby slips out and Dorinda calls for her kitty to come back, the best she can do from her wheelchair. "The only people who know me now," Dorinda told me, "are people who know me now."
Dorinda was one half of the most romantic jailbreak in American history, and for a long time no one in her life but Lisa and Abby knew it. But then, this spring, Dorinda's telephone rang, and she answered it. The man who broke her out, Ronald J. McIntosh, looked increasingly likely to get out of prison himself. Now that the story might finally have an ending, she was ready to tell it from the beginning.   55 Gifts Your Wife Won't Immediately Return for Store Credit You want to get your wife something nice. Easier said than done, right? Her style is too good, and her interests too complex, for you to even begin to narrow down the overwhelming options. But when you are completely bereft of ideas, there's absolutely no shame in asking for a suggestion. And that's what we're here for: to lead you in the right direction so you choose the best possible present to give the most important woman in your life. Read on for the greatest gifts for your wife, from high-fashion picks that'll seriously impress her, to home decor she'd never splurge on herself, to tech she'll use every single day. You'll knock it out of the park—a top candidate for all-time best husband of the century.
 The 50 Best Gifts That'll Impress Any Guy Men are notoriously difficult to shop for. There's the husband who already bought himself everything he wants. The boyfriend with mercurial tastes. The son who completely blanked and forgot to send you his wish list. The dad who insists that believe him, he's quite happy with nothing at all, as if that's a viable option. Pains in asses, the lot of them. However, all is not lost. Here we've collected a master list of the 50 best gift ideas for men—men who like sneakers and watches, men who like tinkering with smart tech, men who like roughing it outdoors or lounging around the house. Finding that gift, especially if it's a holiday gift meant to brighten the end of an otherwise crap year, suddenly feels a lot less daunting.  This Heavy-Duty Corduroy Shirt Will See You Through the Holidays—and Then Some Sure, we've all been living in sweats for the last going-on-a-year, but swaddling yourself in fleece isn't the only path to sartorial solace—there's also something to be said for something weighty and tough. This shirt, cut from 9-ounce fabric, offers a substantial layer of protection between you and the world. And because it's finished with workwear-inspired detailing like those dual flapped chest pockets, it also aesthetically nods to that very idea. Now, that doesn't mean it's going to actually shield you from harm—much less a virus or your Great Aunt Barbara's anecdotes—but there's something to be said for a garment that can put you in the right headspace. And right now, "girded against the world but still celebratory" feels like a pretty perfect place to be. Here's Style Director Jonathan Evans on why Freeman's Sporting Club's new corduroy shirt is just right for right now.
 The 100 Best Movies of All Time This is a list of 100 of the best movies of all time according to a group of Esquire editors. These are the movies we love and deem important and essential to the history of cinema. There will be movies you don't think should be on here. There will be movies you think should be on this list. And that's great! That's okay! If we missed something, or if you think we made a mistake, tell us in the comments! A list like this should be a living, evolving document that represents the time and tastes in which it was created. This specific list has been updated from a years-old Esquire list in which we substantially changed the entries in order to better reflect the movies we consider crucial right now—and it will be updated again. But for now, happy streaming.  Collateral Is the Most Michael Mann Film of All Michael Mann Films Heat is widely (and rightly) considered to be Michael Mann's masterpiece—the director's grand meditation on all of his favorite pet themes: loyalty, honor, integrity, crime, compulsion, loneliness, and the point where good and evil bleed into one another until you're no longer sure which side you're meant to be rooting for. It's a grab bag of leitmotifs that was there from the start in the director's pair of '80s gems, Thief and Manhunter. But as undeniably lean and mean as both of those films are, Chris Nashawaty argues the movie that actually nips most closely at the heels of Heat in the top tier of Mann's underworld classics is 2004's Collateral—another violent, nihilism-drenched thriller that, if you squint just a little, seems to exist in the same spiritual universe as Heat. They're two movements in an underworld symphony of L.A. after dark.
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Sunday, December 13, 2020
Two Lovers. A Helicopter. And a Brazen Prison Break.
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