Sheila McClear

Bio

Sheila McClear is a freelance writer. She has been on staff at the New York Daily News, New York Post and Gawker. She has written for the New York Times, Racked, and Allure.com. She is the author of 'The Last of the Live Nude Girls.'
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The Election Day documentary '11/8/16' is a tough watch at times. But that’s the point.
By Sheila McClear
Jeff Deutchman had a plan for Election Day in 2016: He tapped more than a dozen filmmakers to shadow more than a dozen different Americans on that pivotal day. The idea was to explore American diversity through its voting process — and that’s…
Why the Sundance documentary ‘Dina’ is about your relationship, too
By Sheila McClear
“You know, I didn’t plan this. I didn’t plan on getting married again. I figured, I’ll get by on having crushes on people,” Dina Buno, the focus of a new documentary simply titled Dina, says at one point in the film. She’s talking to a nail…
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HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ nails the ’70s sleaze of New York’s Times Square
By Sheila McClear
In 1971, New York’s Times Square was the city’s center of vice and corruption. Nicknamed “The Deuce” by those who lived in its shadows, 42nd Street was a speed-fueled cacophony of prostitutes and pimps, racial anxieties and out-of-control crime,…