In MIKE LEIGH's period potboiler Vera Drake, IMELDA STAUNTON gives a super-duper performance as a sweet, frumpy little backdoor abortionist, but... More >>
Paper magazine's Odeon dinner for Spanish cinema provocateur PEDRO ALMODOVAR was like a miniature avant-garde film festival, with all the guests... More >>
NY Mirror DAVID BARTON is always expanding and so are his gyms, growing and throbbing like washboard abs enlivening a midlife midsection. His new spot, at... More >>
In the overrated Motorcycle Diaries, GAEL GARCIA BERNAL plays the young Che Guevara, who, with his pal, travels around South America meeting all... More >>
Atlantic City is fab again, but for God's sake don't go into the actual town. The streets teem with folks who are either junkies or diabetics... More >>
Fashion Week took off in a blaze of journalists interviewing journalists about designers designing clothes based on other designers' designs, and... More >>
A couple of Hamms, PAUL AND MORGAN HAMM, were scheduled to do a pommel horse presentation at Chelsea Piers, so I was there in the club Lotus... More >>
NY Mirror JOHN WATERS's A Dirty Shame (due September 24) is an educational romp about head-injured Baltimoreans who develop insatiable fetishes of the kind... More >>
REESE WITHERSPOON is on the cover of Vanity Fair for three reasonsshe's a huge star, her people threatened to sue, and her new film is... More >>
NY Mirror Bush-bashing has become so understandably common on the Gotham arts scene that midway through Hamlet, you expect an actor to turn to the audience... More >>
