Alan Arkin

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Huge, Glaring Omission in Alan Arkin's Memoir!

FilmReference.com​ There's something screamingly missing from Alan Arkin's new memoir, An Improvised Life. And that would be any mention of Little Miss Sunshine! You know, the 2006 comedy classic about the absurdity of kiddie beauty pageants, in which Arkin played gramps and for which he wo ... More >>

Jules Feiffer's Movie: Resisting Voice Internecine Warfare Long Enough to Appreciate It

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 18, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 7 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris The Village Voice has distinguished itself over the years by the casualness, some would say eagerness, with which it allows its contributors and even its mainstays to b ... More >>

Dustin Hoffman, Rue McClanahan, Austin Pendleton -- It's Obies 1970!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 28, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 22 29 'Obies' Awarded For 1969-1970 Season The 15th annual Village Voice Off-Broadway awards were presented Monday night at the Village Gate. More than 500 guests gathered to applaud the 29 winners of the 196 ... More >>

Dustin Hoffman, Jules Feiffer, Other NY Liberals Go GaGa for Eugene McCarthy

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 23, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 32 The Limits of Power In a Garden of Delights by Michael C. D. Macdonald At first, things don't look good. Backstage, a network reporter complains, "no crowd releases, seats look a bit empty as the show st ... More >>

Rip Torn, Stacy Keach, Frank Zappa -- It's Obies 1967!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 25, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 32 21 Win '67 'Obies' The Village Gate was full to bursting at noon on Saturday for the 12th annual Village Voice Off-Broadway Awards. Barbara Harris, star of the Broadway musical "The Apple Tree," made the ... More >>

'Madcap Manhattan' Series at Film Forum

You know you're a NYer when . . . you recognize locations in these movies. Ba da bum.

Pippa Lee, Desperate Housewife

Married in the 'burbs—can we really expect anything but comatose?

Art D'Lugoff, Village Royalty, Gone Too Soon at 85

​Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85. Much too young. A friend, Thomas Vitullo-Martin, said D'Lugoff had been in good health, ... More >>

Soggy Post Grad Misses More than One Mark

​Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85. Much too young. A friend, Thomas Vitullo-Martin, said D'Lugoff had been in good health, ... More >>

William Lustig's 'Buried Treasures' at Anthology

Presenting a '70s hit list where the results aren't pretty

Clip Job: Albee Wins an Antoinette Perry

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMay 2, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 28Theatre News"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" playwright Edward Albee's first Broadway entry, has six new awards this week to support its reputation. Voted best play of the season by the Drama Critics Circle, "Who's ... More >>

Sunshine Cleaning Has Makings of a Great Showtime Series

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMay 2, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 28Theatre News"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" playwright Edward Albee's first Broadway entry, has six new awards this week to support its reputation. Voted best play of the season by the Drama Critics Circle, "Who's ... More >>

Liveblogging the Academy Oscar Awards! Part III!

Additional, excellent live-blogging here with Allison Benedikt at Sound of the City. The King of All Oscar Predictors walks among you in Part III. Will this hubris bring us low? Watch and judge! Oh no, Ben Stiller, you are not. Natalie Portman, good straight woman. Stiller probably thinks he's C ... More >>

Exit Laughing After Seeing The York Theatre's Newest Exercise in Nice

Additional, excellent live-blogging here with Allison Benedikt at Sound of the City. The King of All Oscar Predictors walks among you in Part III. Will this hubris bring us low? Watch and judge! Oh no, Ben Stiller, you are not. Natalie Portman, good straight woman. Stiller probably thinks he's C ... More >>

THAT ’70S STAR

Chat it up with Elliott Gould

Going for the Gold

Chat it up with Elliott Gould

The Goulden Age

Only in the early '70s could Elliott Gould have been a matinee idol. Since then? The Brooklyn schlemiel's long goodbye.

Being Stanley Kubrick

Plus new Oscar bait, and the attack of the right-wing lesbian polemicist

Strange Bedfellows

Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

It's On!

Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

Death to Little Miss Sunshine

Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

NY Mirror

Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

The Oscar Race Decoded!

Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

'The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause'

Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

Ain't No Sunshine

A "What's Wrong With America" indie comedy reveals what's wrong with indie comedies

Don't Know Jacques: Martin Founders in Lifeless Remake

A "What's Wrong With America" indie comedy reveals what's wrong with indie comedies

One, Two, Three

A "What's Wrong With America" indie comedy reveals what's wrong with indie comedies

Triple X

Omni-bust: Wong's early climax can't make up for a spent Soderbergh and a flaccid Antonioni

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Omni-bust: Wong's early climax can't make up for a spent Soderbergh and a flaccid Antonioni

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Omni-bust: Wong's early climax can't make up for a spent Soderbergh and a flaccid Antonioni

Justify Your Existence

Omni-bust: Wong's early climax can't make up for a spent Soderbergh and a flaccid Antonioni

Ways and Meanings

Omni-bust: Wong's early climax can't make up for a spent Soderbergh and a flaccid Antonioni

Martyr Complex

Omni-bust: Wong's early climax can't make up for a spent Soderbergh and a flaccid Antonioni

NY Mirror

Omni-bust: Wong's early climax can't make up for a spent Soderbergh and a flaccid Antonioni