Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway Would Have Been Perfect For Cabaret

Yesterday, it was announced in a British paper that Oscar winner Anne Hathaway would be Sally Bowles in a Broadway revival of Cabaret, costarring Alan Cumming as the MC, the role he played last time around. Theater queens rejoiced in the street while singing "Tomorrow Belongs To Me," but it turned ... More >>

My Casting Ideas For Pippin The Movie

The Anne Hathaway Hate Is Dwindling

There was a growing anti-Anne Hathaway sentiment on the part of the bitchy (and often accurate) people who populate the gossip boards in the last several months. They felt her Les Miz performance was a little too conscious of its own power, and started resenting the tour-de-force of a cute person s ... More >>

The Dirtiest Joke On The Whole Golden Globes Telecast

No, it wasn't the not-coming out/coming-out speech, which did have some moving material in it. I'm talking about Sacha Baron Cohen's riff, which referenced Anne Hathaway's pooch-revealing wardrobe malfunction at the premiere of Les Miserables. That was a definite coming out, and caused many an eyeb ... More >>

Disabilities Will Permeate The Oscar Nominees

Get sick on screen, cough a little too hard, and you've got a nomination all locked up. Here are some of the frontrunners for nomination consideration, who will suddenly feel much better if they're announced among the chosen this Thursday. Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone (above). The French favo ... More >>

I Was So Good On CNN Yesterday

Pungent and informative and so cute I wanted to pinch my cheeks through the screen when I got home and watched it. On CNN International, I was the featured guest brought on to prognosticate about the Oscar nominations, which are coming this Thursday like a whole other Christmas morning.

My Top 10 Films of 2012

Les Misérables Doesn't Dream Daringly

The Follies of 1832

Watch Out, Les Miz! Here Are Movie Stars Who Sang Live

When archivist Mark Milano heard Anne Hathaway and her cohorts say in an interview that the upcoming Les Miserables film was the first time actors sang live while filming, he dug into his vaults to prove them wrong. Really wrong. The below compilation clip is an enchanting reminder of all the star ... More >>

Here Are The Oscar Best Actress Front Runners

It's never too soon to start guessing Oscar nominations, so I've done some exhaustive research--like talking to one friend in the biz, as well as plumbing the depths of my own usually-semi-right instincts--and decided that the five nominees will probably come from these seven bigshots: Marion Coti ... More >>

Air-Tight Security Around New Batman Film

Normally, reviews and mentions of a movie are embargoed by the film studio until a few days before the opening, but in the case of The Dark Night Rises, participating press have been warned by Warner Brothers to not tweet, review, or mention the film in any way until opening day (July 20)! There is ... More >>

Les Miz Trailer: Is Anne Hathaway Better Than Susan Boyle?

Les Miserables--based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber hit that Andrew Lloyd Webber actually had nothing to do with--is coming to the screen in all its stirring pathos and musicality. And here comes the trailer, which consists of Anne Hathaway singing an anguished "I Dreamed A Dream," as we see brownish ... More >>

My Thoughts On The Oscars As They Happen!

The show started with great dignity. Morgan Freeman came out and a friend of mine said, "Is that the one who fucks the granddaughter?"

Eddie Murphy As Oscar Host: Waaa!

David Shankbone/Wikipedia​I'm not thrilled about Eddie Murphy being chosen to host the next Oscars. First the good news: After the last telecast with poor, defeated Anne Hathaway and James Franco totally at sea, they're smart to go back to a comedian, someone with a standup background and so ... More >>

Fame Is Better Than Drugs And I Want To Mainline That Shit

My own schizoid ride between notoriety and nothingness.

Life Happens According to Plan in One Day

This Week in the Voice: Anatomy of a Bike Accident, Plus Kenny Chesney and Beyoncé

​This week in the Voice, out today: Camille Dodero explores the fallout from a bike accident in Greenpoint that happened in October. A Brooklyn couple, James Paz and Michelle Matson, were hit by a car on McGuiness Boulevard, and Michelle was severely injured. They've learned that if you get in ... More >>

It's A Great Year For Best Actress

​The Emmy nominations came out today, but my mind is stuck on the Oscars and how there will be no shortage of leading actress contenders to pick from in 2011. Not only is Meryl Streep donning prosthetics and an accent again, this time as moxieish Margaret Thatcher, but we have the following o ... More >>

If You Pay to See This Movie, You Will Have Been Hoodwinked Too!

Emasculated Bird Can't Get It Up in Animated Yawner Rio

Academy Member Admits Franco and Hathaway Were Bad Oscar Hosts

​ In a very ungracious move, a high-ranking member of the Academy of blah blah has given an interview saying that James Franco and Anne Hathaway were terrible choices as Oscar hosts. Let me add to the ungraciousness by saying "Hallelujah!" The Academy member cites the two comely stars' lack ... More >>

Worst Oscars Ever!

Or at least since the Rob Lowe/Snow White one. Here's why: *ZERO suspense. Any random person on the street has known the winners for months. *The tug between "young and hip personalities" and ancient film references was as schizo as Cate Blanchett's dress. *The acceptance speeches were either da ... More >>

Anne Hathaway's Visit to Staten Island Elementary School Is BEST DAY EVER

Kids from the PS 22 chorus performing on MTV​Anne Hathaway made a surprise appearance at PS 22 in Staten Island to tell the kids from the chorus that they'd been booked at the 83rd Academy Awards and would be flown to L.A. to perform in February, regardless of what their agents parents had to ... More >>

Which "Disease Movie" Makes You Cry The Hardest?

​ Love & Other Drugs has Jake Gyllenhaal falling for Parkinson's sufferer Anne Hathaway, his once-callow personality tested by the possible commitment to a challenging situation. But this being Hollywood, Hathaway's character is only in Phase One of the illness. In other words, her hands sha ... More >>

Anne Hathaway and James Franco? Here Are 5 Pairs Better Suited to Host the Oscars.

via NY Daily News​Today, Anne Hathaway and James Franco were named the hosts of this year's Academy Awards. The Daily News reports that Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer (the producers of the Oscars) said, "James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons -- fresh, exc ... More >>

Love & Other Drugs Desperate for Your Attention

Who's Your Favorite Funny Lady in Films?

​Today, that is. (Spare me votes for Carole Lombard). Your choices are:

Can You Name Anyone Who's Not In Valentine's Day?

​Valentine's Day--aka Love, American Style, the Movie--is one of those criss-crossing ensemble pieces starring literally everyone alive who's ever walked the earth and ended up in front of a camera. In an attempt to satisfy every possible demographic, it has young people, old people, whites, ... More >>

Week in Review: Young, Self-Satisfied, Confident Celebrities

In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

Anne Hathaway Happily Drowns in a Sea of Love on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

It's almost too awkward to even watch--people who don't know how to play guitar playing guitar usually are--but there's something really endearing and also sort of funny about this clip of (Obies presenter!) Anne Hathaway playing "Sea of Love" on last night's Jimmy Fallon. Conan's debut is the new ... More >>

TWIN TROUBLE

Who wears the pants in this family?

Obies 2009: A Report from This Year's Ceremony, Or Am I at the Negrobie Awards?

Shakespeare in his underwear

Summer Guide: B.A.M.'s Muslim Richard III

Anne Hathaway Presenting at the Village Voice Obie Awards!

Did you see Saturday's Page Six? It reported that Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway is going to be a presenter at our very own Obie awards for off- and off-off-Broadway on Monday May 18! This is extremely exciting news, and I've already gotten over the fact that it will probably get more attention than th ... More >>

Anne Hathaway Fix Evaporates at Golden Globes

We weren't even going to mention the Golden Globes until we saw it on the front page of the New York Times -- who ever thought the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, once described as "100 stringers living off hors d'oeuvres," would gather such respect! -- but now we're duty-bound to mention tha ... More >>

"The City" Toff, Golden Globes Get Ahead of Themselves

No, no, no -- you're supposed to get arrested for soliciting after you're famous, and announce the winners during the award ceremony. The Smoking Gun reveals that James Nevan Donahue, who plays a friend or something of "social" Olivia in the MTV car-wreck "The City," was arrested in 2007 for approa ... More >>

Passengers

Anne Hathaway Makes a Compelling Bad Girl in Jonathan Demme's Pedestrian Rachel Getting Married

The other sister

This Week's Voice: Brooklyn Book Festival, MySpace Music, the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading, Sue Williams, and More

No Regret

Anne Hathaway "Got Smart" When She Dumped Raffaello Follieri

Get Smart: A Pleasant Surprise

This redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

Anne Hathaway's Beau and the Miracle Window Washer: Some Exclusives in the Post

Go Pee

NY Mirror

Tales From the Hood: Boredom Abounds in Fairy-Tale Pastiche

Rack Focus

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