Anthony Perkins

All About That Legendary Prostitute Movie Scene, Complete With Yogurt

The Ken Russell-directed Crimes of Passion is a heady, hilarious, raunchy, maddening romp about an unhappily married magician, a psychotic reverend, and a female fashion designer who whores at night as the multi-personality-laden China Blue. That the latter two characters were played by Anthony Per ... More >>

The Trouble with Hitchcock

Shouldn't the making of Psycho be more interesting?

Cops and Novelists: Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, and other moonlighting screenwriters

Who's Playing Whom In The Hitchcock Movie?

Good evening. There's a biopic being done about the portly, macabre genius who directed one-word classics like Psycho, Vertigo, Rebecca, Suspicion, Rope, and Spellbound, among other films. So which stars are dropping by for a paycheck? Here's the answer to the mystery:

Bed-Stuy Store Named After Mahogany

Tracy Chambers was Diana Ross's name in Mahogany, the 1975 anti-feminist camp classic about a lady designer who throws away the knitting needle to stand in the shadow of her man. The film is notable for the great theme song, the incredible outfits, and Diana's bulging eyes when photographer Anthony ... More >>

Langella's Book Stops Short At Revealing Bisexuality

I've praised Frank Langella's memoir, Dropped Names, several times, admiring its candor and insight--though I did note the weirdness of him writing about Anthony Perkins coming on to him without ever revealing whether the author bit the bait. Langella's book serves up steaming truckloads of dish ab ... More >>

Tony Perkins Hit On Frank Langella

Frank Langella's insightful new book, Dropped Names, does just that, devoting a short chapter to each of the famous people he's encountered in his career. I was most fascinated by the one on Tony Perkins, who visited Langella backstage after a 1960s play. The Psycho star said people keep telling h ... More >>

Pretty Poison Is Pretty Fabulous At Film Forum

In 1968, a year after Bonnie and Clyde caused a sensation, the way more obscure Pretty Poison trotted out just as bizarre a criminal couple consisting of a weird guy with a sick imagination and a stunning blonde who eagerly bites his bait. But this time, the Bonnie isn't necessarily working in tand ... More >>

That Girl is Poison: Tuesday Weld, Not So Innocent

Chow Down On Your Favorite Dead Stars' Recipes

Come on, it won't kill you! Sirius/XM OutQ host Frank DeCaro has laid them all out for you in his brand-new Dead Celebrity Cookbook, which is filled with all sorts of famous fricassees and stellar ceviches. At DeCaro's book party at P.J. Clarke's last night, thrown by CBS Watch! magazine, I asked ... More >>

Film Director Predicted 9/11!

James Toback​At last night's screening of the Time/HBO documentary Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience, I chatted with James Toback, who wrote Bugsy and the upcoming Gotti flick and wrote/directed works like Black and White and Harvard Man. So where was he on 9-11? "I was watching it on te ... More >>

Who's The Best Male Movie Star In Drag?

Whether they were playing drag queens or women, a lot of name actors have been willing to step into the heels and do it up. Who's your favorite? Liev Schreiber in 'Taking Woodstock'​

When the Burtons and Brando and Malcolm McDowell Blew Through Town

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 21, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 25 Hype! Hype! Hooray! by Arthur Bell A heat wave blew into town last week. So did Merle Oberon, Malcolm McDowell, the Burtons, Ron O'Neal, Alice Cooper, Marlon Brando, withered endives, chopped liver fro ... More >>

The Scariest Moment From a Movie

​I'll start: The moment in When a Stranger Calls when Carol Kane is told by the police, "The call is coming from inside your house!" Runner-up: In Psycho, when Anthony Perkins's mother is spun around in her chair and turns out to be a worm-eaten skeleton. Any others?

Joel Schumacher Was Straight!

​For a day anyway. The genial director known for films like St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys, did it with publicist/performer Cherry Vanilla back in the seventies, according to the latter's spicy new memoir, Lick Me.

In Praise of Andrew V. McLaglen and His Washed-Up A-List Casts

'Psycho' Is 50: Remembering Its Impact, and the Andrew Sarris Review

​It was 50 years ago this week, Alfred Hitchcock taught the world to shriek. Sunday morning June 16, 1960, Psycho opened at two midtown Manhattan theaters, with crowds already lined up on Broadway. Was it the insolently blunt title? Hitchcock's hilarious first-person trailer ("and here we ha ... More >>

Elvis Perkins in Dearland

Siren Call: A Conversation with Elvis Perkins

Mission: Midtown

Teenage girl prepares to blow up Times Square, and herself, in the harrowing Day Night

Mellow Troubadour Wallows in Whimsy

Braving the Elephants

Celebrity and Suffering in John Haskell's Factual Fictions

Prisoners' Songs

Are You Defending Your Life?

She's All That

Taking Another Stab