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Bette Midler As Superagent Sue Mengers: My Review

Lounging on a sofa in a sparkly blue caftan in a picture-perfect Beverly Hills mansion while chain smoking and waiting for the phone to ring, Bette Midler plays campy 1970s producer Alan Carr in the new Broadway one-person show I'll Eat You Last. Oh, sorry, she's playing campy 1970s superagent Sue M ... More >>

Why We're Still Excited When Eminem Makes Music

We could have stopped caring years ago. Somewhere between Encore (2004) and Relapse (2009), our memory would've waned to the point where Em didn't really matter anymore. Yet, in 2013, it's been confirmed that a full-length album will be released post-Memorial Day along with some tour dates, and we'r ... More >>

In Defense of Seth MacFarlane -- He Was the Best Oscar Host

Writing a critique of Seth MacFarlane's duties as Oscar host on the website of The New Yorker this morning, Amy Davidson found herself defending Chris Brown. At least sort of. "Relationships are complicated," she wrote in the midst of a stern rebuke of MacFarlane's Chris Brown/Rhianna joke, "and it ... More >>

Welcome To L.A.: A Real Cinema Curio

I live for good/bad movies of the golden age, and 1977's Welcome To L.A. fits the bill, smog and all. It's an arid story of interlocking romances, all set amidst a bleak, impersonal, unhappy, yearning L.A. landscape where you never see all that many people in any scene. (Maybe there was a low budge ... More >>

Barbra Streisand Says Marlon Brando Wanted Her!

Last night I attended a special screening of The Guilt Trip with Seth Rogen fighting and bonding with mama Barbra Streisand on a car trip to settle some scores. And there was a live simulcast afterwards, with the two of them fielding questions from fans. (In New York, we watched it on the big scree ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Neil Young, John Cale, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen Lead the Fogeycore Invasion

The lures and snare of following Rock Gods

How to Get Really Famous in 2013! A Handy Guide.

Here's how sausage gets made, you sausage you

Streisand Responds To Larry Kramer's Attack

As you know, Larry Kramer wrote the powerful 1985 play The Normal Heart, about life in the trenches during the early days of the AIDS crisis. Barbra Streisand was going to direct the movie version at one point, but there were problems in drumming up the kind of money Larry wanted (among other confl ... More >>

Governors Ball 2012: Saturday Vs. Sunday In The World Series Of "Can New York Host A Music Festival"?

This weekend, Governors Ball took over Randall's Island for the latest installment of "Can New York City Host Its Own Major Music Festival?" Founders Entertainment, organizers of the second annual fest (that's what All Points West said, too), decided to go the "diverse" route, but at least they were ... More >>

Robert Evans' Appalling Wisdoms Through The Years

Robert Evans is the actor who became Paramount's head of production in the 1970s and who spouted lots of colorful wisdoms at the time--some on-target, some not--according to Peter Bart's book about his own years spent at the studio. Here are some of the highlights that emerged from Evans' very mout ... More >>

How Difficult Is Streisand To Interview? Larry King Speaks

In his book Truth Be Told, Larry King gives some very generous advice to his replacement (who turned out to be Piers Morgan): "If you're ever going to interview Barbra Streisand," writes Larry, "do it live. "At least then you'll know when you're going to start." Larry learned his lesson years ago ... More >>

Fabulous Interview With Roslyn Kind!

A sumptuous singer and a really fun person, Roslyn Kind is coming to Brooklyn College for a concert on Saturday April 28 at 8 PM, accompanied by piano. On imdb, it says she's Barbra Streisand's half sister, James Brolin's sister-in-law, Josh Brolin's stepaunt, and Elliot Gould's ex-sister in-law, ... More >>

Oddsmaking: Is The Best Dance Recording Grammy Basically Skrillex's To Lose?

If you think the opinions of critics and passionate fans of rock and rap and pop and country mean nothing to the Grammy Awards, being a dance-music fan widens the gap that much more. Essentially, if you're allergic to bottle service and/or newbs with glow sticks, you're better off crying into your p ... More >>

Five Cover Songs To Take You Into Your Weekend

Antony's heartwrenching take on "Crazy In Love" last night capped off a week where cover songs were seemingly dropping into my lap on a daily basis. Why not take time out of your schedule to enjoy them now?

Live: Swedish House Mafia Reign Supreme At Madison Square Garden

Swedish House Mafia w/A-Trak, Jacques Lu Cont Madison Square Garden Friday, December 18 Better than: Sitting around and becoming convinced audio of a microwave breaking is actually a leaked Daft Punk track. Swedish House Mafia sold out Madison Square Garden in nine minutes for Friday night's mam ... More >>

Larry King Talks To Me About His Gala Tribute, Part One!

​ On Monday night at the Sheraton Ballroom, onetime Abbot of the West Coast Friars Club Larry King gets a Friars Testimonial dinner, emceed by Katie Couric and featuring testimonials from the likes of Joan Rivers, Kathy Griffin, and Donald Trump. I called Larry to toast the TV legend on his a ... More >>

Sprinkles Cupcakes Is Here, and There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

Photo courtesy of Sprinkles Cupcakes​A little more than a year after it announced its intentions to take over the old Gino space, Sprinkles Cupcakes has made good on its threat promise. Called the "progenitor of the haute cupcake craze," the Los Angeles-based company will open its first New Yo ... More >>

The Brady Bunch, Loni Anderson and Jaws In The Same Room!

Sitcom stars of yore, starry-eyed autograph hounds collide in New Jersey

Carol Channing Mistaken For a Drag Queen!

​At the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday, I caught Dori Berinstein's Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, a loving look at the saucer-eyed Broadway star's legend. I already wrote about a Tony winner being evicted from the room. But now let me tell you a couple of highlights from the movie itself ... More >>

Kevin Sorbo: Versace Had His Hand Up My Thigh

​ Kevin Sorbo, the model who gained fame as TV's "Hercules," served up his misty memories of almost wearing Versace (meaning the man himself), as told on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's "The Frank DeCaro Show". Sorbo said that after he got a job modeling for Versace in Milan, he get a phone call ... More >>

The Fame Cookie: 2011 Grammy Awards Live Blog

It's the return of the most talked-about Grammy Awards live blog--a collection of quips, blips, and arguably insightful observations that dares to match the actual Grammy telecast in terms of pure spectacle and Justin Bieber mentions. Please join our hosts Tom Breihan and Ryan Dombal below, and keep ... More >>

'Addams Family' Star: This Show Has Been Shat Upon!

Plus, camping out at Burlesque

Larry Kramer: Streisand Is a Big Hypocrite

​Barbra Streisand released a statement about how she's been kvelling over the ruling that reversed Proposition 8, but that was yesterday. Today my mailbag shows that activist/author Larry Kramer isn't having it. Larry vividly remembers how Babs was supposed to direct a movie of his 1985 play ... More >>

The Empire Diner Will Close on May 15

The end is nigh.​The Empire Diner, Chelsea stalwart and one of our 10 most overrated restaurants, will serve its last meal on May 15.

"Cool Records Don't Make The Basis For Good History": A Chat About The Perils Of Record Collecting (And Weird Biases Of Nick Hornby) With Cultural Guru Karl Hagstrom Miller

​Karl Hagstrom Miller is a cultural historian (and professor at UT-Austin), whose first book, Segregating Sound, rethinks folk and blues by looking at the formative moments of these genres through the lens of the intellectuals and phonograph companies with the most interest in shaping them. I ... More >>

Anderson Cooper Vs. Dr. Death

Fun with assisted suicide. Plus: Puffy Combs on the craft of acting?

Clip Job: Goldstein Bemoans the Transformation of Judy Collins

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 22, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 10 Pop Bag By Richard Goldstein This is going to be a cop-out column of short ends and gristle. I hope you find it digestible: Judy Collins' transition from Joan Baez's kid sister to Barbra Streisand ... More >>

If You Found a CD-R with Islands MP3s on the C Train Tuesday, Please Smash It With a Hammer Immediately

Ah, poor Nick Thorburn. In an era when your own mom would just as soon leak your record for ten bucks and a free YouSendIt upgrade, the Islands frontman left an entire data CD of the band's new record, unmastered, on the C Train Tuesday. "W tee eff is wrong w me?" he lamented via Twitter. Even more ... More >>

The "Is" Factor: 5 Roles/Actors That Are Made For Each Other

Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me

Mad about crap

I Am Legend Star: I Am Straight!

Wynonna's backwoods backstory (and other therapy issues)

The World's Worst Bobblehead Comes to Brooklyn

Chatting With Werner

Herzog on his acting career, Mike Tyson, and the hearts of men

Barry Gibb Week on American Idol: Not Particularly Great TV

Rack Focus

Friday Night! What a Riot!

Pay to Play

Getting bucks from different heads of the music-biz hydra

But It's Really Good Sex

Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection

Holiday Humbug

Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to Christmas pageantry

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When Doves Cry

Oscar Declares War on the War

Close-Up on Yorkville

Drag Kings Make Me Wet

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Swish Myth

It Takes a Woman

Amadou's mother's plea to Hillary

Bowing Out

Should American Actors Flee a Muddled, Unrewarding Profession?

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