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Amy Poehler's New Comedy Partner Is David Simon

Karen Black Thanks You For Helping Her Try To Beat Cancer

Yesterday, I sent out a notice that Karen Black's husband was asking people for money to help Karen get to Europe for some treatments that could save her life. Karen--Oscar nominated for Five Easy Pieces and the star of many other films--has cancer, and is down to 96 pounds after having part of he ... More >>

Shirley MacLaine's Daughter's Tell-All Is About To Come Out!

And it's not filled with terms of endearment. Suposedly, Shirley's daughter Sachi Parker, who's now 56, has written a bitter memoir called Lucky Me: My Life With--and Without--My Mom. It threatens to be the new Momie Dearest, or at least the new My Mother's Keeper (the sour tome written by Bette D ... More >>

More Proof That Lauren Bacall Can Be Deeply Unpleasant

I've always admired Lauren Bacall--from a distance. Because truth be told, I'm a little bit afraid a huh. Enter David Rothenberg, who produced Fortune and Men's Eyes, among other plays, and who also formed the Fortune Society, an advocacy and service organization for the formerly incarcerated. In ... More >>

Ernest Borgnine's Weirdest Movie

No, it wasn't Marty, From Here To Eternity, or even Johnny Guitar. It was a wacky little 1972 alleged comedy called Bunny O'Hare, in which he and Bette Davis were a plumber and a widow who dressed up as hippies and robbed banks, funkily escaping on a motorcycle. Those two old coots were no threat ... More >>

Lloyd Kaufman: The Toxic Director

The filmmaker gets his close-up after 40 years of Troma (more or less)

Sarah Polley Minds the Gap

On the release of her second feature, the filmmaker stares down emptiness

Olivier: "Vivien Was A Nympho!"

The full quote is: "You know, she was a nymphomaniac. And I'm a premature ejaculator. Not a good matchup." Yikes. It sounds even worse than the typical movie star pairing. Laurence Olivier said that quote to Frank Langella when they worked on Dracula, as recounted in Langella's colorfully rivetin ... More >>

The Grammys' 53 Record Of The Year Winners, In Order

53. Phil Collins, "Another Day in Paradise" [1991] 52. The 5th Dimension, "Up, Up and Away" [1968] 51. Olivia Newton-John, "I Honestly Love You" [1975] 50. Celine Dion, "My Heart Will Go On" [1999] 49. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, "A Taste of Honey" [1966] 48. Bobby McFerrin, "Don't ... More >>

How Bette Davis Lost Out on Gone With The Wind

​In a Fringe Festival show called Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies, Jessica Sherr portrays the screen legend talking to her two Oscars in between indulging in flashback confrontations with various Hollywood moguls. And this is how Scherr's version of Bette's version of not getting to play Scarle ... More >>

Lucille Ball's Two Least Favorite TV Guest Stars

​When Bette Davis dropped out of a guest role on The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, they naturally got Tallulah Bankehead to fit the arm swiveling bill. Who was a mess. According to the new book, Lucille Ball FAQ, Tallu came to work intoxicated, crashed a production meeting, and when Lucy com ... More >>

It's a Baby! Male Midlife, With Child, in Octubre

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

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

Born Yesterday: My, Like, Intelligent Review

​Billie Dawn--the corrupt tycoon's awakening girlfriend in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday--is such a juicy part that it enabled Judy Holliday to beat no less formidable a duo than Bette Davis and Gloria Swanson for the 1950 Best Actress Oscar. But of course Holliday brought to the role an irr ... More >>

A Broadway Leading Lady With Real Balls

At age 76, the theater vet is a real doll in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest

Alec Baldwin Isn't Scary Anymore!

Success has mellowed him—and he's actually funny

One-Size-Fits-All '80s Nostalgia in Take Me Home Tonight

Kim Kardashian: "I Love Being 30 and Single!"

She's 'empowered'; Dan Choi's having fun; Joan Collins is showing slides

Some Wonderful, Old, Gay Gossip

At the Tribeca Film Festival last week, I met one of my icons, Mart Crowley, who wrote The Boys in the Band, the landmark 1960s play about a bunch of East Side gays having a party that leads to fight, tears, and line dances. I pop up in a documentary about the importance of that work (It's called Ma ... More >>

American Idol Semi-Finals 2: Norman Gentle in a Tux, Adam Lambert Shoots Rainbows, and Attack of the Duffy Clones

Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. This week: Woo woo, the second round of semi-finals! all photos Michael Becker / FOXNick Mitchell as Norman Gentle It's Round Two of semi-finals, and this 12 consists of a welder, a bartender, a font designer, and Norman Gentle. Simon s ... More >>

The One Reason to See Boarding Gate

Asia Argento predictably hijacks an otherwise a bumpy flight

The Importance of Being Ernest Borgnine

Then Again

Old Acquaintance evokes a bygone New York, but is that enough?

The Clan Jacobs

Dad premieres a new, video version of an old tribute, while son succumbs to the slacker indie

In Memoriam

Shields Remine, 1934-2006

Judy Holliday: The Smart Dumb Blonde

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New York Films

Manhattan Babylon

Fig Chatter

When Doves Cry

Oscar Declares War on the War

Space Odysseys

Old Hollywood's Sure Thing

A Space Odyssey

The Return of the Thalia

The Mother and the Whore

Benedict Walker

Californian John Walker Fought for the Taliban. Does This Make Him a Traitor to the U.S.?

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The Sour Smell of Success

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Sex Workers and Alcoholics Dominate Popular Music Once Again

Oscar Undressed

The Starmaking Machinery Behind the Popular Gown

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Live and Erect

Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

Grand Illusion

More About Eve

Looking for My Inner Dom

Fable Settings

Smoke and Mirrors

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Definitely honor-free will be Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare (sorry, but the Bard didn't look like Rob Lowe).

Famous Last Words

Movie Buffs Pick Their Favorite Endings

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