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Idol Gives Back 2: A Running Diary

Voice Adds Cred to Brad Pitt Column

This Week's Voice: Neil Young, Marnie Stern, Jonathan Franzen, Benjamin Button, and 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 >>

Free Will Astrology: April 2 through 8

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 >>

Free Will Astrology: April 9 through 15

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 >>

It's a Small World After All

The season's globe-trotting films bring mankind closer together, or at least pretend to on-screen

They Build Horses, Don't They?

Could be verse: Brad Pitt's beefcake Achilles is a heel in a streamlined, digitized Iliad

Why I Needed Brad and Jennifer!

Could be verse: Brad Pitt's beefcake Achilles is a heel in a streamlined, digitized Iliad

Can You Top This?

Unrelated: the city's sex life bottoms out; Hillary's gal Friday; Dean among the Queens

Kiss-Kiss of Death

Unrelated: the city's sex life bottoms out; Hillary's gal Friday; Dean among the Queens

21st-Century Boys

David Fincher stages a theater of war in ‘Fight Club’

Conflict Management

David Fincher stages a theater of war in ‘Fight Club’

Y2Care

Millennium Movies Get a Second Chance

International Men of History

Millennium Movies Get a Second Chance

Arabian Noughts

Sinbad and the Order of the Phoenix

Monsters Ink

The Reflecting Skin

Troy Story

The Reflecting Skin

First Person Plurality

Some don't like it hot: Narcissism and celebrity at a doc fest

The Flirty Dozen

We know what they did last summer: Paid vacation makes for surprisingly snazzy sequel

An Affair to Dismember

'Til death do us part: Freakishly hot sex symbols smolder while film takes tepid late turn

NY Mirror

'Til death do us part: Freakishly hot sex symbols smolder while film takes tepid late turn

ODE TO BEARDS

Damn you, grizzly men. I love you!

Benjamin Button Features Pitt and Blanchett in Orgy of Excess

For those who did not get enough Forrest Gump . . .

Ever Date a Married Person?

No, I don't mean the person you're married to. I mean did you ever hook up with someone espoused to someone else? And did you blindly keep going with it anyway? Let's face it--we ALL sit back and bitch out movie stars who break up homes and carry on with married folks, but when the chance comes alo ... More >>

On Raekwon's "House Of Flying Daggers" Video: Nothing To Do On A Slow News Day But Watch Wu-Tang Dudes Beat Up Ninjas

I already forget which animal-based martial-arts style involves you kicking a dude so hard his brain falls out and then stomping on said brain, but nonetheless this is basically Inglourious Basterds with various Wu Tang dudes instead of Brad Pitt and ninjas instead of Nazis. Sold. (Thanks to The ... More >>

Who Should Play Teddy Kennedy?

​I hate to start the casting ball rolling so soon after a person's passing, but somebody's got to. So in the inevitable movie about Teddy Kennedy, who should play the Massachusetts Democrat who achieved so much (though USA Today's Wednesday headline, "Kennedy Made Massachusetts Larger Than It ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: September 2 through 8

​I hate to start the casting ball rolling so soon after a person's passing, but somebody's got to. So in the inevitable movie about Teddy Kennedy, who should play the Massachusetts Democrat who achieved so much (though USA Today's Wednesday headline, "Kennedy Made Massachusetts Larger Than It ... More >>

Restrospective: Bad Celebrity Ads

Slashfood rounds up the weirdest celebrity food commercials, including the famously botched frozen pea voice-over by Orson Welles and a cringe-worthy Pringles ad starring a young, shirtless Brad Pitt. As a rule of thumb, the best in celebrity ad weirdness can be found in those commercials filmed a ... More >>

The Worst Accents in Screen History

​ No, Meryl Streep's name is nowhere near this list. But if you click on this survey, you'll find no fewer than two Brad Pitt performances (one of his accents is described as sounding merely like a sore throat), a legendarily bad Cockney accent by Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (" 'Allo, Guvn ... More >>

Homoerotic Movies!

​What are the best, juiciest, most orgasm-inducing ones? I'm not talking about GAY movies, mind you--I mean flicks that deal in subtext, undercurrent, and suggestion. Movies that gays can wank off to even though the men in them aren't doing anything overtly sexual together. Films that closet c ... More >>

John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey

​What are the best, juiciest, most orgasm-inducing ones? I'm not talking about GAY movies, mind you--I mean flicks that deal in subtext, undercurrent, and suggestion. Movies that gays can wank off to even though the men in them aren't doing anything overtly sexual together. Films that closet c ... More >>

The Handsomest Actor Ever

​His name was Jean Sorel, and in fact it still is. The Frenchman is 75 and keeps on working. But Sorel's heyday was the '60s and '70s, when his dreamy features and glossy, immovable hair filled the screen in Sidney Lumet's fiery A View From The Bridge, Bunuel's wry classic Belle De Jour, and ... More >>

Chelsea Clinton's Ultra-Secret Wedding Suddenly Way Less Secret

​OMG, details about Chelsea Clinton's wedding to boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky -- once "under intense scrutiny and impenetrable secrecy" -- continue to emerge! Now we know, thanks the Hudson Valley News, that the grand 400-person invite-only event will be held at John Jacob Astor's former estate in ... More >>

Do Hookups Ever Look Better Than Their Photos?

​We all know about the bullshit artists who say they're models and then show up and turn out to be hand models with the face of a carb-drenched werewolf. And then there are all those self-proclaimed hotties whose wevb photos must have been shot through gauze and then smeared in grey vaseline.

Horoscope

​We all know about the bullshit artists who say they're models and then show up and turn out to be hand models with the face of a carb-drenched werewolf. And then there are all those self-proclaimed hotties whose wevb photos must have been shot through gauze and then smeared in grey vaseline.

The Most Boring Movie of All Time?

​That's easy. It was Meet Joe Black, the plodding, overlong meditation on life and death starring a wan Brad Pitt, a comatose Claire Forlani, and an annoying Anthony Hopkins. After the 20-minute mark, I had already met Joe Black and eagerly wanted to move on -- but there were two hours and 3 ... More >>

Villain With a Heart of Gold in Animated Rehash Megamind

​That's easy. It was Meet Joe Black, the plodding, overlong meditation on life and death starring a wan Brad Pitt, a comatose Claire Forlani, and an annoying Anthony Hopkins. After the 20-minute mark, I had already met Joe Black and eagerly wanted to move on -- but there were two hours and 3 ... More >>

Heaven Is Full of Young Adults

According to Colton Burpo, who had a near-death experience as a four-year-old but lived to write a book about it with his dad (Heaven Is for Real, Christmas-list it!): There are no old people in heaven. If you make it up there, you get the Benjamin Button treatment. Also, as he explains in this Fox ... More >>

The Eight Funniest Things I Said To Keith Olbermann

​As Keith Olbermann prepares to move to Current TV, let's reminisce about the naughty things I used to say to him on air--utterances that would make him simultaneously blush and egg me on. Here are the cutest/bawdiest:

Spring Arts Guide: Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier and More

Plus 'Cruel Cinema,' Rudy Wurlitzer, and other spring film picks

This Week in the Voice: Eric Bellucci's Madness and Murder of Mom and Dad

​In our weekly edition, Elizabeth Dwoskin's cover story "Killing Mom and Dad" tells a horrific, but humanizing tale about Eric Bellucci, whose slip into schizophrenia culminated in the stabbing deaths of his mother and father late last year. For the first time, the surviving children of the Be ... More >>

Cannes 2011 Has Issues

​In our weekly edition, Elizabeth Dwoskin's cover story "Killing Mom and Dad" tells a horrific, but humanizing tale about Eric Bellucci, whose slip into schizophrenia culminated in the stabbing deaths of his mother and father late last year. For the first time, the surviving children of the Be ... More >>

The Difficult Gifts of The Tree of Life

​In our weekly edition, Elizabeth Dwoskin's cover story "Killing Mom and Dad" tells a horrific, but humanizing tale about Eric Bellucci, whose slip into schizophrenia culminated in the stabbing deaths of his mother and father late last year. For the first time, the surviving children of the Be ... More >>

Brad Pitt's Five Best Performances

​Ever since his breakthrough perf in 1991's Thelma and Louise, Brad Pitt has proven to be not just a good movie star, but a really fine actor too. In the wake of his latest, The Tree of Life, winning the big prize at Cannes, let's look back and pick Brad's five best performances out of many. ... More >>

The Year's Most Present Actress By Far

​I think that sounds nicer than "omnipresent," since it's not her fault that every movie she's ever done seems to be coming out all at once. She's Jessica Chastain, the 31-year-old beauty who's showing her range--and incredible aptitude for achievement--in the following 2011 films:

Does Brad Pitt Play A Gay Baseball Star In Moneyball?

​I could have sworn as much the second I started watching the based-on-a-true-story movie and heard Brad being referred to as Billy Beane. I knew someone by that name! (See above.) He was the hot looking ex-Major League player who made international headlines when he came out in 1999. He's ... More >>

Happy Feet Two

​I could have sworn as much the second I started watching the based-on-a-true-story movie and heard Brad being referred to as Billy Beane. I knew someone by that name! (See above.) He was the hot looking ex-Major League player who made international headlines when he came out in 1999. He's ... More >>

Angelina Admits To "Complete Emotional Breakdown"

​No, not out of residual guilt over Jennifer Aniston. And not over the pressure of mothering 350 kids and counting.

Johnny And Vanessa! Heidi And Seal! What Next?

​When Katy Perry and Russell Brand announced their split not long ago, no one batted a fake lash. It was a matter of "How did it even manage to last that long?" But when relationship champs like Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, and Heidi Klum and Seal, are reportedly splitsville, who's left ... More >>