Christopher Walken

Al Pacino Deserves Better Than Stand-Up Guys

Turkey Cock, Frankenstein, and Fur Hats: Welcome to Avant-Garde Festival January

A review roundup of shows in Under the Radar, Coil, and more

Golden Boys? Stand Up Guys Is a Blow to Al Pacino's Legacy

A Late Quartet

Seven Psychopaths Is a Great, Nasty Time at the Movies

No, this is how it’s done

THUG LIFE

Film Forum shows off its criminal record

Keith McNally's Latest Beef; BK Whopper Bar's Pizza Burger

This week in food blogs ... Eater followed Keith McNally's latest beef -- this time with Steve Cuozzo after his roundup of new restaurants that suck. The Food Section discovered that Lidia Bastianich and Christopher Walken were childhood friends. Grub Street revealed that the Meatpacking's forthc ... More >>

Funny Coincidences: Christopher Walken and Lidia Bastianich Once Shared a Place of Employment

Christopher Walken, erstwhile baker and eternal bad-ass.​It's not news, but it is a pretty entertaining coincidence: while guest-hosting the Leonard Lopate Show this week, actor and enthusiastic home cook Christopher Walken invited Lidia Bastianich and her mother, Ermina Motika, on the show to ... More >>

IT MUST BE THE HAIR!

Comics go crazy for Walken

Denzel Washington Does Not Want To Be Hit

At least he didn't in Broadway's Fences revival, as costar Viola Davis reveals in this Theater Talk season sampler of highlights from the PBS discussion show.

2010 Tonys: Nominations Announced, Big on Idiot Material

​The 2010 Tony nominations are out, and the yearly ceremony that becomes more and more designed to persuade people from anywhere but New York City to spend money on theater is soon to follow. The idea behind the Tonys is simply to get Broadway to appeal to the rest of America in a big, fancy ... More >>

My Tony Nomination Predictions!

​In case you live for the nominations like I do (and by the way, they'll be announced tomorrow morning), here are my guesses. Disclaimer: I'm at a disadvantage. I actually saw the shows!

The Most Star-Studded Tony Awards Evah!

Red Hook gets tragic: Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber in "A View From the Bridge." Photo by Joan Marcus​That's what'll happen if this year's batch of giant movie-and-TV-stars-turned-theater-actors gets nominated! (Or even if they're just asked to present--or usher.) This will probably b ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Fixing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Gorillaz, Bob Blank, Liars, SXSW Cheat Sheet, and More

The Liars, acting out a scene from the sequel to The Hangover. Photo by Zen Sekizawa​In this week's Village Voice, Jason Gross on how to fix--or blow up--the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Miles Marshall Lewis plays around with Gorillaz, Andy Beta talks with space-disco-and-beyond-producer Bob Bl ... More >>

The Duchess of Malfi and A Behanding in Spokane

John Webster and Martin McDonagh seek some revenge

HAND JOB

Check in to playwright Martin McDonagh's motel

Rendition

Romance & Cigarettes

Test My Balls of Fury

Answer all correctly and win a Def Leppard album

Put Your Paddle to the Metal

Take the Balls of Fury quiz and win a Def Leppard album!

Summer Movies: Free Air-Conditioning at the Cineplex

Too hot to deal? Take shelter in the cool and dark of the matinee.

Monday 8/7 and Tuesday 8/8

Learning Channel

Latest Sandler vehicle evolves into an improbable cultural critique

1975

Scrutiny on the Bounty: Scott's Chopped-Up, Moronic Romp

Infinite Jest: Countless Variations on a Classic Naughty Joke

Film

NY Mirror

S.Q.U.A.T.

A Dreary Remake of a Forgotten '70s Cop Show: S.W.A.T. Have We Done to Deserve This?

The Pallor of Money

Music of the Spheres

NY Mirror

Deviants and Damons

Slurry With the Fringe on Top

Ursine Minor

When Animatronics Attack

Blood Simple

NY Mirror

Gull Talk

Dig Your Own Hole

NY Mirror

Theater

Hot Tickets

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Clash of the Titans

Hardest Movie Quiz Answers Revealed!

Screen Test

World’s Hardest Movie Quiz 2000

NY Mirror

Momentary Musicals

Flop House

Splendor in the grass

Illuminata

Desperate Measures