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Oscar Movie Guide: What's Worth Seeing, From "Pi" to "Zero"

For a grim slog, the Oscar movies are pretty fun

Disabilities Will Permeate The Oscar Nominees

Get sick on screen, cough a little too hard, and you've got a nomination all locked up. Here are some of the frontrunners for nomination consideration, who will suddenly feel much better if they're announced among the chosen this Thursday. Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone (above). The French favo ... More >>

Is Denzel Washington Too Old For His Next Role?

Sidney Poitier was 32 when he played the upwardly mobile Walter Lee Younger in the original 1959 Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's classic A Raisin in The Sun (the play that recent Pulitzer winner Clybourne Park so interestingly riffed on). And Sean Combs was 35 when he played it in the 2 ... More >>

Daniel Day-Lewis's Third Oscar?

If the protean Daniel Day-Lewis wins his third Oscar for Lincoln--which there's a much better chance of happening than Liz & Dick nabbing an Emmy--he'll be the first three-time Best Actor winner in the Academy's history. Other actors have won three Oscars, mind you, but not all for Best Actor. (Ja ... More >>

My Oscar Predictions As Of This Moment!

Naturally, they might change--especially when I see every last film--but right now, this is what I'm predicting on goldderby.com (where they ask various commentators for their incredibly prescient forecasts and expect them to be accurate). SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1--Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables 2--S ... More >>

Three Locks For Best Actor Already

That's what insiders are saying--the kind of insiders who are usually right sometimes. Oscar's Best Actor locks already seem to be: Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln Duh. We knew this the second the movie was announced. Denzel Washington for Flight People are so happy he got a quality script agai ... More >>

End of Watch

Will Smith's Violence With Male Kisser Is Sad!

As you know, Scientologist Will Smith was greeting the press at the Moscow premiere of the esteemed Men In Black III the other day when he was approached by a male reporter who double kissed the star on the cheek, which is apparently the guy's shtick. At first, Will smilingly went along with it and ... More >>

The Five Hottest Hollywood Hunks Over 50

The Devil Wears Prada​ Movie stars don't get older, they get better, especially when it comes to my five fave hotties over 50. (5) Mark Harmon. Mamma like, mamma like. (4) Pierce Brosnan. Come to me, Pierce. Your singing in Mamma Mia! will be totally forgiven.

Getting America Back on Track in Unstoppable

This Week in the Voice: Andrew Cuomo, Lobbyists Calling

​Congrats to the newly elected Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. As a welcoming gift, this week's Voice cover story would like to warn you and your constitutions of the various leech-like lobbyists waiting to suck your integrity as a public official dry. The inimitable Wayne Barrett reports ... More >>

SUBWAY TERROR

You’ll never want to ride the 6 again

Will & Jada Cause Pandemonium at Fences

​The Broadway revival of Fences is star-studded enough, thank you, due to performances by Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. But last night, the celeb wattage increased significantly when Will and Jada Smith walked into the audience.

"Eddie Murphy is The Most Commercially Successful African-American Actor...

"...in the history of the motion picture business." That's what it says in Eddie's bio in the press notes for Shrek Forever After, and press kits never lie, right? To double check it, I looked up lifetime b.o. gross totals on boxofficemojo.com and sure enough, Eddie tops other heavyweights like De ... More >>

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 >>

TAKE ME OUT TO THE THEATER

Denzel Washington comes to Broadway in Fences

Has The Bible Done More Bad Than Good?

via Wikipedia.org​For something so nobly dubbed "the good book"--and which Denzel Washington carts around so lovingly in The Book of Eli--the Bible has certainly been the source of a lot of bad feelings. For centuries, people have used it as a tool to badger already oppressed people further i ... More >>

The Book of Eli: Kicking Ass for Jesus

The theology is a little warped, even for the post-apocalypse

When Oscar Got It Right

​I'm always bitching out all those Academy Awards given to undeserving actors simply because they didn't get it the year before or because they just had a tracheotomy. But occasionally, Oscar gets it right, actually conferring gold on the person who gave the best performance of the year in th ... More >>

Found: World's Least Persuasive Apartment-Share Ad Reply

So we've all heard that one silver lining to the whole economic meltdown is that New York is

Taking of Pelham 123 Trailer Looks Like Trouble

The trailer for the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 is out. Trailers are of course a bad way to judge a movie (usually the movie is much duller), but this one has us already missing the 1974 original (which you can see on Hulu) very badly. Here's a checklist: Lt. Garber 1974: Walter Matthau, r ... More >>

Gossip About Pamela Anderson, Madonna, and The Facts of Life!

The non-dish on Nancy McKeon; the worst recession sale in town.

Brown Doomsday?

No—others had it worse

Street Kings Cops Out

Boys will be boys in this shallow look at dirty police

DVDs Just Released: Margot at the Wedding, American Gangster: Unrated Extended Edition

Ay Dios Mio! Golden Globe's Bad Karma

The Great Debaters

Provincializm #12: Silver Jew and David Berman, Part One

Things I Learned Watching American Gangster

Going for the Gold

Rack Focus

Catch Me If You Can

By-the-numbers heist flick Spiked with ethnic vaudeville

Picture This

On the Set, the Street, and at Dinner With 'X' Director Spike Lee

Duel Voltage

In the revival of Fuller's A Soldier's Play, its parallel plots have at last become a continuum

Fall Theater Preview

Conspiracy Leery

How to remake a classic paranoid thriller without stepping on any toes

He Got God: Denzel Gets Even in a Blitz of Christian Retribution

Denzel Gets Hot and Bothered in Sunshine State Suspenser

Operation Infinite Justice

A Patriotic Hollywood Celebrates Its Own Beautiful Mind

I Think I Need a New Heart

Lone Gunmen

Film Forum

The Academy Award Nominations Were Announced Last Week. Do You Have Oscar Fever?

Pigskin Pioneers

Slow Racial Progress and a Cloud of Dust

Boys in the Bland

Tall story

In the Movies, Men Are Bigger Than Women Even When They Aren't

Takedown

My Man Jesse

The Siege