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Hugh Jackman

  • Columns

    February 1, 2012

    Why I Hate Theater! Appalling!

    Read my column now or see the musical later

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Hugh Jackman Kisses A Woman Who's Not His Wife!

    ​Relax. It was a peck on the cheek for Theater Talk cohost Susan Haskins upon filming the long-running weekly TV show. And the whole interview was a dream, apparently.

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin Together Again: My Review

    In his own revue currently on Broadway, the charming Hugh Jackman sings a snippet of "I Won't Dance," backed by a full orchestra, dancing girls, and a slide show. In An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Broadway vets Patti and Mandy do the same song conversationally and intimately, sitt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Hugh Jackman Back On Broadway! My Review

    ​An action star who scored on Broadway as hip swiveling gay singer Peter Allen? That's just one of the unusual textures that make Hugh Jackman such a fascinating performer, and he's amply aware of that.

  • Theater

    November 9, 2011

    Hugh Jackman Spreads His "Fever" on Broadway

    The Australian star gives New York the ol' song-and-dance. And aboriginals.

  • Film

    October 5, 2011

    Robot on the Ropes, Love or Something Like It in His Corner in Real Steel

    Father-and-son reunion, and a semblance of emotion

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Hugh Jackman Beach Workout Pix. You're Welcome.

    Lord knows whenever I work out, I run around in my swimsuit all along Bondi beach in Australia as a photographer captures the action. And I'm pleased to know I'm not alone in this rigorous routine. Apparently the ageless and sinewy Hugh Jackman does the very same thing!

  • Film

    July 13, 2011

    Persistence of Besties in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

    Lord knows whenever I work out, I run around in my swimsuit all along Bondi beach in Australia as a photographer captures the action. And I'm pleased to know I'm not alone in this rigorous routine. Apparently the ageless and sinewy Hugh Jackman does the very same thing!

  • Columns

    June 15, 2011

    'Spider-Man' Review: I'm Buggin'!

    Musto's verdict on the retooled musical

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Hugh Jackman's Sexuality! Discuss

    Broadwayworld.com​Hugh Jackman was great as gay performer Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, but on the Tony Awards the other night, he was still swishing around. As himself! Hugh and host Neil Patrick Harris performed a very funny Tony host showdown, which resulted in them camping it up to tun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    The Week in Food Blogs: Dead Dining Trends; Celebrity Foodies; Hot Hamptons Restos

    This week in food blogs... Eater enlightened us about 10 NYC food and dining trends that are officially dead. Grub Street discovered that Hugh Jackman has always been something of a foodie. Midtown Lunch tucked into a steaming pot of Pro Hot's Korean tofu stew even though it was a bajillion degre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Guess Who Barbra's Considered To Play Herbie in Gypsy?

    ​She's even talked to him about it! Hugh Jackman! That's a long stretch from the kvetchy Jack Klugman in the original show and pinched-faced Karl Malden in the movie. And as our friends at lemonwade.com point it, it would make the character of Rose a big time cougar (not just a barracuda).

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Kristin Chenoweth Coming Back To Broadway

    ​That's what the talented cutie said in a tweet, as playbill.com reports--and she hintingly added, "Just ask Scott Ellis." Ellis happens to be an artistic director of the Roundabout Theatre Company. And Chenoweth just recently did a reading of the 1978 musical On The Twentieth Century costar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    James Franco and Anne Hathaway: Great Oscar Hosts?

    ​I was just on Judith Regan's show on Sirius radio when my husbear Bruce Vilanch phoned in and revealed that he'll again be writing the jokes for the Oscar telecast. Vilanch said he recently met with first-time hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway to see how to optimize their presence on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Jean-Georges Vongerichten Boxes Hugh Jackman; Amanda Freitag Dreams of Cooking in a Field

    ​Simon Oren, a partner in Nice Matin, Marseille, Barbounia, and Five Napkin Burger, is expected to take over the space that once occupied Ed Brown's Eighty One, and is currently hunting for a chef. [Grub Street] Jean-Georges Vongerichten spars with actor Hugh Jackman in season five of the Su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Live: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Play MOMA's Party in the Garden

    Karen O, gathering a new tribe. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne​Party in the Garden, featuring the Yeah Yeah Yeahs MOMA Tuesday, May 25 They didn't bust out "Art Star" (too self-effacing for the young moneyeds?) but the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' acoustic set was a wholly perfect centerpiece to the regal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    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 >>

  • Film

    April 6, 2010

    Edgerton Brothers' The Square Confuses Body-Pileups with Plot Twists

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    My Favorite Things

    ​Hollywood's voyage to the Third Dimension is continuing apace with announced plans to re-release newly 3-D-ized versions of 2001, Star Wars, and The Passion of the Christ, but the first 3-D musical -- an all-star remake of The Sound of Music -- is proving to be more difficult than anticipated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Kids Lunchboxes Packed with Sugar, Salt & Fat; Fake Gatorade Bottles Shame Tiger Woods

    ​Can one man eat at 10 Danny Meyer restaurants in one day? Apparently so. The author's Meyer Marathon started at Shake Shack, then continued with stops at Tabla, Gramercy Tavern, and ended at Maialino. [Wall Street Journal] Looking for your favorite gourmet food truck? There's an app for that ... More >>

  • Film

    November 10, 2009

    Bad Wine Bar Music Backs the Big Questions in Oh My God?

    ​Can one man eat at 10 Danny Meyer restaurants in one day? Apparently so. The author's Meyer Marathon started at Shake Shack, then continued with stops at Tabla, Gramercy Tavern, and ended at Maialino. [Wall Street Journal] Looking for your favorite gourmet food truck? There's an app for that ... More >>

  • Theater

    September 29, 2009

    A Steady Rain Displays Two Celebs; Tosca and Othello Display Directorial Muddle

    ​Can one man eat at 10 Danny Meyer restaurants in one day? Apparently so. The author's Meyer Marathon started at Shake Shack, then continued with stops at Tabla, Gramercy Tavern, and ended at Maialino. [Wall Street Journal] Looking for your favorite gourmet food truck? There's an app for that ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 29, 2009

    Gay Celebs Descend on Atlantic City!

    Out and about, and then back here to walk in Nancy Sinatra's boots.

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Robert Goes Downey on Jude Law?

    ​Bouncing off complaints from Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, that he's homophobic, British auteur Guy Ritchie is trying to prove otherwise by directing Sherlock Holmes, in which Holmes and Watson apparently do some light detective work into each other's private parts. That the charact ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 10, 2009

    The Low Point in the David Carradine Coverage

    Fighting off the recession with priceless gems. Plus, a few Debbie taunts.

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    The Original Jennifer Aniston!

    That desperate headline was the only way I could draw your attention to my column (CLICK HERE) reviewing Debbie Reynolds, who was Hollywood's original girl-next-door-who's-man-left-her-for-a-vamp, way back in the '50s. Anyway, Debbie debuted at the Cafe Carlysle last week with a fun act of singing, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Hanging With The Tony Crowd

    At an American Theatre Wing dinner at Cipriani the other night, I got to sit with a bevy of Tony award types and wet myself with delight. At my table, Roger Robinson--who's Tony nominated for Joe Turner's Come and Gone--said that, after the bump they got from the Obamas seeing the show, he was stun ... More >>

  • Film

    April 29, 2009

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Wait for the Bootleg

    At an American Theatre Wing dinner at Cipriani the other night, I got to sit with a bevy of Tony award types and wet myself with delight. At my table, Roger Robinson--who's Tony nominated for Joe Turner's Come and Gone--said that, after the bump they got from the Obamas seeing the show, he was stun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2009

    Live: Director Darren Aronofsky at the Rubin Museum

    Pointing on the job "Brainwave": Darren Aronofsky The Rubin Museum March 19 Once, at a Q A following an early screening of The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky's long-anticipated film about a tripartite Hugh Jackman questing after immortality, I asked the director what was up with all the poking. (To wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2009

    It's Oscar Night: The Liveblog!

    Welcome to the Village Voice's not-really-annual Oscar liveblog! Feel the electricity. Not sure if you've heard, but: This year's Academy Awards will be UNLIKE ANY YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE! First of all: They've hired an architect to design the set. Money well spent. Next: Taking a page from The M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2009

    Liveblogging the Academy Oscar Awards! Part II!

    8:30 pm. Hmmm, Laurence of Arabia with a Cugat beat... pretty stage, more "intimate" than usual as promised, but a bit flat -- Oh no Hugh Jackman is doing a Billy Crystal. No, Hugh, you're too good for this. And we mean that literally. It's like watching Pavarotti play Jackie Gleason. At last, a g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    Nate Silver Takes All the Suspense Out of the Oscars

    Every year people bitch that the Oscars are boring, and this year's event just lost what little non-wardrobe interest it had, because Nate Silver has called the winners. The supergenius statistician who predicted the last Presidential election's results with uncanny accuracy tells New York magazine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    A Plea For Hugh Jackman To Put His Oscars Tuxedo To Good Use

    Every year people bitch that the Oscars are boring, and this year's event just lost what little non-wardrobe interest it had, because Nate Silver has called the winners. The supergenius statistician who predicted the last Presidential election's results with uncanny accuracy tells New York magazine ... More >>

  • Film

    November 26, 2008

    Welcome to Baz Luhrmann's Australia

    Somewhere over the dateline, the not-quite-marvelous land of Oz

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2007

    And I Am Telling You…DIE!

    Somewhere over the dateline, the not-quite-marvelous land of Oz

  • Film

    November 14, 2006

    Fountain of Shame

    That Darren Aronofsky sure is ambitious. Too bad his movie makes no sense.

  • Film

    November 7, 2006

    'Happy Feet'

    That Darren Aronofsky sure is ambitious. Too bad his movie makes no sense.

  • Film

    October 24, 2006

    'Flushed Away'

    That Darren Aronofsky sure is ambitious. Too bad his movie makes no sense.

  • Columns

    December 6, 2005

    NY Mirror

    That Darren Aronofsky sure is ambitious. Too bad his movie makes no sense.

  • Theater

    April 19, 2005

    Theater

    That Darren Aronofsky sure is ambitious. Too bad his movie makes no sense.

  • Columns

    December 21, 2004

    NY Mirror

    That Darren Aronofsky sure is ambitious. Too bad his movie makes no sense.

  • Columns

    June 1, 2004

    NY Mirror

    That Darren Aronofsky sure is ambitious. Too bad his movie makes no sense.

  • Columns

    May 11, 2004

    NY Mirror

    That Darren Aronofsky sure is ambitious. Too bad his movie makes no sense.

  • Film

    May 4, 2004

    Whack Drac

    Dead and hating it: Atrocious accents and bad hair days in a Mummy-less monster mash

  • Theater

    October 21, 2003

    Personal Bestings

    Wherever Broadway's fault lies, dear Brutus, this week it is definitely not in our stars

  • Columns

    October 21, 2003

    NY Mirror

    Wherever Broadway's fault lies, dear Brutus, this week it is definitely not in our stars

  • Film

    December 18, 2001

    The Rules of the Game

    Wherever Broadway's fault lies, dear Brutus, this week it is definitely not in our stars

  • Columns

    March 13, 2001

    NY Mirror

    Wherever Broadway's fault lies, dear Brutus, this week it is definitely not in our stars

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