Karen Black

Will This Gatsby Break The Curse?

F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz-age-set novel The Great Gatbsy has long been considered pretty unfilmable, despite it's having been filmed again and again. The story of a war vet peeking into the lavish life of the title rich man and finding parties, costumes, and lunacy, just might be better on the writ ... More >>

Karen Black Interview! She Reveals Her Screen Inspiration

Paper's Angelo Pitillo nabbed an interview with one of our all-time favorites, Karen Black--she of the wonderful eyes, burning intensity, and wry humor--just as she's being celebrated in a well-deserved film festival right here in our fair city. Pitillo lauds Karen's timeless glamour and charm and g ... More >>

Karen Black Film Retrospective, Sanctioned By Her

Lovable kook and daring actress Karen Black is ill, which makes Nitehawk Cinema's series homaging her even more eye-crossingly special.

If I Had a Kickstarter Campaign...

Everyone on earth has a kickstarter campaign these days, whether to finance their documentary about the mating rituals of moths, their Broadway musical of The Miracle Worker, or their cancer treatments. (True story. We love you, Karen Black) But what would you ask people to help launch into the cul ... More >>

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 >>

Philip Roth: "Shame Isn't For Writers"

With the publication of the best-selling onanism epic Portnoy's Complaint in 1969, people would randomly shout at author Philip Roth on the street, "Leave it alone!" They may have had a point, but Roth, of course, was writing about a character--though he admits that having an alter ego on the print ... More >>

Q&A: Pizza Punkers Little Seizures On Their Old Bands, Good Parties, And The Power Of Vietnamese Sandwiches

Little Seizures are a one-yearish-old band populated by roughly 80%, uh, wizened local punk veterans. Their howling and chutzpah heave out like a bunch of brats, though, and it's especially evident on their brand-new 7" "Pizza Punk," which bounces around with Johnny Thunders-like riffs, Angry Samoan ... More >>

Five Easy Pieces

Scientology Sunday Funnies: Jake and Elwood Want Your Cash!

Scientologists don't really have a Sunday service. They like to say that they do, because they crave mainstream acceptance. But unless Xenu rested after six days and L. Ron Hubbard just forgot to mention it, there's no reason for Scientologists to treat Sunday any differently than every other day of ... More >>

Writers of the Future, Today! Scientology Gets Its Party On

Oh my, do we have a treat for you today. For several weeks now, we've been reporting on the "L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future" contest. For several years, certain writers have questioned the connection between the contest and Scientology, which owns and operates it. And recently ... More >>

Marty Rathbun is Big in the U.K., Still Waiting for Major U.S. Treatment

This weekend's lengthy profile of Marty Rathbun by The Independent's Guy Adams really brought back a lot of memories for us. Last year, we brought you frequent coverage of the bizarre "Squirrel Busters" siege at Rathbun's house near Corpus Christi, Texas. For some five months, a strange spiritual s ... More >>

Nancy Cartwright and Karen Black Announced For 'Writers of the Future' Gala -- a Direct Response to the Voice?

Last week, we brought you several moments from Scientology's big L. Ron Hubbard birthday event that was held on March 10 in Clearwater, Florida. Here's another few minutes from that celebration that we alluded to earlier, during which church leader David Miscavige uses the church's "Writers of the F ... More >>

Hey, Scientology Celebrity, Here's Your Media Training Checksheet!

Our readers send us the most wonderful things. By e-mail and snail mail, our far-flung correspondents put in our hands Scientology's tasteless fundraising mailers (which we use in our recurring Sunday Funnies posts), they send us over-the-top glossy Scientology magazines, and of course they send us ... More >>

Letters from the Big Man

Cher Was Almost a Transsexual!

​In a play! In the book Robert Altman, An Oral Biography, Cher remembers that Altman wanted her to play the transsexual Joanne in the 1981 play (and later movie) Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. But Cher didn't want to go there.

Not a Picnic: Dennis Hopper's Family Drama Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue

Charlie Chaplin Classes Up the 1972 Oscars Ceremony

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 20, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 16 films in focus By Andrew Sarris The 44th annual festivities of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began with a whimper and ended with a bang, demonstrating that, among other things, Oscar ... More >>

Santos Party House, Shuttered Since Thursday Over Drug Charges, Will Reopen Tomorrow

​So says the beleaguered club's Twitter account, a statement confirmed by a club spokesman who tells us that, starting tomorrow, "we're officially allowed to be open." Closed Thursday night in a police raid over third party drug charges that date back to June, July, and August, Santos will hav ... More >>

Live: Hal Willner, Sonic Youth, Jeffrey Lewis, Lou Reed, and More Pay Tribute to Fugs Emeritus Tuli Kupferberg at St Ann's Warehouse

A Benefit for Tuli Kupferberg St. Ann's Warehouse Friday, January 22 Nothing crystallizes the identity politics lurking somewhere near the core of pop music quite like benefit and tribute concerts, where donor acts reconstruct the beneficiary in their own image, often to revelatory - or, nearly a ... More >>

William Lustig's 'Buried Treasures' at Anthology

Presenting a '70s hit list where the results aren't pretty

The Greatest Gay Icons of All Time

Gay icon"These deeply personal, campy, and insightful essays illuminate the eternal bond between gay men and their fabulous diva icons," says the blurb on the back of a new book called My Diva. And you know it's true because that blurb was written by yours fucking truly! The book has 65 gay men bea ... More >>

KISSING ASS

When butts and vaginas become one

Art Parade Cancelled!

Scientology's Crushing Defeat

A previously unpublished saga of an $8 million check

Helping the Whitney Museum Expand the 2008 Biennial

Art production fund, to the Armory!

'Hollywood Dreams'

Pussy Control

Julie Atlas Muz and Michael T let their freak flags fly, among other things

A Critics' Duet on 'Nashville'

From the 'Voice' archives: Remembering Robert Altman through the words of Voice critics past

Artsy Fartsy

New Art Parade doesn't suck; Tommie Sunshine wants Revenge

Suck This

The Cock go-goes on its way, leaves crusty trail of nostalgia

Bush Begone

Anti-RNC parties bring back lewdness, courtesy of the First Amendment

Moonlighting

James Iha and John Cameron Mitchell take a break from the daily grind

Destinations for Art-Loving Fashionistas

Film

Unbuttoned genes: Clones and their creator come of age

Film

Runway Rundown

Music

Pudenda Agenda

The Shaved-Vagina Monologues

NY Mirror

Music

Schlock Exchange

NY Mirror

Queer and Present Danger

The Year in Underachievements

Hidekis '99

Missing Links

Still Standing