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Melissa Leo: "I Was Told I Was Too Old and Not Big Box Office!"

More great work from Melissa Leo, who still isn't getting the big trailer

Melissa Leo: "I Was Told I Was Too Old And Not Big Enough Box Office!"

She won an Oscar for her hard-driving mama in The Fighter, but in her new movie Francine, Melissa Leo takes a total U-turn and rocks all over again. My new column describes how Leo plays an introverted, traumatized ex-con taking baby steps towards adjustment in this arty, carefully done work.

My Taste In Films Was Discussed In The New York Times

The Times' Real Estate section just ran a piece on Shaokao and Niki Cheng, who own a chain of upscale BoConcept furniture stores, and who talk about their home, their background, and their love of fabulous coffee tables. Anyway, enough about them. The most important part of the article is the line ... More >>

Lloyd Kaufman: The Toxic Director

The filmmaker gets his close-up after 40 years of Troma (more or less)

Once Is Not Enough Is Must-See Camp

Any serious camp lover has surely seen classic films like Valley of the Dolls and The Love Machine, adapted from the works of the queen of glossy Hollywood sexcapades, the lacquered-haired Jackie Susann. But another gem from her cinema canon, 1975's Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough, is a cri ... More >>

Vincente Minnelli, Master of Style and Substance

The director's Hollywood spectacular at BAM

Zsa Zsa's Daughter Fuming Over the Count's Latest P.R. Stunt

​The most sizzling press release in ages is this outraged one on behalf of Francesca Hilton in response to the Count VonAnhalt's plan to have an anniversary party. Francesca feels this is another blatant publicity stunt for the no-account Count, so she's responded with a press release aimed a ... More >>

Male Hollywood Hotties With Their Chests Out

​You'll have to do your own private research to get total nudes. But in the meantime, historian and "La Daily Musto" reader Gregory Moore has found some wondrous shots of old-time movie idols in their bathing suits and ready to take a dive, or simply shirtless because they felt like rotating ... More >>

Bruce Vilanch on Who Will Host Next Year's Oscars

If you thought the ceremonies weren't funny, don't blame him.

Worst Oscars Ever!

Or at least since the Rob Lowe/Snow White one. Here's why: *ZERO suspense. Any random person on the street has known the winners for months. *The tug between "young and hip personalities" and ancient film references was as schizo as Cate Blanchett's dress. *The acceptance speeches were either da ... More >>

Artist Provocateur Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Lives By the Last Exit To Brooklyn

How far the mighty have (not) fallen

Update: The Last Miner Is on His Way Up! And Other Chilean Miner News

​Hey, what's going on with the Chilean miners right now? Because you know this is all you're going to be talking about at that cocktail party/dinner at home/after-work drinks sesh with your buds. Be the one with the info that matters!

NO MAN’S LAND

Navigating the trenches with Kubrick

Upset about Cameron Douglas's Jail Sentence? Send the Poor Boy to Bushwick Luxury Condo Halfway House.

Dope and dadCameron Douglas got sentenced yesterday to five years in jail for peddling meth to people beneath his station, but he won't languish nearly that long with the requisite time off for good behavior and drug rehab. What do you expect for a kid who was born with a silver coke spoon in his m ... More >>

Michael Douglas Admits To Bad Parenting

​In a letter to the judge in an attempt to soften the sentencing of his drug-dealing son Cameron Douglas, Oscar winner Michael Douglas bravely points out that Cameron is "a single child of a bad marriage." Imagine how much courage it took for a star to admit he wasn't always around for his s ... More >>

Nat Hentoff Salutes Lenny Bruce On His (Posthumous) Legal Victory

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 29, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 20 A Last One for Lenny by Nat Hentoff A civil liberties lawyer called me Monday morning a week ago, before I'd seen the story in the Times. "Hey, Lenny's conviction was reversed!" I remembered a long ... More >>

Q&A: Poet Michael Robbins Talks His New Poem, "Lust For Life," the Girls Song It's Named After, Nicki Minaj, and Why Burzum's Varg Vikernes Is A Moron

Jennifer Wild​The Chicago-based poet Michael Robbins is heroin for literary nerds and music nerds alike. Britney Spears, Pink, and Buju Banton have all crashed the gates of Robbins's poetry, which began appearing last year in the New Yorker; his newest piece in that magazine, "Lust For Life" ( ... More >>

Ace in the Hole

Clip Job: Kesey on the Lam, Voice Goes to 15 cents!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 12, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 30 The Voice Will Be 15c Increased production cost and the expansion in the size of the paper have made it necessary for The Voice to raise the price of newsstand copies by five cents. Next week The Voice w ... More >>

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Old Hollywood

At 93 and the subject of a new documentary, Norman Lloyd is still in the biz

Melodrama King

Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

Truth Is For Sissies

Billy Wilder's hard-boiled muckracker can't be bothered with the facts in this strikingly prescient diatribe

Gasoline on Fire: Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh

Morning Report 1/5/06
Vulture in a Coal Mine

Masters of War: Kubrick's Spare, Trench-Eye View of Combat

One-Handers

Celebrities theatrically pleasure themselves on Broadway

Film

Letters

Speaking in Tongues

Don't Have a Cow

Unfinished Euphonies

It's Writing for the Stage, but Is It Playwriting?

The Color of Paradise

Turn Back the Clock

Invisible Cities

Wait Until Dark

The Art of War

How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Ace in the Hole

Billy Wilder, 1906–2002

Kitsch as Kitsch Can

Diagnosis: Artist

In Two New Films, the Creative Personality Becomes a Pathological Type

Home to Roost

Clash of the Titans

Hardest Movie Quiz Answers Revealed!

Screen Test

World’s Hardest Movie Quiz 2000

Up, Out, and Away

Painting.com

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Back in the Ring

Tales Retold

Idol Speculation

Notes on Hypothetical Hollywood