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Nicole Kidman As Grace Kelly: A Good Choice?

As you may have heard, Nicole Kidman is negotiating to play Princess Grace Kelly in the movie Grace of Monaco. The film, directed by the guy who did La Vie en Rose, will be set in 1962, during a period when the movie-star-turned-princess tried to save Monaco from a potential catastrophe.

Petula Clark Sings "Downtown" Uptown!

"I know a place where we can go," as Brit pop goddess Petula Clark sang in one of her 15 consecutive Top 40 U.S. hits that came out in the 1960s. It's Feinstein's at Loews Regency, where "Pet" is serving you her hits in grand style (without any of the self-conscious I'm-doing-you-a-favor attitude o ... More >>

Serge Gainsbourg Boxed into a Biopic in Heroic Life

Oscar Predictions Filled With Greed and Vengeance!

From the seer, suckers: The nominees, plus trash talk about some non-nominees

Hock the Line

Sending up the pop biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs and lifeless Cox

Sparrow, Size Small

Edith Piaf makes a New York Fringe Festival Encore

The Unreality Show

Idol's Carrie channels Christ in Atlantic City. In do-me heels. Get real (like David Hyde Pierce).

Being Edith

Already generating Oscar buzz, Marion Cotillard chats about channeling her inner chanteuse

Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Marion Cotillard gives a star turn, but can't save Edith Piaf biopic

From France, with Self-Love

The latest (though not all greatest) in French cinema hits town

Sign 'O' the Times

A respite from Times Square holiday madness resides at the Rum House piano bar

Stepping Out

A tale for feet and voices, bodies and souls

Laugh Your Heart Out

Everyday life as vaudeville and vaudeville as coming-of-age in Jewish heritage (ha-ha)

Film

Cosmo Girl

Have legs, will travel: Ute Lemper offers a worldly cabaret

At Last I Am Old

Patchily focused and unfinishable work from a slow-laboring ghost among the living

Amazing Grace

Strictly Solalian

Martial Solal Plays Everything All at Once

Music

What Price Daring?

Born in France, Living American Lives

Letters

Letters