Mae West

Free Will Astrology: May 2-May 8, 2012

Movie Stars Who Turned Down Legendary Roles

We all know about classic stuff like Cary Grant making sure they cast Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady instead of him, and Doris Day not tarnishing her image by doing The Graduate--a part that would have resulted in her still working today. But here are some other weird cinematic decisions, courtesy of ... More >>

To Save and Project Fest: Long Live Cinema!

For a month at MOMA, digital is not the savior of cinema

Hoop-La

For a month at MOMA, digital is not the savior of cinema

Beefcake Shots Of The Hottest Butch Number Of The 1950s

​Says La Daily's own Gregory Moore: "For my dough, the hottest, butchest, tough-guy hunk in Hollywood, circa late 40's-early 50's: Steve Cochran.

Guess Who This Is In Drag?

​Back in the 1960s, he was a hunky star of a popular dopey sitcom. And on occasion, he would also don blonde pincurls and pretty ginghams and play his sister, looking a bit like Mae West as Baby Jane Hudson as interpreted by an old-school country star.

I'm No Angel

​Back in the 1960s, he was a hunky star of a popular dopey sitcom. And on occasion, he would also don blonde pincurls and pretty ginghams and play his sister, looking a bit like Mae West as Baby Jane Hudson as interpreted by an old-school country star.

Madonna Wanted For Sunset Boulevard

​I recently April Fooled you about Madonna getting a special Oscar for acting, but there's finally a role that she could garner some gold with. And she doesn't want it! On Piers Morgan's chat show on CNN, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber said he feels Madonna would be a ''great Norma Desmond'' i ... More >>

Live: Peaches Christ Superstar Ascends At The Society For Ethical Culture

Not nearly as sacrilegious as you may have hoped/feared. Pics by Chris, more below.​Peaches Christ Superstar Starring Peaches and Gonzales The Concert Hall at the Society for Ethical Culture Saturday, December 11 Better Than: Pussies, Peaches' one-woman version of CATS. So here we have Peac ... More >>

Cherry Jones Sails Through Mrs. Warren's Profession; Lee Hall Mines The Pitmen Painters

The class menagerie on Broadway

Building a Better New York Jewish Film Festival

The year's NYJFF pushes the familiar aside

Why Hard Times Won't Mean Good Times at the Movies Again

Brother, can you spare $12?

2008 Film Poll: Coming (at You) Soon

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions.

YouTube Treasure: Faye Dunaway as Mae West!

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions.

How Much Longer Can Madonna Sex It Up?

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions.

Scarlett Johansson's Tom Waits Tribute

Say what you will, but if any 23-year-old starlet can sing like Waits, it's her

Director and Playwright Elyse Singer Discovers Two Unusual Inventors

Say what you will, but if any 23-year-old starlet can sing like Waits, it's her

Myra Breckinridge

The Queer Precursor to Southland Tales

SO BAD IT'S GOOD?

A notoriously bad film finally gets some appreciation

Dreaming of a Blood-Red Christmas in a Well-Crafted Neo-Noir

A notoriously bad film finally gets some appreciation

Not Yet Rated

Sly stalwarts, newly uncovered rarities in pre-Code series

Show Me the Money

Seattle's EMP proves that great popular music conferences cannot live by inclusive intentions alone

Horoscope

Seattle's EMP proves that great popular music conferences cannot live by inclusive intentions alone

Unwarranted Intrusion

A celebrity drops in on a budding playwright, but is that something to write plays about?

Art

A celebrity drops in on a budding playwright, but is that something to write plays about?

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A celebrity drops in on a budding playwright, but is that something to write plays about?

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A celebrity drops in on a budding playwright, but is that something to write plays about?

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A celebrity drops in on a budding playwright, but is that something to write plays about?

As New Like It

He Stoops to Conquer

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He Stoops to Conquer

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He Stoops to Conquer

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He Stoops to Conquer

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He Stoops to Conquer

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He Stoops to Conquer

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He Stoops to Conquer

Shanghaied Gestures

Two New Shows Explore the Fun of What's Been Seen Before

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Two New Shows Explore the Fun of What's Been Seen Before

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Two New Shows Explore the Fun of What's Been Seen Before

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Two New Shows Explore the Fun of What's Been Seen Before

Close-Up On: Sunset Park

Two New Shows Explore the Fun of What's Been Seen Before

Theater

Two New Shows Explore the Fun of What's Been Seen Before

Show Me Your Pasties

Two New Shows Explore the Fun of What's Been Seen Before

Once Upon a Mattress

Two New Shows Explore the Fun of What's Been Seen Before

Waves of Faves

Thirty-Three New York Theater Types Offer Up Their Favorite Productions From the 1999–2000 Season

Mae in January

Thirty-Three New York Theater Types Offer Up Their Favorite Productions From the 1999–2000 Season

West With the Might

Thirty-Three New York Theater Types Offer Up Their Favorite Productions From the 1999–2000 Season

Mae Day! Mae Day!

‘Sex,’ Banned in 1927, Finally Reopens

The Vice Man Cometh

New York's Art War Archives

Physique Pictorial

The rise, fall, and revival of Lon of New York

NY Mirror

The rise, fall, and revival of Lon of New York