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April 25, 2012
The Least Convincing Couple in Screen History
According to Peter Bart's book Infamous Players, it was Rock Hudson and Julie Andrews in the 1970 romantic spy drama Darling Lili. Writes Bart, who at the time was a junior executive faced with the job of looking at the rushes: "Their supposedly steamy love scene had as much fizzle as day-old beer ... More >>
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March 1, 2012
Carrie The Musical Is Back: My Review
Every living being claims to have seen Carrie, the legendary 1988 Broadway flop musical based on the Stephen King novel about the small-town girl who gets revenge on the bullies via bloodying up the prom. It was the original "It Gets Better" video. Well, I really saw it and I have the Playbill to ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Paris Hilton Is Positively Brimming With Positivity!
Maybe it's because she's got some projects percolating. Perhaps it's because the hot air has burst out of Kim Kardashian's balloons. But whatever the case, read Paris Hilton's tweets these days and you'll be invigorated, uplifted, and quite possibly feel your teeth ache. The sociable socialite is ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
The Weirdest Pedophile Songs Of All Time
Way back in the '60s, there emerged a bizarre musical genre--guys singing about their attraction to underage girls and how wrong it was! In 1967, Neil Diamond belted the suggestive "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon." ("Please come take my hand/Girl, you'll be a woman soon/Soon, you'll need a man ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Whoopi Goldberg Breaks Broadway Record
When it was announced that Ghost the musical would come to Broadway, hot on the heels of the current Sister Act, I realized, "That's two musicals based on Whoopi Goldberg movies!"
Dining
August 31, 2011
Cupola Samarkanda II Speeds the Plov
Take a toki without fear of arrest under the F tracks
Film
March 30, 2011
Cat Run: A Hyper-Processed Pulp Caper
Take a toki without fear of arrest under the F tracks
Blogs
March 28, 2011
'Night of 1000 Gowns' Was Blindingly Bodacious
As part of the coronation procession for the Imperial Court of NY's Night of 1000 Gowns--along with Christian Freedom (above), who styled me in the red and the black--I got to see all the queens up close. Anne T. Venom. Bobbie Pinzs. Wanda Lust. Vin D. Cation. Rocky Mountains. And ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
New Edition: Pedro Espada's Guide to Non-Profit Profiteering
The indictment of state senator Pedro Espada Jr. and his son yesterday on federal embezzlement and conspiracy charges makes a pretty good guide for how to pick a nonprofit pocket: -For starters there's creative Amex card use: Espada's own lousy credit rating made him ineligible for the Don't- ... More >>
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June 25, 2010
Julie Andrews Plays Against Type in New Animated Film
Oscar winning goodie-good Julie Andrews didn't want to play Steve Carrell's mother in the animated film Despicable Me. Not at first, anyway. See, Carrell voices the villainous Gru, and Jules was offered the vocal role of his overpowering shrew of a horrible mother. It's as far from Mary Pop ... More >>
Film
May 25, 2010
It's a Small, Small World
Disney and Bruckheimer, blockbuster bros, rewrite history
Blogs
December 23, 2009
Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #9: Artists Joined The Farm League
We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. Reason #10 is here. This is #9. Name your favorite artists of the past decade. Tough one, huh? The Voice plays the best-of-decade game in the current issue, and we salute the fine crit ... More >>
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November 16, 2009
Clip Job: The Second Annual Village Voice Film Poll (Bonus: The First Poll, Too!)
Julie Christie in 'Darling'Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 10, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 17 Films By Andrew Sarris The Second Annual Village Voice Readers' 10-best poll, held this year in conjunction with my Films in Focus program on WBAI, received entries from a ... More >>
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October 2, 2009
The Worst Accents in Screen History
No, Meryl Streep's name is nowhere near this list. But if you click on this survey, you'll find no fewer than two Brad Pitt performances (one of his accents is described as sounding merely like a sore throat), a legendarily bad Cockney accent by Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (" 'Allo, Guvn ... More >>
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July 8, 2009
Booze on Broadway: What Next?
The '80s jukebox musical Rock of Ages has been trying to scare up extra bucks and applause by having crouching workers run down the aisles selling alcoholic beverages to the crowd throughout the show (though when I saw it, no one was biting. They must have already been tanked from the matinee.) If ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2009
New York Celebs Do Cell-Phone Audio Tours of Central Park
Usually we're all, "blar, we've been living here 100 years and we don't need an audio tour," even in museums where we don't know shit about shit, but here's something we might actually do: cell-phone audio commentary on city landmarks, performed by local celebrities. For example, "Yoko Ono introduce ... More >>
Film
May 20, 2009
Disney Staff Songwriters Documented in The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
Usually we're all, "blar, we've been living here 100 years and we don't need an audio tour," even in museums where we don't know shit about shit, but here's something we might actually do: cell-phone audio commentary on city landmarks, performed by local celebrities. For example, "Yoko Ono introduce ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2009
It Must Suck To Be a Water Sports Top
I just met a guy at the Townhouse who said he's a water sports bottom, and while I pretended to take his number, the whole encounter got me thinking about something rather provocative: How is it possible to be a water sports top? How you can unleash a spray of urine on someone if that's what makes y ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2009
Inside Michael Lucas
The most loved and hated man in porn, gay icon Michael Lucas has really big lips and he loves to flap them around. Click here for this week's column and you'll get a long and dirty q&a with Lucas, who uncorks his thoughts about the mob, Viagra, penis enlargement, hustling, flatulence, and why his bu ... More >>
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April 13, 2009
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 >>
Film
March 11, 2009
From Chaos, Hope in Japanese Films Tôkyô Sonata and Megane
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 >>
Blogs
March 5, 2009
Is Tilda Swinton Still Getting Typed?
Alan Strevens Tilda Swinton is the brilliant Oscar winner who always seems to get cast as an icy, bitchy, evil wrongdoer. I've long hoped movieland would give the woman a break and let her play Mary Poppins for a change--or at least the lion or the wardrobe--but here's the official description of h ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 31, 2008
GOLDEN BOY
Film Society explores the curious David Fincher
Film
November 26, 2008
Welcome to Baz Luhrmann's Australia
Somewhere over the dateline, the not-quite-marvelous land of Oz
Film
July 2, 2008
Kunal Kohli's Thoda Pyaar, Thoda Magic
Four plucky Walia children and a dancing velociraptor in this Bollywood release
Film
April 15, 2008
Absurdistan: The New Iraq War Cinema
The next wave of post-9/11 political films trade sobriety for satire
Blogs
March 10, 2008
Britney's Umbrella Victim Speaks Out for the First Time
The next wave of post-9/11 political films trade sobriety for satire
Columns
January 1, 2008
A New Crisis for Britney's Sister?
Watching a career sore. And hearing amid the praise for Day-Lewis: 'Huston. We have a problem.'
Columns
July 3, 2007
Room With a Spew
Maggots at the Times and other nasty revelations
Film
May 15, 2007
America Cannes
Art imitates life as U.S. directors command this year's fest, with only China rivaling for celluloid domination
Columns
March 27, 2007
Idols Friendly and Faux
My tour of modern Grease. Plus a celebulecture and a swashbuckled queen or two or three.
Art
February 27, 2007
Re-Bourne
A virtuoso storyteller snips a movie classic into a wordless dance
Columns
January 30, 2007
NY Mirror
A virtuoso storyteller snips a movie classic into a wordless dance
Film
December 19, 2006
Miss Congeniality
Beatrix Potter gets an extreme makeover
Columns
November 7, 2006
NY Mirror
Beatrix Potter gets an extreme makeover
Columns
October 24, 2006
NY Mirror
Beatrix Potter gets an extreme makeover
Music
February 7, 2006
Grown Man
Rising out of the mud puddles to talk to the clouds, a weary New Orleans rapper uses hip-hop as his personal growth tool
Film
January 17, 2006
'Nanny McPhee'
Rising out of the mud puddles to talk to the clouds, a weary New Orleans rapper uses hip-hop as his personal growth tool
Theater
April 26, 2005
A Big Chitty Mess
Rising out of the mud puddles to talk to the clouds, a weary New Orleans rapper uses hip-hop as his personal growth tool
News
October 19, 2004
Outcast Ballots
Evil, mayhem strike early in the voting for 2004
Theater
July 29, 2003
Off Directing (Part I)
Cost-Cutting Tip for Theaters: Delete the Art That's Lost Its Meaning
Film
March 19, 2002
His Life as a Dog
Cost-Cutting Tip for Theaters: Delete the Art That's Lost Its Meaning
Film
November 13, 2001
Slack Magic
Cost-Cutting Tip for Theaters: Delete the Art That's Lost Its Meaning
Theater
July 10, 2001
The Sour Smell of Success
Cost-Cutting Tip for Theaters: Delete the Art That's Lost Its Meaning
NYC Life
May 29, 2001
Film
Cinema Alfresco
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April 17, 2001
NY Mirror
Cinema Alfresco
Music
September 21, 1999
Wanna Love It, But I'm Getting Blown Away
Cinema Alfresco
Theater
August 3, 1999
Making the Scenes
New Dramatists Turns 50
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December 8, 1998
Broadways and Means
New Dramatists Turns 50
Music
November 24, 1998
Gravity's Rainbow
New Dramatists Turns 50
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