Mel Gibson

25 Actors Who Turned Down Amazing Roles

Julia Roberts could have done Blind Side, but opted for Valentine's Day instead. Jack Nicholson was offered the role of Michael Corleone, but felt it was an offer he could refuse. Michelle Pfeiffer didn't want to be Clarice Starling, and Jeremy Irons pooh poohed the part of Hannibal Lecter, both t ... More >>

One More Thought About Jodie Foster's Speech

I've already ignited a hailstorm of pro and con arguments with my simple statement that Jodie Foster should have said "Yep, I'm gay" rather than the defiant apologia she gave for the celebrity closet the other night at the Golden Globes. So let me just add one more thing. A friend of mine said it ... More >>

Photos Of Me As Donald Trump, Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian...

...Amy Winehouse, Lindsay Lohan, Snooki, Johnny Depp, Susan Boyle, John Galliano, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Lady Gaga... Virtually everyone who's ever lived. They're all linked here to bring you back to the time before I was dressed as Angelina Jolie, Clint Eastwood ... More >>

The Three Stooges: The Movie

Musicals Based On Movies: What's Next?

​Billy Elliot, Priscilla, and Sister Act have carried on the time-honored tradition of turning popular movies into musicals. What next? I'll tell you: *Fatal Attraction The adaptation--titled Crazy Bitch, The Musical--will feature a well-chosen bunch of Sondheim chestnuts. ("You said you l ... More >>

It's A Great Year For Best Actress

​The Emmy nominations came out today, but my mind is stuck on the Oscars and how there will be no shortage of leading actress contenders to pick from in 2011. Not only is Meryl Streep donning prosthetics and an accent again, this time as moxieish Margaret Thatcher, but we have the following o ... More >>

Plaza Hotel Sues Oak Room and Bar for Being Embarrassing

Photo courtesy of the Oak BarA veritable den of iniquity.​Looks like the owners of the Plaza Hotel weren't fans of the Oak Room and Bar's Mel Gibson "bipolar" cocktail, either.

The Creepiest Email Request I've Ever Gotten

​No, it's not as hateful as the "I hope you get raped in the ass with a knife and get AIDS" one that I ran here recently. That was a classic. But it's almost as clueless. It's from someone purporting to be a fan, asking me for help in finding him a love match. And here are the credentials h ... More >>

Park Slope Anti-Rap Club Petition Flooded With Pro-Rap Signatures, Hilarious Jokes

​You will by now be familiar with Prime 6, the soon-to-be Park Slope club and already the site of much controversy. Will the neighborhood descend into an orgy of Yo MTV Raps, "Henessey" [sic], and "bling-bling" on account of the club's plans to play rap music? Or will the forces of "indie" pre ... More >>

Read My Year-End Essay Again!

​Come on, kids. Do it for mama, just one more time. CLICK HERE and savor the wit and wisdom of my year-end wrapup, which is as full of insight and innuendo as a gay fortune cookie, devoured on lots of Percoset. Read both pages, if you don't mind.

Lady Gaga Is Our Real Leader

​CLICK HERE for my hilarious and insightful essay summing up the wacky year of 2010, which proved that Barack Obama isn't our country's real leader after all, it's actually a zingy little lady known as Lady Gaga. She's just done so much--and worn so much--that her tweets seem to carry more we ... More >>

Winter Guide: Holiday Gift Books for Any Kind of Troublesome Friend

Frenemies? Self-important hipsters? No literary problem.

Morning Links: Charlie Sheen's Racist Tirade; Arrest in Stanton Street Shooting; Carl Paladino Offensive Again

​• Not only was Charlie Sheen coked up, drunk, and really scary went he went nutso at the Plaza -- he was also, apparently, on a racist tirade. "RadarOnline.com reported the Two and a Half Men actor repeatedly screamed the N-word and punched the walls." Which means Mel Gibson can finally hav ... More >>

The Roots Gave Samuel L. Jackson The Best Talk-Show Walk-On Music Ever

I'm not even 100 percent sure what's happening here, but it's pretty incredible. Alas, apparently Sam himself couldn't hear it, which is a shame, but given all the bleeps I guess unless you were there, you can't really, either. In the extraordinarily rare event Mel Gibson ever shows up, this'd wor ... More >>

Week in Review: Bootcut Shorts

May we all look this relaxed in this situation. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week the words "Kanye West" became synonymous with social media, the rapper performed at Facebook while dissing Twitter, performed at Twitter while dissing his mother's old boyfriends, then joined Twitter, a thing he t ... More >>

Michael Lohan Releases Daddy Ballad for Incarcerated Lindsay

Happier times, maybe.​We usually leave the music criticism to our friends at Sound of the City, but in this case, the so-called music is so devastating as to be actually rather newsy, and certainly devastating enough to merit a word from us. Michael Lohan, Lindsay's occasionally trying-to-be-a ... More >>

"You Know Who I Feel Like? I Feel Like I'm Motherfucking Mel Gibson!": The Ten Greatest Things Lil B Said Saturday Night at Santos Party House

​Lil B and Das Racist Santos Party House Saturday, July 24 Look, with apologies to Noz, we're not even going to pretend to fully understand the Lil B phenomenon. We like it. We just, while standing in a sold-out Santos Party House on a Saturday night, surrounded by hordes of incredibly enthus ... More >>

Lesbians Always Sleep With Men -- In the Movies Anyway

​ In case you missed my scintillating column this week -- and there's no decent reason why you should have -- let me drag out a part of it that deals with the acclaimed lesbian family dramedy The Kids Are All Right. I write about "one plot aspect that initially made me queasy in my pants. (Sp ... More >>

Sad Things for Lonely People: 85% of America Knows What Twitter Is

​According to a new Pew Research report, we are a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma (or maybe that was Winston Churchill talking about Russia) but at any rate, damn, we are confusing! And complex! And, chained to our computers, all the better to tweet to other persons who are chaine ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Issues Sadly Predictable Racist Comments Re: George Steinbrenner

​Rush Limbaugh has decided that someone wants him to comment on George Steinbrenner's death, and, oh-no-he-doesn't (yes he does) let forth some ridiculous and entirely inappropriate sentiments, such as "That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires" and "He fired a bunch of white gu ... More >>

The Most Outrageous Performance Artist in Town!

Jibz Cameron's hot at the Hot! Festival. Plus The Kids Are All Right and Kisses

Oksana Gregorieva, Mel Gibson's Ex, Has No Idea How Those Racist Tapes Got Out

"I have no idea. It's terrible, terrible," says Gregorieva, when asked how tapes of her embattled ex-boyfriend and the father of her child, Mel Gibson, leaked. Not that she has millions of dollars and custody of her child to gain from a psychopath or anything...

New York's Wild Kingdom Is Going Batshit: Child-Eating Coyotes, Rabid Racoons, Sexin' Birds

via the Daily News​Animals have gone wild! New York's furry and feathered are suddenly acting like the worst of humans. Good thing they can't speak or give the finger because they'd be shit-talking like Mel Gibson and flipping off women and children like uncouth New Jersey drivers on Fourth of ... More >>

JUST HAVING A LAUGH

No one's safe around Ricky Gervais

Letters 8.13.08

The Grand: Worth the Gamble

Forget the mockumentary's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

Arresting Development

Shaun of the Dead guys spoof your guilty pleasures. Yes, you, with the Bad Boys DVD.

It's On!

V For Violence

From Al Basrah to the AMC, 2006 meant war

Letters

Blade of Flying Sparks

Visually stunning (as always), Zhang's latest is better seen and not heard

NY Mirror

'Date Movie'

Heavenly Features

Moving into the mainstream, the Christian right tells Hollywood to have a little faith

Decaffeinated Action Star Exacts Revenge, Ducks Cameos

Art

The Passion of the Blonds!

Notes From The Underground

Life during wartime: dyke boot camp, bloodthirsty punk nihilism, and flip-offs to G-Dub

A B-list dreamboat's dream role: Your own impersonal Jesus

Flogged to Death

Muscular action, cosmetic wonders: Mel gives the Christ story a fantasy-epic makeover

Out of Control

Mel's Dad May Think That 'Oscar' Is a Jewish Name

Letters

Horoscope

Preaching to the Converted

Do the Left Thing

Boys Will Be Boys (Sometimes Women)

Brave Hearts

A Guide to the Season's Competitors

Suddenly, This Summer

Welcome to the Pleasure Dome

The Good Fights