Mia Farrow

The Great Gatsby's Sometimes Great, But Not Always Good

Beautiful, damned

Will This Gatsby Break The Curse?

F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz-age-set novel The Great Gatbsy has long been considered pretty unfilmable, despite it's having been filmed again and again. The story of a war vet peeking into the lavish life of the title rich man and finding parties, costumes, and lunacy, just might be better on the writ ... More >>

Philip Roth: "Shame Isn't For Writers"

With the publication of the best-selling onanism epic Portnoy's Complaint in 1969, people would randomly shout at author Philip Roth on the street, "Leave it alone!" They may have had a point, but Roth, of course, was writing about a character--though he admits that having an alter ego on the print ... More >>

The Roth Orgy

Philip Roth Unmasked reveals our most wicked writer as a charmer

Never Nominated For An Oscar...

There are actors (like Peter O'Toole and Glenn Close) who've gotten nominated a whole lot of times and never won. Yet. But how about the ones who've never even been nominated? In the case of the dead ones, I'm pretty sure they never will be! Now that's gotta hurt. Here are some of the top omission ... More >>

Woody's Roman Holiday

Woody Allen and co-stars talk movies, love, and death

Dark Horse: Genetic-Lotto Losers in the Jersey Suburbs

Joan Crawford Was Cut From Rosemary's Baby!

​Rutanya Alda--best known as Carol Ann in Mommie Dearest--just told me a remarkable story. Rutanya was Mia Farrow's stand-in for the 1968 suspense classic Rosemary's Baby.

I'm Appearing With Rosemary's Baby Tomorrow Night!

Not the baby itself. He's all grown up now and working for the Tea Party. I mean the movie, that classic 1968 Polanski horror fest starring Mia Farrow as the unwitting recipient of the devil seed from hell, thanks to being neighbors with that cute little Satan shill Ruthie Gordon.

My Five Favorite Movie Actresses

​That is, if this was 1969--and I'm not convinced that it isn't. (5) Catherine Deneuve She looks like a French Barbie crossed with the Infant of Prague, her hair never moves, and she's so wry and chic that she struck me as the most brilliant import since crepes. My favorite movie: the screwb ... More >>

Woody and Soon-Yi: Still Together And Not As Shocking Anymore

​In 1992, it was considered the relationship that would wreck modern civilization, but it didn't--and as a testament to its own value, they're still together! For nearly 20 years, we've heard all the "Yuck! How could he?" arguments from the morality police, but that kind of self-important whi ... More >>

Liz Taylor's Five Most Enjoyably Terrible Movies

​It wasn't always Academy Awards for Liz Taylor. When her movies were bad, they were truly rotten--though always in a highly entertaining way thanks to her verve and outfits. The five most fun stinkers she ever made are: (5) The Sandpiper. 1965. (Above) Vincente Minnelli directed this cra ... More >>

Vidal Sassoon: The Movie in Desperate Need of Shaping and Trimming

Woody and Soon-Yi: The Best NYC Gossip Ever!

​New York magazine asked me for quotes about the best piece of gossip in New York City history, knowing I was their man for something so salacious yet historic. I complied, for p.r.'s sake, giving the top slot to the 1992 hookup of film genius Woody Allen with Mia Farrow's adopted daughter So ... More >>

The Great Gatsby Is Getting a 3-D Makeover?

​In 1974, the inaugural issue of People magazine was released, featuring Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan from Gatsby, "The year's next big movie." That film, what we would argue is the quintessential, and most beautiful/tragic Gatsby, also featured Robert Redford, with the screenplay written by F ... More >>

Here's Das Racist's "All Tan Everything," Earnestly Explained, Line By Line

​Perhaps you are familiar with Rap Genius, a useful interactive site that aims to "discover the meaning of rap lyrics" by painstakingly explaining every single line of various popular tunes -- at press time Lil Wayne's "Hoes & Ladies" is exactly 13 percent explained, with Rick Ross' "Made Men" ... More >>

Andrew Sarris Delivers 'Rosemary's Baby'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 25, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 41 Films by Andrew Sarris "ROSEMARY'S BABY" has been blessed with such extraordinary popularity from the printed page to the silver screen that it seems superfluous if not presumptuous for a critic to reco ... More >>

Is Elvis Rolling in his Grave?

The Addams Family: ghoulish turns into goulash. Get it?At least other nightlife isn't such torture.

Rosemary's Baby Turns 40

THE DEVIL INSIDE

One of the scariest movies of all time turns 40

Advice to Madonna, Lindsay, Katie, and Meth Addicts

Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

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THE WRITE STUFF

170 writers from 51 countries in just six days

Michel Gondry Celebrates the Bygone Days of VHS

Caught on tape: the best of do-it-yourself indie culture in Be Kind Rewind

This Bloodbath Brought To You By . . .

Pressuring al-Bashir by way of Coca-Cola and GE

U.N. Fails Darfur Again

NBC paid nearly $1 billion to broadcast from Beijing, but the stain of Darfur won't go away from these games

China Up Against the Wall

What can any of us actually do about the Darfur genocide? A new organization knows.

'The Ex'

The Genocide Games

Using China's pride in the 2008 Olympics as a weapon against its shameful support of the Darfur nightmare

Yes, But He's Our Nebbish

Just in time to wind down Hanukkah, a Woody Allen retro

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'The Omen'

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La Dolce Musto

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Theater

Soggy Remake Takes On the Horrors of New York Real Estate

Music

Solemn and Thrillingly Ridiculous Study of Obsession and Yearning

Sean of the Dead

About a boy: Upper East Side widow finds love with underaged object of obscure desire

Horoscope

Bringing It All Back Home: The Return of a Blacklisted Expat

Against The Current

Find out how many used Great Gatsbys it takes to build a boat

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Gone to Seed

The Devil's Playground

Somebody's Watching Me

Cruel Intentions

Woman on Top; Girls in Heat

Lapse of Luxury

Court Blasts State as Unfair to Tenants

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