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COMIC BONDING

Riff along with Todd Barry

NYE Guide: Drinks

Pour one out at these mainstays

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Gossip! Gossip! Gossip! With Names!

Valiant Sandra Bernhard, curious Mickey Rourke, and simply Divine

Gossip! Gossip! Gossip! With Names!

​It's been a while since I rammed some tidbits of gossip down your throats and then made foie gras out of it. So the time is nigh! Click here for my new column, in which I dish on everyone from Ben Affleck to Sandra Bernhard--and yes, those are two different people. Plus Selena Gomez, Micke ... More >>

The 50 Unsexiest Men Alive

​I usually try to stay away from items making fun of celebrities' looks, though I feel it's fair game to mock anything about their appearances that's voluntary, i.e. a choice. And these people have made some horrible choices! It's a list of the 50 least sexy men in the public eye, with some ... More >>

Courtney Love: "Get Me Out of Movie Prison!"

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown's in town, and she's not one of them.

Courtney Love Tells Me Her Hopes and Dreams

​CLICK HERE for my new column in which Courtney Love tells me that she wants to get out of "movie prison" just like Robert Downey, Jr did. Anyone have the keys? Also in the column:

Barfly

Wish You Were Here: Venice Film Festival Opens With "Mickey Rourke in a Tutu"

​The 67th Venice Film Festival, where I'm currently on jury duty (although not on the jury headed by Quentin Tarantino) opened majorly pop with Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky's warmly received and borderline risible follow-up to his 2008 Golden Lion winner The Wrestler. Although a generic horr ... More >>

Stallone Hawks Nostalgia in The Expendables

The Maxim Hot 100 vs. the Good Surgeon's Guide to the Top 10 Worst Celeb Faces

The other Number 9​Number 9​The Maxim Hot 100 List is out. Yeah, we've been waiting for this all year! Not only that, but the Good Surgeon's Guide to the Top 10 Worst Celebrity Faces came out last week. And since we are connoisseurs of both beauty and hideousness here at Runnin' Scared, ... More >>

Iron Man 2 Will Lead to 3 and Probably 4

But that doesn't mean it's good

CRUNCH TIME

If only Mickey Rourke would show up

Jeff Bridges' Oscar Showdown in Crazy Heart

​Crazy Heart is basically Jeff Bridges' The Wrestler. You know, a has-been has to do degrading things to make money, while trying to repair his troubled relationship with the child he abandoned, as a good woman overcomes all doubts and aims to save his soul (and her own). It's also his Tende ... More >>

Name The Best Film About Alcoholics

​There have been so many good movies made about drunks, you wonder why booze can inspire so many artists while ruining so many lives. No matter. My personal favorites are:

The Hottest Sex Scene in Screen History

​The horizontal mambo between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in the 1973 thriller Don't Look Now was so vivid that whispers got out claiming the two had really done the deed onscreen! On hearing this rumor, Julie's main squeeze, Warren Beatty, ran to the set to demand they cut the footag ... More >>

Appearances as Reality in Big Fan

Yes In My Backyard: Download the Beets' "Don't Fit In My Head"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Last time, we gave you the exclusive video of Motel Motel's "Coffee." The Beets and some wrestler guy The Beets are one of the most underappreciated bands in New York, especially since they should be rid ... More >>

Week in Review: Get Ready #Bonnaroo You're Gonna Be My Bitch For the Weekend

Rebecca Smeyne In the week we didn't go to the mud-soaked hobbit/hippie fest that is Bonnaroo (well, except for the top secret one of us who did, and is even now Twittering about it), all three members of SOTC did go to Prospect Park, where we wandered the green green grass 27,000 parents and thei ... More >>

Interview: Sam Rockwell on Moon, Working With David Bowie's Son Duncan Jones, and Not Punching Mickey Rourke

"Mickey Rourke and I don't punch each other physically, but we do punch each other in other ways--it's emotional." Sam Rockwell is an actor who's both comfortable propping up bigger stars--he was a supporting player alongside Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ... More >>

Ruth Reichl as Mickey Rourke, Amy Winehouse

Here we have a video produced by Gourmet's website, in which we imagine that Ruth Reichl is called upon to go out and review restaurants once more, but must come up with iron-clad disguises. Who knew Reichl could do such a spot-on Amy Winehouse impression? Her Mickey Rourke is shockingly good too ... More >>

Pitch-Perfect Child Performances Root Treeless Mountain; Teen Trash Rots The Informers

Fallen American Idol Star at Gay Bar!

Much wood in B'way's Desire Under the Elms revival.

Fallen American Idol Star Spotted at Gay Bar!

Liz Lauren That's just one of the naughty nuggets in this week's delectable column. (Click here for the magic.) Enter these sugar walls and you'll also get: An interview with Carlo Gugino about being a sexpot. An observation about why Hollywood will always shun Mickey Rourke. A sneak peak at Gr ... More >>

Interview: Five Questions for The Wrestler's Necro Butcher

Shocking Secret About Gay Porn Star!

Agnès Varda, speeding at 80; Cowardly behavior

BLOOD MATCH

Ring of Honor paints Hammerstein Ballroom red

It's Oscar Night: The Liveblog!

Welcome to the Village Voice's not-really-annual Oscar liveblog! Feel the electricity. Not sure if you've heard, but: This year's Academy Awards will be UNLIKE ANY YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE! First of all: They've hired an architect to design the set. Money well spent. Next: Taking a page from The M ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Lily Allen, Van Morrison, Max G. Morton, Brian Evenson, Katyn, Paul Graham, and More

Joseph Pickard In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla on the vicious, precocious, but oddly winsome bad-sex revenge fantasies of Lily Allen. Scott Foundas revisits Astral Weeks with Van Morrison. Cristina Black profiles self-taught learner Lissy Trullie. Tal Rosenberg visits wi ... More >>

This Week in the Voice (Updated)

Sure, forcing food down ducks' gullets sounds harsh, but Sarah DiGregorio held her nose and went to a New York foie gras farm -- and reports that it wasn't so bad. "I don't think it's OK to cut the fin off a shark and throw it back into the water," she says. "If I had seen with my own eyes that Huds ... More >>

Nate Silver Takes All the Suspense Out of the Oscars

Every year people bitch that the Oscars are boring, and this year's event just lost what little non-wardrobe interest it had, because Nate Silver has called the winners. The supergenius statistician who predicted the last Presidential election's results with uncanny accuracy tells New York magazine ... More >>

My Oscar Predictions For The World To See

Bin Laden Back, Calls for Jihad; Nude Celebrity Angle Found

It's been a season of comebacks: Mickey Rourke, Kurt Warner, and now Osama Bin Laden. A voice that "resembled that of bin Laden in previous messages" has told followers via audiotape to prepare "for jihad to stop the aggression on Gaza." The alleged Osama further claims that Israel is trying to " ... More >>

Which Half of Brangelina is Getting Shafted by Oscar?

You read it here first! You'll be all chirpy and happy!

Anne Hathaway Fix Evaporates at Golden Globes

We weren't even going to mention the Golden Globes until we saw it on the front page of the New York Times -- who ever thought the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, once described as "100 stringers living off hors d'oeuvres," would gather such respect! -- but now we're duty-bound to mention tha ... More >>

Cynthia Nixon on Sex and the City and Awards Shows Galore!

Estrogen at the New York Women in Film & Television Muse awards; nights in drag with Murray Hill

Ring of Honor

SAG Nominees Include One Pleasant Surprise

This Week's Voice: The Worst Lyrics of 2008, Fall Out Boy, and The Wrestler

Mickey Rourke and Darren Aronofsky Both Make Visceral Comebacks in The Wrestler

What to Expect from the iPhone's New Google Voice Feature

Letters 10.01.08

Mickey Rourke is The Wrestler

The onetime Hollywood A-lister climbs back in the ring with Darren Aronofsky's latest

Scrutiny on the Bounty: Scott's Chopped-Up, Moronic Romp

Machine Age

A next-gen Gumby enters New Orleans's heart of darkness

Net Loss

Kick Out the Hams

Careers in Rehab

Around the Bend, on the Mend

Nolte by Nature

A Gifted and Afflicted Actor Propels Two of the Year's Best Films