Natalie Wood

The Ultimate Gay YouTube Collection

You don't have to be gay to enjoy the staggeringly entertaining and wildly campy clips I've compiled for you, but it helps. Simply click on the links and you'll see: Joan Crawford/Cyd Charisse, "Two Faced Woman" (narrated by Debbie Reynolds, of course). This defies description. Must be seen to be ... More >>

My Favorite Child Stars Of All Time

Before you chime in with "But you forgot...": No, I didn't. These are my personal favorites. Feel free to tell me yours.

The One Man Natalie Wood Couldn't Get

Marc Eliot's new book on Steve McQueen has fascinating observations not just about McQueen, but about his various costars, conquests, and lusty-eyed admirers. It says that Natalie Wood--Steve's partner in the 1963 anti-abortion romance Love With The Proper Stranger--liked to find love with a whole ... More >>

Robert Redford's Mealy-Mouthed Reluctant Virgin of a Politician in "The Candidate"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 3, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 31 films in focus By Andrew Sarris Cinema, like politics, makes strange bedfellows. "THE CANDIDATE," for example. (I couldn't.) It so happens that I find myself more in critical harmony with Bella Abzug's ... More >>

Remembering a Legend: A Natalie Wood Pictorial

​Throughout her life, Natalie Wood was plagued with doubts over her talent, but one look at her performances proves she was nuts to second guess herself. Through the years, the pint sized beauty brought us a rivetingly intense dramatic turn in 1961's Splendor in the Grass... A dazzling perfo ... More >>

The Best Western Ever!

​No, not the hotel--I mean the genre. To me, westerns have always been like spinach--ill-tasting and probably not even that good for you. But in my neurotic quest to see every movie ever made at least twice, I've sat through them all and I have to say some stand higher above the range than oth ... More >>

Electricity for All in Elia Kazan's Wild River

City boy–country girl sparks, and plenty of politics

Splendor in the Grass

Miguel Gutierrez Goes to the Movies; Bill Young and Colleen Thomas Build a Crazy Quilt

In Praise of Natalie Wood

​"A mixture of orphan and clown" is what the great Natalie Wood played in 1965's musical melodrama Inside Daisy Clover, but that could also describe Natalie herself--a porcelain anti-waif whose radioactive spunk seemed to be a compensation for never quite feeling she was good enough or truly b ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Rap's Online Overdose, Our Jazz Consumer Guide, Heaven & Hell, Quentin Tarantino, and More

Charles Hamilton, hitting delete​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick reports on rap's online overdose and the perils of allowing guys like Charles Hamilton anywhere near the Internet. Tom Hull presents the summer edition of our Jazz Consumer Guide. Phil Freeman celebrates the rebirth o ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Years ago, Ella Taylor interviewed Quentin Tarantino at his favorite Denny's. She returns to the scene to ask about Inglourious Basterds and his career. Tarantino is charmng, but if you want to be pissed at him, he does say things like, "A case can be made that I re-created the gangster fil ... More >>

'Yesterday's Angel: Natalie Wood' at Walter Reade

Celebrating the actress's (not entirely angelic) splendor

Some Wonderful, Old, Gay Gossip

At the Tribeca Film Festival last week, I met one of my icons, Mart Crowley, who wrote The Boys in the Band, the landmark 1960s play about a bunch of East Side gays having a party that leads to fight, tears, and line dances. I pop up in a documentary about the importance of that work (It's called Ma ... More >>

Star of The Exploding Girl, Zoe Kazan (Yes, that Kazan) Breaks Through

Quick Hits

Bartender Leo Cook of Bloomington, Indiana has won T.G.I. Friday's Utimate Beverage competition with his "Vanilla Lemon Ice," which will be served at Friday's restaurants starting today. The drink comprises Smirnoff Vanilla Vodka, triple sec, lemonade and Sprite. Bring the kids! A young Harlem moth ... More >>

YouTube Treasure: The Golden Girls Theme In Its Nascent Form

When he wrote "Thank You For Being a Friend," Andrew Gold probably didn't expect it to end up as an anthem for Depends-wearing Golden Girls, but his obscure ditty did find its place as the bouncy theme song to that classic '80s sitcom. Here is his own version of the song, and it's surprisingly al ... More >>

Some Like It Tony Curtis!

At Home With Bogie, Bacall, And Some Other Everyday Legends

Roz Russell YouTube Treasure: "Some People" Can't Sing

Happy B-day, John Wayne

The Duke turns 100, plus: Buy this DVD

Pow! Right in the Kisser

Rosy portrait of abuser-victim "love" is some kind of crazy

Through a Glass Darkly

Smug penguins and bitchy snowflakes: An opinionated tour of the season's department store windows

Built Ford Tough

Are You In Love?

Rock stars, dating experts, and cartoon characters talk about Valentine's Day

What's a Muff?

Drunken holiday shopping with Clarence the angel

It's Not Over Till the Fat Lady, Short Guy, and Convicts Sing

The Rosebud Express

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Girl Trouble

‘Mademoiselle’ Buried; ‘Bazaar’ Resurrected

NY Mirror

Robert Bresson (1901-1999)

Remembering a Master of Precise Gestures and Cinematic Emotion

Teen Angels