Robert Pattinson

Daughter -- Bowery Ballroom -- April 30, 2013

Better Than: The last asshole who broke your heart. Elena Tonra stood sheepishly, having just returned to the stage of the Bowery Ballroom with the rest of her trio--the English indie folk band Daughter--for an encore. The previous hour was filled with her emotionally poignant and aggressive music, ... More >>

SNL Sound-Off: Phoenix

Here is a brief list of the things I found more engaging in this week's episode of Saturday Night Live than Phoenix's performance: - Dennis Rodman's 12-second cameo in the cold open, in which he stumbled over saying "Saturday Night Live" - Melissa McCarthy driving a golf cart - Melissa McCarthy wea ... More >>

Twilight Film Gets The Most Nominations!

Relax! I'm talking about the Razzie awards, for worst of the year. The latest vamp epic scored 11 nominations, making it the Lincoln of the Razzies (or maybe the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter).

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part II

The 10 Sexiest Men In Show Biz

According to Glamour UK's reader poll. I'll give them to you in ascending order of popularity.

The Five Best Celebs To Interview

A journalist I know has grilled even more top-drawer stars than I have, so I asked him for his five faves--the ones who play the Q&A game with so much smarts and appeal that you long to shove a tape recorder right up in their face and watch them go at it. Here are his choices: (5) George Clooney ... More >>

New York Fashion Week SS13: Liberty Ross Models at Alexander Wang's Glow-in-the-Dark Show; Edun Attracts Alicia Keys, Michael Stipe, Gina Gershon, and a Couple of Strokes

"Alicia! Alicia! Over here!" shouted the front-row photographers at Alicia Keys, who had just arrived at Moynihan Station to see the EDUN show. Decked out in sunglasses, a white blouse, and white jeans with black tuxedo stripes, she pulled another woman with long brown hair into the shot. "Who's th ... More >>

People Who Aren't Gay, But Should Be

I'll start: Robert Pattinson Kristen Stewart

Cosmopolis Limos Through the Mind of a Master of the Universe

Twilight of a God

This Week in The Voice: A Call To Harm

This week in the Voice, out today, Nick Pinto track's the NYPD's poor judgment with the mentally ill, recently culminating in the death of a schizophrenic woman, writing: "With a growing international consensus on the best practices for police interactions with the mentally ill -- practices the NYPD ... More >>

Falling Man: David Cronenberg's Vision of Cosmopolis

Bel Ami: A Tepid Adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's Novel

Identity Crises at Cannes 2012

Films, stars, and the festival itself combat easy categorization

The Shelf Life of the Clinton-era Tested in Titanic 3D and American Reunion

Blood is Thicker Than Blood

Bella and Edward lock it down in Breaking Dawn–Part 1

Taylor Lautner: Can He Be A Film Star?

​Yes, I know he is a film star, thanks to a little something called the Twilight franchise. But can Taylor Lautner make it as a bonafide movie star apart from that? If you can't pull that kind of thing off, then you might as well be Francis the Talking Mule. And face it, it hasn't been all ... More >>

The Undead Seek Revenge, Generally, in Fading of the Cries

Robert Pattinson Is Hot For Betty White

​Blurbed on the cover of Betty White's new book If You Ask Me is none other than vampy, scampy Robert Pattinson, who offered: "Betty White is one of the sexiest women in America." Take that, Kim Kardashian. Well, at Betty's TimesTalk last night, critic Frank Bruni asked the Hot in Cleveland ... More >>

Robert Pattinson Looks Smoochable as Reese Witherspoon Emotes in Water for Elephants

Kabbalah Pulling Wool Over Madonna's Eyes; Tornado Death Toll Climbs To 35

​The Daily reports that Kabbalah has been using Madonna's charity donations for real estate deals instead of putting them towards their promised school-building ends. The debacle of Madge's Raising Malawi project -- which lost $3.8 million -- isn't the first time a Kabbalah-backed school has ... More >>

July Falls Short of Heat Record; August Is Comparatively Comfortable

Robert Pattinson = "sweaty person"​Welcome to August -- hell on earth in New York is officially over, according to the Daily News. Well, maybe not over over, but we'll feel a decrease from a 10 (purple face and pit stains) on the sweatiness scale to approximately a 7 (still uncomfortable, with ... More >>

Bret Easton Ellis Thinks He Looks Like Robert Pattinson & Mel Gibson, 'Gets' Celebrity Interviews

​Celebrity interviews exist on a strange spectrum of self-awareness. From enigmatic to overshare-y, it's all for publicity, leaving it as the readers' job -- should they care at all about something as trivial as celebrity journalism -- to deduce where the subject's quest to create a character ... More >>

Live From Last Night's New Twilight Movie Premiere: Death Cab for Cutie is "Team Jacob," Apparently

They brought dolls.​ We all have our opinions on whether or not a group of abdominal-flaunting werewolves should be getting their thang on to Grizzly Bear via Twilight, but it's time we hear it straight from the fans themselves. Thus, I ventured to Union Square's Regal Cinema last night; ther ... More >>

Vampire-Playing Actor Maybe Sort of Distantly Related to Guy Who Inspired Dracula Character

​Vampire movies and real life... Where does one stop and the other begin? Reporters desperate for another Robert Pattinson headline (see "R. Patz Sports Sweaty Pits" in 2008, and...yesterday) have dug deep into the fascinating and soulful family tree of the guy who plays Edward and uncovered a ... More >>

Design Firm Suggests Fitting New York's Stalled Building Sites with...Icebergs

Woods Bagot New York​Remember when we had to get used to seeing those damn cows all over the place in New York City? And then, today, we got the pianos, and some lost rubber ducky signs? Now design firm Woods Bagot wants to put recyclable iceberg structures in the place of all the "frozen" bui ... More >>

Last Night: Stephen Colbert Insults Vampire Weekend's Personal Hygiene

It's true, local swells Vampire Weekend were looking a little ragged on Stephen Colbert's television show last night, but that was no call for him to tell kindly VW drummer Chris Thomson that his hygiene level reminded Colbert of the notoriously unwashed teen star (and sometime Twilight vampire) R ... More >>

Here's Jimmy!

The new late-night prince

Gossip Folks: Tony Soprano, Dad of the Year; Bret Michaels, Still Alive and More!

Earlier this week, I was having a drink with a fellow content producer after work and the internet came up (imagine that). We got into talking about the daily arc of a "blog" and the different types of posts that make up the web we read: news aggregation and write-arounds, original reported pieces, ... More >>

Scientists Hate Women, and, Yes, We Have Proof

​Why, scientists, why? Why must you torture us with these punishing, misogynistic studies that only prove scientists to be sick, sick fucks? Study in point: Steven Most and Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, professors of psychology at the University of Delaware, decided to test whether women really ... More >>

Love, Angst, and Robert Pattinson In Remember Me

Are The New Moon Stars Gay?

​A breathless call came in from a friend the other day. "I saw Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson on TV," she said, panting, "and I realized something: They're gay! They're bearding for each other! They come off completely 'that way'!" Yikes! Could it be true? Two actors in a movie actually ... More >>

BLOOD SUCKERS

We're into biting, but a support group for vampires? Come on!

Twilight 2: Too Much Angst, Not Enough Saga

10 Most Unsettling Twilight Crafts: Underpants, Onesies, and More

​ A new film about death and sexual restraint comes out this month. You may have heard of it--Twilight? The second installment in the vampire series, New Moon, features a meaty werewolf constantly busting out of his clothes, and the ongoing unrequited lust--excuse us, love--of undead teen Edwa ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Twitpic by moises. The spectre of death stalked the nation. We were all shocked by the death of a great American musician: Sky Saxon. Also, Michael Jackson. We looked at his fans, press reactions, his good works and his weird headlines. And let's not forget Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon. Presid ... More >>

Robert Pattinson Harrassed by Crumbling Building Downtown

It's bad enough that our crumbling buildings have left many citizens homeless, but now, dammit, they're inconveniencing celebrities. Yesterday a downtown Manhattan shoot for Remember Me, starring Robert Pattinson, was delayed when a crack in a nearby building wall set off alarms and summoned firefig ... More >>

Fuck-Marry-Slap-on-the-Wrist

There's an old game that pervs play called "Fuck-Marry-Kill," where someone comes up with three names of either celebs or people you know, and you decide which one of the three you'd like to fuck, which one you'd marry, and which one you'd kill. Well, we don't believe in actual violence here at LDM ... More >>

PEOPLE ARE STRANGE

Vampires today aren't like what they used to be

How to Be

The Haunting in Connecticut: A Laughably Hokey Hand-Wringer

Live: Teenage Girls Run Z100's Jingle Ball

Twilight Pares the Book Down to Essential, Unconsummated Love Story