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Summer 2013 Film Guide

"Billy on the Street" Comic Rags on Sandra Bullock, Rachael Ray, and Grindr!

Stop and shtick

Keira Knightley Reveals the Secret Behind Her Spanking Scene!

I talk to her about her method, spank you very much

Q&A: Rhett Miller on Writing New Words to "Desolation Row" and the Chili's Theme Song

​ Old 97's bandleader Rhett Miller can tell you the exact number of songs he's written, but not how many times his fans have proposed at shows. He's happy to sound off on Battlestar Galactica, Rock Band, his perfect coif, and how to write a cheating song when you're happily married. Just don' ... More >>

Oscars 2011: The Official Runnin' Scared Red Carpet Live Blog! (We're Wearing Valentino.)

​Let's get this party started! We have chocolate marshmallow cookies, and wine, and cheese and crackers, and maybe we'll get pizza. And, most importantly, we have CELEBRITIES CONGRATULATING THEMSELVES FOR BEING CELEBRITIES. And Billy Crystal. Whee! Herewith, Runnin' Scared's official live blog ... More >>

Oscars 2011: Live Blogging the Awards Show

Courtesy ABC​And now for the awards portion of the evening! Full disclosure: the three of us have seen only five of the Best Picture nominees. Not that it matters. So:

The Huffington Post Gets Blacker, Howard Kurtz Gets Paid as Press Clips Returns

​Press Clips has long, if intermittently, been the name of the media column at the Village Voice, years ago on paper in the hands of journalists like Sydney Schanberg and Keach Hagey, before being brought to this blog by some untamed rabble-rouser called Foster Kamer. But as a wise man once wr ... More >>

Michael Musto's Year in Review

Social and economic turmoil? Don't ask. At least we had Lady Gaga to tell us what to do.

Tea Party Candidate Pictured Repeatedly Wearing a Nazi Uniform For Fun

​When America watched its sweetheart Sandra Bullock get humiliated by her philandering husband Jesse James, the salaciousness was compounded by the fact that not only was the man sleeping with a porn star, but he was sleeping with a porn star who liked to dress up like to dress up like a Nazi. ... More >>

The Top 10 Witches Better Suited for Elected Office than Christine O'Donnell

​Footage from 1999 of Delaware's finest anti-masturbation Republican/Tea-Party candidate for Senate, Christine O'Donnell, admitting to having "dabbled in Witchcraft" has hit the internet! It's a sensation, especially for those of us punishment-fetishists who also enjoy masturbating to witches. ... More >>

10 Nominations for 2010 World Cup Anthems Better Than Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)"

We defy you to unironically enjoy this song. The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa kicks off on June 11th. Sports-wise, the tournament promises to be thrilling, with 32 teams from around the world pitting their varied domestic styles and approaches to the game against each other in a bid to deci ... More >>

The Post's "Welfare" Fraud

​If you read the Which Lazy Bastards Are Ripping You Off section of yesterday's tabloids — you can find it after the Who Is Sandra Bullock Not Sleeping With/Adopting section — you may have spotted the story that the Post headlined "Millionaires' welfare 'con' ": The Brooklyn DA's o ... More >>

Michael Musto to LCD Soundsystem: "Suck it, James Murphy!"

​"Eat it Michael Musto: you're no Bruce Vilanch!" So goes James Murphy's pernicious insult of our dearly beloved and long-serving nightlife columnist on "Pow Pow," one of two partial tracks to leak last night from LCD Soundsystem's much anticipated, yet to be titled third record, due in May. ( ... More >>

George Lopez, Hack

Speedy Gonzales isn't racist, but resurrecting him? Lame.

Kate Winslet Cancels Out of Autism Premiere

​The big draw for tonight's premiere of HBO's A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism was the little lady who did the narration--someone by the name of Kate Winslet. Several journalists I know were planning to go in hopes of cornering Kate to ask her, not about autism, but about her upcomi ... More >>

Food, Inc. and Julie & Julia Add Edible Component to the Oscars

The Oscars have given Julie & Julia fans something to smile about.​ Here at Fork in the Road, we generally don't concern ourselves with moving pictures unless, of course, they happen to concern themselves with the preparation and/or eating and/or politics of food. Which, it so happens, two of ... More >>

Sandra Bullock Drops From View!

Person-to-person with Sully Sullenberger, Michael Fassbender.

Oscar Winner Turned Away From Gay Beer Hall!

Academy Awards heads-up: Basterds and biopsies.

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 1: Counting Crows ft. Vanessa Carlton, "Big Yellow Taxi"

F2K has been a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Relive the whole long journey here. Thank you, and we're sorry. As a concession to a vile, contemptible decade marked by commerce over reason, we pleaded to our editors at the Village Voice to let us publish the No. 1 entry as one of t ... More >>

Golden Globe Nominations Favor Up in The Air, Hurt Locker

​Movie awards fever proceeds apace with the Golden Globes nominations. The once-derided Hollywood Foreign Press Association prizes are now considered legit and a predictor of Oscar behavior, so the Best Motion Picture - Drama nominees -- NY/LA Critics' laureate The Hurt Locker , along with Ava ... More >>

Disney's Princess and the Frog Can't Escape the Ghetto

New York's Sex Diaries Summation: What Does It Mean If We Cannot Have Love?

​Over the past few years New York magazine has done us the enormous favor of publishing "Sex Diaries" of the sort of citizens who would be game for this sort of thing. This week New York engages Wesley Yang to review the activities of its Sex Diarists, which he claims "cracked open a window i ... More >>

What We Learned about the Election in This Summer's Movies

From the multiplex to the stump: It's caped crusader versus community organizer, and the end is nigh

Perez Hilton: "I Like Food, Not Drugs!"

Yet another Rhode trip. Then it's back to Manhattan for cock tales.

Idols Friendly and Faux

My tour of modern Grease. Plus a celebulecture and a swashbuckled queen or two or three.

Repeat Offender

Slimmer in every sense, second Capote movie fails to improve on predecessor

The MTV Movie Awards: A Running Diary

If Fritz Lang Abused Red Bull and Steroids

Cool Enough for James Frey and Nan Talese

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Melting Plot: Haggis's Hyperbolic Civics Lesson a Minor Wreck

We Are Theirs

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if you're seeing Larry King or Owen Wilson or Joan Collins

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Ugly Chicks!

S.Q.U.A.T.

A Dreary Remake of a Forgotten '70s Cop Show: S.W.A.T. Have We Done to Deserve This?

Declining Women

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Beyond Belief

Ryan Gosling's Leaps of Faith

Faith No More

'The Believer' Makes the Long Pilgrimage to the Silver Screen

Best in Show

Enter the Dragon

On-Screen Heroines Inspire Women to the Martial Arts

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People Who Need People

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On HBO, Falcon talks about his burgeoning drama career. Kidding— he talks about his penis.

Mouths Wide Open

Chilly Scenes

A Winter Movie Preview
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Ordinary Witches

Allegories for the Slumber-Party Set

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Ad Nauseam

The Cozy, Corrupt World of Fashion Magazines