Scarlett Johansson

Superheroes Bump Superegos in Joss Whedon's All-Star Avengers

Animal House: Matt Damon Needs Your Love in We Bought a Zoo

Oh, don't be such a cynic

The Best Horses In Screen/TV History

Steven Spielberg's War Horse (above) is about to trot into theaters, and lordy is that a beautiful creature! I like the horse, too. Anyway, here are some of my other favorite equine stars from Hollywood history.

You Know How This Ends: Sad Tale of an Orphaned Orca in The Whale

Steven Spielberg's War Horse (above) is about to trot into theaters, and lordy is that a beautiful creature! I like the horse, too. Anyway, here are some of my other favorite equine stars from Hollywood history.

Sean Penn And ScarJo Are Kaput! My Thoughts

​People reported that Sean Penn and Scarlett Johansson are no longer an unlikely couple. In fact, they're no longer a couple at all. And I can't say I'm wildly surprised.

Gone With The Wind Legend Is Now A TV Anchor!

​For some time now, I've spotted her on NY1, doing a smash-up job with the news, and wondering, "Where do I know that name from?" And I've finally figured it out! Vivian Lee was the female lead in the film classic Gone With The Wind! She played Scarlett Johansson or something. Duh.

Happy Birthday, New York!

Manu_H​Dear New York, On this date in 1653, you (then named New Amsterdam -- you never really looked like a New Amsterdam) were incorporated. You've had your ups, your downs and even that weird phase in the '80s when you got heavy into drugs and synth music.

Ryan Reynolds Is The Top Gay Male Fantasy Hookup!

​If not Scarlett Johansson's anymore. This revelation has emerged from Out's sex survey, which found that Ryan's abs are what gays most want to caress during their fantasy leisure time. The runners-up are the following hotties:

Everybody's Breaking Up!: R.I.P., Celebrity Couples We Never Knew

ScarJo, before RyRey.​Alas! Or...hooray! Or...well, how should we know how to feel about any of this, anyway, since we don't actually know them and have only seen them looking generally smiley in pictures? Still, given the news coverage, it seems very important! Breaking: Scarlett Johansson an ... More >>

The Star-Studded Hollywood Invasion of Broadway Continues: Stiller, Kidman, Rock, and More!

​The last year in Broadway theater saw the appearances of names like Scarlett Johansson and Catherine Zeta-Jones not just on stages, but in the same award categories as their Loyal-to-New-York-Theater co-stars. The trending caused our own lead theater critic Michael Feingold to pen an epic scr ... More >>

2010 Tonys: Nominations Announced, Big on Idiot Material

​The 2010 Tony nominations are out, and the yearly ceremony that becomes more and more designed to persuade people from anywhere but New York City to spend money on theater is soon to follow. The idea behind the Tonys is simply to get Broadway to appeal to the rest of America in a big, fancy ... More >>

Gigunda Stars Get Tony Nominations!

​Jude! Denzel! ScarJo! Kelsey! Catherine Zeta-Jones! It's a veritable panoply of celebrity wattage, as I predicted here just yesterday. In fact, I got 44 out of 56 right! Nyah Nyah. I hereby maintain my theater queen tiara for another year.

My Tony Nomination Predictions!

​In case you live for the nominations like I do (and by the way, they'll be announced tomorrow morning), here are my guesses. Disclaimer: I'm at a disadvantage. I actually saw the shows!

The Most Star-Studded Tony Awards Evah!

Red Hook gets tragic: Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber in "A View From the Bridge." Photo by Joan Marcus​That's what'll happen if this year's batch of giant movie-and-TV-stars-turned-theater-actors gets nominated! (Or even if they're just asked to present--or usher.) This will probably b ... More >>

Why Does Scarlett Johansson's Chihuahua Smell Like Ham?

via People Pets/INF​Following so closely on the heels of the great What-Rich-Guy-Owns-That-Fancy-Apartment? caper that it might actually be stepping on them, we are faced with yet another mystery that calls out for answering. People Pets (yes, that's an offshoot of People People) teases us mer ... More >>

Fast-Food Chains Replace Teens with Robots; Calorie Labeling Forces Some Restaurants to Shrink Portions

​Yet another journalist asks why, if Alice Waters has been such a revolutionary in the local, slow food movement, do so some many people hate her. [LA Times] Fast-food chains that once employed teenagers to carry out the most mindless, repetitive of tasks are now turning to robots to do these ... More >>

STAR POWER

Join a conversation with Liev Schreiber

Miller's View From the Bridge, Coward's Present Laughter, and Foote's Orphans' Home Cycle Part 3

Join a conversation with Liev Schreiber

Who Should Star in the Spice Girls Musical?

​It was announced yesterday that Mamma Mia! producer Judy Craymer will create and produce a new musical called Viva Forever, based on the songs of the giddiest girl group of all time, The Spice Girls. If you wanna be my lover, you're gonna have to agree with me that while this isn't going to ... More >>

Week in Review: All I Have Left Are My Memories and This Copy of The Razor's Edge Signed by Asher Roth

Photo of Jim Jones taunting hipsters by Rebecca Smeyne​ In the week Jim Jones put ten thousand dollars on a three-on-three basketball tournament sponsored by Converse and barred to the media, we got up in there anyway, and brought you the hilarious play-by-play. Take that, shoe company. Gera ... More >>

Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson's Song of the Summer "Relator" Gets a Video

We woke up from some sort of obscure, terrifying dream the other night to realize that our abiding affection and love for Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson's improbable summer jam "Relator" had everything to do with Van Morrisson's "Glad Tidings." That the two songs are syncopated in almost exactly ... More >>

TV ON THE BANDSHELL

BK boys come home

Pete Yorn

BK boys come home

Let's Play Fuck-Marry-Slap Again!

Cpl. Scott M. Biscuiti Yep, it's time once more for pervy America's favorite pastime: Fuck-Marry-Slap (a delightfully watered down version of Fuck-Mary-Kill)! Here are the rules: I give you three celebrity names and you tell me which one of them you'd like to marry, which one you'd fuck, and which ... More >>

Song of the Summer: Model-Slash-Actress Edition

We have little-to-no stakes in the summer-song horserace, except in a "If I hear that Drake song one more time I'll happily slit his throat with the jagged shards of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" kind of way. But we are interested in "Relator," the improbably buoyant Scarlett Johansson/Pete Yorn colla ... 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 >>

Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

This Scarlett Johansson/Pete Yorn Song Is Actually Pretty Great, Guys

Scarlett Johansson, the musician, was last seen being loathed for Anywhere I Lay My Head, her Dave Sitek-assisted suite of Tom Waits covers, a project that was probably doomed (critically, anyway) by her incredible beauty and success way before it even got started. But that record was better than it ... More >>

He's Just Not That Into You Sets Bar Low For Women

Scarlett Johansson, the musician, was last seen being loathed for Anywhere I Lay My Head, her Dave Sitek-assisted suite of Tom Waits covers, a project that was probably doomed (critically, anyway) by her incredible beauty and success way before it even got started. But that record was better than it ... More >>

New York Gets J'Taimed

Scarlett Johansson, the musician, was last seen being loathed for Anywhere I Lay My Head, her Dave Sitek-assisted suite of Tom Waits covers, a project that was probably doomed (critically, anyway) by her incredible beauty and success way before it even got started. But that record was better than it ... More >>

Vicky Cristina Barcelona's Mighty Aphrodites

Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces—and some other stuff—in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Albums

Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces—and some other stuff—in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

The Scarlett (Johansson) Letter is "O" for Obama

Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces—and some other stuff—in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

Status Ain't Hood Podcasts 39 & 40

Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces—and some other stuff—in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

Scarlett Johansson's Tom Waits Tribute

Say what you will, but if any 23-year-old starlet can sing like Waits, it's her

Scarlett Johansson's Tom Waits Tribute Album: Pretty Good, Actually!

Say what you will, but if any 23-year-old starlet can sing like Waits, it's her

Auto Erotica

Car lovers find a new flame in Burnout Paradise.

Bugaboo Confidential

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

Horoscope

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

Girls Gone Wilde in an Amiable if Undemanding Adaptation

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

Funnier Than Your Funny-Friend

Drinks with stand-up comedian Aziz Ansari

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Drinks with stand-up comedian Aziz Ansari

DimClone

'Island' flopping: Frat-metal bad boy Bay's sci-fi waxes philosophical before blowing shit up

Film

'Island' flopping: Frat-metal bad boy Bay's sci-fi waxes philosophical before blowing shit up

The Lying Game

Your cheatin' heart: David Callahan details America's moral decline, blames the economy

NY Mirror

Your cheatin' heart: David Callahan details America's moral decline, blames the economy

NY Mirror

Your cheatin' heart: David Callahan details America's moral decline, blames the economy

After Sunset

Coppola's Camera Karaokes Through Tokyo and Finds Bill Murray Singing Roxy Music