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    May 25, 2012

    The Best Explanation Of Fame I've Ever Heard

    I'm always amazed by celebrities who crave fame and claw their way to the top to get it, then resent anyone who so much as looks their way, while also hoping to keep the attention coming, bizarrely enough. It's such a mad psychological dance that these people do--"Look at me! No, don't!"--but an ol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Robert Evans' Appalling Wisdoms Through The Years

    Robert Evans is the actor who became Paramount's head of production in the 1970s and who spouted lots of colorful wisdoms at the time--some on-target, some not--according to Peter Bart's book about his own years spent at the studio. Here are some of the highlights that emerged from Evans' very mout ... More >>

  • Film

    April 25, 2012

    Deep In the Heart of Texas with Richard Linklater's Bernie

    Robert Evans is the actor who became Paramount's head of production in the 1970s and who spouted lots of colorful wisdoms at the time--some on-target, some not--according to Peter Bart's book about his own years spent at the studio. Here are some of the highlights that emerged from Evans' very mout ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    A Downton Abbey Character Will Die

    The producer herself has admitted it. And the kids at datalounge.com are going nuts trying to figure who it will be. Among the guesses:

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Black Version Of Steel Magnolias! Dig The Casting!

    Lifetime is doing a Steel Magnolias of color, and I'm all hopped up about the cast. Get this: In the part of Truvy, the salon owner played by Dolly Parton in the 1989 movie, they've signed the formidable Jill Scott.

  • Voice Choices

    October 19, 2011

    The Trouble With Harry

    Lifetime is doing a Steel Magnolias of color, and I'm all hopped up about the cast. Get this: In the part of Truvy, the salon owner played by Dolly Parton in the 1989 movie, they've signed the formidable Jill Scott.

  • Film

    September 21, 2011

    Vincente Minnelli, Master of Style and Substance

    The director's Hollywood spectacular at BAM

  • Voice Choices

    August 17, 2011

    Some Came Running

    The director's Hollywood spectacular at BAM

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Watergate Proving that Norman Mailer's Paranoia Was Prescient

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 12, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 28 Mailer's 5th Estate: Who's paranoid now? by Frank Crowther "Paranoia is the most useful or the most destructive faculty of the human spirit. One never knows when it's devoted to you or your destruction ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    The Horror of NOT Being on the White House Enemies List

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 5, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 27 How come you're not on the list? by Phil Tracy No revelation to come out of the Watergate hearings so far has had such damaging results as the publication of the White House "enemies" list. It strikes t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Christopher Lloyd! Stacy Keach! Jessica Tandy! It's the 1973 Obies!

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 24, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 21 The '73 'Obies': Plays were the thing by Audrey Berman Judging by the "Obie" ceremony Monday night, the plays were the thing -- seven of the 26 awards going for new plays, with "The Hot l Baltimore" and ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2011
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    January 28, 2011

    The 10 Best Oscar Speeches of All Time

    ​The Academy Awards will be telecast on February 27, when we'll get all new acceptance speeches to savor and barf at. In the meantime, having just posted the worst speeches in the trophy's history, here are my favorite ones, whereby winners managed to shine in that high-pressure situation--ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Hey, Everyone, Guess What: Girls Masturbate

    No Age Limit​I wholeheartedly endorse Mary Elizabeth Williams's article in Salon today, "Why teen girls need more vibrators." It comes after the media shockwave over 16-year-old Taylor Momsen's recent exclamation that her vibrator is her "best friend" -- partly because she's young, partly bec ... More >>

  • News

    April 27, 2010

    New York Happy Hours, All Around the Clock

    20 Happy Hours for every legal drinking hour in town!

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Can You Name Anyone Who's Not In Valentine's Day?

    ​Valentine's Day--aka Love, American Style, the Movie--is one of those criss-crossing ensemble pieces starring literally everyone alive who's ever walked the earth and ended up in front of a camera. In an attempt to satisfy every possible demographic, it has young people, old people, whites, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 29, 2009

    The Apartment

    ​Valentine's Day--aka Love, American Style, the Movie--is one of those criss-crossing ensemble pieces starring literally everyone alive who's ever walked the earth and ended up in front of a camera. In an attempt to satisfy every possible demographic, it has young people, old people, whites, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 22, 2009

    Sweet Charity

    ​Valentine's Day--aka Love, American Style, the Movie--is one of those criss-crossing ensemble pieces starring literally everyone alive who's ever walked the earth and ended up in front of a camera. In an attempt to satisfy every possible demographic, it has young people, old people, whites, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Academy Awards Trivia Game!

    ​Can you name all the actors and actresses who have appeared in three or more Oscar winning Best Pictures? Can you name any of them? Better yet, can you do it without a google search? I'll start you off with a couple of examples and I'll even name the films: Jack Nicholson was in One Flew ... More >>

  • Film

    September 22, 2009

    Chanel Hagiography Is So Last Season in Coco Before Chanel

    ​Can you name all the actors and actresses who have appeared in three or more Oscar winning Best Pictures? Can you name any of them? Better yet, can you do it without a google search? I'll start you off with a couple of examples and I'll even name the films: Jack Nicholson was in One Flew ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 22, 2009

    Michael Jackson's Concert Writer Speaks!

    Talking with the smart Jeff Daniels and plotting our Tonys revenge.

  • Columns

    April 29, 2009

    Peggy Lipton, The Girlfriend Who Sparked the Pension Scandal

    How a Queens schlub went head over heels for Peggy Lipton and brought down the system

  • Theater

    March 4, 2009

    That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play Jell-O–wrestles for the Greater Good

    How a Queens schlub went head over heels for Peggy Lipton and brought down the system

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2009

    Liveblogging the Academy Oscar Awards! Part III!

    Additional, excellent live-blogging here with Allison Benedikt at Sound of the City. The King of All Oscar Predictors walks among you in Part III. Will this hubris bring us low? Watch and judge! Oh no, Ben Stiller, you are not. Natalie Portman, good straight woman. Stiller probably thinks he's C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2008

    Clip Job: Too Much Dope in the Village

    Additional, excellent live-blogging here with Allison Benedikt at Sound of the City. The King of All Oscar Predictors walks among you in Part III. Will this hubris bring us low? Watch and judge! Oh no, Ben Stiller, you are not. Natalie Portman, good straight woman. Stiller probably thinks he's C ... More >>

  • Film

    December 25, 2007

    The Year in Experimental Cinema

    Additional, excellent live-blogging here with Allison Benedikt at Sound of the City. The King of All Oscar Predictors walks among you in Part III. Will this hubris bring us low? Watch and judge! Oh no, Ben Stiller, you are not. Natalie Portman, good straight woman. Stiller probably thinks he's C ... More >>

  • Film

    August 7, 2007

    Melodrama King

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • Columns

    January 17, 2006

    NY Mirror

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • Film

    December 13, 2005

    'Rumor Has It'

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • Film

    September 27, 2005

    Hanson Dons Heels for Tepid, Well-Acted Chick-Lit Adaptation

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • Film

    April 26, 2005

    Film

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • Film

    June 1, 2004

    A Fan Who Wasn't There Remembers Broadway's Good Old Days

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • Columns

    December 16, 2003

    NY Mirror

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • NYC Life

    October 28, 2003

    Close-Up on Windsor Terrace

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • Columns

    September 2, 2003

    NY Mirror

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • Film

    December 24, 2002

    Working Weak

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • Columns

    September 17, 2002

    NY Mirror

    Vincente Minnelli at Anthology, plus BAM hearts Asian cinema

  • News

    May 1, 2001

    G.I. Jane

    A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

  • Columns

    September 19, 2000

    NY Mirror

    A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

  • Film

    May 23, 2000

    Dyke Jones? Pussy Galore!

    A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

  • Film

    December 1, 1998

    Double Trouble

    A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

  • Columns

    June 30, 1998

    NY Mirror

    A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

  • News

    May 26, 1998

    India Ink

    A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

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