Shirley Temple Black

Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios at MOMA

Is Quitting Your Job to Join a Band at 35 the Best or Worst Idea Ever?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Never Nominated For An Oscar...

There are actors (like Peter O'Toole and Glenn Close) who've gotten nominated a whole lot of times and never won. Yet. But how about the ones who've never even been nominated? In the case of the dead ones, I'm pretty sure they never will be! Now that's gotta hurt. Here are some of the top omission ... More >>

Moose Murders, Classic Broadway Bomb, Is Back

The gold standard in flops, Moose Murders was the 1983 Broadway bad-taste comedy set in a motor lodge, where a blind singer, burn victim, German nurse, twisted Shirley Temple type, incestuous mother, and other loonies converged for parlor games and foul play. AARP magazine ranked it as the fifth wo ... More >>

Former Child Stars Who Are Now Raging Conservatives

Why so many? It's got to be that either they came from that sort of background--people who want to deprive certain segments of rights are often the kind of folk who push their kids into show biz. Or that when the fame fell, these ex supernovas became desperate and sought some meaning to stay afloa ... More >>

5 Great Sodas in NYC

Now that the days of dropping five bucks on a jumbo, movie theater Coke will be going the way of smoking in bars, New Yorkers might want to consider a carbonation contingency plan. Despite Mayor Bloomberg's approved soda ban, plenty of NYC restaurants are crafting their own sodas in-house. Although ... More >>

Drinking With Rich People As The Recession Lifts

Hanging with the upper crust as the recession finally lifts

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.

Taste Testing Saranac's Shirley Temple in a Bottle

While food shopping at Polpette (254 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, 718-399-8800) recently, we chanced upon a soda we'd never seen before: Saranac's Shirley Temple. Having drunk many a Shirley Temple in our youth (gotta train for cocktail consumption early in life!) we were excited to see the beverage in ... More >>

Great Man Theories: Clint Eastwood on J. Edgar

Catching Up With Andrea McArdle

​Andrea McArdle charmed Broadway audiences as Annie in 1977, but she grew up to do a lot of other stuff--and she's still surprising! Andrea is in Greenwood, a New York Musical Theatre Festival entry about a theater camp, which I talked to her about at the last Times Square Social. Me: Hi, An ... More >>

Why I Hate Being Gay! 62 Reasons!

Here's why we hate being gay

Guys Who Like Fat Chicks

Randy Newman Bores Small Child, Charms Everyone Else At Town Hall

No pics or video allowed, so let's just let "God's Song" crush us all over again. Randy Newman Town Hall Saturday, March 6 Better Than: James Franco, Anne Hathaway, and the whole lot. There was a seven-year-old boy at the Randy Newman concert. He sat in Row O, between his parents. It made sense, ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: Every Hour is Happy Hour

​What if you lived in a city where there was a bar with a happy hour, for every hour of the day? Guess what, New Yorkers: You do.

'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' -- Fraudulent, or Most Creative Album Ever?

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 22, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 36 Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper': The Album as Art Form By Tom Phillips A lot of people seem to have misunderstood the new Beatles album. Richard Goldstein, reviewing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in las ... More >>

Who's The Best Child Star of All Time?

​Abigail Breslin made a spectacular child star at age 10 in the Oscar winning Little Miss Sunshine, and she's now onto a full-fledged career as an adolescent, making even more movies than La Streep and heading to Broadway in a Miracle Worker revival that could turn her into the new Patty Duke. ... More >>

Say Something Nice About Michael Jackson

We know that Michael Jackson was a brilliant musical artist, but as a person, he often seemed conflicted and a tad self-loathing. Still, now that's he's gone, it's not polite to remind people of stuff like that, so let's go out of our way to find only positive things to say about the man and his eye ... More >>

Pitch-Perfect Child Performances Root Treeless Mountain; Teen Trash Rots The Informers

Why Hard Times Won't Mean Good Times at the Movies Again

Brother, can you spare $12?

Clip Job: Tallmer Gags on the Von Trapps

Thursday 05/01

EEE! HARMONY

A discussion with a notorious filmmaker

Myra Breckinridge

The Queer Precursor to Southland Tales

Network Encore? I'm Glad as Hell.

We interrupt regular programming to take you back to 1976's darkly comic masterpiece.

NY Mirror

In Living Color

Tashlin's eye-popping '50s artifacts pile on gags like live-action Looney Tunes

NY Mirror

When Boozing Gets Spooky

Bonus: Halloween with many Connie Chungs

The Original of Lolita

Fifty years after that triple trip of the tongue, Nabokov's nymphet is as mesmerizing as ever

Anatomy of Hellion

Not Just Kidding: A Young Seattle Sister Duo Do It for Themselves

Film

Playing Tenths, Inventing R&B, Serenading Some Jailbait

Anti-Shock

Porn and Republicans on the Runways

Long Night's Journey Into Daze

Fornes's Saloon of Visions; Beane's 'Shockumentaries'

Home's Stead

Cult Classics, Not Bestsellers

Elegance Is Bliss

Old Hollywood's Mr. Practicality

Hello, Dalí!

Art, Commerce, and the Persistence of Mammaries

Devil in Disguise

Satan's Helper Takes Credit for a Good Man's Music

New Belsen

Letters

Theater

Tall story

In the Movies, Men Are Bigger Than Women Even When They Aren't

Opera Rad

Robert Ashley Releases His Most Accessible Work

Dane’s Addiction

The Original Bad Girl

Pirouettes and Pyramids

How Many Stories?

The Temperature Changes From Uptown to Down

Endgame

On The Ups And Downs Of Hollywood's Parting Shots