Steve Carell

The Return of John Sayles and Other Observations from SXSW

Burt Wonderstone Vanishes What Steve Carell’s Best At

Disappearing Act

Stacie Passon's Superb Concussion Is Why We Have a Sundance in the First Place

Hope Springs

Rashida Jones Steps Out On Her Own

The late bloomer

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: The Apocalypse Drag

You might want to be left behind

Nine Food TV Shows We'd Love To See

​How did food television become so boring and predictable? Umpteenth season of Top Chef? Yawn. Endless cupcake wars? Yawn. Paula Deen pouring more butter into the cake? Yawn. Guy Fieri tucking into another giant hamburger? Zzzzzzzzz. Well, the time has come to invent new types of food-themed s ... More >>

In Praise of Marisa Tomei

​Remember when Marisa Tomei became a worldwide punchline because she upset the pundits by copping the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1992's My Cousin Vinny, thereby beating a whole bunch of hoity toity types with accents not from da Bronx? Well, despite all the conspiracy theories that flo ... More >>

Ryan Gosling's Body! Discuss!

socialitelife.com​Not only does Ryan Gosling have a fine body of work, but he has a really good body of flesh too--and he shows it off like mad in the new comedy Crazy Stupid Love. At one point, Emma Stone's character remarks that even in person, it looks completely photoshopped. In another ... More >>

Phillip Morris Directors Fall Short of Their Own High Bar with Crazy, Stupid, Love

Summer Movie Guide 2011

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

Ten Hot Famous Fat Chicks

Sam Zide Dan Weiss is the author of the blog Ask a Guy Who Likes Fat Chicks and he's profiled in our recent feature, "Guys Who Like Fat Chicks." He put together a list of ten hot famous bigger women with the disclaimer that he "tried to mix girls I personally think are pretty with girls you don't ha ... More >>

Mel Gibson Is Crazy (in The Beaver)

A Middle-Aged Sales Rep Goes Wild in Cedar Rapids

Villain With a Heart of Gold in Animated Rehash Megamind

Gossip About Steve Carell, Joaquin Phoenix, and Katie Holmes

Plus Amy Ryan: not your everyday Jane

This Week in the Voice: The Endless Bummer of Staten Island

​All the way out on the south shore of Staten Island lies a quiet, tucked-away community called the Cedar Grove Beach Club, a "poor man's Bermuda" for the few Staten Islanders who knew about it and summered there. That's all over now, as the city's Parks Department plans to turn the 200-acre p ... More >>

Gossip About Lagerfeld, Joaquin Phoenix, and Katie Holmes

​CLICK HERE for my new column in which I interview Oscar nominated Amy Ryan, who's in the new Philip Seymour Hoffman-directed movie in which she's a funeral home worker who romances a limo driver played by Hoffman himself. Ryan tells me about that film, her Oscar night for Gone Baby Gone, and ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: A Cooper Union Student's Eye for an Education

​The typical college student's time abroad is used primarily for escaping into lands of legal-age drinking and assorted other debauchery. Cooper Union student Emily Henochowicz ended up doing something slightly different with her time: protesting in the West Bank this past May. That was when s ... More >>

TV's "Prairie Bitch" on Her Costars, Being Hated, and the Horror of Incest

Chatting with Alison Arngrim, eavesdropping on Jennifer Coolidge

Paul Rudd: He's an Actor...Right?

Steve Carell & Paul Rudd Draw Chili's Supposed Ire Over LeBron James 'Decision' Spoof

There certainly isn't a shortage of corporate gimmicks these days. Less than a week after the ESPY Awards aired, including a parody of the LeBron James special, The Decision, featuring Steve Carell telling Paul Rudd his decision that he would no longer eat at Chili's, the chain has launched a full ... More >>

Emmy Nominations Announced; HBO Maintains Primetime Stranglehold

We will never own one of these. ​Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>

The Childish, Funny, 3-D Delights of Silly Despicable Me

Julie Andrews Plays Against Type in New Animated Film

​Oscar winning goodie-good Julie Andrews didn't want to play Steve Carrell's mother in the animated film Despicable Me. Not at first, anyway. See, Carrell voices the villainous Gru, and Jules was offered the vocal role of his overpowering shrew of a horrible mother. It's as far from Mary Pop ... More >>

Who's The Funniest Male Comic in Films Today?

NBC​I'll get to the ladies later. But which goofy male refugee from TV does the suckerfish faces and pants-dropping tricks that make you smile the hardest? *Steve Carell. He does a mean deadpan and is refreshingly willing to play douches. *Ben Stiller. I'm guessing his recent venture into r ... More >>

Furry Vengeance, a Movie with a Message-and Not Much Else

Tina Fey and Steve Carell's Dull Date Night

Suicide Epidemic Tied to Steve Carrell

​There seems to be a jumping epidemic in the city. Just days after that NYU student fell to his presumably self-willed death at the ill-starred Bobst Library, a newlywed has gone out the window of the Avenue Plaza Hotel in Borough Park. 24-year-old Mordechai (Motty) Borger fell seven stories a ... More >>

A HEARTBEAT AWAY

The great Norse hope comes to the Bowery

Emmy Nominees Include The Family Guy, Ernest Borgnine; Jon & Kate Snubbed

Emmy-nominated The Family Guy featuring Emmy-nominated Seth MacFarlane. For us the joy of the Emmy Nominations, announced this morning, is in the less-well-known categories. We see that there are only two shows, for instance, up for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program: Grandpa, Do You Know ... More >>

NOT QUITE SUPERFREAKS

The silver screen was kind to indie rock’s quirky savants

Are the Oscars Turning 'Artsy'?

NO SLOPPY SECOND

Chi-town comics are first-rate

Get Smart: A Pleasant Surprise

This redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

The Comedy of Power

Yes, yes, we know. This was the YEAR OF APATOW. Beg to differ?

Dan in Real Life

Self-Service Nightlife

Elvis sightings, ethnic humor, and tomcat cruising, plus a peek at Jodie Foster's panic room

The Office Plunger

A multimedia head-scratcher from Feed the Herd

Evan Can Wait

Why in God's name did Steve Carell take the paycheck?

Summer Movies: Free Air-Conditioning at the Cineplex

Too hot to deal? Take shelter in the cool and dark of the matinee.

Death to Little Miss Sunshine

Orgy of Sequels to Climax in 2007

Will the public get off, or just the studios?

Ain't No Sunshine

A "What's Wrong With America" indie comedy reveals what's wrong with indie comedies

Zoo Story

Talking animals make sales pitches—for everything

One, Two, Three

Gross Points

Sundance distribution deals and the science of no-sleep

The Opposite of Sex

These boots were made for knockin': Steve Carell finally loses his virginity in fratty chick flick

Ferrell and Unbalanced: Non Sequiturs Nearly Anchor Spoof