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  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Village People's Randy Jones Starts a New Club Night!

    Randy Jones, the original cowboy from the legendary disco group the Village People, is a man of many hats--not just cowboy ones. He's starting a party called Sunday Night Fever at Splash this Sunday, May 6. Here's what the ever-charming Randy had to say about stuff when I asked. On his input int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2012

    Peter And The Starcatcher: My Review

    Just as Wicked provided the Oz backstory for new generations, Peter and the Starcatcher serves as a prequel to Peter Pan, but it uses a whole other tone. In showing how a mopey orphan boy became the arrested youth known as Peter Pan and a creepy pirate named Black Stache evolved into the taunting, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Sundance Film Festival 2012: The Biggest Disappointment Thus Far, and A Mid-Festival Notebook Drop

    ​With Monday marking the midway point of my stay in Park City, here's a notebook dump on a few films I haven't had a chance to write about at length.

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Proud One Percenter: "Have You Ever Heard of Anybody Great That's Come Out of the 99 Percent?" (VIDEO)

    We've had extensive coverage of the "99 percent" here at Runnin' Scared, but starting today we're going to try something new. Knowing they just don't get their fair share of time to speak to traditional media outlets (and certainly, they never get the ears of politicians), we'd like to open up a for ... More >>

  • Film

    July 6, 2011

    Ghetto Bards: Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish and Sholem Aleichem

    We've had extensive coverage of the "99 percent" here at Runnin' Scared, but starting today we're going to try something new. Knowing they just don't get their fair share of time to speak to traditional media outlets (and certainly, they never get the ears of politicians), we'd like to open up a for ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 29, 2011

    The Astor Room Noshes on Nostalgia

    A mixed bag of American classics in Astoria. But no beaver.

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Possible 'Great Gatsby' Mansion to Be Razed to Build Houses for Rich People

    ​Sigh. A mansion on Sands Point, above Long Island Sound, that "some F. Scott Fitzgerald scholars believe served as inspiration for portions of The Great Gatsby" is going to be torn down to allow for the building of a five-lot subdivision full of $10 million homes. While it's not known for cer ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 29, 2010

    Duck Soup

    ​Sigh. A mansion on Sands Point, above Long Island Sound, that "some F. Scott Fitzgerald scholars believe served as inspiration for portions of The Great Gatsby" is going to be torn down to allow for the building of a five-lot subdivision full of $10 million homes. While it's not known for cer ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 8, 2010

    Boudu Saved From Drowning

    ​Sigh. A mansion on Sands Point, above Long Island Sound, that "some F. Scott Fitzgerald scholars believe served as inspiration for portions of The Great Gatsby" is going to be torn down to allow for the building of a five-lot subdivision full of $10 million homes. While it's not known for cer ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 20, 2010

    Animal Crackers

    ​Sigh. A mansion on Sands Point, above Long Island Sound, that "some F. Scott Fitzgerald scholars believe served as inspiration for portions of The Great Gatsby" is going to be torn down to allow for the building of a five-lot subdivision full of $10 million homes. While it's not known for cer ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 13, 2010

    Boudu Saved from Drowning

    ​Sigh. A mansion on Sands Point, above Long Island Sound, that "some F. Scott Fitzgerald scholars believe served as inspiration for portions of The Great Gatsby" is going to be torn down to allow for the building of a five-lot subdivision full of $10 million homes. While it's not known for cer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2009

    Who's That Bloomberg Guy Knockin' On My Door?

    For a welcome break from campaign nastiness, check out the video of Mike Bloomberg knocking on door No. 1,000,018 in Williamsburg. It's the fourth day of Succoth, according to mayoral video DJ Barnett Zitron, and the door swings open to an impossibly crowded room of fully garbed and ecstatic Hasidi ... More >>

  • Film

    September 15, 2009
  • Film

    December 31, 2008

    2008 Film Poll: Coming (at You) Soon

    Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions.

  • Film

    September 3, 2008

    Anthology Film Archives Revives the Public Mischief of Robert Downey Sr.

    Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions.

  • Voice Choices

    September 3, 2008

    GESTAPO = BOFFO B.O.

    Nazi jokes return to Broadway

  • Film

    June 24, 2008

    WALL-E: Robots in Love

    Pixar's newest blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie’s gone before. And that’s a good thing.

  • Theater

    January 22, 2008

    Foreman’s Multimedia Chamber Piece Suffers From Not Enough Foreman

    Pixar's newest blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie’s gone before. And that’s a good thing.

  • Film

    January 15, 2008

    Moscow on the Hudson

    Lincoln Center celebrates 100 years of Russian cinema

  • Theater

    May 15, 2007

    The History Plays

    Riots! Devils! Mopey Danes! The famous shows we're most sorry we missed.

  • Art

    February 27, 2007

    Springtime for Zizek

    Plus one we've all been waiting for: the Reagen-obsessed serial-killer movie!

  • Columns

    November 28, 2006

    NY Mirror

    Plus one we've all been waiting for: the Reagen-obsessed serial-killer movie!

  • Columns

    September 12, 2006

    Horoscope

    Plus one we've all been waiting for: the Reagen-obsessed serial-killer movie!

  • Film

    July 25, 2006

    Crash Test Dummy

    The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap

  • Theater

    January 31, 2006

    Just Jack

    The Beat re-generation: ERS brings back late-night Kerouac

  • Film

    June 14, 2005

    Not Yet Rated

    Sly stalwarts, newly uncovered rarities in pre-Code series

  • Music

    June 7, 2005

    Shorter Out

    Live quartet CD proves ruthless alchemist no worse for lacking a built-in kitsch detector

  • Screens

    May 10, 2005

    Surgical Strikes

    Two new innovative hospital dramas refashion the traditional doctor-viewer relationship

  • Film

    April 19, 2005

    Funny Because It's True

    Two new innovative hospital dramas refashion the traditional doctor-viewer relationship

  • Dance

    April 19, 2005

    Sing Out

    Music and dance waltz heart-to-heart in velvet harmony; daily life maneuvers into art

  • Film

    March 8, 2005

    Central Asian Indie Wastes Post-Apocalyptic Landscape

    Music and dance waltz heart-to-heart in velvet harmony; daily life maneuvers into art

  • Film

    November 23, 2004

    The Five Distractions

    Schmucks, yuks, HK cool, film school, and a sociology experiment: 2004's best DVD sets

  • Film

    October 19, 2004

    It's a Shame About Ray

    Re-creating 70 years of a beloved pop icon's life, Taylor Hackford's gotta have a montage

  • News

    March 9, 2004

    No Longer Enfant, Still Terrible

    European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

  • Music

    February 25, 2003

    I Said Ignoramus, Not Dummie

    European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

  • Film

    December 24, 2002

    Bliss and Blarney

    European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

  • Books

    December 17, 2002

    American Rhapsody

    European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

  • Film

    October 29, 2002

    Twisting the Naïf

    European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

  • NYC Life

    July 9, 2002

    Close-Up On: Long Island City

    European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

  • Dance

    April 23, 2002

    Corn Oryx Pear Fish

    Into the Future Aboard Electroluxes

  • Columns

    January 8, 2002

    Horoscope

    Into the Future Aboard Electroluxes

  • Film

    June 12, 2001

    Culture Vultures Home to Roost

    Into the Future Aboard Electroluxes

  • Theater

    December 12, 2000

    Theater

    Into the Future Aboard Electroluxes

  • Film

    November 28, 2000

    The First Days of Disco

    Into the Future Aboard Electroluxes

  • Columns

    August 22, 2000

    NY Mirror

    Into the Future Aboard Electroluxes

  • News

    June 20, 2000

    Nation

    Into the Future Aboard Electroluxes

  • Theater

    February 22, 2000

    O! Battling Elizabethans! O!

    Into the Future Aboard Electroluxes

  • Music

    October 12, 1999

    Show-Offs on the Rise

    Multitalented Local Leads Resurgence in Cabaret

  • Film

    August 10, 1999

    Making Tracks

    Patrice Chéreau's Train of Thought

  • Film

    July 27, 1999

    Chills and Spills

    Patrice Chéreau's Train of Thought

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