Tom Hanks

The 51st New York Film Festival Is as Varied as Its Hometown

Captain Phillips is a Hokey High Seas Drama Apt to Turn Stomachs and Elicit Groans

A Hollywood-style A Hijacking for dummies.

Tom Hanks Rides The Subway, And Other Factlets I Just Got At A Tony Awards Event

This week's column is a rollicking romp through a Tony nominees' meet-and-greet event, where Tom Hanks told me what people do to him on the subway, how his play was changed in rehearsal, and other insights into what it's like to be Tom Hanks on Broadway. You heard me right, by the way: Tom Hanks ri ... More >>

Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy Digests Its Drama for You; NAATCO's Strindberg Diminishes a Dream

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Barbara Walters Retiring? Here's What I Said On TV About That

Jill Niccolini interviewed me for the Fox 5 News at 10 last night about the report that Barbara Walters is supposedly retiring next year. I'm not sure which sound bites they used--after the interview, I went off to see Tom Hanks in a play---but above is a photo of me telling Jill stuff like:

Cutest Actor's Bio On Broadway

Breakfast at Tiffany's didn't get raves--except for one of its cast members. I'm talking about a small, furry guy named Vito Vincent, whose inspiring bio is above.

I'm Talking Theater Tonight On Theater Talk

Snowbound? Bored? Canceled out of a show? Well, there's stimulating theater talk tonight to distract you. Susan Haskins, the gracious producer/cohost of Theater Talk, regularly invites Jesse Green, Patrick Pacheco, and myself to have a writerly discussion about who and what are coming down the Broa ... More >>

Alpha in Motion: Liam Neeson's Return to Form

Some Nouns, Some Verbs, and 9/11: Milking Tragedy in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Free Will Astrology: November 9-15, 2011

White, Employed, Middle-Class Man's Lament: Horrible Bosses

Tom Hanks Ages Into Mid-Life Obsolescence in Larry Crowne

Summer Movie Guide 2011

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

War Horse: Worth Betting On?

​Watch out, Equus! Move over, Secretariat! There's a new horse in town and it's crossing the finish line. I'm talking about the Lincoln Center production of War Horse, the sprawling drama in which a boy's beloved animal ends up being used in World War I and...

This Week in the Voice: The Talented Mr. Glover

​This week in the Voice, Bill Jensen profiles Donald Glover, the rapper/comedian/writer/actor who happens to succeed at everything he does. Whether you know him as Donald Glover, Troy or Childish Gambino, he is a new kind of entertainer, "a regular black guy who likes the same stuff white peop ... More >>

My Column This Week Is A Cartoon!

​ CLICK HERE for the ambitious, envelope pushing, jaw dropping "La Dolce" column in which actual dialogue I've overheard in nightclubs has been transformed into incisively funny cartoon panels rendered by artist Dominic Bugatto. (It's all part of our much ballyhooed cartoon issue, which is v ... More >>

Q&A: "White People Rapping Poorly" Mastermind Connor Toole On What Makes Terrible White Rappers So Amusing

Asher Roth, one of the good guys​Today, the Internet is filled with more depravity and embarrassing footage than anyone could have ever thought possible. Fortunately for us, people like Connor Toole are seeking out the best of the best (or worst of the worst), and posting these .gifs or YouTub ... More >>

Live: Matt & Kim Get Interplanetary For One Step Beyond At The Museum of Natural History

At least they're enjoying themselves. Pics by Chris, more below.​One Step Beyond Featuring Matt & Kim, Nacey, and AraabMuzik American Museum of Natural History Friday, January 14 Better Than: Night at the Museum Astronomy: It's so hot right now, from the recent zodiac-sign hoax to the rele ... More >>

Brooklyn Parents: Stick Your Kid in the New Tom Hanks, Jonathan Safran Foer Movie

​ Spotted in Park Slope by Runnin' Scared friend @stvspl: a casting notice for "9-13 year-old Caucasian boys" to appear in the upcoming Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's 2005 novel about a nine-year-old boy's life in the aftermath of September 11t ... More >>

Fountains of Wayne

Toys Are Us in Toy Story 3

In its third installment, Pixar's juggernaut turns morose

Eyjafjallajokull Continues to Piss Off Everybody Except Icelanders

​Remember that movie Joe Versus the Volcano? It wasn't very good, but it featured a young(er) Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan before her lips got all Howard-the-Duck, and it was about a guy who thinks he's dying and offers to jump into a live volcano to appease the volcano gods. And even though that mo ... More >>

Who's The Best Male Movie Actor of the Sound Era?

​My choices in ranked order: (1) James Stewart (2) Robert DeNiro (3) Spencer Tracy (4) Jack Nicholson (5) Jack Lemmon

Live: Even Lou Reed Gets Sentimental At Rock Hall MSG Blowout #2 (Featuring U2, The Boss, The Black Eyed Peas, And Some Dude Named Mick)

Ooooh plus "Iron Man" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Celebration Madison Square Garden Friday, October 30 "When we were down, rock 'n' roll lifted us up," says Tom Hanks in his introductory remarks for the final night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's benefit-concert extravaganza ... More >>

Angels & Demons Has a Need for Speed

Miss California Partied Down with a Trannie!

Actually, I never even leave my seat at intermission.

Miss California Partied With a Trannie!

Did Carrie Prejean really get down with transsexual extraordinaire Amanda Lepore? Was their moment together like something out of The Parent Trap? Is Carson Kressley making swine flu jokes? Did Sally Field really say Tom Hanks seems to have A.D.D.? And speaking of attention spans, did I really ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Is it Trekalicious? Or Trek Jerky? Robert Wilonsky weighs in on the Star Trek movie, in which Spock is a "tormented youth in revolt." Ward Sutton does the funny cartoon version. We're accustomed to think of William Thompson as Mr. Clean. But he's a friend of William Howell, and as city comptrol ... More >>

Movies of New, Lame New York; or, Why People Like the 1970s

Gawker says the media "seems to be pining for the crime-fueled depravity of New York in the 1970's and 80's. It was so gritty and exciting." Then it tosses some videos of gritty, exciting films about New York when it was "dangerous, scary and cool." The italics, in case you missed it, are ironical. ... More >>

Live: Rutlemania at the Blender Theater the Gramercy at Your Mom

Louvre Story

Hanks and Howard turn bestselling Christian skullduggery into long-winded History Channel special

Anything But Sly: Secret Family-Holiday-Movie Formula Revealed

Horoscope

Strangers on a Train: Wobbly Cartoon Spectacle Lacks Human Element

Tom Delay

Baggage claim: In Spielberg fable, Hanks's idiot savant takes American customs to heart

Dud Simple

The Coens dispense incidental gospel music and diarrhea jokes in a desperate remake

Portraits of the Artist

Industrial Symphony

Industry Standard

How Shall I Begin?

The Magazine Writer’s Most Soul-Searching Dilemma

100 Years of Solitude

NY Mirror

Picture This

Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

World Affairs

Doing Time with Glowing Saints and Glowering Sinners

The Last Picture Show

The optimist's guide to the Millennium's final fall-movie crop

NY Mirror

Definitely honor-free will be Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare (sorry, but the Bard didn't look like Rob Lowe).

Ancient Evenings

Tobacco Row