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Walter Winchell

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Rihanna And Chris Brown Find Headlines In A Hopeless Place

    Last night, Rihanna and Chris Brown leaked two collaborations, a remix of her dessert-fetish track "Birthday Cake" and a rework of his Generic Club Banger No. 86 "Turn Up The Music." The releases inspired much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, but how do they fit into the pantheon of trollg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    The Other Michael Musto!

    I once got a call from a TV producer doing a biographical show about the cartoonishly appealing blond starlet Jayne Mansfield, who tragically died in a 1967 car crash. I was thrilled to come aboard as a commentator, having loved Jayne's campy film appearances, as well as her record album of Shakesp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Best Films of 1972: Eight 10-Best Lists (And 'The Godfather' Only Makes One of Them!)

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

  • News

    September 1, 2010

    NYC's Golden Gossip Era Fades

    Gotham gossip loses grip, fights off rabble. Rattled tattletales tell all.

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    The Lovin' Spoonful Suspected of Being Narcs! Hide Yer Stash!

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 23, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 23 The Psychedelic Yenta Strikes Again! By Richard Goldstein The Lovin' Spoonful may soon find their names anathema to the very underground which nurtured them. Reports which accuse Zal Yanovsky and Ste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    Liz Smith Leaves the Post

    It's not something we look for, but something we always expected to be there, and soon it will be gone. Liz Smith's column is leaving the New York Post, her only and probably last local newspaper outlet, and with it goes an old-fashioned kind of gossip journalism, less rude, less crude, and more obv ... More >>

  • Film

    February 4, 2009

    A Dozen Great Depression Double Bills at Film Forum

    It's not something we look for, but something we always expected to be there, and soon it will be gone. Liz Smith's column is leaving the New York Post, her only and probably last local newspaper outlet, and with it goes an old-fashioned kind of gossip journalism, less rude, less crude, and more obv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2008

    Climbing the Corporate Ladder Ain't What it Used to Be at the Times

    It's not something we look for, but something we always expected to be there, and soon it will be gone. Liz Smith's column is leaving the New York Post, her only and probably last local newspaper outlet, and with it goes an old-fashioned kind of gossip journalism, less rude, less crude, and more obv ... More >>

  • Theater

    May 29, 2007

    The Paradox Man

    More than half a century after his death, composer Kurt Weill still provokes strong reactions

  • NYC Life

    July 13, 2004

    No Password Required: A Subterranean Noho Haven Awaits

    More than half a century after his death, composer Kurt Weill still provokes strong reactions

  • News

    May 11, 2004

    On the Stem

    A.J. Liebling had an eye for the beauty of a con and an ear for the city's idioms

  • Books

    August 26, 2003

    Chronicle Of A Hate Crime

    A Journalist Looks at Murderous Skinheads, Their Ethiopian Victim, and Neo-Nazism

  • News

    June 10, 2003

    Make Up Your Own New York Times Story

    A Journalist Looks at Murderous Skinheads, Their Ethiopian Victim, and Neo-Nazism

  • Theater

    March 19, 2002

    That's Underattainment

    A Journalist Looks at Murderous Skinheads, Their Ethiopian Victim, and Neo-Nazism

  • Theater

    December 25, 2001

    Harlem Tuner Thwarts Mob

    A Journalist Looks at Murderous Skinheads, Their Ethiopian Victim, and Neo-Nazism

  • News

    June 19, 2001

    The Gilded Closet

    The Swank World of Gay Gents in New York

  • News

    February 6, 2001

    Hey Joe

    The Booing of the Great DiMaggio

  • Film

    May 2, 2000

    Up, Out, and Away

    The Booing of the Great DiMaggio

  • News

    March 2, 1999

    Dirty Dish

    Web Publisher Luke Ford Penetrates the Porn World

  • Columns

    November 24, 1998

    NY Mirror

    ''In the new George Michael video, two very arresting male cops are locked in a passionate kiss, bringing new meaning to the word entrapment.''

  • Screens

    November 17, 1998

    Arf and Arf

    ''In the new George Michael video, two very arresting male cops are locked in a passionate kiss, bringing new meaning to the word entrapment.''

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