Warren Beatty

Ernest Borgnine's Weirdest Movie

No, it wasn't Marty, From Here To Eternity, or even Johnny Guitar. It was a wacky little 1972 alleged comedy called Bunny O'Hare, in which he and Bette Davis were a plumber and a widow who dressed up as hippies and robbed banks, funkily escaping on a motorcycle. Those two old coots were no threat ... More >>

The One Man Natalie Wood Couldn't Get

Marc Eliot's new book on Steve McQueen has fascinating observations not just about McQueen, but about his various costars, conquests, and lusty-eyed admirers. It says that Natalie Wood--Steve's partner in the 1963 anti-abortion romance Love With The Proper Stranger--liked to find love with a whole ... More >>

My Thoughts On The Oscars As They Happen!

The show started with great dignity. Morgan Freeman came out and a friend of mine said, "Is that the one who fucks the granddaughter?"

For Shame: Our 10 Favorite Swinging Dicks of Films Past

Felicity Jones: Q&A With A Rising Star

Twenty-seven-year-old British actress Felicity Jones gives an enormously appealing performance in Like Crazy, in which she and Anton Yelchin share some college lovin', only to encounter some obstacles, American-style. Felicity won a Special Jury prize at Sundance and is nominated for a Gotham Award ... More >>

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Zooms In

Brian Kellow's biography tries to tackle the iconic film critic

The Best Male Hustlers In Movies: A Montage

Tony Ward, Hustler White​It's the guys' turn. These are the studs who sold it to their audience as persuasively as they did to their screen clients. Get out your PayPal accounts.

What's New Pussycat

Ishtar

Shampoo

Masturbating Onstage at the Met, and other Fantasies

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 29, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 13 What's a woman to do when handed poo poo? by Phyllis Raphael Once I knew a woman with a permanently elevated, non-masochistic, non-self-hating ego. She was all the things I am not. She never slept wit ... More >>

Warren Beatty Sexes Up George McGovern

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 27, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 17 Will they snort coke in the White House? By Maureen Orth LOS ANGELES, California -- "I kissed Jack Nicholson," shrieked a teenybopper, her bare midriff quivering with excitement. "Warren Beatty hugged ... More >>

Kubrick, Peckinpah, Dirty Harry and John Wayne: 1972 Cinema Awash in Ultra Violence!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 10, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 6 films in focus By Andrew Sarris The subject of violence has been so persistently debated and so pretentiously demonstrated in recent movies that reviewers are beginning to sound more like revivalists ... More >>

What to Buy the Movie Buff Who Has Everything?

Cher vs. Annette Bening: Which Mother of a FTM Is Doing Better?

​ Cher once had problems coming to terms with her daughter Chastity's lesbianism, and now she admits she still wrestles with being totally comfortable regarding Chastity's transitioning to Chaz Bono. The Oscar-winning singer/actress still gets the pronouns wrong and sometimes forgets to say ... More >>

Pras Michel v. Vito Lopez: Brooklyn's Latest Democratic Throwdown

​Now even rap stars are giving Brooklyn Democratic Party leader Vito Lopez trouble. Yesterday, Pras Michel -- late of the Grammy-winning Fugees and whose 1998 "Ghetto Supastar (That's What You Are)" was a hit on the movie "Bulworth" with Warren Beatty -- endorsed a challenger to one of Lopez's ... More >>

I Got Street Reactions To The Kids Are All Right

Here's a hilarious video I did for movieline.com, asking opening day customers who just saw the lesbian family dramedy The Kids Are All Right whether Annette Bening should stick with Warren Beatty or run off with Julianne Moore. The answers I got will add some extra zing to your potpourri. And c ... More >>

Watch Out, Chaz! Here Comes Another Celebrity Offspring Transsexual

​According to reports, Kathlyn Beatty -- born 18 years ago as the daughter to Warren Beatty and Annette Bening -- is living as a man named Stephen Ira and plans to fully transition. Supposedly, Warren is really upset. Maybe he doesn't want the competition?

Could This Finally Be Annette Bening's Year?

​Not once but twice, Annette Bening has lost the Oscar to Hilary Swank, but this could finally be her year to grab for the gold. The problem is she's in TWO big movies.

Let's Not Even Pretend That The Cover Of Das Racist's Shut Up, Dude Isn't Of Interest To Us

​So there you have it. Way less nudity than I might have feared, it's true. (And, as Zach points out, perhaps an inadvertent Jawbreaker reference.) Here also is a brief, also nudity-free promo clip for the long awaited Das Racist mixtape, which Sean Fennessey discusses at length for us in this ... More >>

Splendor in the Grass

The Hottest Sex Scene in Screen History

​The horizontal mambo between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in the 1973 thriller Don't Look Now was so vivid that whispers got out claiming the two had really done the deed onscreen! On hearing this rumor, Julie's main squeeze, Warren Beatty, ran to the set to demand they cut the footag ... More >>

Ronald Reagan's "Backdoor Socialism": Studies in Crap Reveals The Counterfeit Candidate

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.The Counterfeit CandidateAuthor: Kent H. SteffgenPublisher: National Issues, Las VegasDat ... More >>

Who Are the Smartest Celebrities?

Not all bold-face names are celebutards who need an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. Some of them are actually quite brainy, as I--who push tape recorders in their faces on a regular basis--should know. The smartest famous people I've ever interviewed are:

Mickey One at MOMA

Kicking off an ambitious five-month jazz series

Past Masters

A rich repertory selection saves the year for cinephiles

Thursday 8/10

Remember the Industrial Workers of the World?

May Days

Recapping a reclusive auteur's brilliant career, from the Jewish new wave to a legendary bomb

For Those With Gaps in Their Sellers-Ography

The Green Door in the Floor

Show me the money shot: How porn made itself at home in America's living room

Machine Age

Lights, Camera, Exploitation

That’s Our Bush! The President’s Re-Election Campaign Kicks Off With a Shameless 9-11 Docudrama

Untruths To Tell

Facing Reality, or Not, in Stand-Up and Hip-Hop

Hooked on a Feeling

The 'Times' Records a Year of Bitterness

Somebody's Watching Me

NY Mirror

Private Dick

Rich & Heinous

Gripe Nuts

Actors Bite Hand That Feeds,
Insert Foot in Mouth

Reborn Again

Hell-Raising in Philly

An Activist’s Guide to Protests Outside the Republican Convention

Converging on the GOP

A Daily Planner for Philly Protesters

Expose yourself

Warren Beatty's Next Role

NY Mirror

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

Going Down

More, More, More

The Wild Bunch

When bad behavior masquerades as bravery