"This is like the New York Oscars, except without any of the annoying prestige," said Michael Ian Black, the VH1 I Love the 80's fetish object, who had been hired to host the 13th annual IFP/Gotham Awards on Monday, Sept. 22, at Chelsea Piers' Pier Sixty.
Mr. Black may have been scathingly accurate in his assertion Read MoreThe actor Hayden Christensen, speaking by phone from the Australian set of the final Star Wars prequel, was comparing his two most recent roles.
"They have different kinds of ambition," said Mr. Christensen about Anakin Skywalker (who about now should be one rattling voicebox away from turning into Darth Vader), and Stephen Glass, the disgraced former Read MoreAllison Jacobs sat dreamily poking at a fat piece of chocolate cake at the Greenwich Village restaurant Westville.
"I just want every little girl to know that the Upper East Side has magic. The park, it's magical, right?" she said. "The brownstones, the embassies, the architecture, those buildings on the park?" Ms. Jacobs was describing her Read More"Every once in a while, there is a change in Hollywood where people turn back to making movies with great stories, great actors, great creative teams, and that's when you come to New York," said John Lyons, the independent producer ( Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me , Pieces of April ) turned brand-spanking-new Read More
Last September, New York's film industry gathered for the IFP Gotham Awards at Chelsea Piers. Before director Ang Lee accepted his Lifetime Achievement Award, a reel of his clips ran, concluding with a preview-the brief eyeball-bulging bit of celluloid now familiar to anyone with a television-of Mr. Lee's upcoming movie, The Hulk . It was Read More
Sure, Judith Nathan started out as a lowly interloper, an East Side Camilla Parker-Bowles, making the usual entry on the front page of the New York Post , an attractive divorcee looking a little bewildered in the lobby of her high-rise. But with her wedding last Saturday, she took what may be the real second-toughest Read More
Sure, Judith Nathan started out as a lowly interloper, an East Side Camilla Parker-Bowles, making the usual entry on the front page of the New York Post , an attractive divorcee looking a little bewildered in the lobby of her high-rise. But with her wedding last Saturday, she took what may be the real second-toughest Read More
On the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, Calif., there sits an empty throne, and Hollywood's ousted tyrants and lauded directors are casting their eyes east and west, wondering why the film industry is short a king.
In July 2000, the Hollywood trades reported that Warner Bros., founded in 1923 by Jack, Sam, Harry and Albert Warner, Read MoreVincent Pastore, The Sopranos ' late Big Pussy Bonpensiero, is excited about the Tribeca Film Festival. He's so excited that even though he doesn't have any films playing at the nine-day festival, he called just to tell us how jazzed he is.
"I can't wait," said Mr. Pastore with a Cohiba-enhanced growl, adding that a good Read MoreThe actress Winona Ryder stood onstage at the Public Theater on April 17, wringing her hands and squealing with adoration.
"The first time I met J.T. was during my first heartbreak," she said of the author J.T. LeRoy, whose work had just been read by a group of performers including musicians Debbie Harry and Shirley Manson, Read MoreAs the country prepares for a mysterious war and slogs through an unending recession, who can blame us for looking forward to the entertaining and comforting elbow-throwing that precedes our nation's annual Academy Awards pageant. Now that's a battle we can understand-one fought with advertising offensives and public-relations espionage.
And yet, if you've noticed, the Read MoreWhen Madonna shilled for Pepsi in 1989, the Catholic Church threatened a boycott of the soft-drink company. Fourteen years later, she's flogging a new product-the Oxygen cable channel for women-but practitioners of her adopted religion, Kabbalah mysticism, will probably think it's divine.
Certainly, the sight of Madonna crossing her obsessively toned arms in Oxygen Media's new Read MoreKiller Films co-founder Christine Vachon shifted impatiently in her seat at the front of a crowded Columbia University screening room. It was a little after 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1. The class of graduate film students had just seen an advance screening of Far from Heaven, the much-talked-about film that Todd ( Poison ) Read More
When he finishes his run in the Off Broadway revival of Burn This in November, Edward Norton will report to the Los Angeles set of F. Gary Gray's heist movie The Italian Job , which will co-star Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron. Mr. Norton may show up on time, but he won't be happy about Read More
When the novel The Nanny Diaries became a surprise hit last spring, its authors, former nannies Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, were catapulted from haute servitude on the Upper East Side to the best-seller lists, the talk-show circuit and a Miramax movie deal. But has their triumph only opened up the doors of discontent for Read More
