Robin Williams

MONDAY

There’s something comforting about the predictability of House (Fox, 9 p.m.), which returns tonight. Sometimes it’s nice to have a show where you can set your watch by its familiar plot points, like the show’s every climax where Dr. House has reluctantly ordered some incredibly invasive procedure to cure a patient, only to have it interrupted at the last moment by a new symptom or a phrase that triggers one of Dr. House’s Eureka moments. But, finally, there’s a twist! It’s now on Mondays. (You probably saw that one coming, too.)  read more »

 

Among last night's American Idol Gives Back performances by Fergie, Snoop Dogg, John Legend and others was Robin Williams, who came onto the stage in character as a Russian Idol named Ivan Yakinov.  read more »

So, just in time for Thanksgiving, which seems to attract movies about the kinds of New Yorkers who don't gather 'round the table at Grandma's for turkey and stuffing, comes the movie August Rush. Robin Williams and Keri Russell are there, and so is Jonathan Rhys Myers. And he sings.

Reuters sums up the New York-centric plot of August Rush thusly:  read more »

He's O.K., Everyone!    read more »

He's O.K., Everyone!  read more »

Beaches beckon. Lobsters lure.  read more »

Television journalist and memoirist Jane Pauley and her husband, Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau  read more »

Upper West Side Councilwoman Gale Brewer tells us Robin Williams just finished a month of filming in her West 95th Street home.

Brewer tells us Williams's forthcoming film, The Night Listener, "has something to do with libraries."

The Booklist review of the Armistead Maupin novel it's based on begins, "Gay novelist Gabriel Noone is blue since his spouse, Jess, decamped to pursue his bliss among San Francisco's leather men."

OK.  read more »

"They were very nice and gave a contribution to the block association," Brewer said.

"The problem with giving up drinking," Frank Sinatra once said, "is that you know that the way you f  read more »

Robin Williams fans have seen all the faces and heard all the voices before, but rarely have so many  read more »

Robin Williams is one of the funniest and sharpest comic talents working today, and yet there's a ce  read more »

Jodie Foster believes inrecycling.  read more »

Jodie Foster believes in recycling.  read more »

Academy Award-winning funnyman Robin Williams has found a buyer for his penthouse at 271 Central Par  read more »

CO-OP BOARD MATRON WRIGHTSMAN SAID, 'FORGET IT!' SAY BROKERS Casino king Steve Wynn got $4.4 billion  read more »

Old-School Eakle Hypes a Client, With Some Help From Dan DorfmanRichard Eakle is a busy man.  read more »

You know that line from the opening of "Howl," the one in which Allen Ginsberg laments the fate of h  read more »