Dennis Hopper

Yesterday, Brownstoner broke the exhilarating news that the 31-foot beauty at 45 Montgomery Place had been sold for more than $6 million. (Oval rooms! Fireplaces! It's all there.)

According to the website, $6m would be the highest price ever paid for a 1-family townhouse in Park Slope. New Yorkers everywhere asked: who is the lucky, oval-loving owner?

According to our calculations (i.e. according to city records), that would be Gregory Bell, who bought the place for a clean $6,050,000.

But is it the mathematician Greg Bell, who studied the Asymptotic Dimension of Groups? Or is it TV's Gregory Bell? (He played Shakespeare in Dennis Hopper's "Witch Hunt.") Or is it NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment, Mr. Robert Gregory Bell?

Probably the actor, no?  read more »

- Max Abelson

Last Thursday, David Patrick Columbia, 65 years old, went from Michael’s to Le Cirque to Swifty’  read more »

Last Thursday, David Patrick Columbia, 65 years old, went from Michael’s to Le Cirque to Swift  read more »

Sydney Pollack's first documentary, Sketches of Frank Gehry, will be opening in theaters on May 12th. But Tribeca Film Festival attendees can catch it tonight at the DOLBY screening room, at 7 p.m.

Here's a bit from the release:

Beginning with Gehry's own original sketches for each major project, the film explores Gehry's process of turning these abstract drawings, first into tangible, three-dimensional models, often made simply of cardboard and scotch tape, then into finished buildings of titanium and glass, concrete and steel, wood and stone.

Plenty of business and art world big shots appear in the film, including Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Sir Bob Geldof, Dennis Hopper, Michael Ovitz, Julian Schnabel, and Herbert Muschamp.  read more »

So will they be attending the screening tonight? Or how about Atlantic Yards opponents that have been known to follow the famous architect?

- Michael Calderone

Given the calamitous state of world affairs and the fact that we live on a small, crowded island, on  read more »

So I'm in this car with Dennis Hopper and Sean Penn, two generations of Hollywood Bad Boys.  read more »

Harley Baldwin started out in Aspen, Colo., in 1968 with a popcorn wagon and $1,200.  read more »

Mr.  read more »