Robert DeNiro

The Tribeca Film Festival went as it had come: with another glitzy premiere.

Merely two weeks after the festival encroached on our city with the much-hyped premiere of Baby Mama, the Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer closed the festivities to an equally if not more star-treaded red carpet and winding line of rubbernecking ticket holders.  read more »

Manhattan has gotten too expensive even for Carrie Bradshaw. Sarah Jessica Parker tells The Daily News that the outer boroughs is where it's at now for young things trying to imitate the idealized lifestyle her character once advertised. [NY Daily News]  read more »

Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama was a major coup for his campaign. Most people like Ms. Winfrey and, by proxy, want to read and vote like her. But, it seems, when Robert DeNiro tells voters to rally behind the junior senator from Illinois, people—especially those who have seen Goodfellas—have little choice in the matter. In this clip, the 64-year-old actor circles the wagons, strongly suggesting Americans answer the politico’s call to action. After all, he explains, Mr. Obama’s relative governmental inexperience “is the kind of inexperience I can get used to.”  read more »