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Hamlet Saves Hamlet

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:28:07 -0400

The prince of Denmark may be melancholy, but the star of Hamlet is having the time of his life.

Jude Law headlines the Donmar Warehouse production that played to raves in London this summer, had a quick layover in Elsinore, Denmark—really!—for six performances at Kronberg Castle, and arrived at the Broadhurst last night.

Mr. Law sulks, broods, charms, plots, brays, dances, wrestles, wheedles, fences and, at one point, pelvic-thrusts his way through a brisk three-hour-and-10-minute production....

Week in DVR: XOXO Gossip Girl! Idol Final! Plus, Hot Jude Law and Furry Fox

Mon, 18 May 2009 07:54:32 -0400

Monday: Gossip Girl

OMFG you guys! It’s the Gossip Girl season-two finale! And sheesh, what a long and crazy ride it has been … hmmm, we can’t really remember a single continuing plot point! But tonight the you-know-what will really hit the fan when Gossip Girl sends out a “scandalous” email as the kids graduate from high school. Will Chuck Bass be that guy not wearing any clothes under his gown? Will Jenny try to...

Morning Memo: Jude Law's Love Nest; Paris Hilton Plans a Family; Is Chloe the New Beatrice?

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:39:02 -0400

Jude Law spent three days last week holed up in the Gramercy Park Hotel with a dancer he met at The Box. [P6]

The Lower East Side's Chloe may be the new Beatrice Inn--plus, they're considering serving a full menu until 2 a.m. [Grub Street]

At the New Yorker Festival, Clint Eastwood compared Angelina Jolie's talent to Meryl Streep's but added that she is "hampered by her gorgeous face." Meanwhile, Ms. Jolie told reporters that...

Law Fills Crowe Role in Sherlock Holmes Flick

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:31:28 -0400

Perhaps Guy Ritchie should have heeded the words of Chris Rock at the 2005 Academy Awards: "If you want Tom Cruise and all you can get is Jude Law. Wait! You want Russell Crowe and all you can get is Colin Farrell? Wait!"

After being spurned by Mr. Crowe for the part of Dr. Watson opposite Robert Downey Jr.'s titular detective in Sherlock Holmes, Warner Brothers is close to...

Morning Memo: No Cosmos for Kristin; Eastwood Thinks Clinton's a Million Dollar Baby

Wed, 21 May 2008 12:48:16 -0400

Kristin Davis, whose character on Sex and the City downs Cosmos, often gets sent the cocktail at restaurants, but never drinks them because she is a recovering alcoholic. [P6]

More secret weddings! Jessica Alba and her longtime boyfriend, Cash Warren, wed on Monday before the arrival of their first child. [NY Daily News]

McCain supporter Clint Eastwood thinks Hillary should hang in there. [NY Daily News]

Lydia Hearst...

Norah Jones Is Sweet as Pie in My Blueberry Nights

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:58:32 -0400

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
Running Time 90 minutes
Written by Wong Kar Wai and Lawrence Block
Directed by Wong Kar Wai
Starring Natalie Portman, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz

Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights, from a screenplay by Wong and Lawrence Block, from a story by Wong, marks Wong’s first English-language feature in a 20-year, eight-feature and two-segment career that has won...

Terry Gilliam Picks Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp to Replace Ledger?

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:50:31 -0500

It seems like the rumors may have been confirmed: Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell will each fill in for Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Cinematical reports via Ain’t It Cool News, the insidery movie and comics blog that broke the scoop early this morning. The film was still in production when Mr. Ledger died on Jan. 22 of what has been ruled an accidental overdose of prescription...

Even Sean Penn Can’t Save King’s

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:00:00 -0400

The best thing about last week’s Toronto International Film Festival was its reputation as a showcase for unveiling all of the big (and occasionally important) movies and performances you will see in the coming movie season. From Heath Ledger as a heroin addict in Candy, Julie Christie as a woman wasting away from Alzheimer’s in Away From Her, and Dermot Mulroney as the handsomest cancer victim I’ve ever seen in Griffin & Phoenix, to...

New York World

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:00:00 -0400

George and ... Hillary Hillary Clinton spent the second weekend of August in the Hamptons and left with a half-million bucks, $100 of which was mine. Nobody from the press, no photographers, were invited to the various fund-raisers. But duty called. First, I needed some appropriate shoes. At the Ralph Lauren store, I scored some $145 dressy white bucks. I called my therapist, Dr. Selman, for a pep talk. He happened to be...

My Wife's Hairdresser Turns the Tables on George Clooney

Tue, 09 May 2006 21:30:57 -0400

When last I visited the subject, my wife had dismissed my criticisms of George Clooney's political movies, saying I was being mean-spirited. Then fate rallied to my cause. My wife went to the hairdresser and told him about her soft spot for Clooney—and he took my side, and changed her mind. You might say that he did a number on her head inside and out. She was good enough to tell me about it,...

The Blue-Eyed Predators

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:00:00 -0400

Entourage star Adrian Grenier’s mom Karesse was on the phone, talking about her son’s striking eye color. “I think it runs in our family,” said Ms. Grenier, a longtime New Yorker and vice president at Corcoran. “I guess his eyes change with what he’s wearing. Sometimes they look green, sometimes they look gray, sometimes they look blue-blue. He was blessed.”

Is it just us, or are blue-eyed men in the midst of a major moment?...

The Blue-Eyed Predators

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:00:00 -0400

Entourage star Adrian Grenier’s mom Karesse was on the phone, talking about her son’s striking eye color. “I think it runs in our family,” said Ms. Grenier, a longtime New Yorker and vice president at Corcoran. “I guess his eyes change with what he’s wearing. Sometimes they look green, sometimes they look gray, sometimes they look blue-blue. He was blessed.” Is it just us, or are blue-eyed men in the midst of a major...

What Bai Ling Does

Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:00:00 -0400

The actress Bai Ling was in town for three days to do a fashion shoot for Saks Fifth Avenue. She's got a reputation as a party girl; people ask, "Exactly what does Bai Ling do ?" (For starters, she plays a lesbian fashion designer in Spike Lee's new movie, She Hate Me , opening in July.) On June 18, she slept until noon, then met me outside the Waldorf Astoria.

"You know, all this business...

Spielberg Captures the Little Boy Lost

Sun, 01 Jul 2001 20:00:00 -0400

All may seem lost in the current trash explosion of summer movies, but be patient–help is on the way. Like a welcome St. Bernard delivering a flask of brandy to snowbound blizzard survivors, Steven Spielberg has saved us from a daunting avalanche of summer junk films with Artificial Intelligence (henceforth entered into the cinema lexicon as simply A.I. ). Eagerly anticipated but shrouded in mystery, like all Spielberg films, it has left me awed....

Where Are the Men of My Dreams?

Sun, 27 May 2001 20:00:00 -0400

Most women I know think Johnny Depp has about as much sex appeal as a China doll or a Siamese cat-too

pretty, too passive. It's male reviewers who've gone ga-ga over him as the hippie pusher in Blow , rhapsodizing over his delicate features and limp blond tresses. And of the exquisite transvestite prostitute he plays in Before Night Falls , John Turturro was quoted as saying he'd be available to play love scenes with him anytime. He's cute, but...

Agnès Varda Combs France, Armed With a Digital Camera

Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:00:00 -0500

Agnès Varda's The

Gleaners and I belongs to that genre of nonfiction film in which the French excel: the first-person philosophical essay. Ms. Varda has been a gleaner all throughout her 46-year career in film, in the sense that she's been collecting or discovering (facts, information, etc.) gradually, bit by bit. What she collects in The Gleaner and I are glimpses of a world we normally see-if at all-out of the corners of our eyes as we pass garbage cans and...

Guns and Lovers … Australians on the Moon?

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:00:00 -0500

Guns and Lovers

As movies about World War II find their way into the reference books, you couldn't say the Battle for Stalingrad has exactly been over-reported. Germany never stops paying for its atrocities in the courts of international justice, but the civilized world has changed its alliances with Russia so many times that most people (especially filmmakers) no longer know what they think about the place. But while a biopic about Joe Stalin is...

As Penetration Fantasies Go, eXistenZ Is a Tease

Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:00:00 -0400

David Cronenberg's eXistenZ is, among other things, a typographical nightmare with a futuristically inspired 16-item glossary of its own. As in several of his previous horrific enterprises, most notably, They Came From Within (1975), Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983), Mr. Cronenberg goes into human orifices where no other filmmaker has gone before. In eXistenZ , a circular puncture on the skin outside the spinal column allows the player to plug into a "MetaFlesh Game...

A Monica in Training … Cronenberg Drills Another Orifice

Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:00:00 -0400

A Monica in Training

Since every downward trend produces at least one optimistic side effect, I knew if we waited patiently enough, the current plague of teenage flicks would eventually offer an exception that people over the age of 15 could sit through without suffering brain damage. Election is that film–a rare excursion into the world of kids with hormonal dysfunctions, which a few grown-ups seem to occupy as well. It's no masterpiece, but considering...