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Single Person's Movie: Conspiracy Theory

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:01:34 -0400

It's 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we're just like you: single.

Need a movie to keep you company until you literally can't keep your eyes open? Join us tonight when we pass...

Welcome Back, Rachel!

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:00:37 -0400

We can’t say we’re all that surprised that the return of Rachel McAdams has been met with decidedly few huzzahs—after all, on the list of under-the-radar actresses, she would rank near the top—but come on! Where is even the slightest display of giddiness? Here we are on Friday with her latest film, State of Play, opening nationwide, and it seems that nary a peep has been uttered about the Canadian actress. (Perhaps everyone spent...

Did Pirated 'Wolverine' Review Get Fox 411's Roger Friedman Fired? [Update]

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:36:47 -0400

This weekend, bloggers and reporters who cover media and Hollywood put in a little overtime to cover a small, but important, bit of breaking news: Would News Corporation fire Foxnews.com's Fox 411 columnist Roger Friedman over a column in which he admitted to watching a bootleg copy of 20th Century Fox's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was widely leaked on the Web last week?

On Thursday, Mr. Friedman wrote in a column that streaming pirated...

A Character Actress Who Deserves True Fame

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:27:49 -0400

Carrie Preston should be more famous. When we caught Duplicity over the weekend and saw Ms. Preston pop-up as a lonely corporate travel agent who, while drunk on Appletini’s, gets seduced by Clive Owen, we immediately knew her face—it just took us a little while to figure out why. Ms. Preston is one of those actresses. Like her Duplicity co-star Denis O’Hare (Milk, Michael Clayton, Garden State and a host of...

Opening this Weekend: The Pretty Woman Returns! Plus, Rudd and Segel Become Bros and Nicholas Cage Saves the World

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:39:38 -0400

Last Saturday, while almost every film blogger this side of Jeffrey Wells was sitting in a crowded theater in Austin, Texas, waiting for Joe Swanberg’s Alexander the Last to unspool before them, we were curled up on our couch in Astoria getting ready to do the same thing. The film premiered simultaneously at the South by Southwest Film Festival and on cable boxes around the country via IFC Festival Direct, an innovative...

Single Person's Movie: Erin Brockovich

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:05:50 -0400

Need a movie to keep you company until you literally can't keep your eyes open? Join us tonight when we pass out to Erin...

Duplicity Duped Me!

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:13:33 -0400

Duplicity
Running time 125 minutes
Written and directed by Tony Gilroy
Starring Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti

Tony Gilroy’s Duplicity, from his own screenplay, strikes me, at least, as an unmitigated and premeditated disaster. I say premeditated because in a recent New Yorker profile of him by D. T. Max, Mr. Gilroy described his modus operandi in great detail, and I found it somewhat condescending to contemporary...

Beautiful Julia and Clive Make Sweet Lies Together

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:02:21 -0400

Duplicity
Running time 125 minutes
Written and directed by Tony Gilroy
Starring Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti

Duplicity is the latest computerized concoction churned out by Tony Gilroy’s DeskJet printer in the exact same mold as the writer-director’s overrated George Clooney vehicle, Michael Clayton—slick, super-contrived, pretty to look at and totally, completely preposterous. It also features a face or two that makes wasting your time...

Out of Sight! Clive and Julia Star in Heist Romp Duplicity

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:56:59 -0500

In theory, there are a number of things wrong with Duplicity, Tony Gilroy's follow-up to Michael Clayton. The title sucks; it sounds like that stupid Michael Keaton comedy Multiplicity. And what good movie gets released on March 20th? March is a studio dumping ground for films that aren't quite good enough to play in the big months of summer and fall, but aren't crappy enough to stick in January. Yet with all that baggage...

Bam! Pow! Society Superheroes Conquer The Big Swollen Ball

Tue, 06 May 2008 19:17:10 -0400

To the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Gala on Monday, May 5, themed “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy,” Gossip Girl star Blake Lively wore black gloves and a snug black Ralph Lauren gown involving feathers. She said that her favorite superhero was “Spider-Man. Cause he’s awesome! He gets to swing around, and, I don’t know....” Accompanied by her onscreen (and rumored offscreen) boyfriend, actor Penn Badgley, Ms. Lively had come straight from a...

Thornton, Wilkinson Join in Drug Drama

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:30:34 -0500

Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Wilkinson will tag team as evil CEOs of a pharmaceutical company in Duplicity, a drama written and to be directed by Tony Gilroy. Mr. Wilkinson received a supporting actor Oscar nomination for Michael Clayton, which Mr. Gilroy also wrote and directed. Mr. Thornton (who last starred in... Mr. Woodcock) and Mr. Wilkinson (the rich uncle who gets Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell in trouble in Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream)...

Koch Remembers Charlie Wilson

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:16:02 -0500

Ed Koch just sent out his review of Charlie Wilson’s War, the new film about the former congressman's influence on the course of the Cold War. Koch, who served in Congress with Wilson before being elected mayor, offers this anecdote that isn't in the film:

We were on a junket in Israel where he was inspecting the Israeli Navy. He became involved with a female Israeli Naval officer assigned...

Manhattan Weekend Box Office, Christmas Edition: Nichols Captures City's Minds, But Not Country's Hearts

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:55:15 -0500

This weekend, across the country, discerning film-going audiences were able to choose between two types of history: the real kind and the fake. Guess which one won?! National Treasure: Book of Secrets (no. 3), which follows the Indiana Jones-like Ben Gates as he tries to clear his family’s name in connection to the Lincoln assassination, raked in over $45 million and easily earned the top spot in the country. But here in the city,...

The Expert: Rules of Engagement for Paparazzi, Scientology

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:34:21 -0500

Last week, celebrity life coach Patrick Wanis, PhD, wanted to tell our readers his list of the Top Ten Celebrity Meltdowns of 2007.

Today, on the phone with the Daily Transom, he got a little more daring.

First up: recent news that Lindsay Lohan has started to use the paparazzi to her own advantage, setting up and pocketing proceeds from snaps of her own mug.

...

Keira Knightley Strips for Chat, Gets 'Carried Away'

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:12:00 -0500

Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt think stripping for the camera—any camera—is poor form. But Keira Knightley sure doesn’t seem to mind. For Interview’s December/January issue, the Atonement star says sayonara to her fashionable frippery. (Never mind that she looks like actress Famke Janssen’s evil, thigh-clamping character in GoldenEye on the cover; at least the poor thing doesn’t have Tom Ford chewing on her ear.) But, hey—that’s okay! Human beings are deeper,...

Julia Roberts Au Naturel? Au Contraire!

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:15:52 -0500

Julia Roberts is not a fan of showing her naked bod in front of the camera. But those who enjoyed getting a good, long look at the actress’ legs peeking out of a bubble bath in Pretty Woman (all “nude” scenes came compliments of a sultry body double) will want to see director Mike Nichol’s forthcoming Charlie Wilson’s War. In an interview with E!, Ms. Roberts makes her serious sentiments on...

The Week in DVR: Richard Dreyfuss' Opus; Happy 40th, Julia Roberts!

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:16:52 -0500

MONDAY

Monday’s future just got a little bit bleaker. Dancing With the Stars (ABC)—whose finale last Tuesday earned the network its best ratings on that night in over seven years—cha-cha-cha-ed out of our lives. CBS canceled their December 10th debates, as the Democratic nominees balked, fearing the bad publicity of a protest by striking news writers. (CBS is hurting: How I Met Your Mother is in...

Met's Costume Gala to Get Hollywood Treatment

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:53:18 -0500

It's a bird...It's a plane...It's Anna Wintour! “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy,” the name of a forthcoming exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, will also be the theme of the museum's annual Costume Institute gala, where guests are likely to encounter quite the spectacle, reports WWD. Nathan Crowley, who is probably best known for his set designs for movies like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Batman Begins and The Dark Night, has been hired as...

Julia Roberts Wants to 'Take Care of' Britney Spears

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:19:34 -0500

Julia Roberts, mother of three, is worried about the environment and Britney Spears, who she wants to put in her guesthouse and “just take care of.” Ms. Roberts, who will grace the cover of the December issue of Vanity Fair with a rose clamped between her megawatt chompers, tells the magazine:

“You can’t help but be aware, because now we are a home of five people. We make a lot...

The Spokes-Models

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:37:20 -0400

On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon, Vikki Eichmann was striding through the Union Square farmers’ market, one hand steering a sea-green, 1970’s Schwinn Breeze bicycle and the other tossing a curtain of silky brown hair over her bony shoulder. She was wearing a strapless plum-colored sundress and $400 Cole Haan knee-high boots. “They’re perfect because they’re sturdy and I don’t get scratches or bruises from the bike or anything,” Ms. Eichmann said, stopping to...

Sweet, Embraceable Venue?

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:51:00 -0400

LAURIE: I recently quit my job in deepest New Jersey and got a shiny new one, in whatever we call the neighborhood east of Shake Shack. Now, instead of commuting four hours a day round-trip, it's about 50 minutes total, and most of that is on foot. When people heard I was finally ridding myself of the soul-crushing commute, they'd said, "Great! Now you'll have much more time to plan your wedding!" And...

Accidentally Edwardian, A Melodrama Rambles On

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:00:00 -0400

The Lincoln Center production of Richard Greenberg’s The House in Town could have been staged more or less anywhere. It’s at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, but it—and we—might easily have been at the Manhattan Theatre Club or Mr. Greenberg’s last venue, the Roundabout on Broadway. Our leading not-for-profit theaters blur into each other in their culturally corporate way. The directors are as interchangeable as the playwrights. Today Doug Hughes, tomorrow Joe Mantello....

The Thing About Julia; A Bomb Explodes at Studio 54

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Here’s a few brief observations about Julia Roberts, now starring on Broadway in Richard Greenberg’s extremely slight 1997 Three Days of Rain.

What Antonin Artaud has described as a “strange sun”—a light of abnormal intensity that illuminates everything in the theater—can be cruel and merciless. Onstage, there’s nowhere to hide. The stage will always find you out. Three Days of Rain is not only Ms. Roberts’ Broadway debut. According to the...

The Thing About Julia; A Bomb Explodes at Studio 54

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Here’s a few brief observations about Julia Roberts, now starring on Broadway in Richard Greenberg’s extremely slight 1997 Three Days of Rain. What Antonin Artaud has described as a “strange sun”—a light of abnormal intensity that illuminates everything in the theater—can be cruel and merciless. Onstage, there’s nowhere to hide. The stage will always find you out. Three Days of Rain is not only Ms. Roberts’ Broadway debut. According to the Playbill, it’s...

A Dress Appears, As If In A Dream....

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:29:07 -0400

LAURIE: I made my once-yearly visit to Barneys the other day. Or rather, I made my once-yearly visit to the 8th floor, a.k.a. Barneys Co-Op, a.k.a the only floor on which I do not get the sense that they are calling security on me--me with my broken-zippered windbreaker and the slight, sweaty sheen I get from riding the subway, no matter what time of year. I know that some of the city's wealthiest people...

Beauties, Beasts, Biz

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:00:00 -0500

At the New York Film Critics Circle awards at Cipriani on Sunday night, an evening considered to be the official kickoff to full-on Oscar fever, the red carpet was decidedly low-key. Apparently, it was all about serious awards for serious actors. Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee and Capote’s Philip Seymour Hoffman gamely made their way through the throng of press, suffering questions such as, “Where’s the next hot shooting locale?”—Alberta, Canada, yes, really—and “Are...

Still Selling

Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:00:00 -0400

Julia Roberts' lower Fifth Avenue co-op has just landed back on the market. Earlier this summer, the actress Ellen Barkin reportedly signed a contract to buy Ms. Roberts' four-bedroom apartment, which had been asking $4.9 million. According to the New York Post , Ms. Barkin and her husband, the Revlon billionaire Ronald Perelman, agreed to purchase Ms. Roberts' 3,000-square-foot spread in July. The apartment, described in the Douglas Elliman listing as an "Edwardian palace,"...

The Finely Drawn Women Of Mona Lisa Smile

Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:00:00 -0500

The holiday countdown has begun. The potpourri of new movies lining up to assault your senses and your pocketbook from now until New Year's is like the good stuff–bad stuff you find every year crammed in your Christmas stocking: for every prayed-for diamond, a lot of nasty cashew nuts. I'm thankful for the rare treasures like Cold Mountain , House of Sand and Fog , The Girl with a Pearl Earring and Mona Lisa...

The New Ship of Fools

Sun, 04 Aug 2002 20:00:00 -0400

Hollywood is the new Ship of Fools, and with a boring, amateurish, incomprehensible and stupefyingly pretentious pile of swill called Full Frontal , the prosecution rests its case. This is the most deluded piece of crap since Mulholland Drive , only it seems twice as long and half as interesting. Before it crashed and burned, David Lynch's dementedly overrated Mulholland Drive at least held a morbid grip on the imagination. Steven Soderbergh's dementedly overrated...

The Eight Day Week

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

Wednesday 14th

War of awards: If you were too busy watching the Yankees pat each other's pinstriped rumps (somehow even more compelling in defeat) to watch the oft- canceled Emmy Awards , but you did click over for a second and caught a blur of "business-attired" host Ellen DeGeneres pretending to mistake Steve Martin for Leslie Nielsen , you probably thought Yep, and it was right back to the Yankees. Tonight the book-publishing industry throws its own...

Call Me Machiavelli for The Princess -Julia, Of Course: Herein Are the Rules by Which She Can Have a Happy Reign

Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:00:00 -0400

Celebrities have had a rough summer. Ben Affleck is in alcohol

treatment, and Mariah Carey has evidently suffered a nervous breakdown brought on by overwork, disappointing sales and the general pressure of celebrity. Julia Roberts went on David Letterman's show to complain about the severe terms of stardom. "You sell your soul to the devil," she said. The culture is demanding more and more from celebrities. The New York Public Library banners show Celebrity Caricatures . Us magazine has abandoned any...

Call Me Machiavelli for The Princess

Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:00:00 -0400

Celebrities have had a rough summer. Ben Affleck is in alcohol treatment, and Mariah Carey has evidently suffered a nervous breakdown brought on by overwork, disappointing sales and the general pressure of celebrity. Julia Roberts went on David Letterman’s show to complain about the severe terms of stardom. “You sell your soul to the devil,” she said. The culture is demanding more and more from celebrities. The New York Public Library banners show Celebrity...

The Joke's on Julia

Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:00:00 -0400

Is Julia Roberts in trouble? For every Erin Brockovich , she turns out five banal turkeys that only her fan club can sit through. How long can this go on? You do the math.

Her latest fiasco, America's Sweethearts , is a boring, brain-dead flop that takes a swing at temperamental movie stars and the nitwit journalists who stalk them at press junkets. Rampant with numbing clichés, it's another reminder that Hollywood does a few...

The Awful Truth About Hollywood and Us

Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:00:00 -0400

Contrarian that I am, I like Hollywood movies about Hollywood. I tend to give the genre the benefit of the doubt, despite the traditional box-office resistance to movies about movie people, because what else do filmmakers know as well? Besides, some of the best movies have taken this Pirandellian posture, most notably Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950), Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place (1950), William Wellman's A Star Is Born (1937), George Cukor's A...

Our Best Feature Forward?

Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:00:00 -0400

A scene everyone

remembers from pre-Code Hollywood is Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932), bathing in a barrel like Venus on the half-shell, her platinum hair and translucent skin posing an almost irresistible invitation to the rubber-plantation overseer played by Clark Gable. (And, speaking of Gable, an eyeful of his upper body-hairless and unbuffed-was and is no small attraction.) Back then, studio moguls and directors were not averse to a glimpse of female flesh on the screen. But even the...

Eight Day Week

Sun, 08 Apr 2001 20:00:00 -0400

Wednesday 4th

If you're a young Ivy Leaguer who was always the "class clown," maybe toiling now for Modernhumorist.com and looking for a job that actually pays money, crash Comedy Central's 10th Anniversary party tonight. Crash strategy : be male ; three days of face stubble ; ironic corduroy blazer . Whose rumps to smooch: the cable network's big talents, such as thinking Democratic woman's sex object Jon Stewart and thinking Republican woman's...

In Defense of Julia's Oscar Nod

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

Life these days is such a cacophony of self-interest groups,

screaming their points of view in a dialogue of the deaf, that it's balm for the soul when everybody shuts up for a minute and listens. The occasion for this pause in the day's ululation was a film series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music called Screening Through Prejudice . I had agreed to appear on a panel following a morning showing of John Ford's The Searchers , and...

John Ritter, Star of Stage, Screen and Nickelodeon

Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:00:00 -0500

John Ritter was getting frustrated. The Transom was pushing him, hard , to consider whether his part in Neil Simon's The Dinner Party –a bona fide Broadway hit–was calculated to legitimize his Three's Company -haunted career. But Mr. Ritter was not taking the bait. "I've never done a thing just because it was good for my career," he protested politely.

"No, it's not like that," Mr. Ritter continued, his voice increasingly clipped. "I don't...

The Roberts, Pitt Pairing: Was It Worth It?

Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:00:00 -0500

Gore Verbinski's The Mexican , from a screenplay by J.H. Wyman, wastes a great deal of acting talent trying to combine two ill-matched genres, the noisy sitcom psychobabble comedy and the even noisier caper movie, curiously endowed with road-rage car crashes without car chases. Still, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts were reportedly so anxious to work together, and so impressed by the script, that they practically imposed themselves on the producers, thus turning a...

Eight Day Week

Sun, 04 Mar 2001 19:00:00 -0500

But Sirio-sly, folks Are you one of those annoying, Palm Pilot poking New Yorkers who likes to insist loudly and frequently that you really just want to chuck it all, flee to the country (singing along to Tracy Chapman in your chubby S.U.V.) and become a simple, artisanal goat-cheese farmer? Put up or shut up at tonight's big benefit for the Career Through Culinary Arts Program honoring Le Cirque 2000's Sirio and Egidiana Maccioni....

An Entire Island Finds Mercy Waiting for a Guillotine

Sun, 04 Mar 2001 19:00:00 -0500

Petrice Leconte's The

Widow of Saint-Pierre , from a screenplay by Claude Faraldo, has been haunting my dreams as the most devastating assault on capital punishment I have ever seen enacted on the screen-but this is not ostensibly what the film is about, at least not entirely. For one thing, the detailed reconstruction of Saint-Pierre, in 1850 a relatively isolated French island community off the coast of Newfoundland, makes the story unfold with the leisurely inexorability of a great 19th-century novel....

Co-Stars Who Pass at the Border … Brendan Fraser Really Blows It

Sun, 04 Mar 2001 19:00:00 -0500

Co-Stars Who Pass at

the Border These are no longer the dog days, the silly days, the stop-time days of movies. These are the death days. January and February are already ready for a memorial service. Every movie that has opened in 2001 (with the exception of the brilliant The Pledge , with Jack Nicholson) has an expiration date. Now, as we enter the third month of a new season, there is no hope of relief in sight. Do we...

Big-Hair Julia! Welcome Back! … A Singer, A Songwriter

Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:00:00 -0500

Big-Hair Julia! Welcome Back! In Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts finally hits pay dirt. Most of her movies are about bra straps. This one is about a great deal more. Oh, there are still plenty of bra straps, and big hair, six-inch stiletto heels, a slut wardrobe that looks like it came right off the rack at a garage sale the day the hookers turned 42nd Street over to Disney, and teeth the size of...

To Be a Siamese or Not to Be?

Sun, 08 Aug 1999 20:00:00 -0400

Michael and Mark Polish's Twin Falls Idaho turns out to be a movie with a muddled text and a mesmerizing subtext. The title itself is something of a giggly misnomer insofar as it refers neither to the state of Idaho, nor to a locality known as Twin Falls. Actually, the locale is intentionally nowhere, and Idaho is simply the name of a street in this nowhere. Twin Falls denotes a pair

of adult Siamese...

The Reunion Is a Bust

Sun, 01 Aug 1999 20:00:00 -0400

Thomas Wolfe was right. You can't go home again. Praying for lightning to strike twice, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere and director Garry Marshall–the trio responsible for the 1990 phenomenon Pretty Woman –have re-teamed for another romantic comedy called Runaway Bride . Lightning? In your dreams. More like electrocution, maybe. But lightning, never.

This fatuous, unfocused bore is a good example of what happens when A-list names with nothing on their minds but dollar signs get...

The Phantom Menace Misfires; the Force Is With Julia

Sun, 23 May 1999 20:00:00 -0400

Roger Michell's Notting Hill , from a screenplay by Richard Curtis, turns out to be too wondrously charming and funny as romantic entertainment to be relegated to the role of a strategic adult counter-programming entry in the face of the anticipated child-cult box-office tornado of George Lucas' ludicrously overhyped Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace . The game of perceived reactions is just beginning, but it must be clear by now that my sympathies...

Gwyneth's $1.6 Million Pre-Oscar Town House

Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:00:00 -0400

Oscar-toting actress Gwyneth Paltrow, whose now-standard acceptance speeches are laden with weepy gratitude to her extended family, has never come across as particularly homesick. But, in fact, the Miramax princess officially set down roots of her own last August, when she quietly purchased a landmark, three-story town house in the West Village for $1.6 million.

Ms. Paltrow's purchase is probably the only thing about the actress' life that has gone unnoticed by the press since...

Why Ladies Have a Beef With Hollywood

Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:00:00 -0500

The often-heard argument that we can send a man into space but we can't cure the common cold had peculiar relevance for me recently. I'd been touting the miraculous powers of echinacea for three sniffle-free months while those around me dripped, snorted, coughed and took to their beds, but herbal pride goeth before a cold, and its disabling severity forced me to miss Wit , a Super Bowl party and the taste of everything...

Cher Contacts Sonny … Mad About Jews … Julia Roberts Goes Ape … Seinfeld Strikes Out … Hasselhoff's Baywatch Wedding … The CBS V

Sun, 24 May 1998 20:00:00 -0400

Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week

In 1959–when Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe were red-hot–one of the finest and most important American films was released, did well, won an award or two (like the New York Film Critics' selection of James Stewart as best actor) and then passed from the scene. But it should be required viewing for anyone who cares about such things as true quality in picture making, a...

Inside Julia Roberts' Lebensraum

Sun, 01 Feb 1998 19:00:00 -0500

HOW MANY APARTMENTS DOES JULIA ROBERTS WANT? A friend of Julia Roberts recently told a reporter that the former Mrs. Lyle Lovett "loves it" in New York: "She loves the subways and the gritty streets, and she loves that she has no maids or servants; she does her own laundry." The newly 30 pretty woman loves it so much that she seems to want to buy as much of it as possible: She is...