It's winding down, celebs are fleeing, the open bars are starting to dry up, and The Observer's 4 day long hangover is starting to catch up with us—enough of the sob story, we're going back in for more. Read More
The loopy indulgences of deluded Danish nut Lars von Trier, who recently declared himself a bona fide Nazi in publicity-grabbing world headlines, are no longer called films, they’re considered provocations—shunned by discerning audiences worldwide and embraced by only a small gaggle of clucking, pretentious critics and film festival filmgoers. Melancholia is his latest pile of undiluted drivel, nauseatingly filmed by a wonky hand-held camera and featuring a crazy, mismatched ensemble headed by Kirsten Dunst, who won an acting award in Cannes last year for looking totally catatonic. Read More
"Oh, well, you know, Lars," Kirsten Dunst was saying to The Observer last night, at a party for Bulgari in Soho. "He kind of does his own thing. He doesn't come to the States, he doesn't --" Crash! An errant arm had laid into the row of rosé glasses beside Ms. Dunst, interrupting our conversation Read More
Last night's Cinema Society- and Altoids-sponsored Our Idiot Brother screening, Precious star Gabourey Sidibe was raving about the film's star, Paul Rudd. "I love Clueless!" she told us. (A photographer, shortly after, announced that Mr. Rudd's Clueless co-star Alicia Silverstone was in the building.) She particularly loved Mr. Rudd's role in The Ten. We Read More
Last night, the New York premiere of Our Idiot Brother was held at 1 MiMa, the Midtown apartment complex. Stars were treated to an outdoor screening, followed by an after party in the building. Guests included Gabourey Sidibe, Terry Richardson, Audrey Gelman, Courtney Love, Richard Belzer, Helen Lee Schifter, Alex and Keytt Lundqvist and Judah Friedlander. Read More
"Sofia, Sofia!" the cameramen cried at the entrance of Lincoln Center, the venue for Monday's CFDA awards. Ms. Coppola had just arrived. "Kirsten!" they yelled. "Marc!" they yelled. "Sofia! Sofia! Sofia!" they yelled. Then Mr. Jacobs and Ms. Dunst went with Ms. Coppola to the left, to have their picture taken, and Thomas Mars--the lead Read More
The Cannes Film Festival is over for another year, with Terrence Malick's Tree of Life winning the top prize, the Palme d'Or. (The film opens on our shores May 27; full list of Festival winners is here.) But the big story for a certain demographic of filmgoers may be Kirsten Dunst's Best Actress win Read More
The Momofuku Milk Bar Lemon Tree Hugger cookie was one shade blonder than Anna Wintour's convex bob. A gradient difference that was exaggerated when Ms. Wintour lifted a torn off edge of the cookie to her bob-parallel lips. The individually wrapped cookies delineated each assigned seat at the Band of Outsiders runway show on Saturday Read More
Based on one of the most publicized and speculative missing-persons cases in the annals of New York's unsolved murder files, All Good Things is a fascinating, well-documented combination love story-murder mystery that will leave you guessing, much like the real-life case itself, 28 years after the fact. Sharply directed by Andrew Jarecki and starring Ryan Read More
Actress Kirsten Dunst returned to a Manhattan court room today to testify in the trial of a man who allegedly burglarized her Soho Grand hotel room (a brown Balenciaga bag went missing) in August 2007 while she was here filming How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. According to City Room, Ms. Dunst Read More
It’s that time of year again when we get to marvel at the many things worn at Anna Wintour’s party the Costume Institute gala at the Met. This year's theme, "The American Woman," was perhaps a little bit easier for sartorially challenged celebrities to understand and therefore please their red carpet audiences.
After all, the themes Read More
Last night was the Met's annual Costume Institute Gala, and this year's theme was "The American Woman." This meant Oprah, who cohosted, plus lots of designer collaborations with the Gap, whose Patrick Robinson was the evening's third cohost.
Further reflections on Americana: The American Woman is polite--according to Cathy Horyn, most guests "did their Read More
On Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will once again swell with celebrities, socialites and fashion editors for the annual Costume Institute Gala to kick off the this year's exhibit titled "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity." But since this year Gap is the official sponsor and Gap creative director Patrick Robinson is honorary co-chair Read More
The Beatrice Inn has never been easy to penetrate. And so BlackBook decided to check in with two anonymous twenty-something Beatrice Inn patrons about the perpetually impossible door policy.
When asked about possible strategies for getting in, the male Beatrice Inn-goer confidently declared that being Kirsten Dunst is one way to ensure entry. Read More
"The first thing is, we don't all live here," director Andrew Jarecki explained while introducing a short talk by his brother Eugene to the small crowd gathered in his mother Gloria's Upper East Side apartment on Wednesday night. The celebration was in honor of Eugene's recently released The American Way of War, a book about Read More
