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Girl, Interrupted

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:02:40 -0500

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Running time 110 minutes
Written by Geoffrey Fletcher
Directed by Lee Daniels
Starring Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey

Raw, harrowing and undeniably unsettling, the controversial, much-anticipated Precious arrives on waves of film festival buzz this week. See it at your own risk, but be forewarned: It is not for the delicate of stomach or faint of heart. Nevertheless, it is so powerful a...

Morning Memo: Scarlett Johnansson Slights Bouncer; Chace Crawford Lives Like a Pig; Travis Barker and DJ AM Expected to Recover

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:12:53 -0400

Scarlett Johansson informed a photo-seeking bouncer at Lower East Side bar National Underground that she is "not the Statue of Liberty." [P6]

Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford brought a girl back to his apartment and she reported that the bathroom is covered in "crusty toothpaste and self-tanner." [Full Disclosure]

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM, both of whom were badly injured in a plane crash on Friday, are expected to make a full...

Morning Memo: Hamptonites Peeved at Gwyneth Paltrow; Mariah Carey Celebrates; Freemans Closing! (Not Permanently)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:53:06 -0400

Hamptons residents who paid up to $2,500 a plate to hang out with Gwyneth Paltrow at a benefit for the Amaryllis Farm Equine Rescue Organization at Steven Klein's Bridgehampton farm (read Daily Transom's account!) were upset when the actress refused to come out of the host's house for most of the evening. [NYDN]

Maybe she was just saving her energy? Ms. Paltrow later attended at party at Def Jam Chairman L.A. Reid's house celebrating...

Morning Memo: Agyness Deyn Engaged; Mariah Carey Celebrates Her Marriage; Gossip Girl Identity Theft

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:42:49 -0400

Model Agyness Deyn and Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. are engaged. [Us]

Woody Allen's new film Vicky Cristina Barcelona premiered Wednesday night at the Hotel Plaza Athenee on East 64th St.; stars Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall didn't show up. [WWD]

At the screening, Vicky Cristina Barcelona star Javier Bardem gloated over his sex scenes with Ms. Johansson, Ms. Hall and real-life girlfriend Penelope Cruz. [P6]

Mariah Carey is paying $125,000 to rent the Stone Meadow Farm...

Conde Nast Wants Employees to 'Rock' On Their Own Dime [Update]

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:21:29 -0400

In his profile of Condé Nast chairman Si Newhouse on Sunday, The Times' Richard Pérez-Peña noted:

Some extravagances have been curtailed, but no one in the business disputes that Condé still spends far more money than its competitors. Magazine publishers and editors in chief haul in $400,000 to $2 million in salary and bonuses, current and former executives say, and many executives have clothing allowances in the high five...

Morning Memo: Trump Gets Political; Tatum Sings

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:48:35 -0400

A Gossip Girl spin-off show set at an all girls boarding school and headlined by Taylor Momsen's character, Jenny Humphrey, possibly in the works. [Hollywood Reporter]

While speaking at a public hearing in Scotland to push his $2 billion golf resort, Donald Trump said, "We have a President in the United States who's terrible. He stinks." [NY Daily News]

Tatum O'Neal sang karaoke last night with Radar's Neel...

At Big Time 100 Bash, Rupert Murdoch Plays it Cool

Fri, 09 May 2008 07:08:48 -0400

Rupert Murdoch was standing in a deep corner of the Rose Hall at about 7:30 p.m. last night to toast his fellow influencers: It was the Time 100 celebration, an event that drums up publicity for the magazine's decreasingly influential list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

The day before, Mr. Murdoch had promised investors and reporters listening in on a News Corp. investors' call that he'd prevail in his purchase of...

Morning Memo: Mariah Got Married! And Tom Cruise Banished the Body-Thetans That Ruined His Last Oprah Interview

Fri, 02 May 2008 09:24:56 -0400

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have reportedly gotten married after dating for about a month. [NY Daily News]

Project Runway is not just moving to Lifetime, but also Los Angeles for its sixth season. [EW]

Tom Cruise finds redemption on Oprah by not mounting any couches. [US Weekly]

Madonna's show at Roseland Ballroom was followed by an after-party at The Box with Michael Stipe, Justin Timberlake, Donna Karan, Ingrid Sischy, and Alexander McQueen. [P6]

Demi Moore...

Dear David Plouffe: Please Make Obama More Like Mariah

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:18:05 -0400

On Monday, April 14, Mariah Carey—“incredibly well-funded, corporately polished,” according to the bitter pop music critic of the Chicago Sun-Times—was on Oprah, stumping for votes.

“Now Mariah didn’t get her new body just by eating artichokes,” said Oprah.

Cut to the video, Mariah at the pool in a black bodysuit.

“I’m a female and I like the arms to be slender and toned!” said Mariah....

The Week in Music: Mariah Carey, Phantom Planet, M83, the Plastic Constellations, American Princes

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:31:36 -0400

There’s no stopping Mariah Carey. Her single, “Touch My Body,” off her 11th studio album E=MC2, and its video have so many cringe-worthy moments—no one above the age of 18 should sing about youTube—that it's remarkable anyone can take this song seriously, let alone have it break the tie between her and Elvis for most chart-topping hits. (This is number 18 for Ms. Carey.) But Ms. Carey appears to have learned a couple of...

Madge and Mariah Switch Beds

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:42:18 -0500

On Friday night at the Ritz, that trumped-up gay bar up in Hells Kitchen, something entirely too ordinary happened once too often: Madonna’s “Get Together” came on.

That’s the one that goes: “Can we get together? / I really, I really want to be with you.” (OMG, LOL, she’s so like deep.)

The gays pretty much always freak when something from her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor gets played. It has...

Monday, November 5th

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:15:13 -0400

Somethin’ smells! Many of the 37,000 Marathon runners will pop a muscle relaxant and return to Tavern on the Green this morning to donate their stinky sneakers to Shoe4Africa, a nonprofit organization outfitting barefoot residents of Kibera, an African slum with sewage-strewn streets. It was founded by Toby Tanser, a professional runner living and training in Africa, in 1995, and has managed to nab a celebrity spokesman, our very favorite E.R. doctor, Anthony Edwards....

Back to the Future with Duran Duran, Mariah and the Backstreet Boys

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:29:16 -0400

Of course Britney Spears was going to be hard to watch and perversely compelling at her live, MTV-orchestrated comedown dance number a few weeks back. It’s just that the powers that be expected embarrassment of the left-field, unhinged, ketamine sort—think Ron Paul at a Republican debate. Instead, Brit bravely delivered Bill Richardson on Benadryl: “Sure, I’ll leave some equipment behind, just get us out now, or soon, I guess.”

But that’s the...

Inside Mariah Carey's Tribeca Home

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:59:45 -0400

Today, the new issue of InStyle Home hits newstands, and provides in depth coverage of Mariah Carey's triplex penthouse. Having over 12,000 square feet, the best-selling singer has filled the Tribeca spread with many possessions. Learn all about what it feels like to own Marilyn Monroe's chipped white baby grand piano, or have a Hello Kitty bathroom. "Lindsay Lohan, Sean Lennon and I had a jam session in there the other night,...

Keanu, Mariah and Frankie - Oh My!

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:59:08 -0500

Keanu Reeves' house. Photo via The New York Times (link below). Keanu Reeves' house looks like a mausoleum; Mariah Carey wears halter-tops to funerals. These things and more we learned, assuming the brokers aren't goosing the truth a bit, in tomorrow's Real Estate section of The New York Times. In a rather breezy, loping piece by Teri Karush Rogers (I know, we should talk), brokers serve up their usual self-serving tidbits of non-information about celebrities,...

20 Real New Year’s Eves

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:00:00 -0500

It seems that now, on New Year’s Eve, everything shifts east. New Jersey stumbles into Manhattan; Manhattan’s riffraff ends up in Brooklyn. (The Transom isn’t sure yet where Brooklyn goes. Hauppauge? Copiague? Nor does it really care.) But where do the real New Yorkers end up? Although a union spokesperson wouldn’t comment, Transit Workers Union Local 100 president Roger Toussaint was surely out riding the rails all night—and not in that I’m-going-skiing-on-Craigslist way, either....

Indie Bands Battle for Hype-Bloc Party, Stars, Oneida

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:00:00 -0500

Since, these days, even technophobes can get a sneak peek of new albums, release dates have become as irrelevant as the sticker price of a used car: a good place to start, but never set in stone. That said, the next three months appear to offer an eclectic melange of music, so get your peer-to-peer file-sharing queues ready.

No matter what the calendar says, spring begins with Beck. His last album, 2002's Sea Change, was...

Sandra, Queen of the Jungle

Sun, 17 Feb 2002 19:00:00 -0500

Her timing was exquisite, and the suspense was killing me. Sandra Bernhard, queen of irony and attitude, was heading to New York, a city that had of late been declared an irony-free zone by certain cultural commissars.

She'd been here on Sept. 11, racing to pick up her daughter from school when she heard the news, but she's a true bicoastal, dividing her time between a bungalow in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley and a place...

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...

Mariah Carey's Make-Your-Own, $9 Million, Penthouse Triplex

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

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No Central Park West co-op board is going to stand between Mariah Carey and a penthouse triplex. Weeks after being rejected by the board of the Ardsley, where she offered to buy Barbra Streisand's three-tiered penthouse for $8 million, Ms. Carey is throwing $9 million at a new condominium development at 90 Franklin Street, where she is fashioning a downtown version. According to several brokers, in late June the singer signed a contract...

Mariah Carey, Tommy Mottola Both Vie for C.P.W. Address

Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:00:00 -0400

Sony Music Entertainment's chief executive, Tommy Mottola, and pop diva Mariah Carey divorced last year, but they may be reunited on Central Park West, where Mr. Mottola has just purchased three condos for just under $8 million and Ms. Carey has signed an almost $9 million deal for the apartment of Barbra Streisand.

In February, Ms. Carey, who has been romantically linked in the press to everyone from Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter to rap guru...

Janet Jackson Gets Nasty On The Velvet Rope

Sun, 19 Oct 1997 20:00:00 -0400

It's been a good month for Malcolm McLaren. After almost a decade of stillborn projects, he suddenly owns pieces of the music publishing rights on two American No. 1 albums. Samples of songs with which he was at best tenuously involved give him composition credits on Mariah Carey's Butterfly and Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope (Virgin). Whisking the old rogue away from the brink of penury isn't the only thing the two records have...

She Is Mariah, Hear Her Soar: Carey Finally Sprouts Wings

Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:00:00 -0400

Oprah Winfrey launched the 12th season of her afternoon talk show recently, allaying fears that she might be retiring from the talk circuit with the announcement that she would be wielding a microphone at least until 1999; that way, she could use the medium to do good. Then she sat down and interrogated Mariah Carey about the bust-up of her marriage to Sony music boss Tommy Mottola.

Even though the singer was unresponsive, beyond declaring...