Michelle Williams | The New York Observer

Dog Days

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:44:54 -0500

Wendy and Lucy
Running time 80 minutes
Written by Kelly Reichardt and Jon Raymond
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
Starring Michelle Williams

Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy, from a screenplay by Ms. Reichardt and Jon Raymond, who worked together on Ms. Reichardt’s previous film, Old Joy (2006), is another exercise in minimalist cinema about ultra-ordinary people. Wendy (Michelle Williams), a young Indiana woman, embarks on a road trip to...

Fashion Roundup: Siriano's Shoes, Jacobs' Nudes, 'Polanski's' Greed

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:38:08 -0500

Project Runway contestant Christian Siriano has signed a deal with Payless to design a line of affordable shoes and handbags. [NY Post]

Designer Roberto Cavalli has been cleared of all tax evasion charges brought against him in Italy in 2002 when he attempted to write off taxes on renovations to his Tuscany home. [Vogue UK]

Louis Vuitton is re-releasing Marc Jacobs' collaboration with graffiti artist Stephen Sprouse for a new limited edition...

Hey, Katie! Michelle! Josh! Dawson Could Use Your Help

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:43:27 -0500

With the exception of the most important election of our lifetime, this has been the slowest news week ever. When the casting of Jack Black in an adaptation of Gulliver's Travels makes headlines, you know we're close to the bottom of the barrel. So! Why don't we use this as an opportunity to check in with the kids from Dawson's Creek? In case you haven't noticed, this has been a banner Fall for the...

Morning Memo: Robert De Niro's "Weird" Calls; OK! Mag to Lose Baby Photos?; Tommy Hilfiger Moves Back In

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:21:24 -0400

In an 11-year-old tape anonymously leaked to Page Six, Harvey Weinstein can be heard warning director Quentin Tarantino of potential "weird late night phone calls" from Robert De Niro, who was apparently angry about the salary he received for Tarantino's 1997 film Jackie Brown. [P6]

Actor Shia LaBeouf will not be charged for a July drunk driving incident due to insufficient evidence. [TMZ]

OK Magazine's Kent Brownridge may be putting a moratorium on the purchse...

Morning Memo: No New Baby for Madonna?; The Beatrice Inn's Neighbors Speak Out; Who Owns AshleyDupre.com?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:24:03 -0400

Madonna's head flack Liz Rosenberg is insisting that the singer has no plans to adopt a three-year-old girl from Malawi in the near future, as had been reported. [Us]

Sources say actress Michelle Williams is taking extra steps to avoid the paparazzi in her Brooklyn neighborhood, reportedly "having a bodygaurd go around her block and make sure there are no photographers" each time she leaves the house. [P6]

West Villagers--including Amy Sedaris--are opposing...

Morning Memo: Michelle Williams Hearts Spike Jonze; Sean Avery's Dating Up; Katie Holmes in NYC

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:08:48 -0400

Courtenay Semel (daughter of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel) and heiress Casey Johnson are no longer an item after Ms. Semel spent an evening partying with Tila Tequila, Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson. [P6]

Michelle Williams is reportedly officially dating her close friend director Spike Jonze, who was previously married to Sofia Coppola. [Daily Mail]

Vogue intern and New York Ranger Sean Avery, 28, is dating 51-year-old Kelly Klein, ex-wife of...

Morning Memo: Guiness Heiress in Fashion Scorcher; Toddler Time at Brasserie Cognac!

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:22:01 -0400

Brasserie Cognac's owner Vittorio Assaf is having to introduce a children's menu because neighborhood couples like Brooke Shields and husband Chris Henchy; Jeff Gordon and wife, Belgian model Ingrid; and designer Eric Villency and wife Kimberly Guilfoyle keep bringing in their toddlers. [P6]

Michelle Williams is reportedly making a film about Heath Ledger for daughter Matilda starring his friends and co-workers, who will share anecdotes of the late actor. [NY Daily News] ...

Morning Memo: Trouble With The Ledger Estate; Larry King's Wife's Secret Pain

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:06:46 -0400

Michelle Williams is reportedly feuding with Heath Ledger's family over the late actor's will. [P6]

Ron Perelman and his ex, Patricia Duff, are back in court because a court-appointed lawyer for their 13-year-old daughter says that the girl has been subjected to emotional abuse. [NY Daily News]

Ashley Dupre thanked her fans and critics on her MySpace page yesterday. [NY Daily News]

Helena Christensen will not...

Morning Memo: Meet Spitzer's Call Girl, Ashley Dupre! And, Michelle Williams Speaks Out About Heath Ledger

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:49:41 -0400

Even the gossipy bit—Who's That Girl?!?—that all of the tabs were after all day yesterday (us too, in fact) is broken first by The Times: Spitzer's prostitute "Kristen" is in fact known as Ashley Alexandra Dupré, though she was born 22 years ago as Ashley Youmans, in New Jersey. [The New York Times]

Anderson Cooper is shocked at the cost of hookers these days, but the King of All Pimps explains that Dupre was getting...

Morning Memo: Lindsay Lohan's New 'Partying' Method; 'Gay Gay' Clooney Pops the Question?

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:57:49 -0400

Did George Clooney pop the question? [Marie Claire UK]

All this while he avows that he is "gay, gay" (and not "gay, gay, gay"): "That third 'gay' was pushing it."[People]

Matt Damon's rep confirms he and his wife Luciana are expecting. [People]

Tina Brown finds Hillary Clinton "resolutely effective" and "inspringly pedestrian" but not "magically delicious." [Newsweek]

Lindsay Lohan and her little sister, Ali, "partied" at the penthouse of her new apartment building, the Atelier, Thursday night—if...

Medical Examiner: Heath Ledger Died of Accidental Overdose

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:45:26 -0500

This morning, the New York medical examiner’s office confirmed that Heath Ledger’s death was caused by an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

“Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine," Ellen Borakave, a spokesperson for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner said in a statement. Actress Michelle Williams, the late actor’s ex-fiancee, and their daughter, Matilda,...

Battle Rages Over Heath Ledger Drug Video

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:20:49 -0500

A video—in what is sure to be a long chain of posthumous "leaks" portending doom for Heath Ledger—has recently “surfaced.” The video, which allegedly shows “a guilt-ridden” Mr. Ledger at a party in L.A.’s Chateau Marmont on Jan. 29, 2006, will likely air tonight on Australia’s Channel 9, according to the Daily News. This broadcast plan from down under flies in the face of what the paper billed “an uproar from the Hollywood community.”...

Actor Heath Ledger, 28, Found Dead in Soho Apartment

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:00:43 -0500

Editors' Note: This article has been corrected from an earlier version which misidentified the Brooklyn neighborhood where Ledger lived with Michelle Williams. We regret the error.

The actor Heath Ledger was found dead on the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 22, in a bed in a fourth-floor apartment at 421 Broome Street.

Months before, Ledger had broken up with his fiancee, Michelle Williams, with whom he had had a two-year-old daughter and a townhouse in the Boerum...

Sotto Voce: Ambrose to Replace Williams on Wild Things

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:43:46 -0500

It's hasn't been a good couple of months for Michelle Williams. First, she breaks up with Heath Ledger. Now, Spike Jonze is kicking her off of Where the Wild Things Are for Lauren Ambrose, the redhead who recently received rave reviews for her turn as Juliet in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Romeo and Juliet.

Reuters reports:

Ambrose is replacing the previously cast Michelle Williams. According to a production source, the filmmakers...

The Expert: Josh Hartnett's Face (Emotional, Paternalistic) Proves He's Datable; Matthew Perry, Not So Much

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:17:49 -0500

We checked in today with celebrity life coach Patrick Wanis, Ph.D., in order to hear his expert opinions on what Hollywood people should be doing with themselves right now.

Again this week in the romance department, rumors and announcements surrounding novel couplings have proven their power to flabbergast outsiders. Last time we checked in with Mr. Wanis, he offered a bleak outlook on the prospect of Lance Armstrong and Ashley Olsen...

Michelle Williams Gets Mammoth Role

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:19:08 -0400

While Michelle Williams was busy planning to flee from her broken home in Brooklyn, she also nabbed a role in Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson's new movie, Mammoth.

Variety reports:

Williams, who was Oscar-nommed for "Brokeback Mountain," and Gael Garcia Bernal will play a New York couple facing a crisis.

The drama, Moodysson's first English-language film, starts shooting in Thailand on Nov. 5 before moving on to the Philippines, Sweden...

Dawson’s Crocs: Michelle Williams Waltzes Matilda As Tipsy, Sour Moms Yearn for Vanished Youth

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:18:33 -0400

On the hot, sunny afternoon of Sunday, July 22, an enormous throng of young families was streaming toward the Prospect Park Bandshell to enjoy the free musical stylings of former Del Fuegos singer-turned-kiddie rocker Dan Zanes.

In a tented V.I.P. area, disaffected mommies, sipping Chardonnay as their sticky-faced toddlers twirled enthusiastically to the beat, perked up considerably at the somewhat tardy arrival of Cobble Hill celebrity Michelle Williams (Dawson’s...

The New Victorians

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:29:02 -0400

On a balmy morning in June, Rebecca Miller, a petite 26-year-old actress and Brown University graduate, was perched on a wooden bench in the East Village, just a block from the apartment she shares with her fiancé, a theater director, and two cats. By the looks of her outfit, she was firmly grounded in the 21st century, just another hip lass with loose curls, a scoop-necked top and denim skirt with naughty front slits....

Park Slope Celebrity Tour!

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:00:00 -0400

In a world where young actors establish their highbrow bona fides by working with New York directors and live on New York stages, one young, expectant couple has the boldness to make its home an F-train ride away from the footlights and photographers. Following in the footsteps of the young Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams into a Park Slope brownstone near you, actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and fiancé Peter Sarsgaard have just signed a contract...

Boerum Hill: The Heath Ledger Era

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:16:20 -0400

It was less than a year ago that Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams bought a $3.6 million townhouse in Boerum Hill, instantly becoming the neighborhood's "it" couple. And now, they've taken refuge in the Hollywood Hills. Sadly, there will be no more subway sightings (They're Just Like Us!), or anti-Ratner rants. Remember when these two movie stars joined forces with other movies stars (and some literary types), in an effort to lobby...

Projectile Runway

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:00:00 -0500

These past five days in Bryant Park, the anyone-can-be-a-celebrity theory embraced and air-kissed—with tongue!—its own cousin, the anyone-can-be-a-clothing-designer theory.

The errant lovers weren’t even paying attention during the lip-lock anyway. They were too busy keeping their chins down and their eyes wide for the strobe-like love of camera crews. Ahoy, it’s Olympus Fashion Week, attack of the fall ’06 collections—and the Heathers who love to be loved in the vicinity of wildly...

Projectile Runway

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:00:00 -0500

These past five days in Bryant Park, the anyone-can-be-a-celebrity theory embraced and air-kissed—with tongue!—its own cousin, the anyone-can-be-a-clothing-designer theory. The errant lovers weren’t even paying attention during the lip-lock anyway. They were too busy keeping their chins down and their eyes wide for the strobe-like love of camera crews. Ahoy, it’s Olympus Fashion Week, attack of the fall ’06 collections—and the Heathers who love to be loved in the vicinity of wildly expensive, never-to-be-worn...

The Cockpit: Dude! A Western! Finally!

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:19:00 -0400

In honor of Salon's new women's blog, The Broadsheet, The Transom is pleased to present excerpts from the New York Observer's men-only blog, The Cockpit. You Know What's Awesome? Cowboy movies! Dude, why don't they make cowboy movies hardly anymore? John Wayne is like really old or something, I guess. Or dead? But back in the day, man, half of the movies were like romance, and the other half were all westerns! What happened to America?...