After a surprising collapse during an award ceremony last night at the Sundance film festival, Tracy Morgan's health issues appeared far from over. Lewis Kay, Morgan's publicist, was quick to rule out drugs and alcohol maintains upon his release this morning that "exhaustion and altitude" were to blame. Read More
Walking down the main drag in Park City, The Observer remembered one thing: This place is tiny. We’re talking NoLita tiny. Nestled between Park City and Deer Valley Ski Resorts, the diminutive town transforms itself once a year, at the crack of Robert Redford’s whip, into the epicenter of the Sundance Film Festival. It’s 10:30 p.m. on the first night (sort of), and this frigid hamlet is slammed.
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Spencer Morgan has arrived in Park City, Utah. Look out, hot tubs of Sundance! Our trusty Transom reporter took the glam low-rent flight, of course, with a lay-over in Las Vegas. Some seriously lame situation at JFK caused him to miss his connecting flight. Naturally, he made the most of his six hours in Vegas, Read More
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At the Salt Lake City airport Thursday, before the Sundance Film Festival officially begins, cordial, uninformed airport attendants misdirect film tourists. An apple-cheeked aspiring producer offers to share a car to Park City. “I’m here to network!” How do you network? “Oh, I was here last year, and I just met these girls, on the Read More
On the crowded streets of Park City, Utah, it’s difficult to leave the screening of a small movie like Friends With Money, directed by indie cult figure Nicole Holofcener, in a big limousine. The movie’s star, Jennifer Aniston, spent the weekend in the company of her favorite accessory, her gay hairdresser, Chris McMillan; for press Read More
On the crowded streets of Park City, Utah, it’s difficult to leave the screening of a small movie like Friends With Money, directed by indie cult figure Nicole Holofcener, in a big limousine.
The movie’s star, Jennifer Aniston, spent the weekend in the company of her favorite accessory, her gay hairdresser, Chris McMillan; for press Read MoreBattery Park City is nice, but Williamsburg is ... Schaefer! Michael Calderone takes a look at Schaefer Landing, 55 Berry Street, and all the other new developments that are transforming the Brooklyn waterfront into Battery Park City. Second item: He reveals the identity of the man who spent $32 million to buy Gianni Versace's Read More
Reuters is reporting that a vote to give a massive package of Liberty Bond incentives to Goldman Sachs to build a tower next to Ground Zero will be postponed until at least early September, but public officials pooh-poohed the notion that the negotiations for the bonds were in any jeopardy. The low-interest bonds are Read More
The deal for Goldman Sachs to remain in Lower Manhattan is imminent, according to sources close to the negotiations. While it's been treated as a done deal, the terms of that deal are still a matter of negotiation, and we're waiting to see what comes out of it. Plus, done deals have gone south Read More
When Sundance Film Festival programming director Geoff
Gilmore stood before a sold-out crowd at the 1,300-seat Eccles Theater in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 20 and introduced Tom DiCillo as "one of the best living American independent directors," Mr. DiCillo did what might not be expected of a New York filmmaker, especially one who had accepted Read More