White Russians were flowing by the pre-made bottle at last night's Lebowski Fest at the Hammerstein Ballroom on 34th Street. "I'm not sure why we are even offering a full bar," the bartender told The Observer. As we took our creamy libations from her, an unshaven man donning a bathrobe, jellies and sunglasses pushed by Read More
The riots in London seem finally to have subsided, but strange things are afoot stateside this week, so much so that we’re starting to wonder if Mercury, which went retrograde Aug. 3, is currently doing to the entire planet what it once did so publicly to Jeremy Piven. (Also, when does the statute of limitations Read More
It begins with a close-up of a ticking old-timey pocket watch, the shot widening to reveal a man on a boat bobbing on night-darkened waters. There's a heap of atmospheric silver-blue haze. A foghorn sounds in the distance. Moments later, we see the shining lights in the distance that we're told is Atlantic City, 1920. Read More
Since actor Steve Buscemi had come all the way to City Hall to endorse Bill de Blasio for public advocate, I figured I’d ask him who he was supporting for mayor.
“I was not happy that the mayor wanted to run for a third term. So, I do like Thompson a lot. And Read More
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 Read More
Would "Crazy Joe" Gallo look good in fleece?
The Daily Transom couldn't help but wonder on Monday night, June 1, during a reading of author Tom Folsom's new book about the legendary gangster, titled The Mad Ones, inside the new J. Crew Men’s Shop in Soho.
What, was Spark's Steak House all booked Read More
It's official: Martin Scorsese doesn't want anyone else directing movies in Hollywood. Production Weekly is reporting (via /Film) that the Oscar winner is set to helm the poorly titled Falcon's Tale. The film would focus a criminal who gets busted for drugs and then cuts a deal with the government to go inside a Read More
Stage vets and native New Yorkers Steve Buscemi, and Stanley Tucci are starting a film, TV and commercial production outfit. The Observer's Andrew Sarris included Mr. Buscemi's Interview in his favorite films of the year list and considers him "something of a movie legend for his almost total lack of narcissism." The Read More
Steve Buscemi’s Interview, from a screenplay by David Shechter and Mr. Buscemi, is a remake of the late Dutch director Theodor van Gogh’s film, from a screenplay by Theo Holman. Theo van Gogh was murdered by an Read More
Everybody's Happy in the Garden of Eden The Brooklyn Papers publishes this photo of two fans of Atlantic Yards, state economic chief Charles Gargano and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, standing near one of the proposed development's celebrity foes, actor Steve Buscemi. The occasion was last week's unveiling of their "leaves" (well, for Gargano Read More
"This is like the New York Oscars, except without any of the annoying prestige," said Michael Ian Black, the VH1 I Love the 80's fetish object, who had been hired to host the 13th annual IFP/Gotham Awards on Monday, Sept. 22, at Chelsea Piers' Pier Sixty.
Mr. Black may have been scathingly accurate in his assertion Read MoreIn a preface to The Raven and Other Poems (1845), Edgar Allan Poe boasted of the purity of his artistic ambitions: "With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not-they cannot at will be excited with an eye to the paltry compensations, Read More
