TetroRunning time 127 minutesWritten and directed by Francis Ford CoppolaStarring Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú, Aiden Ehrenrich
Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, from his own screenplay (partially in Spanish with English subtitles), conveys a sense of his own life and career convulsing wildly between fulfillment and tragedy, triumph and debacle. Now 70, Mr. Coppola can look back on Read More
Vincent Gallo is the kind of guy who calls people “fucking cunts.” At least, that’s how he referred to Gawker reporter Molly Friedman after she posted a controversial item last Friday claiming Gallo had called Palin daughters Bristol (17) and Willow (14) “hot” during an Andres Serrano after-party. (Daily Intel later proved Friedman Read More
Yawn. What? Right. Here's the gossip round-up for Nov. 23, 2008, Thanksgiving Friday and possibly the slowest news day ever.
An eight-months-pregnant Nicole Richie and her friend, the society disc jockeyess Samantha Ronson, volunteered at a Hollywood soup kitchen yesterday.
Jennifer Aniston recently attended her 20th high school reunion at Rudolf Steiner on the Read More
Brown Bunny auteur and downtown fixture Vincent Gallo may take risks with film critics (Roger Ebert lambasted the movie as "The worst film in the history of the [Cannes] festival"; Mr. Gallo retorted with unkind remarks about morbid obesity), but he certainly counts his chips in the high-stakes Manhattan real-estate poker game.
After already swapping a Read MoreSean (P. Diddy) Combs is not known for being at a loss for words.
But the hip-hop impresario was speechless for several seconds when The Transom asked him about his own voting record at a press conference on Tuesday morning to introduce Citizen Change, the voter-registration task force that he founded. Asked about the last time Read MoreVincent Gallo, actor, director and conservative, sounded like he'd just won something.
"I want to thank you guys for inviting me here today. It's a big honor," he told the crowd of pearl- and pinstripe-wearing Young Republicans who had gathered to hear him speak at their monthly meeting on Jan. 15. With his shaggy hair, blue Read MoreHeading into last week's homestretch at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival, I began to realize, somewhere between The Best of Youth , a six-hour challenge about an embattled Italian family told against the unraveling social and political events of the last 40 years, and The Saddest Music in the World , one of an Read More
Vincent Gallo posed a question. "Would you want to go see your movie with 3,500 people?" the shaggy-haired, fierce-eyed filmmaker asked, his sinewy voice piercing the Art Deco stillness of Petrossian. "Just think about it. Would you want to go see your movie with 3,500 opinions?"
Mr. Gallo clanked his fork against his untouched plate of Read MoreBeneath the striking W.P.A. murals of the New York State Supreme Courthouse, real-estate scion Billy Rudin reached across the dinner table on May 1 to shake the hand of News Corp. heir Lachlan Murdoch. "If I can help you …" Mr. Rudin said, and let his offer hang unfinished in the dull roar of the Read More
After June's ugly shuttering of the Shooting Gallery, the outlook for New York's film community got considerably brighter on Aug. 2 with the announcement that United Artists, the film company founded in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith and William S. Hart, would be returning to its New York birthplace with Read More
William Morris co-president Jim Wiatt has been at the talent agency for barely two years, but already he seems to know what he wants to do next. Film-industry sources familiar with the situation said that Mr. Wiatt has been making a strong push for Sony Pictures Entertainment chief John Calley's job, and he's been taking Read More
If there was any question that things had gotten serious between billionaire Ronald Perelman and the actress Ellen Barkin, the answer lies in the hairstyle that Mr. Perelman has been showing off, along with his date, at a series of public events in the city, including the 40th anniversary of the Four Seasons restaurant.
Mr. Perelman, Read MoreSteven Soderbergh's Out of Sight , from a screenplay by Scott Frank, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard, crackles and snaps on the screen as the kind of exhilarating entertainment that makes it all look easy. All you need is a good script from a good novel, with sharp, pungent dialogue, creative direction that Read More
Vincent Gallo stared furiously at his menu in the Art Deco stillness of Petrossian. "We are having a fancy moment here," he said. "This is as fancy as it gets." Mr. Gallo was looking pretty fancy himself, in a form-gripping custom-made brown leather suit. A gray T-shirt peeked out from under the partially unzipped coat. Read More
Gallo, Pissed
Actor-director Vincent Gallo says he's certain that Sharon Stone won't remember the time they met, several years ago, at Chasen's restaurant in Los Angeles because, he said, she was preoccupied, "staring at herself." Ms. Stone may soon have a difficult time forgetting Mr. Gallo, however, now that the outspoken New Yorker has branded Read More
