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Oh, Brother! Coppola Goes Back to the Family for Indie Treat

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:33:48 -0400

Tetro
Running time 127 minutes
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring 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 an existence drenched with family feelings and vague guilt complexes. These he has expanded and wildly...

Vincent Gallo's Band Has More Merch Than Music

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:14:00 -0400

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 may have been little loose with her quotes.)

Vincent Gallo is also the kind of who guy performs in art-house...

Gossip Roundup: Vincent Gallo and Terry Richardson Wish You an Annoying Thanksgiving; Nicole Richie's Turkey-Day Good Deed!

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:59:27 -0500

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 Upper East Side.

Gallerist Larry Gagosian and collector Adam Lindemann are involved in some crack-up over a Jeff Koons which we...

Scandal! Greed! Conniving! Gluttony! Gallo In $2.4 M. Flip. Plus: Gail Gregg Sells Studio; Soros Gets $5 M. in Village

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:00:00 -0500

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 loft in the glass-clad Richard Meier towers on the western reaches of Perry Street, Mr. Gallo just closed on...

Hip-hoprisy

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:00:00 -0400

Sean (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 he'd voted, Mr. Combs, wearing sunglasses and a dark sports jacket over a "Vote or Die" T-shirt, confessed that...

G.O.P. Gallo

Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:00:00 -0500

Vincent 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 jeans, military-cut overcoat and stubbled face, Mr. Gallo looked about as natural in the ballroom of the Women's National...

Sayonara Toronto! Thanks-I Think

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:00:00 -0400

Heading 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 endless array of Canadian bores, with Isabella Rossellini playing a Winnipeg baroness and double amputee (I couldn't make this...

Vincent Gallo's Bunny Trop

Sun, 08 Jun 2003 20:00:00 -0400

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 grilled octopus. "It's not a good thing to do," he said. "It's better to stay in your own delusion....

May Day for New Oligarchs

Sun, 11 May 2003 20:00:00 -0400

Beneath 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 crowd.

The baby-faced Mr. Murdoch nodded his goodbye, took the arm of his blonde trophy wife, Sarah, and...

The Inmates Move East: Reconceived U.A. Returns

Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:00:00 -0400

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 independent-film pioneer Bingham Ray at the helm.

Mr. Ray co-founded October Films in 1991, and his work there was...

What Wiatt Wants

Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:00:00 -0400

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 his case straight to the top: Sony Corporation of America chief executive Howard Stringer. Apparently, Mr. Wiatt even buttonholed...

A Word to Ellen: Watch It, Girl! Life With Perelman Is Film Noir

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

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, who has always kept his male-pattern bald head remarkably well-coifed, has gotten the billionaire's equivalent of a buzz cut....

Sleeping With the Enemy … Of Course, the Enemy Is Jennifer Lopez

Sun, 28 Jun 1998 20:00:00 -0400

Steven 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 doesn't sweat, and a brilliantly apt cast headed by out-of-favor George Clooney and rising star Jennifer Lopez as the...

For Downtown Director Vincent Gallo, Fame Is a License to 'Trash Everybody'

Sun, 15 Mar 1998 19:00:00 -0500

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. A brown silk scarf, tied rakishly around his neck, initially complemented the outfit, but Mr. Gallo had removed it...

Vincent Gallo Claims He's Surrounded by Serial Plagiarists, Including Sharon Stone … Matt Damon, Apartment Hunting?

Sun, 08 Feb 1998 19:00:00 -0500

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 her a "filthy slut cunt plagiarist." Mr. Gallo's anger and allegations stem from an interview that Ms. Stone conducted...