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The Week in DVR: Is That Matthew Perry on The Bachelorette? Plus, Julie Christie at Her Finest and Charlie Sheen as a High School Dreamboat

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:34:31 -0400

Monday: The Bachelorette

We justify watching this show by pretending to be engaged in a sociological experiment: Why is it just so much more weird and squirmy when it’s the woman who has to choose from a bunch of dudes as opposed to some blockhead picking among a gaggle of silicone? We haven’t figured it out yet, but tonight should be interesting as bachelorette Jillian Harris takes her final three men to Hawaii—...

Living in Oblivion

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:26:17 -0400

The Informers
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki
Directed by Gregor Jordan
Starring Jon Foster, Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder

A rancid load of swill called The Informers, from a depraved 1994 book by Bret Easton Ellis, is, like The Soloist, a look at the underbelly of L.A., but the resemblance ends there. This indolent trash wallow finds nothing of any redeemable...

Fashion Roundup: Anna Wintour Gets an Order; Black Friday Alternatives; Roberto Cavalli Cleared

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:44:20 -0500

Anna Wintour was awarded an Order of the British Empire for "services to British journalism and fashion in America." [Vogue UK]

Racked has a list of online sales, for those who prefer to kick off their holdiday shopping at home. [Racked]

Winona Ryder claims to have "lost" $125,000 worth of borrowed Bulgari jewelry. [Vogue UK]

After years of legal wrangling, Roberto Cavalli has been fully cleared of the tax evasion charges brought against him by...

Mayhem at Marc Jacobs! J. Lo, Jay-Z Take It In Stride

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:55:10 -0400

At 8:30 p.m. on Monday, September 8, the bi-annual paparazzi bloodbath had already started outside the Marc Jacobs show. Gawkers and cameramen lined Lexington Avenue, which was clogged with town cars, while security guards admitted guests to the Lexington Avenue Armory, a sign that the designer intended to start on time-at 9 p.m. (who could forget the show a year ago, when attendees appearing at the appointed hour were told to "get a drink...

Still-Hot Winona Plays Death Nell in Sex and Death 101

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:11:14 -0400

SEX AND DEATH 101
Running Time 116 minutes
Written and Directed by Daniel Waters
Starring Simon Baker and Winona Ryder

With a stinker called Sex and Death 101, you tremble going in. Not from the title. I mean, this jejune junk was written and directed by the same Daniel Waters who went down in Hollywood slag-pit history as the man who wrote the disastrous Hudson Hawk (not to mention the...

Why, Winona?

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:03:39 -0400

SEX AND DEATH 101
Running time 100 minutes
Written and Directed by Daniel Waters
Starring Winona Ryder and Simon Baker

Daniel Waters’ Sex and Death 101, from his own screenplay, reunites the screenwriter of Michael Lehmann’s Heathers (1989) with its then-teenage star, Winona Ryder. Now, almost 20 years later for Mr. Waters and Ms. Ryder, they try their best to make plausible a supernatural sex farce in which...

Penn, Moore, Ryder to Star in Pippa Lee

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:44:39 -0400

Robin Wright Penn, who has played a Princess Bride and Forrest Gump's best friend, will play a meth addict in the film adaptation of Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Wright Penn will play Pippa Lee, with Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder co-starring.

Adapted from Miller's novel, the film takes an adventurous trip through Pippa Lee's past and present, as a methamphetamine-addicted...

Sweet Fancy Moses! Wet Hot American Summer Director Thumps Bible

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:09:49 -0400

“We just thought the Ten Commandments were a great thing to hang a bunch of stories on,” said David Wain of the new feature film The Ten, which he directed and co-wrote. Hey, that’s what Cecil B. DeMille said!

Mr. Wain’s version, a comedy, consists of 10 stories, each loosely corresponding to a Biblical commandment. It was filmed mostly in the five boroughs, with an ensemble cast so large...

The Transom

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Radical Chiclets

“It’s the time to do something right here and right now,” said the artist Robert Wilson. He was outside the Guggenheim sharing a cigarette with his friend, Winona Ryder, and talking about cracking the art scene wide open, again. “His name should become an adjective, you know, like: That’s really Wilson,” said Ms. Ryder. Everyone was at the museum last week to help celebrate Robert Wilson’s 65th birthday, as well as the...

The Transom

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Radical Chiclets “It’s the time to do something right here and right now,” said the artist Robert Wilson. He was outside the Guggenheim sharing a cigarette with his friend, Winona Ryder, and talking about cracking the art scene wide open, again. “His name should become an adjective, you know, like: That’s really Wilson,” said Ms. Ryder. Everyone was at the museum last week to help celebrate Robert Wilson’s 65th birthday, as well as the...

The Transom

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:00:00 -0500

The Transom

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Winona Scissorhands' Odd Juror

Sun, 03 Nov 2002 19:00:00 -0500

On the second day of the Winona Ryder shoplifting trial, Peter Guber took his seat in the back row of the jury box in the Beverly Hills courthouse dressed down in a black fleece vest, shirt and jeans. With his fellow jurors, who include a teacher, an aerospace engineer, a gynecologist and a UCLA graduate student, he spent the morning considering evidence presented by Deputy District Attorney Ann Rundle.

Seated next to her attorney, Mark...

Dinner at Martha's? Talk about L.A.! Here's How

Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:00:00 -0400

Your diarist is filing this dispatch from Los Angeles, where I've started to worry that I have officially overstayed my tourist visa. My fear isn't that I've gone native: So far, I've still managed to resist the primordial L.A. urges to surf, get the car detailed and abuse screenwriters. But what concerns me is that I've spent so much time out here lately that I may actually be starting to understand the city itself.

So...

Deep Sh*t

Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:00:00 -0400

With the revelation days earlier that there wasn't even a cat in the bag in the first place, The Week magazine's much-touted "Deep Throat Revealed" panel discussion turned out to be the nonevent that many skeptics predicted it would be.

John Dean, the former counsel to President Richard Nixon whose recently published e-book, Unmasking Deep Throat , built up a case suggesting that former White House attorney John Rose was the famed informant-and who then...

Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire According to Courtney Love

Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:00:00 -0400

To Rome, With Love

Courtney Love grinned and tugged on her chewed-up bangs as she lurched down the red carpet that led into Hugo Boss' Fifth Avenue flagship store on June 18. A pair of nervous German reporters, a man and a woman, called out to her from behind the roped-off press area, and Ms. Love–gangly and graceful in a sheer Richard Tyler haute-couture gown with black-lace overlay–leaned in uncomfortably close. She patted the woman...