For those whose favorite holiday movie is Eyes Wide Shut (hey, it all goes down right around Christmastime), the Bootstrap Project, a nonprofit promoting the sustainable trade of artisanal crafts, has just the event for you; tonight’s its Holiday Masquerade, a cocktail party where masks (the more elaborate the better) are de rigueur … Meanwhile, Read More
They just don’t make them like George Lois anymore. As we’re perpetually reminded when looking at the dreariness of the contemporary newsstand, the Esquire art director who gave us some of the most instantly recognizable covers of the modern magazine era is simply not replaceable. But he didn’t arrive on the scene fully formed, as Read More
Perhaps this would have been a more critic-proof option for maligned literary novelist J.K. Rowling: Suzanne Collins, the author of the Hunger Games trilogy, is to follow up her widely read young adult books with an “autobiographical picture book.” Read More
NBC, finally emerging from its Jeff Zucker hangover (don’t worry, Mr. Zucker’s doing fine) with a booming fall season, has signed a first-look deal with comedian/TV host/radio personality/actor/Observer profile subject Nick Cannon. Read More
After an unlikely return to stardom in the past two years (preceded by a few years of not working much), Charlize Theron’s found her next sinister role. Read More
Host a screening of an ’80s Scandinavian tearjerker in Brooklyn? Sure, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences isn’t doing anything else right now. As the Oscar-awarding body waits for ballots to be sent in, it’s drumming up enthusiasm with a screening of 1988’s winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Pelle the Conqueror, at Read More
That’s a lot of car stereos blasting sad ballads: according to a press release from Columbia Records, Adele’s album 21, buoyed by hits including “Someone Like You” and “Rolling in the Deep,” has been certified diamond by the recording industry, meaning that it’s sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S. Read More
Deadline uses trade-publication-ese to report that Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett is “in deep talks” about a live-action Disney film about Cinderella. Read More
If there’s one cultural experience that people enjoy far more during the holidays than they do the rest of the year, it’s the ballet—any number of kiddos citywide think that ballerinas play no roles other than little Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy. Though its timing is perfectly in sync with our sentimental yearning for Read More
The NBC drama Smash, returning for its second season early next year, offered a backstage look at a fictional Broadway production. Much of the show’s dramatic tension involved the musical’s writers’ effort to tell an honest story in the face of intense market pressure. Read More
