Near midnight, Pacific time, on March 23, actor Ryan O’Neal pulled Dr. Ruth Westheimer close to him at the Vanity Fair Oscar party and began to dance. Disheveled in an earth-toned suit, Mr. O’Neal hunched over the petite sex therapist as he swept around a small dance floor of his own making that was bordered Read More
Sean (Puffy) Combs was on the phone from a yacht in the Bahamas, and he was laughing.
“When Penny Marshall comes to my joints, she gets buck wild!” Mr. Combs said with admiration in his polite voice. “Every time she comes to one of my parties, she gets … ” he paused, then continued excitedly, Read More
Johnnie Cochran had finished his speech and returned to his seat next to the Haitian immigrant Abner Louima when the Rev. Al Sharpton began one of the call-and-response routines that he often uses to pump up a crowd. Earlier in the evening, he had trundled out a well-worn “No justice, no peace.” But this time, Read More
I’ve cringed a lot for Martin Scorsese over the last few weeks, but his March 3 appearance on The Tonight Show was particularly tough. Mr. Scorsese looked weary as he attempted to explain his epic movie to the eerily quiet California crowd. And Jay Leno’s vapid and patronizing interview only made things worse. “You feel Read More
New York Post columnist Steve Dunleavy stood at the perimeter of the commotion and smiled. Unclear is whether his pleasure came from the spectacle before him or the comment of the well-dressed man behind. “That’s how these small-town debutantes dress,” said the man to his date. “And Clinton likes it. He likes it.”
On the Read More
Just weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Friars Club warily proceeded with its planned roast of Hugh Hefner, which included a classic telling of ‘The Aristocrats’ joke. The result? As Frank DiGiacomo reported, the laughter humanized an inhuman time.
On Saturday, Sept. 29, Freddie Roman, the dean of New York’s Friars Read More
Just weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Friars Club warily proceeded with its planned roast of Hugh Hefner, which included a classic telling of ‘The Aristocrats’ joke. The result? As Frank DiGiacomo reported, the laughter humanized an inhuman time.
On Saturday, Sept. 29, Freddie Roman, the dean of New York’s Friars Read More
Hear Paul Bryan , Handcuff King (The BatsIsHappy Records). The songs on this debut CD work like recombinant DNA: After just a few spins, they’ll sound as if you’ve been playing the album for years instead of days. Mr. Bryan-a San Pedro, Calif. native who now lives in New York-is a bassist, singer and longtime Read More
For an actor whose best performances have come from playing vulnerable men-think Jerry Maguire , Magnolia ‘s Frank T.J. Mackey, the dick-swinging motivational speaker with father issues, or Vanilla Sky ‘s disfigured playboy, David Aames-Tom Cruise has consistently presented himself on the stage of public perception as a pretty impregnable guy. Whether he was flashing Read More
In one of the backstage hospitality rooms of the Theater at Madison Square Garden, Chris Rock sat on an ass-battered couch, arms folded tightly, and talked about the ambition in his “Black Ambition” tour.
“I want to have it so tight that it works in front of every audience: rich, poor, a strip club and Read More
