“This is like the New York Oscars, except without any of the annoying prestige,” said Michael Ian Black, the VH1 I Love the 80′s fetish object, who had been hired to host the 13th annual IFP/Gotham Awards on Monday, Sept. 22, at Chelsea Piers’ Pier Sixty.
Mr. Black may have been scathingly accurate in his Read More
The actor Hayden Christensen, speaking by phone from the Australian set of the final Star Wars prequel, was comparing his two most recent roles.
“They have different kinds of ambition,” said Mr. Christensen about Anakin Skywalker (who about now should be one rattling voicebox away from turning into Darth Vader), and Stephen Glass, the disgraced Read More
Allison Jacobs sat dreamily poking at a fat piece of chocolate cake at the Greenwich Village restaurant Westville.
“I just want every little girl to know that the Upper East Side has magic. The park, it’s magical, right?” she said. “The brownstones, the embassies, the architecture, those buildings on the park?”
Ms. Jacobs was Read More
“Every once in a while, there is a change in Hollywood where people turn back to making movies with great stories, great actors, great creative teams, and that’s when you come to New York,” said John Lyons, the independent producer ( Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me , Pieces of April ) turned brand-spanking-new Read More
Last September, New York’s film industry gathered for the IFP Gotham Awards at Chelsea Piers. Before director Ang Lee accepted his Lifetime Achievement Award, a reel of his clips ran, concluding with a preview-the brief eyeball-bulging bit of celluloid now familiar to anyone with a television-of Mr. Lee’s upcoming movie, The Hulk . It was Read More
On the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, Calif., there sits an empty throne, and Hollywood’s ousted tyrants and lauded directors are casting their eyes east and west, wondering why the film industry is short a king.
In July 2000, the Hollywood trades reported that Warner Bros., founded in 1923 by Jack, Sam, Harry and Albert Read More
Vincent Pastore, The Sopranos ‘ late Big Pussy Bonpensiero, is excited about the Tribeca Film Festival. He’s so excited that even though he doesn’t have any films playing at the nine-day festival, he called just to tell us how jazzed he is.
“I can’t wait,” said Mr. Pastore with a Cohiba-enhanced growl, adding that a Read More
As the country prepares for a mysterious war and slogs through an unending recession, who can blame us for looking forward to the entertaining and comforting elbow-throwing that precedes our nation’s annual Academy Awards pageant. Now that’s a battle we can understand-one fought with advertising offensives and public-relations espionage.
And yet, if you’ve noticed, Read More
Since the early 1980′s, those who have donated at least $15,000 a year to the Whitney Museum of American Art have been able to partake of a rather appealing perk: an art loan program which enabled these altruistic art lovers to borrow artwork from the museum’s collection that was not on display.
But that’s about Read More
“The famous line about the M.L.A. is that you’ve never seen a convention where people drink so much and fuck so little,” said Michael Bérubé, an English professor from Penn State University. Mr. Bérubé was on the revolving 49th floor of the Marriott Marquis Hotel at 11 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 29, hanging out with Read More
