On Wednesday, Nov. 10, Peter Rice, the head of production at Fox Searchlight, was making the rounds at the elegant Pratt House on the Upper East Side after the New York premiere of Kinsey-Searchlight’s best hope for an Academy Award in the five years since he took over the studio. In a dark gray suit Read More
Bill Condon’s Kinsey , from his own screenplay, examines the life of the man whose book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (published on Jan. 5, 1948, by the prestigious W.B. Saunders) was credited-or blamed-for the subsequent sexual revolution of the 1960′s. The film arrives at a time when much of the nation has repudiated Read More
In a bizarre week as polarized as the national elections, Kinsey , a movie about sex, is a masterpiece, while The Polar Express and Finding Neverland , a couple of Christmas trifles for children, are so full of sugar they could rot your teeth. If this is what they mean by “moral values,” drop me Read More
Wednesday 8th
Clippity-clop, clippity-clop! Those aren’t the sounds of last week’s police horsies …. Those peeps have been replaced by herds of praying-mantis-like women , tottering down the formerly convention-clogged Seventh Avenue in their Marc Jacobs, screaming at their assistants (“You c*cksucker !”) over their camera-phones with enough spite to make Zell Miller’s convention Read More
