If you thought 2008 was a bad year for movies, allow us to introduce you to 2009. Despite box office numbers through the roof, the overall quality of the films this year has been—how can we put this?—totally crappy. Suffice it to say, by the time December rolls around, you probably won’t find Duplicity and Read More
Earlier this week Slate put out a desperate call to its readers:
Over the last three months, we in the magazine’s culture department have been trying to prepare the perfect eulogy for ER, the medical drama whose finale airs Thursday. We have approached both staff writers and a series of reliable correspondents, inviting Read More
DENVER—Wednesday afternoon at the Denver Art Museum, Jennifer Lopez, Capitol File and Viacom honored Marian Wright Edelman for her work with the Children’s Defense Fund. Before the awards presentation began, the Daily Transom spied the singer Rufus Wainwright, wearing a plaid blazer, striped T-shirt and sandals.
"I’m gay and out and proud, but in saying Read More
Now that we’re into the second day of the Democratic National Convention, it’s time for a poll of all that "celebrity power" that was supposed to follow Barack Obama to Denver.
While Paris Hilton has not shown up yet (much to the disappointment of John McCain supporters), here are some noteworthy names that attended events Read More
Academy Award–nominated diva Angela Bassett and her husband, Law and Order ‘s Courtney Vance, have landed at Lincoln Center. Earlier this winter, city records show, the thespian couple purchased a one-bedroom pied-à-terre in a luxury condominium development on 66th Street for $845,000. They join that coterie of the entertainment elite that populates Manhattan’s “West Coast,” Read More
Fiddler in the ‘Hood
New York’s public schools have come a long way since Blackboard Jungle . Teachers still confiscate the occasional switchblade from a second grader, and I’m sure they all have their own personal horror stories, but there are new alternatives to boredom and violence in the public school system. In the war Read More
Brian De Palma’s Snake Eyes , from a screenplay by David Koepp, based on a story by Mr. De Palma and Mr. Koepp, begins with an eye-opening Steadicam shot that goes on for 20 minutes with a single take through a jampacked Atlantic City arena (actually the old Montreal Forum), the site of a fixed Read More
