By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 10/16/12 7:04pm

The Anniversary Party

Jerry Stiller and Angela Lansbury. (Photo credit: Getty Images).

NY1 Turns 20

In a glossy media city that values professional polish, NY1, Time Warner’s no-frills news channel, enjoys a certain cult following, as evidenced by the high-profile fans who gathered at the New York Public Library last Thursday to celebrate two decades of “weather on the ones.”

The event reflected the unassuming charms of the station, where anchors style themselves and pan-away shots reveal a bullpen that is more Community than The Newsroom. Though there was an open bar, the wine glasses had thick stems, and the hors d’oeuvres, while tasty, might have arrived straight from Trader Joe’s. Read More

By Rex Reed 2/18/09 1:12am

Oscar and Me

The Oscars are like dividend statements from Bernie Madoff. You know they’re coming, you expect the worst, but you open the envelopes anyway, with your fingers crossed, hoping this year will be better. It never is, but despite rock-bottom ratings, and dwindling interest in too many nominees nobody ever heard of, too many categories nobody Read More

By Staff 2/17/06 7:28pm

Jimmy Fallon Wants $3.75 M. on Gramercy


Jimmy Fallon.

In Sunday’s New York Times, Willie Neumann is reporting that Saturday Night Live comic Jimmy Fallon is marketing two apartments at 34 Gramercy Park. (Personal information alert: It caught my eye especially because one of us lived briefly in the building in the 1990′s and because it’s my favorite Read More

By Rex Reed 2/13/06 12:00am

Hearty Harrison Still Does Stunts!

I guess everyone has to start somewhere, but a Bernard Malamud novel-into-film starring Snoop Dogg? To quote Dorothy Parker, “What fresh hell is this?” The 2006 kind, I’m afraid, that pretty much demonstrates how low movies have sunk in these desperate times. But let’s forget about The Tenants, a grim look at two bums fighting Read More

By Peter Hyman 12/20/04 12:00am

See Ya, Lindsay Lohan! Who Says All Men Prefer Younger Women?

Thanks to Desperate Housewives, suburban fortysomethings have replaced Britney and Lindsay as the sex symbols du jour. It’s about time. While the cultural wisdom may suggest that most men favor pop superstars just old enough to drink legally, some of us recognize that women over 40 can make better girlfriends and more sophisticated lovers than Read More

By Rex Reed 2/02/04 12:00am

Angie, Baby!

This is not your mother’s Angela Lansbury. In fact, when a generation that faithfully watched Murder, She Wrote every Sunday night for 12 years gets a look at the woman they came to know as mystery writer and crime solver Jessica Fletcher in The Blackwater Lightship , they will not believe their eyes. The fact Read More