In the so-charming-it-hurts I Love You, Man, Paul Rudd’s character, Peter, likes to spend Sunday nights at home with his lovely fiancée, watching HBO. Peter is such a champion of network that at one point he even utters the famous catchphrase—“It’s not TV, it’s HBO”—to help explain what he loves about this chosen date-night activity. Read More
It might be time to add HBO back to your cable package. The network has spent the better part of the last two years stockpiling shows from seemingly all parts of the Hollywood gene pool, and the fruits of those labors are just about to start paying off in 2009. To wit: HBO has just Read More
Anthony Minghella, the Oscar-winning director and writer of The English Patient, has died suddenly, Variety reports. He was 54. The cause of death has not yet been confirmed. Mr. Minghella most recently directed the BBC/HBO telepic No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, based on Alexander McCall Smith’s novel set in Botswana, which is due to Read More
On opening night, a red carpet led operagoers Oscar-style across the Lincoln Center Plaza. The Metropolitan Opera’s façade was partially obscured by a giant screen installed for the outdoor viewing pleasure of those who couldn’t afford to watch Madama Butterfly in the house. To further accommodate the hoi polloi, a similar screen and roped-off seating Read More
On the morning of Jan. 27, when Frank Pierson, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and actress Sigourney Weaver announced the final film to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar as … Seabiscuit , an audible gasp could be heard from the gathered crowd. It was a little after 5:30 Read More
Wrapping up the year on film, they saved one of the best for last. As war movies go, Hollywood has always treated the Civil War-the only homemade war ever fought on American soil-with boredom, disinterest and disdain. Except for Gone with the Wind , the War Between the States is like Bette Davis in the Read More
A number of staff members suspect so, citing a couple of strange devices that make them think a hidden camera had been trained on them.
Specifically, they believe that Susan Casey, the managing editor of Sports Illustrated Women , was being secretly videotaped.
In the first week of September, Ms. Casey was told Read More
Between Christmas and New Year’s, I found myself wandering the streets of Manhattan in a black funk. So clearly did my feelings-of the wan and palely loitering knight-at-arms variety-show upon my face that passers-by halted, some even extended tentative helping hands and nervous little solicitous murmurs. If I had a nickel for every time I Read More
Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley , from a screenplay by Mr. Minghella, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, is well on its way to becoming the most written-about cinematic event of 1999, the most insane year in the whole millennium in terms of the number of virtually simultaneous releases of overlong, overambitious and Read More
