Sure, we’ve had some fun with David Carr’s Daily Baggage videos on The New York Times Web site, but today he offers an extremely compelling dispatch in the form of a Sundance Film Festival interview with Mike Tyson and Tyson director James Toback. (Unfortunately, the video is not available for embedding—c’mon Times Read More
It was easy for fans of Cuban-born writer Oscar Hijuelos to tell whom he was picking on when he was interviewed before an audience in the auditorium of the New York Times Building on June 25: It was The Times ‘ own Book Review section.
“You have to take these mites-who are presuming they know Read More
The first words in The Hamptons -Barbara Kopple’s thoughtful, meandering voyage through the social weeds and fields of eastern Long Island to be broadcast June 2 and 3 at 9 p.m. as a two-part docu-mini-series on ABC-belong to an earnest, scruffy-faced local named Alec Baldwin. “I would come out here and it would have a Read More
On a Friday evening in June, two blond teen heiresses were getting dressed for a party. Nicky Hilton, who is 18, and Amanda Hearst, who is 16, were in Ms. Hilton’s parents’ sprawling home in Southampton. They tried on outfits and said things to each other such as, “Why don’t you get your mom to Read More
Gallo, Pissed
Actor-director Vincent Gallo says he’s certain that Sharon Stone won’t remember the time they met, several years ago, at Chasen’s restaurant in Los Angeles because, he said, she was preoccupied, “staring at herself.”
Ms. Stone may soon have a difficult time forgetting Mr. Gallo, however, now that the outspoken New Yorker Read More
