By Drew Grant 5/10 12:42pm

Movie premiere

Ain't no party like a Gatsby party.

Baz Luhrmann on Gatsby Excess: ‘Sometimes a Party Is Just a Party’

Great Giggling Gatsbys! After taking a hit for over-romanticizing the gaudy decadence of the roaring twenties in hist latest film (and subsequent press tour), director Baz Luhrmann spoke to The Observer at Lamb’s Club Tuesday night during The Cinema Society, Brooks Brothers and Town & Country‘s after party for The Great Gatsby. Apparently, we should just all chill out and not think so hard about the implications of reveling in the excesses of high society, despite the film’s moral statement against such extravagance. Read More

By Drew Grant 3/15 4:06pm

Jay McInerney

Jay McInerney at Observer's 25th Anniversary party. (PMc)

Jay McInerney Is Not Writing a Book About The Great Gatsby, Except in the Way We All Are

“I don’t know where you got that idea,” Jay McInerney scoffed at The New York Observer at our 25th Anniversary Party last night at the Four Seasons. “I am not writing a book about The Great Gatsby.” We were baffled; we were sure that we had heard that the Bright Lights, Big City author was busy creating a modern adaptation of the famous F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, set in the Hamptons.

“Are you sure?” We prodded. Read More

By Daniel Edward Rosen 6/27/12 8:00am

An Unbroken Series of Successful Gestures

(Jason Seiler)

Meet The Gatsbabies! Preening Prepsters Lure Ladies, Lucre and Limelight in Merry Manhattan

The girls, so many girls, dressed in pastel-colored wraps that bared shoulders and the swells of their cleavage, clacked their Louboutin heels up a SoHo staircase one muggy May evening.

At the landing, visibly breathless and sweaty, their eyes lit up. They had entered the penthouse loft of Edward Scott Brady, the boyishly handsome world traveler, former classical cello virtuoso and “retired entrepreneur,” who was throwing a “Welcome Back Bash” to honor his return from his seventh trip around the globe. Read More

By Nate Freeman 7/20/11 5:21pm

Breakups

Blake Lively, single and loving it!

Mad Mama DiCaprio Makes Leo Send Blake Packing

For Leo, Blake was the ultimate rebound from Bar Refaeli. They met over dinner at The Lion in November, with Baz Luhrmann, who had DiCaprio as his Gatsby and toyed with the idea of Ms. Lively as Daisy (the part went to Carey Mulligan). In May, Mr. DiCaprio was, again, single, and it wasn’t long Read More

By Nate Freeman 1/10/11 9:10pm

Ceaselessly Into the past

The Great Gatsby in 3D: An Idea So Abysmally Awful It Just Might Work?

Those familiar with director Baz Luhrmann’s fixation with excess had every reason to look forward to his upcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Sure, the subtle analysis of class warfare, sexuality, and post-war mores that enhance F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterwork will probably be excised, but who cares! Filtered through Baz’s indulgence-happy approach to the cinema, Read More

By Irina Aleksander 11/25/08 3:45pm

Filming Australia Was Hazardous to Hugh Jackman’s Health

“Hugh [Jackman] is so at peace with himself—like a John Wayne or a Clint Eastwood—and she’s like electricity. Together, they are such a classic couple. And, well, he is the sexiest man alive!” said Australia director Baz Luhrmann, glancing in the direction of actors Nicole Kidman and Mr. Jackman (who People magazine recently deemed the Read More