Nicole Kidman Expects First Biological Birth

Despite talk of marital strife, Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban are expecting their first child. According to Britain’s Daily Mail, the 40-year-old actress and the country musician—who has, since they married in June of 2006, been dealing with substance abuse issues—broke the good news to their families over the Christmas Read More

There’s No Biz Like Baz Biz: High Rent Bohème Hits Broadway

Baz Luhrmann’s much-anticipated production of La Bohème on Broadway is by no means the most moving version of the opera I’ve experienced, but without question it’s the chicest. You can understand why fashionistas rave over Baz. What you’re sure to remember the most is the lovely, cool design-or stylish surface of tragic things.

It’s a Read More

Weezer: Einstein on the Beach

Here we have Weezer’s third album, their first since 1996′s rather excellent, perceived-as-a failure-but-now-hailed-as-a-classic Pinkerton. Let’s leave “the geek ascendant” angle to every other publication in the free world, shall we?

Instead, Weezer, a.k.a. The Green Album (Interscope), should be lauded as a bang-up summer record. As of this writing, it has just debuted at Read More

So, What? We’re Supposed to Start Calling Her ‘N. Kid’?

Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge , from a screenplay by Mr. Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, turns out to be a surprisingly sentimental, mostly badly sung, anti-erotically danced, visually postmodern, claustrophobically designed hodgepodge of musical strategies built around the bizarre assumption that Nicole Kidman is a great musical talent. Her virtually inaudible singing makes Marilyn Monroe sound Read More