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Al Pachino

Footlights at Fifty: The Public Theater Celebrates a Half-Century With the Bard in Central Park

“We have a Shakespearean, Elizabethean temper,” Al Pacino informed a seated crowd Monday evening in Central Park. As part of its 50th Anniversary Gala, the Public Theater was honoring Mr. Pacino with an award, in the form of a prop rapier he had once wielded on stage, “I’m a little nervous,” he laughed. “I wish I had water, but I have a sword,” Read More

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Cynthia Nixon

Besties! Cynthia Nixon Buys Around the Corner from SJP

Cynthia Nixon, perhaps best known as Carrie’s dowdy lawyer friend Miranda on Sex and the City, is no stranger to the limelight of late. She shaved her head for a Broadway play and courted controversy by saying she had “chosen” to be in a gay relationship, drawing the ire of the gay community. She later clarified the comments to The Advocate that her sexuality remained in-grained from birth.

And good thing she did, or her new neighbors from Noho and the Village might have picketed outside her door!

Ms. Nixon and her partner Christine Marinoni have purchased a new loft home at 10 Bleecker Street, city records show, which means she’ll be just a few blocks from her buddy Sarah Jessica Parker. Ms. Nixon paid $3.25 million for the place. Read More

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Cynthia Nixon To Star in Wit

Cynthia Nixon returns to Broadway in a play that–unlike her Tony-winning turn in Rabbit Hole, which went on to win a Pulitzer–is already Pulitzer-anointed. Ms. Nixon is to play Dr. Vivian Bearing, an English scholar dying of cancer, the Manhattan Theatre Club announced today. (It’s a familiar topic for Ms. Nixon, who’s currently in the Read More

Cynthia Nixon Heads to The Big C

With the exception of perhaps news about Eliot Spitzer, it’s been a quiet summer thus far with regards to television — and, no, that Jake and Vienna broke up after finding “true love” on The Bachelor doesn’t count. So greet this bit of casting news with as much excitement as you can muster: Read More

Bernhardt, Baby, Bernhardt: It was a GLAAD-urday Night

Heavy rains and general transportation problems on Saturday, March 13, were not about to stop the annual GLAAD Media Awards on the seventh floor of the Marriott Marquis hotel.

Hosted by a bubbly Alan Cumming, recently cast as Gutsy in the upcoming Smurfs film, the awards were honoring actress Cynthia Nixon and View Read More