By Mark Lotto 11/28/08 5:18pm

Recession Cinema: White Christmas

Because of the asinine way holiday movies are programmed, tomorrow night’s probably your only chance to watch White Christmas (Lifetime, 9 p.m.). For anyone keeping count: that’s forty-eight hours after Thanksgiving dinner, about sixteen days until a weather report predicts white snow or unseasonal warmth on Christmas morning, and twenty-six days before meteorologists are proven Read More

By Rex Reed 1/20/03 12:00am

Holy Stravinsky, The Russians Are Back!

Years before the plague called reality TV, Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin wrote the ultimate celebrity challenge-a song entitled “Tchaikovsky (And Other Russians)”. Performed by an unknown chorus boy named Danny Kaye, the song made its historic debut in the 1941 Broadway musical, Lady in the Dark . It also made Danny Kaye a star. Read More