By Drew Grant 1/27 2:11pm

taste test

Inhalable chocolate: what could go wrong?

More Fun with Le Whif Inhalable Food Products (Video)

Earlier this month, several members of the New York Observer staff took one for the team and tried out AeroShot Pure Energy, a “breathable caffeine product” that Senator Chuck Schumer has been campaigning to outlaw. It didn’t go so well.

Yet despite the liveblogging of our panic attack and possible allergic reactions to the products, the company behind AeroShot sent us more of their products, including their line of Le Whif “Whiffable Chocolate Powder.” This time, we videotaped the results. For science! Read More

By Rex Reed 2/16/10 11:54pm

Twisted Sister

Happy Tears
Running time  95 minutes
Written and  directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein
Starring  Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Rip Torn, Ellen Barkin

One star out of Four

The inmates are running a different kind of asylum in Happy Tears, a vulgar, happy-as-cancer aberration that takes the dysfunctional family idea to a new Read More

By John Koblin 4/22/09 3:39am

Get Me Rewrite!

On Monday, April 13, the actor Ashton Kutcher sent a message out to his fans using the microblogging tool Twitter.

“My dad always said ‘I’ll believe when I hear it from the horses mouth,’” was the message his subscribers received. “twitter is the horses mouth. no more ‘well the news said …’”

By Friday, April Read More

By Molly Haskell 6/25/01 12:00am

Diagnosing Demi Disease

I didn’t go to the Jane Fonda tribute at Lincoln Center back

in May. My excuse was a long-standing engagement, but that wasn’t the real

reason. As much as I’ve admired many of her films, Ms. Fonda’s career-watching

her morph from Barbarella to barbells-brings out a sense of confusion and

embarrassment. Demi Moore taps the Read More

By Rex Reed 5/29/00 12:00am

Cruise Uncontrolled … Double Demi, Twice as Bad

Cruise Uncontrolled

Mission: Impossible was one of the worst movies ever made. Naturally, it grossed a fortune. Now comes the dreaded sequel, called (what else?) Mission: Impossible 2 , better known as M:I-2 . The title looks like a highway marker, and you will need a map to find the plot. But who cares? With Read More