Monday: Charlie’s Angels
We’ve had Sam Rockwell on the brain since a colleague of ours saw his new movie Moon at Tribeca and came back raving. We love pretty much everything the guy does—remember the Clooney-directed Confessions of a Dangerous Mind?—but his turn as the secret bad guy who romances Drew Barrymore (and dances!) Read More
1 p.m. Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta and actor Denis Leary will dedicate a new $4.2 million high-rise simulator to the F.D.N.Y. Fire Academy on Randall’s Island.
3 p.m. New York Knicks forward Wilson Chandler will visit Manhattan’s Democracy Prep Charter School for a rally on “the importance of physical fitness and good nutrition,” at Read More
Don’t do it! This is a desperate plea to middle-aged men everywhere regarding a certain plastic surgery procedure. Please, I beg you, whatever you do, do not get an eye lift. Why? Because if you do, you will end up looking like an old lesbian. You may even—gasp!—be mistaken for a member of … THE Read More
Denis Leary was blushing. Just a little.
The subject at hand was the spank bank—as in, “Who’s in your spank bank?”
As in, when self-pleasure is your goal, whom do you fantasize about?
A firefighter friend of Mr. Leary’s—upon whom the actor-comedian partially bases his Rescue Me character, New York firefighter Tommy Read More
When Sundance Film Festival programming director Geoff Gilmore stood before a sold-out crowd at the 1,300-seat Eccles Theater in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 20 and introduced Tom DiCillo as “one of the best living American independent directors,” Mr. DiCillo did what might not be expected of a New York filmmaker, especially one who had Read More
“What is a blog? Will you explain that to me?” Campbell Scott politely asked last week over chicken noodle soup, head tilted to one side, listening intently to the answer. “So it’s different than a chat, then?”
The ‘T’ in ‘chat’ was clipped, the consonant-stomp a hallmark of a voice trained to project nuance from Read More
Don King dreamt that his hair was going straight and rising toward heaven. Private Dreams of Public People , by Lauren Lawrence. Assouline, 184 pages, $34.95.
A nifty idea, recording celebrities’ dreams. How better to plumb the Rosicrucian mysteries of fame than to peer directly into the famous person’s psyche? Let’s face it: For all Read More
When Sundance Film Festival programming director Geoff
Gilmore stood before a sold-out crowd at the 1,300-seat Eccles Theater in Park
City, Utah, on Jan. 20 and introduced Tom DiCillo as “one of the best living
American independent directors,” Mr. DiCillo did what might not be expected of
a New York filmmaker, especially one who had Read More
