The word “goodbye” takes on a somber and rueful new meaning as I begin the annual task of wrapping up an old year by waving adios to the man with the scythe. We lost so many famous and celebrated people in 2010 that by midsummer I already had 35 pages of names. “Attention must be Read More
Those of us who wished that Jeffrey Deitch, the art world’s LeBron James in his cruel defection from the city that made him, would fade from the canvas upon moving away, apparently have another thing coming. First there was James Franco’s globally buzzy performance-slash-publicity-stunt, and now another apparent L.A. success.
Deitch’s posthumous show of Dennis Read More
SWING VOTE
Running Time 120 minutes
Written By Jason Richman and Joshua Michael Stern
Directed By Joshua Michael Stern
Starring Kevin Costner, Stanley Tucci, Nathan Lane, Dennis Hopper, Kelsey Grammer, Madeline Carroll
Say about it what you will, but in an election year, you can’t accuse Kevin Costner’s political satire Read More
Dennis Hopper, one of the creepiest of all creepy actors thanks to his role in Blue Velvet, has signed to star in Starz’s TV-adaption of the movie that ran away with the 2005 Best Picture Oscar, Crash. Starz will premiere the first episode in October. Variety reports:
A co-production of Starz and Lionsgate, Read More
SLEEPWALKING
Running Time 100 minutes
Written by Zac Stanford
Directed by William Maher
Starring Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Hopper, Woody Harrelson
What is happening to the leading ladies of the tarnished silver screen? Like hapless Naomi Watts in Funny Games, gorgeous Charlize Theron has produced her Read More
The hunt for the buyer is on
Yesterday, Brownstoner broke the exhilarating news that the 31-foot beauty at 45 Montgomery Place had been sold for more than $6 million. (Oval rooms! Fireplaces! It’s all there.)
According to the website, $6m would be the highest price ever paid for a 1-family townhouse in Park Read More
Last Thursday, David Patrick Columbia, 65 years old, went from Michael’s to Le Cirque to Swifty’s, and then on Friday, he was at Swifty’s again, for lunch. It was awful quiet in the restaurant, just a friend of Brooke Astor’s having lunch with a young woman, and then Robert Caravaggi, one of the owners, dressed Read More
Frank Gehry directs the director.
Sydney Pollack’s first documentary, Sketches of Frank Gehry, will be opening in theaters on May 12th. But Tribeca Film Festival attendees can catch it tonight at the DOLBY screening room, at 7 p.m.
Here’s a bit from the release:
Beginning with Gehry’s own original sketches for Read MoreGiven the calamitous state of world affairs and the fact that we live on a small, crowded island, one can’t help but wonder how the hell we get off the place in case of emergency. And since the government has done little lately to persuade me they have a plan, my suspicion is that it’s Read More
So I’m in this car with Dennis Hopper and Sean Penn, two generations of Hollywood Bad Boys. Hopper’s driving, Penn’s in the back. This is maybe a dozen years ago when Sean was still with Madonna, and Hopper had just come off his comeback succès de scandale as the raving psycho in Blue Velvet . Read More
