Despite critical accolades, and the benefit of not being the Jersey Shore, the Doug Liman-produced scripted series I Just Want My Pants Back has not been renewed for a second season on MTV, according to Deadline. Apparently there can’t be two shows about Greenpoint hipsters on television at one time, and Girls was just getting more hype. Read More
“I’m more inclined to see the villains’ point of view in my movies,” Doug Liman told The Observer on a brisk October afternoon over bottles of Poland Spring in the Tribeca studio of his production company, Hypnotic. “When you grow up in New York, you’re more inclined to see everybody’s point of view.”
Mr. Liman, who was raised on the Upper East Side and graduated from Fieldston and later Brown, was answering our question about how a local sensibility has crept into his Hollywood work. He does seem to have a soft spot for certain bad guys—say, Chris Cooper’s Conklin from Bourne Identity, whom the director based on Oliver North. “You identify with all the bureaucratic hassles that he has to deal with,” Mr. Liman told us. “People who believe they are patriotic, bypassing all these rules of law to get done what they think is right.” Read More
The night before the opening of Geoffrey Nauftts’ new play Next Fall, which premiered at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Wednesday, March 10, the cast gathered at a party hosted at the Royalton by Sir Elton John-who is, along with his partner, David Furnish, among the show’s executive producers. Sir Elton held court at Read More
Somewhere, Bill O’Reilly just threw a fit. The always-busy Sean Penn, fresh off his Best Actor win on Sunday night for playing Harvey Milk, is already lining up his next hot button, politically-tinged role that will rankle the ire of many a Fox News commentator. According to Variety, Mr. Penn is negotiating to play Read More
Somewhere, Bill O’Reilly just threw a fit. The always-busy Sean Penn, fresh off his Best Actor win on Sunday night for playing Harvey Milk, is already lining up his next hot button, politically-tinged role that will rankle the ire of many a Fox News commentator. According to Variety, Mr. Penn is negotiating to play Read More
JUMPER
RUNNING TIME 90 minutes
WRITTEN BY David S. Goyer, Jim Uhls, Simon Kinberg, Steven Gould
DIRECTED BY Doug Liman
STARRING Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane
A piece of idiotic sci-fi piffle called Jumper looks like $90 billion wasted on 90 minutes of popcorn junk. Even the butter is phony.
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Sam Mendes’ Road to Perdition , from a screenplay by David Self, based on the graphic novel written by Max Allan Collins and illustrated by Richard Piers Rayner, had received so much advance adulation by the time I saw it that I felt Mr. Mendes could be forgiven for already rehearsing his second Oscar-acceptance speech Read More
Wednesday 21st
Duchamping at the bit? O.K., all you arty people: Manhattan is absolutely overrun with “shows” this week. Not the thea-tuh kind, not Comedy Central’s The Man Show (which currently has our Precious clenched firmly in its hairy grip), but shows full of pricey junk with which to cram your apartment. The snow of Read More
