In January, FishbowlNY attempted to crack the complex economics of Vanity Fair‘s writer-payment system:
We don’t know how much Peter Biskind gets paid to write for Vanity Fair. Or Fran Lebowitz. Or Sebastian Junger. Or Michael Wolff. But we can guess.Admirable guesstimates of contributors’ individual salaries followed.
Well, guess no more: A Read More
The potential cockfight between the New York and Boston musical productions of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata will not take place this summer after all.
In early March, The Transom reported that A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum screenwriter Larry Gelbart’s adaptation of Lysistrata for Boston’s American Repertory Theatre had been dumped after the Read More
Wednesday, April 4
Yes, that’s your Bush. And guess what? It ain’t funny! Tonight marks the premiere of That’s My Bush , the mega-hyped Presidential satire on Comedy Central from South Park grossmeisters Trey Parker and Matt Stone. In the sitcom, actors play the real-life Commander in Chief, First Lady Laura Bush and White House Read More
In The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle , the animated pair are thrust into the modern, real world and must make their way across America to New York to thwart the fiendish scheme of Fearless Leader, played by Robert De Niro, to turn the world into zombies via the television shows broadcast by his R.B. Read More