If you are too busy watching the Australian cycling thing and can’t understand what the hell is going on with Twitter (honestly, we don’t know who you follow, but no one on our feed actually bothers naming the winners of these things), here are the latest updates for the 2013 Golden Globe Awards. Read More
Not too many surprises this year in the nominations, announced today, for the 2013 Golden Globe Awards. This year, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will be making history as the first female duo to host the ceremony, held on Jan. 13., but other than that, it’s all Lincoln (seven nominations), Argo (five) and Django Unchained (ditto). Read More
Sarah Palin has evidently been wigging out over Julianne Moore’s portrayal of her in the upcoming Game Change film on HBO. The TV movie shifts the focus of the campaign book from a panorama of the 2008 election to the aftermath of candidate John McCain picking Ms. Palin as his running mate. Ms. Palin published Read More
Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s gossipy, somewhat controversial bestseller about the 2008 presidential campaign—filled with plenty of juicy Sarah Palin anecdotes—recently received the HBO adaptation treatment. Julianne Moore’s role as the former Governess of Alaska and vice-presidential would-be is one of the more highly anticipated actor-politician roles in recent history. And Read More
Avy Kaufman, one of New York’s top casting agents who’s cast movies from Brokeback Mountain to American Gangster to the upcoming Lincoln-assassination drama The Conspirator, had no idea who she’d cast as Sarah Palin in the upcoming HBO film Game Change. (Julianne Moore, it was announced, got the role; no other castings for Read More
In today’s New York Post, Keith Kelly reports that Penguin Press has shelled out $5.3 million to sign up John Heilemann and Mark Halperin to write a sequel to “Game Change,” their best-selling chronicle of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, Matthew Flamm of Crain’s reports that the deal is raising some eyebrows among Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
