Table XII is on the ground floor of the Lombardy Hotel, which was once a house owned by the newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. It’s one of the most opulent Beaux-Arts dining rooms in the city, with a marble fireplace, gilded ceilings, chandeliers, elaborately carved moldings and a parquet floor. The recently renovated restaurant is Read More
Runaway Jury , the latest in an endless stream of expensive, bloated, all-star legal thrillers by billionaire hack-writing machine John Grisham to be processed into celluloid Velveeta, gives new meaning to the word “preposterous.” A lot of famous faces populate the courtroom in this overplotted and farfetched tale of jury-tampering, but they and the horse Read More
She’s Fat, But Not Funny
Gwyneth Paltrow
is rumored to have made $10 million for her
role in the Farrelly
Brothers’ new obesity farce, Shallow Hal .
I certainly hope so. It really is the only acceptable explanation for the
appearance of a patrician Oscar winner of her stature in such a sophomoric
piece Read More
Stephen Hopkins’ Under Suspicion , starring Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman, from a screenplay by W. Peter Iliff and Tom Provost, was adapted from a French film– Garde à vue (1981) by Claude Miller, Jean Herman and Michel Audiard–that was based in turn on the British novel Brainwash , by John Wainwright. As the story Read More
Kim’s Career Is Cursed!
Kim Basinger never struck me as an easy pushover willing to do anything just to keep her career afloat. But here she is in Bless the Child , a turgid, pretentious religious thriller that is anything but thrilling. Why would an actress who finally proved to the doubters she could act Read More
