By Emily Witt 12/15/11 5:09pm

Now A Major Motion Picture

Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham.

All the Books Made Into Movies in the First Six Months of 2012

It’s such a long list! And it doesn’t even include HBO, the vacuum of literature/possibly the single biggest financial backer of writing in New York City. Publishers Weekly has compiled the round-up, which includes everything from Gillian Anderson in Great Expectations to Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (which was depressing enough in picture book form, thank you very much.) Read More

By Gillian Reagan 7/01/08 4:39pm

Gillian Anderson to Play War Journalist, Hemingway's Ex Gellhorn

Gillian Anderson is all about Martha Gellhorn, a war reporter who covered conflicts for 60 years. As a correspondent for Collier’s Weekly, she reported on the Spanish Civil War, along with her future husband, Ernest Hemingway. Ms. Anderson read Caroline Moorehead’s 2004 biography Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life and was hooked. "Martha Gellhorn was one of Read More

By Gillian Reagan 12/11/07 1:10pm

Masterpiece Theater Gets a Gillian Anderson Makeover

Gillian Anderson, the red-headed scientist hottie from The X-Files, will replace the fogey male journalists who have hosted PBS’ signature show Masterpiece Theater for the past 37 years. Ms. Anderson is part of a major overhaul of the show, which will begin its new season on Jan. 13 by airing a bunch of Jane Austen Read More

By NYO Staff 5/06/02 12:00am

A-Pauley-ing Behavior

Has Jane Pauley been taking lessons on how to win friends and influence colleagues from her famously grouchy former Today Show co-host Bryant Gumbel?

Ms. Pauley was recently called up for active publicity duty as her prime-time news magazine, Dateline NBC , celebrated its 10th anniversary on April 23.

Ms. Pauley’s contributions to the Read More

By Andrew Sarris 1/08/01 12:00am

A Sinking Lily Bart and Her Unforgiving Circle

Terence Davies’ The

House of Mirth , from his own screenplay, based on the novel by Edith

Wharton, is one of several end-of-year releases that has made 2000 a better

movie-going year than anyone could have anticipated at the beginning of

December. The best movies, by and large, remain individualized productions that

seldom zoom into Read More

By Rex Reed 12/11/00 12:00am

Mouthwatering Chocolat … Meg Ryan’s Own Rambo

The Christmas countdown begins. With approximately 30 more

movies to open before the annual Dec. 31 deadline for Oscar consideration-at

least a dozen of which are scheduled to simultaneously start rolling on

projectors Dec. 22-holiday traffic at the movies is rapidly approaching

gridlock. I’m spreading the news the only way possible-as fast as I can Read More