It’s 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you’ve already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we’re just like you: single.
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“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”—Cary Grant.
It seems so self-evident—who wouldn’t want to be Cary Grant? But the obvious answers (because he’s good-looking or charming or debonair) don’t get it done. The real answer may be what we’re left with after youth, and after physical strength, Read More
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”—Cary Grant.
It seems so self-evident—who wouldn’t want to be Cary Grant? But the obvious answers (because he’s good-looking or charming or debonair) don’t get it done. The real answer may be what we’re left with after youth, and after physical strength, and Read More
Has any honest-to-God movie star ever been given sleazier settings in which to shine than Pam Grier? With her stately bearing and voluptuous build, regal high cheekbones and proud, prominent nose, Ms. Grier is one of those rare performers who seem to command the attention of the camera by nothing more than natural right. But Read More
Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, from a screenplay by John Logan, has evoked in its earliest reviews a bemused sense of surprise: How did it come out so well, considering all the decline-and-fall scenarios swirling around Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein, frustratingly Oscar-deprived Martin Scorsese and currently less-than- Titanic-sized box-office draw Leonardo DiCaprio?
It’s been suggested, by Read More
It’s here. A fledgling women’s media empire is in the process of moving into 40,000 square feet of retrofitted office space (and digital TV studios) at 448 West 16th Street. Nabisco had a factory on this spot in the old days. In the next century, it may prove to be ground zero for the synergistic Read More
Wednesday, May 26
Shae D’Lyn plays Dharma’s kooky and cute friend on the cute ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg . But even though the show can be annoying, Ms. D’Lyn is not. NYTV asked her the old David Letterman question: What were you like in high school?
“Did you see Election ?” she said, Read More
Wednesday, July 8
Delta Burke talks about how she went from being the youngest Miss Florida (“It seems absurd to me now. There was nothing strange to me about the fact that I would zip around on the freeways with the big poofy hair and the makeup and a crown on my head and Read More
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
The two Humphrey Bogart movies that are quintessentially Bogart–in which that line between a star actor’s screen persona and a specific character he’s playing is most thoroughly and effectively erased so that these become indistinguishably one–were directed and produced back-to-back by Howard Hawks; both co-star Lauren Bacall at Read More
“Oh, yeah. There’s such a thing as bad taste,” said Kitty Hawks. “Ultimately, good taste has to do with a certain restraint.” The interior designer, who is the daughter of the late international hostess Slim Keith and film director Howard Hawks, was receiving visitors in the room she has decorated at this year’s Kips Bay Read More
