Gwyneth and Joaquin’s Brighton Beach Memoirs

Two Lovers
Running time 108 minutes
Written by Richard Menello and James Gray
Directed by James Gray
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Moni Moshonov, Isabella Rossellini, Elias Koteas

On Valentine’s Day, date movies usually proliferate. This year, with so many slasher flicks, techno-thrillers and Read More

Elettra Wiedemann Will Save the Children of Burundi With T-Shirts

Last week, on a bench outside the Bonsignor coffee shop on Jane Street, near where she lives ("that way, on the water," she said, motioning west), Elettra Wiedemann—soon-to-be biomedicine graduate student, international Lancôme spokesmodel and daughter of famed Lancôme model Isabella Rossellini—was describing her latest project, a charity website called JustOneFrickinDay.com.

"Originally we Read More

The Art of Sex With Unlikely Bedfellows

The opening playlet of Terrence McNally’s two-part evening, The Stendhal Syndrome , has Isabella Rossellini as a tour guide to three Americans schlepping through the Accademia Gallery in Florence. The action takes place round Michelangelo’s statue of David as the Americans try to relate to it.

Now this should be fun, I thought. Only Read More

Village Mooring

It’s official: Julianne Moore is leaving behind the trendy meatpacking-district lofts she’s called home for the last four years. Late last month, the two-time Academy Award–nominated actress closed on a $3.5 million West Village townhouse. It’s only a few blocks away from her previous downtown holdings, but before she and her longtime boyfriend, director Bart Read More