Monday: Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Oh 1985, aren’t you just that gift that keeps on giving! Take our inner pre-teen favorite, Girls Just Want to Have Fun. That’s right – it’s not just a Cyndi Lauper song, it’s a fun dance movie starring all sorts of random celebrities. Playing Janey, Read More
What, exactly, does the British press have against Jack Nicholson and his glorious body? How else to explain the cheapshots The Departed star has been subjected to?
Today, This is London makes sport of the 70-year-old actor’s trip to St. Bart’s where he was photographed "flailing around the beach with his huge Read More
“I feel like the mood is people are trying to show a little restraint, and not be too showy or glamorous,” John Waters told the Transom during Julian Schnabel’s art opening at Larry Gagosian’s gallery on North Camden Drive in Beverly Hills on Thursday, Feb. 21—“Hollywood’s chance to wear black and look at art and Read More
Actor Jack Nicholson has taken a real shining to Hillary Clinton. In this audio clip, recorded last week, radio host Rick Dees puts the 70-year-old actor, who went on the air to endorse the senator from New York, on “a party line” with Ms. Clinton, 60.
“I thought you were going to call Read More
Cialis, Viagra, Spanish Fly, whatever—nothing could save the Bucket List (No. 7) from a limp performance this weekend. The movie, starring geriatric gents Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, may have managed a robust national opening, but it was blown away here in the city like a couple of old farts on the observatory deck of Read More
On a recent rainy morning, Alyse Grace was standing in the Trader Joe’s on 14th Street, discussing her struggle to be ecologically conscious. “You get to this point where you feel so overwhelmed and so hopeless and so fed up with feeling small,” said Ms. Grace, 29, who traded her 24-packs of Poland Spring for Read More
THE BUCKET LIST
Running Time 97 minutes
Written by Justin Zackham
Directed by Rob Reiner
Starring Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman and Sean Hayes
So many movies, so little time (to see them), and so little space (to write about them all). It’s the time of year when critics with pens Read More
Jack Nicholson, a member of a dying breed of Geezer Roues according to the Observer‘s Spencer Morgan, might not even see the new Batman movie, Dark Knight, because he can’t bear to watch pretty boy Heath Ledger play the Joker, which he made famous in the original Tim Burton-directed Batman.
Bad news, ladies: the Geezer Roué—the dashing older (and much older) playboy who saw New York as the verdant playing field of seduction; that dignified and slightly sleazy social genus (and genius) who bloomed in New York City like some rank but irresistible flower, spreading sulfurous spores through the open windows of young women’s studio Read More
Alexander Payne’s Sideways, from a screenplay by Mr. Payne and Jim Taylor, has closed the 42nd New York Film Festival as felicitously as Agnès Jaoui’s Look at Me opened it. I have a great many more films to see before I can adequately evaluate what was shown in between, but the festival has already given Read More
