Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale, from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis, based on the novel by Ian Fleming, happens to be the 21st James Bond movie, as well as the very first that I would seriously consider placing on my own yearly 10-best list. Furthermore, I consider Daniel Craig to be Read More
Despite some attempts to set the record straight, the story persists that Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst as the Austrian girl who becomes the Queen of France, was generally despised at this past spring’s Cannes Film Festival, and that the French particularly hated it. The movie did draw some scattered boos at the Read More
“Using every threat, contract, and influence I could muster”: That’s John Huston in his 1980 autobiography, An Open Book, on how he fought Warner Bros. to release his 1967 adaptation of Carson McCullers’ novella, Reflections in a Golden Eye, in a diffuse amber wash that would give the film a golden tint. Warner agreed to Read More
Despite some attempts to set the record straight, the story persists that Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst as the Austrian girl who becomes the Queen of France, was generally despised at this past spring’s Cannes Film Festival, and that the French particularly hated it. The movie did draw some scattered boos at the Read More
Last November, Ian Schrager and Aby Rosen invited about 25 of Manhattan’s top luxury real-estate brokers to dinner at the Tribeca restaurant, Bouley.
The evening was arranged to celebrate the completion of a luxurious and much-anticipated apartment at 50 Gramercy Park North, the 23-unit co-op the duo had developed together alongside their gut renovation of Read More
The Politicker doesn’t usually just reprint partisan press releases, but this one from the State Democrats is hard to resist:
PATAKI DEVASTATES THE NATION: SILENCES THE DEAFENING CLAMOR FOR HIM TO ACCEPT NON-EXISTENT SUPREME COURT OFFER
The Gov told the Des Moines Register, “The judiciary hasn’t been of any interest to me. So you Read More
Our fearless intern Michael Grynbaum went to the British Building yesterday to see how Target stores’ promo event would live up to its promise to turn the building’s facade into a “vertical runway.” He filed this report:
Consciously or not (and frankly, we’re guessing the latter), Target’s noontime fashion show at Rockefeller Center Read More
Remember Remington Steele ? The plush 1980′s NBC detective drama with the Henry Mancini theme was very good for Pierce Brosnan, who played the title role and would go on to become James Bond and marry buxom, beatific Keely Shaye Smith. Nor did it hurt the career of Doris Roberts (office assistant Mildred Krebs), who Read More
Wednesday 5th
Since shopping is the new sex-heck, the old sex used to be shopping, too; who are we kidding?-start tonight off with the sticky-fingered ladies of Lucky (attire: aggressive camisole, “statement” bag ) as they clomp down to Gansevoort Street to suck down something-tini’s and toast the magazine’s dynamic duo, editors Kim France Read More
It wouldn’t be a holiday season without James Bond, and with Die Another Day , the 20th installment, the Bond franchise continues unchallenged with new guns, gadgets and girls galore. After 40 years, 007 shows no shortness of breath, and after an endless array of violent, explosive and superhuman clashes with death, he still emerges Read More
