By Reid Pillifant 11/16/09 6:36pm

Celebrity-Based Means of Negotiating With the Mayor

If you want to meet with the mayor about, say, a large garage for sanitation trucks that’s being built in your neighborhood, it apparently helps to have a celebrity emissary. “We couldn’t get an entree into the mayor’s office until [James] Gandolfini got involved, and suddenly the door was open,” Richard Barrett, a painter and Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 10/13/09 8:16pm

Wild Thing, I Wish I Loved You

Where the Wild Things Are
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze
Directed by Spike Jonze
Starring Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Paul Dano, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Chris Cooper

I’m the first to admit that I went into Where the Wild Things Are with Read More

By Azi Paybarah 6/12/09 4:20pm

James Gandolfini Meets With the Real Mayor

Actor James Gandolfini, who plays a New York City mayor in the movie, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, walked into City Hall a while ago and into the mayor’s side of the building.

I noted that there’s an article explaining how Gandolfini first intended to play the role of mayor more like Rudy Read More

By Lydia DePillis 3/24/09 11:29pm

Itchy and Saatchi…Tribeca Swells (Gandolfini!) Protest Local Trash Project at Ad Agency Party

“Have you seen Jennifer Connelly?” a reporter for local CW affiliate WPIX-Channel 11 asked legendary rocker Lou Reed.

The 67-year-old former Velvet Underground frontman, clad in comfy running shoes, jeans and a gray sweatshirt, and standing with wife Laurie Anderson, simply shrugged and turned back to a video presentation that was playing—something about a Read More