The Emmy nominations: Same as they ever were. Despite rule changes that, in theory, allowed for the more “popular” series’ to hopefully gain nominations, it was once again the underdogs and cable that ruled the roost. Tina Fey’s 30 Rock led the field with 22 nominations, including the Comedy Trifecta of Read More
The tagline being used to promote the sixth season of Entourage (how exactly did we get to six already?) says everything you need to know about why the show is still entertaining after all these summers: “Life Changes. Friends Don’t.” Strip away the dirty jokes and ridiculous plot Read More
After meeting a bunch of girls at Britney Spears‘s birthday party, the romantic Jeremy Piven sent a mass text message to all of them reading "Come to my room—whoever responds first gets me for the night." The lucky first responder was 23-year-old Ashley Chontos, who has been nursing the actor through his mercury poisoning and Read More
Residents of the Jane Street Hotel, which is owned by Graydon Carter‘s Waverly Inn partners Eric Goode and Sean McPherson, showed up at the restaurant to complain to Hugh Jackman, Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg about the building’s "appalling" problems with rats and asbestos. [P6]
Jeremy Piven is claiming that a Read More
The 20th anniversary production on Broadway of David Mamet’s famous dissection of Hollywood, Speed-the-Plow, raises a burning question: In publicizing the play, has Mr. Mamet finally gone off his rocker?
His quite recent public conversion from a self-described “brain dead liberal” into some kind of neo-conservative pedagogue isn’t at issue here—except Read More
No matter how lame and rushed the three-hour Emmy broadcast was, we’d happily watch it again just to see Tina Fey keep winning. Our favorite crush saw her 30 Rock receive seven awards, including Best Actress in a Comedy Series and Best Comedy Series. Good thing she was seated in the front row!
We’re less than a week away from the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, which airs Sunday night on ABC. And in preparation, we thought it would be fun to give you a little help on your office pool. Welcome to Day 2 of our Emmy preview!
We’ve already looked at the Supporting Actresses. Now it’s Read More
At the Entourage season five premiere Wednesday evening at the Ziegfield Theater on 54th Street, attendees would have been forgiven if they assumed, incorrectly, that the premiere was being filmed for some meta-meta-upcoming episode. There were screaming fans, and the boys—Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, and Jeremy Piven—were dressed in suits, and Read More
It’s the 20th anniversary David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow and the Belasco Theatre will start the birthday celebrations on Oct. 3. with director Neil Pepe (who recently helmed Ethan Coen’s Almost an Evening) and stars Jeremy Piven as greedy producer Charlie Fox hugging it out with The Homecoming‘s Raul Esparza as Bobby Gould, according to Read More
