Kevin Spacey always seemed like the kind of guy who might benefit from time opposite a therapist… rather than playing one. But, according to Variety, he’ll play a psychologist to the stars in a new movie called Shrink. He does have a very soothing voice, and once we get to the character description, Read More
Kevin Spacey will replace Patrick Stewart as the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theater at Oxford University’s St. Catherine’s College, the AP has announced.
The one-year position, which has been in existence for seventeen years, has been held by Sir Ian McKellen, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Miller, and Stephen Daldry, among Read More
Tonight, Alicia Keys, Kylie Minogue, Annie Lennox and Melissa Etheridge are in Oslo, Norway, taking part in a concert honoring current Nobel Peace laureates Al Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Ms. Lennox, addressing a crowd at today’s event, asked: “Can celebrities save the world? It rankles. What kind Read More
Kevin Spacey, the Academy Award–win ning actor who is now creative director of the Old Vic theater in London, is in town to perform in Eugene O’Neill’s Moon for the Misbegotten on Broadway. And on Monday, May 22—from the sublime to the ridiculous!—he was at Buddha Bar, celebrating his appearance on the June cover of Read More
The Devil Wears Prada is the first classy, elegant and really entertaining film of 2006. It’s about the phony, pretentious, insanely overpriced, death-rattle world of what is laughably called fashion, and the magazines that market what’s left of it to a fan base of gullible consumers who can’t afford it and don’t need it in Read More
It’s all over but the box-office math. As I pop a Maalox and say an enthusiastic goodbye to a dyspeptic year at the movies that produced very little joy and a lot of acid reflux, here’s some of what happened at the end:
A Love Song for Bobby Long. A chicken-fried Southern Gothic tone poem Read More
On the dour anniversary of 9/11, lights flashed. Sirens roared. Cell phones rang. Rented limo doors opened and hottie du jour Penélope Cruz emerged, surrounded by burly security guards with hairy forearms who whisked her down the intensely lit crimson-red carpet into another premiere “gala,” where she talked about doing an on-screen lesbian tango with Read More
Plain old screenwriters rarely achieve the recognizability of a Coppola or Tarantino. Charlie Kaufman comes to mind and, on the other end of the spectrum, Joe Eszterhas. A third member of this elect crew is Alan Ball. After stints on Grace Under Fire and Cybill , Mr. Ball became a name in his own right Read More
Antoine Fuqua’s Tears of the Sun , from a screenplay by Alex Lasker and Patrick Cirillo, deserves the bad reviews and the lackluster earnings it has accumulated thus far. But I saw it at an interesting moment, an early-afternoon showing 72 hours before the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq. The audience, not surprisingly, consisted of me Read More
Lasse Hallström’s The
Shipping News , from a screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on the
novel by E. Annie Proulx, has received very mixed reviews since its release.
But long before then it had become the victim of a persistent “buzz” in the
trade papers, the gossip columns and on the Internet-so much so, Read More
