Our Boy Toys Must Be Goys–The Blonder, the Better

My buddy Rachel’s on the up-and-up now. But it was touch-and-go for a bit. She’s recovering from a seven-year love addiction to her ex-boyfriend, Russell. Russell is from an Irish-Catholic family. He was an asshole. But he was pale and he was tall and he discouraged Rachel’s zealous and overly attached Jewish mother from visiting. Read More

Prepare to Buy

His name is Mandy Patinkin. He’s selling his loft in Tribeca. Prepare to buy.

The Hollywood character actor and Broadway star recently listed his three-bedroom duplex loft at the Sugar Warehouse, located at 79 Laight Street, on the market for $1.895 million-without ever having moved in.

Mr. Patinkin and his wife, actress and writer Read More

Julianne’s Dream House

Actress Julianne Moore and partner Bart Freundlich put their West Village penthouse loft on the market last week for $3.9 million, but it’s not because they need more space-even though renovations were completed on the place only in April of this year, around the time of the birth of their second child.

“Julianne has always Read More

Welcome to The Wild Party ! Dangerous, Seedy … Fantastic

George C. Wolfe’s wonderful, messy and dangerous new musical The Wild Party has opened at the Virginia Theater on Broadway, and I don’t think I’ve ever loved a show more while seeing–and forgiving–its flaws. For one thing, it’s as if the show is making a lunatic kamikaze attack on the age of Disney. Which is Read More

Mandy Patinkin Gets Choked Up at the Public Theater

Mandy and That Cadillac

About midway through the Joseph Papp Public Theater-New York Shakespeare Festival’s Gala 2000 at the Chelsea Piers on March 13, producer George Wolfe got up and likened working on the Public’s latest Broadway-bound project, The Wild Party , to performing “open-heart surgery on yourself on the No. 2 train at 3 Read More