Ruda Awakening

Morgan Freeman and his wife, Myrna Colley-Lee, were the first to arrive. They stepped out of a town car in front of the French restaurant Tocqueville on East 15th Street and made their way to the empty bar area. Neither knew what to expect; the hostess, Ruda Dauphin, had called it a “salon.” They were Read More

Bam! Pow! Society Superheroes Conquer The Big Swollen Ball

To the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Gala on Monday, May 5, themed “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy,” Gossip Girl star Blake Lively wore black gloves and a snug black Ralph Lauren gown involving feathers. She said that her favorite superhero was “Spider-Man. Cause he’s awesome! He gets to swing around, and, I don’t Read More

J.T.’s World

The actress Winona Ryder stood onstage at the Public Theater on April 17, wringing her hands and squealing with adoration.

“The first time I met J.T. was during my first heartbreak,” she said of the author J.T. LeRoy, whose work had just been read by a group of performers including musicians Debbie Harry and Shirley Read More

National Security Boils Over With Willis and Baldwin

Harold Becker’s Mercury Rising , from a screenplay by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, based on the novel Simple Simon by Ryne Douglas Pearson, places an autistic child-savant named Simon Lynch (Miko Hughes) in dire jeopardy because he has solved a secret code that no one was supposed to be able to solve. He is Read More