Todd Solondz is the sort of director beloved by fresh-faced film students when they first arrive at school—his films are superficially interesting for their shock value and their disconnect from reality coexisting with an insistence that this is how life really is. Once deep into the syllabus, though, the burgeoning filmmakers learn that these spectacles Read More
Congratulations to Salman Rushdie, who finally gained his official Twitter handle after shaming another person off of it. Mr. Rushdie joined Twitter this week but had to take the handle @SalmanRushdie1 because some goofball had already been tweeting out from @SalmanRushdie. As of yesterday, it was still being reported that Mr. Rushdie was verified at @SalmanRushdie1, but had sent a message to the faux-tweeter: “Who are you? why are you pretending to be me? Release this username. You are a phoney. All followers please note.” Read More
Mia Farrow is back to her world-saving ways.
The 63-year-old actress will travel to Hong Kong to give a speech entitled "Darfur and the Olympics" to use the Olympic games to pressure China to help stop violence in Darfur, Sudan. Ms. Farrow will speak to the Foreign Correspondents Club as the torch passes through Read More
Eva Moskowitz‘s latest flyer– “Don’t Get Mad, Get Eva” — boasts at one point that the City Council Member is raising her three children “in the same one-bedroom rent-stabilized apartment that Eva grew up in.”
“…A resident of a rent-stabilized apartment herself, Eva was a prime sponsor of the Tenants Bill of Rights.”
This Read More
