Monday: The West Wing
Isn’t it great when this show starts over from the beginning on Bravo? Don’t get us wrong, those later, Obama-forecasting episodes were fun, and who doesn’t love Alan Alda? But there’s absolutely nothing like those first few magical seasons of The West Wing when the show was under Aaron Sorkin’s Read More
Monday: House
Fox has gone bonkers promoting the heck out of this very special House episode … and we are totally on board! In the creepily titled episode “Locked In” (about the even more creepy Locked-In Syndrome), Mos Def guest stars as a man who is trapped inside his body but can’t move Read More
Our brain is simply spinning with the news that Steven Soderbergh is planning on making a 3-D rock musical about Egyptian sexpot ruler Cleopatra. First, the casting: Variety reports today that Mr. Soderbergh is sniffing around Catherine Zeta-Jones to take on the role, previously held by both Claudette Colbert (in 1934) and Elizabeth Read More
With the ups and downs of the Dow during the last month feeling like a ride on the Cyclone, it’s no wonder that 20th Century Fox wants to get their long-gestating Wall Street sequel, generically titled Money Never Sleeps, back on the fast track. The follow-up to Oliver Stone’s seminal 1987 film has Read More
Fresh off the news that Steven Soderbergh’s Che has been picked up by IFC Films, now there’s word that the director’s developing a film based on the last years of singer Liberace. Michael Douglas will star as the flamboyant singer, while Matt Damon is in talks for the role of Read More
Trumbo
Running time 96 minutes
Written by Christopher Trumbo
Directed by Peter Askin
Starring Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas and others
Peter Askin’s Trumbo is based on the play, Trumbo, by Christopher Trumbo, and is clearly a labor of love and ideological affinity for all the Read More
Being the ex-wife of Romancing the Stone’s romantic lead has its perks. Diandra Douglas, who used to be married to Michael Douglas, and her new husband, guitar-maker (really) Michael Klein, have paid $15.25 million for an 1899 townhouse at 114 East 65th Street.
According to deeds filed this afternoon, they bought the 8,000-square-foot Read More
Something to think about while you trundle around the city looking like Nanook of the North: The Giuliani partners- Rudy and Judi-are busy moving fine furnishings into their new summer house in Water Mill!
Yes, early December reports that the couple-who have been looking for ages-found their own piece of the Hamptons and were about Read More
The neo-Georgian townhouse belonging to Moore Capital Management executive Zack Hampton Bacon III has landed on the market at just shy of $11 million. The residence made headlines this year when the hedge-fund executive and his fiancée, Diandra Douglas, the ex-wife of Michael Douglas (they divorced in 2000, before Mr. Douglas took up with Catherine Read More
With Helpers Like These,
Who Needs Hinderers? The problem with being able to afford lots of household help is that when your jewelry goes missing, it’s hard to sort through all the possible suspects: maids, nannies, drivers, personal assistants, yoga instructors, etc.
That’s the dilemma Diandra Douglas, gal about town and former wife of Read More
