Michael Pollan’s new book, Cooked, has just been published, and to celebrate, the rangy, brilliant food writer hosted 100 friends at the Morgan Lehmann Gallery underneath the High Line on West 22nd Street. Why there? So that his guests could be surrounded by the stunning paintings of Judith Belzer—his wife—whose electrifying depictions of cities Read More
Robert GreenblattMichael J. Fox
It is a laughing matter: When Michael J. Fox abruptly left his starring role on ABC’s Spin City in 2000, the world was shocked to find out that the actor was suffering from a degenerative brain disorder.
So what better way to mark his return, over a decade later, than with a comedy about a family man with Parkinson’s? Read More
Most glamorous fund-raisers follow a familiar formula: They take place in a swanky setting, serve cataracts of Champagne, invite plenty of celebrity guests to spy on and auction off cool prizes.
The 10th New York City gala fund-raiser for the Michael J. Fox Foundation, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson’s,” certainly Read More
Monday: Gossip Girl
OMFG you guys! It’s the Gossip Girl season-two finale! And sheesh, what a long and crazy ride it has been … hmmm, we can’t really remember a single continuing plot point! But tonight the you-know-what will really hit the fan when Gossip Girl sends out a “scandalous” email as the kids graduate Read More
Monday: Charlie’s Angels
We’ve had Sam Rockwell on the brain since a colleague of ours saw his new movie Moon at Tribeca and came back raving. We love pretty much everything the guy does—remember the Clooney-directed Confessions of a Dangerous Mind?—but his turn as the secret bad guy who romances Drew Barrymore (and dances!) Read More
It’s 2 AM and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully-lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you’ve already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we’re just like you: single.
Need a movie to keep you Read More
Ryan Reynolds, the actor best known for his role as Scarlett Johansson‘s new husband, is running the New York Marathon this year! In an entry on Huffington Post this morning, he begins by recalling his previous experience as a spectator of the 38-year-old race:
I joined the crowd about a half-mile Read More
It would be nice to think that with the release of the new extended cut of Casualties of War, Brian De Palma’s masterpiece and one of the greatest of all American movies, would finally get its due. In 1989, America didn’t want to see another Vietnam movie. Now, mired in Iraq, viewers may see the Read More
Not long ago, a rabbi’s son from New Jersey named David Rosenthal was one of the hottest writers in television. He made millions of dollars and played a key role in the success of sitcoms like Ellen and Spin City . He was young, funny and smart, and important people like Jeffrey Katzenberg loved his Read More
Wednesday, August 12
David Letterman’s first choice to replace Tom Snyder on the Late Late Show , friendly, sweater-wearing Jon Stewart, didn’t get it–Craig Kilborn did. So now Mr. Stewart replaces Mr. Kilborn as host of the Daily Show at Comedy Central in ’99. But where does that leave poor Norm Macdonald? [Comedy Central, 45, Read More
