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Watching the Rugby World Cup with Mickey Rourke (Who Knew He Was an All-Blacks Fan?)

Around 3:45 a.m. on Sunday, the bouncers started warning patrons of the Red Lion that if they left, they would not be readmitted. But inside, the bar was still serving, and the crowd was not thinning: this was a “lock-in.” Patrons had each paid $10 for the privilege of watching live, on one of the Greenwich Village bar’s many available screens, New Zealand play France for the Rugby World Cup. Kick-off would be at 4 a.m. Read More

Goldring’s Club Turns Sapphire: Pamela Anderson Stars in Rejiggered Jiggle Joint’s Splashy Striptease

“I’ve got bigger tits than the broads in here!” quipped the jovial Steve Schirripa.

The Brooklyn-born actor perhaps best known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on HBO’s The Sopranos had just arrived at the boozy grand-opening party for the newly rebranded Sapphire New York strip club on Monday, April 27, looking very “legitimate businessman” Read More

Living in Oblivion

The Informers
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki
Directed by Gregor Jordan
Starring Jon Foster, Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder

A rancid load of swill called The Informers, from a depraved 1994 book by Bret Easton Ellis, is, like The Soloist, a Read More

Hollywood Studios Ready Rash of Comic Book Movies

While Warner Brothers tries to come up with some metric to prove that Watchmen is indeed a hit—a terrifying thought for the interested parties: Paul Blart could end up with a higher domestic gross—we figured it was as good a time as any to check in on the next wave of comic book movies that Read More