Bad Women Make Me Feel Good

I never thought the sight of wild and wayward women parading across the screen would gladden my heart, but oh, it does! By “wayward” I mean not just cute eccentrics or heavy-lidded vamps, but worse: girlfriends who contemplate murdering their lovers; wives who prefer their fathers-in-law to their husbands; mothers whose first instinct is to Read More

It’s True: A Charming German Love Story, With Great Food

Sandra Nettelbeck’s Mostly Martha, from her own screenplay, is a minor miracle: a German movie that is at the same time a literally and figuratively delicious entertainment of prodigious charm, warmth and decency. Granted, this is a film that tells us absolutely nothing new about the problems that face us and is shamelessly hedonistic about Read More

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 14th

Smooth operator sat Elaine’s tonight -just like it’s the late 90′s!-as big, smooth ABC prez David Westin and Hyperion books president Bob Miller co-host a serious tough-guy book party for 20/20 correspondent and snappy dresser John Miller (the fella who crouched with Osama bin Laden back when everyone else was reporting on Read More