On the evening of Monday, April 19, Carly Simon stood backstage at N.Y.U.’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, surrounded by a scrum of excited kids, a dozen celebrity actors and singers and Taro Alexander—the ebullient founder of Our Time, a nine-year-old theater company composed of the aforementioned children, all of whom, like Mr. Alexander Read More
Monday: The Late Show With David Letterman
All eyes will be on the big guy tonight, the first show since Dave Letterman’s announcement last Thursday sent the world into a weird whipped up frenzy (Friday night’s show, with Larry David, was taped before the scandal broke). Call us crazy, but Read More
Do you remember the first time you became aware of Bradley Cooper? I sure do. It was sometime during the first episode of Alias, circa 2001, and Mr. Cooper played Will Tippen, best friend to Jennifer Garner’s Sydney Briscow. What I remember is being distracted from the increasingly complicated plot by the fact Read More
Last Saturday, while almost every film blogger this side of Jeffrey Wells was sitting in a crowded theater in Austin, Texas, waiting for Joe Swanberg’s Alexander the Last to unspool before them, we were curled up on our couch in Astoria getting ready to do the same thing. The film premiered simultaneously at Read More
I Love You, Man
Running time 110 minutes
Written by Larry Levin and John Hamburg
Starring Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, J. K. Simmons, Jaime Pressly
For pure nausea, there’s a rudimentary horror masquerading as a gross-out comedy marketed for morons called I Love You, Man. Another brain-dead freak show about Read More
Monday: Gossip Girl
After going into hibernation for the winter, Gossip Girl returns tonight to make the grown ups who watch feel bad about themselves. Since the show hasn’t aired in nearly two months, here’s a refresher: Dan Humphrey is busy screwing his teacher, who looks younger than him; Chuck Bass is honoring Read More
Forget James Brown. The hardest-working man in show business is the guy who manages Steve Carell’s calendar. It seems like every other day a story comes out about Mr. Carell agreeing to star in a new film. And then there are days like today when it’s two films. Variety reports that Mr. Carell is Read More
Whether it’s dual movies about giant asteroids hitting earth or a couple of television programs dealing with the inner workings of a late night sketch comedy show, we’re always up for a good Hollywood trend. While Entertainment Weekly has already gone ahead and proclaimed mall cops as the trend of 2009, we’ve actually found Read More
With the box office success of Role Models and an excellent appearance hosting Saturday Night Live under his belt, the last few months of 2008 have been quite successful for Paul Rudd. And from the looks of things, 2009 should be even bigger. The "serious one" from the Apatow clan (after all, he has worked Read More
Just a day after eviscerating Starz and their new dramatic series Crash, we might need to ready an apology. Variety reports that the network will be teaming with Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas to create Party Down, a new half-hour comedy series set to appear during the first quarter of 2009. And it Read More
