By Drew Grant 10/15/12 5:21pm

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The new cast of 'Girls' is much more culturally diverse

Mark Your Calendars: Girls’ Second Season Premiere Date Revealed

After months of biting our nails in anticipation as we await the second season of Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy Girls, we can almost see the home stretch! According to a hot-off-the-press-release from the network, the Sick, Sad Trials of Hannah Horvath & Friends will be returning to the air in only 100 days, which is around the same time we’ll all be sick of talking about Ms. Dunham’s $3.7 million book deal.

Great synergy, everyone! Keep up the good work! Read More

By Aaron Gell 4/12/12 8:40am

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Veep Premiere

Vice Squad: Ray Kelly, Bill Keller & Fran Lebowitz Hit the Premiere of Veep

Armando Iannucci’s new HBO series Veep, which premiered on Tuesday night at the Time Warner Center, looks like a winner—more Biden than Bentsen. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the shaky-cam comedy is to the West Wing what a bucket of Popeye’s is to a bowl of flax-dusted Brussels sprouts (less wholesome but considerably tastier).

During the cocktail hour preceding the screening, the premise of the show gave us an excuse to ask everyone : Who is your favorite vice president? Fortunately, guests were in a festive and charitable mood. No doubt they were already anticipating the post-screening filet mignon awaiting them at Porter House.

“You know what? I’ve never been asked that before,” Fran Lebowitz replied when we tracked her down in a corner of the 10th-floor reception area. “That’s a great question.” She thought a little. “Well, there was Johnson, and he became the president. Which is why you can’t nominate someone like Sarah Palin.” Read More

By Stephen Duffy 1/20/12 11:57am

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(L-R) Director Asger Leth with stars Kyra Sedgwick, Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks and Anthony Mackie

(Spoiler Alert) ‘It’s About a Man on a Fucking Ledge’: Sam Worthington Elightens Us at the Premiere

The more keenly eyed moviegoers amongst you will have noticed the recent trend of movie’s being titled very literally: ‘Bad Teacher’, ‘We Bought a Zoo’ etcetera etcetera. Keeping that trend up is Man on a Ledge, which advance screened last night at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, hosted by The Cinema Society with Gilt Man & Grey Goose. Read More

By Myles Tanzer 11/21/11 5:34pm

The Wee Hours

Illo: Zina Saunders

The Wee Hours: Bryce Dallas Howard’s New Film? Canon Fodder

Ron Howard fits snugly in the category of people and things that are loved unreservedly, along with pita chips, Gchat and money. So it was not especially surprising that his Tuesday-night event at the Museum of Natural History was attended happily by many a New Yorker and one ex-Real Housewife.

The occasion was the premiere of When You Find Me, a film Mr. Howard produced and his daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard, directed. Read More

By Henry Krempels 11/14/11 3:16pm

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Betty Murray and Don Murray

My Week With Marilyn Premiere: A Breeding Ground For Future Monroes

Photographers ran amok outside the Paris Theatre last night, for the premiere of new movie, My Week With Marilyn. The theatrical cohabitation of Marilyn Monroe and Michele Williams, provided a breeding ground for some of the best looking people in town—under strict guidance from party-throwers, Forevermark and Quintessentially, that they watch the film, of course. Read More

By Nate Freeman 8/11/10 2:07pm

Eat, Pray, Promote… Hey, Julia, Where's the Love?

“I don’t have as much estrogen as this storyline does,” David Lyons, the Australian actor who plays Ian in the Eat Pray Love adaptation, said last night on the red carpet of the film’s premiere at the Ziegfeld.

Then Lyons backtracked for a second. “And that’s not a bad thing-it’s about rediscovering yourself.”

The celluloid Read More