To the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Gala on Monday, May 5, themed “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy,” Gossip Girl star Blake Lively wore black gloves and a snug black Ralph Lauren gown involving feathers. She said that her favorite superhero was “Spider-Man. Cause he’s awesome! He gets to swing around, and, I don’t Read More
The guys that brought you The Aristocrats, the movie where more than a dozen comics delivered versions of the oldest, dirtiest joke on the Hollywood comedy circuit, have just signed a six-figure deal for a book that will interview salty comics about controversial topics.
!Satiristas¡ will be written by Paul Provenza with photographer Dan Dion, Read More
Lizz Winstead was having brunch in the Noho Star on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4, wearing a Hüsker Dü T-shirt. Slight and fierce, with a tinge of gray at the roots of her curly, brownish-blond hair, she was talking about her career in comedy and the prospects for Central Air, the soon-to-debut left-wing talk-radio network for Read More
Lead-writing rule: It’s good to open with conflict, right up top. Thus Edward Wyatt on Sarah Silverman:
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 — Those who know Sarah Silverman only from her much discussed star turn in the 2005 comedy film “The Aristocrats” and from her one-woman concert movie, “Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic,” might bristle Read More
LOS ANGELES—“If this was New York, we’d say, ‘Get the fuck out of here’—but you can’t do that here,” said Jack Cabasso. “I’m flying out tonight, and I can’t wait to get home.”
It was the day before the Oscars, at the Beverly Hilton, and Mr. Cabasso, the executive V.P. of Mario Badescu, wasn’t taking Read More
LOS ANGELES—“If this was New York, we’d say, ‘Get the fuck out of here’—but you can’t do that here,” said Jack Cabasso. “I’m flying out tonight, and I can’t wait to get home.”
It was the day before the Oscars, at the Beverly Hilton, and Mr. Cabasso, the executive V.P. of Mario Badescu, wasn’t Read More
Following the world premiere last Friday of the yet-to-be-acquired Thank You for Smoking at the Toronto International Film Festival, Adam Brody, one of the film’s stars, hung out in the makeshift V.I.P. room at the party being held in the Chanel Boutique on Bloor Street. Looking an awful lot like his OC alter ego Seth Read More
Lizz Winstead was having brunch in the Noho Star on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4, wearing a Hüsker Dü T-shirt. Slight and fierce, with a tinge of gray at the roots of her curly, brownish-blond hair, she was talking about her career in comedy and the prospects for Central Air, the soon-to-debut left-wing talk-radio network for Read More
On July 11, the comedian Sarah Silverman made a typically kittenish appearance on the couch of NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien : She nibbled fruit, briefly clasped her breasts and performed a pre-scripted joke in which she uttered the word "Chinks," a slur for Chinese-Americans. It got a medium laugh.
A week later, Ms. Read More
