The fresh-squeezed carrot juice arrived at the table in New York’s Four Seasons Hotel restaurant. There would be no lemon-ricotta pancakes with applewood-smoked sausage on the side, no two or three glasses of white wine that had once been a morning’s pre-interview pour. This wimpy Kucinich of a cocktail was big Joe Eszterhas’ breakfast.
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There came a point about midway through the second act of David Mamet’s peculiar misfire, Boston Marriage , when I thought, with relief and surprise, “Oh, it’s over!” An abrupt blackout had suddenly descended with the jolly curtain line: “Well, ain’t you wicked!” Frankly, it seemed as good a place to end as any.
When Read More
Schnabel Dished in Venice
As artists go, Julian Schnabel is a big man in New York. Big enough, even, to run around the city in sarongs without anyone saying anything. But in Venice, a city whose celebrity artists hail from different centuries, not decades, Mr. Schnabel maybe isn’t so big. Revelers at the American Foundation Read More
The Girl Can Green-Light
Salvaging what remains of the worst summer I can remember, I am off to greener pastures where, if I’m lucky, I will not see a cell phone, a pierced tongue, a computer, a rock video, a traffic jam or a single motion picture released after 1950. Before I go, Read More
Gena Rowlands She’s Not
In 1980, Gena Rowlands burned a hole through the screen in Gloria , the tough, punchy and exhilarating story of a retired gun moll and ex-showgirl saddled with a 7-year-old kid whose family has been wiped out by the mob. It was the sixth film she made with her husband, writer-director Read More
Vincent Gallo stared furiously at his menu in the Art Deco stillness of Petrossian. “We are having a fancy moment here,” he said. “This is as fancy as it gets.” Mr. Gallo was looking pretty fancy himself, in a form-gripping custom-made brown leather suit. A gray T-shirt peeked out from under the partially unzipped coat. Read More
Get ready for a batch of new movies dedicated to the Hollywood theory that in the nonsensical 90′s there’s an audience for just about anything so long as it’s weird and incomprehensible. First up at bat: Sphere and Dark City , two sci-fi horror flicks that are more silly than scary. What some people consider Read More
Gallo, Pissed
Actor-director Vincent Gallo says he’s certain that Sharon Stone won’t remember the time they met, several years ago, at Chasen’s restaurant in Los Angeles because, he said, she was preoccupied, “staring at herself.”
Ms. Stone may soon have a difficult time forgetting Mr. Gallo, however, now that the outspoken New Yorker Read More
Resourceful Morningside Heights residents have come up with a lethal new weapon in their war against intrusive movie crews: the mirror.
Enraged by parking problems caused in their neighborhood by filming of a video for the alternative singer Fiona Apple, a group of Claremont Avenue residents decided to fight back. Their strategy: placing mirrors in Read More
Upper East Side
Six-bed, 3.5-bath, 6,800-square-foot town house.
Asking: $3.95 million. Selling: $3.95 million.
Time on market: one day.
Welcome to Miramax Monopoly (and, yes, it’s played with real money). As reported in this column last week, Bob Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films, top, sold his Fifth Avenue penthouse after owning it only two Read More
