By Benjamin-Emile Le Hay 9/10/12 4:00pm

Fashion Week

NANETTE LEPORE Fall 2012 Fashion Show

Kristin Chenoweth Back on Her Feet and Front-Row at Fashion Week

Broadway star and Tony winner, Kristin Chenoweth was badly injured on the set of popular primetime CBS show The Good Wife in July. The petite star told the LA Times in September that she “had a skull fracture, rib issue and neck issue and a hip issue,” and had to be carried off in a stretcher after a lighting rig fell on her.

But this week, she has back in action for the first time, attending several runway shows in New York.

“This is my big night out after seven weeks,” the giddy and tenacious Ms. Chenoweth told The Observer at the DL 1961 fashion show last week in West Chelsea. Read More

By Foster Kamer 8/27/12 4:57pm

WOMP WOMP

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Louis C.K. Performing Three Surprise Shows Tonight, Resulting in Unsurprising Ticket-Buyer Outrage

The star of FX’s Louie—widely considered to be the comedian of the moment— Louis C.K. is a tough ticket these days, especially for New Yorkers, whose venues are almost never big enough to accommodate either the sold-out crowds or the greedy hands of ticket scalpers. This principle was demonstrated to especially pronounced effect earlier today, when Brooklyn venue The Bell House announced that he would be testing out an hour of new material tonight. Not just for one show, but three separate shows.

Three separate shows that have since sold out and infuriated people. Read More

By Drew Grant 4/02/12 4:26pm

Branding

Buzzfeed's Tanner Ringerud gets a GoT tattoo (Buzzfeed)

Game of Thrones Weirdest Marketing Tie-In Yet: Free Tattoos from NY INK!

Last night when Don Draper (almost) met the Rolling Stones on Mad Men, we couldn’t help but be reminded of those old crossover cartoons…like The Flintstones meet The Jetsons, or when the Harlem Globetrotters helped out Scooby Doo. Of course Don Draper doesn’t like Mick Jagger and his sexy ways, and is worried about the dope-smoking children who worship the band. (Don Draper, you are old.) Still, he went to the concert because he needed the Stones to sign on for a commercial with Heinz. Read More

By Emily Witt 12/30/11 12:01pm

What's in a Name

Andrew Wylie is not the namesake of Andrew Wylie.

Andrew Wylie Character on The Good Wife of No Relation to That Other Andrew Wylie

On the CBS show The Good Wife there is a character named Andrew Wylie. Played by the actor Tim Guinee, the character is a private investigator hired by the state attorney’s office to cause some drama by casually revealing past love affairs to all the wrong people and reviving dormant scandals. An inciter of barely suppressed gasps and sobs. But could it really be just a coincidence that he shares a name with a certain literary agent? Read More