From one of the thousands of friendly neighborhood publicists scheming about getting attention during fashion week: At her show this Sunday, Tracy Reese will team with Circle of Friends to help models kick the smoking habit. Tracy will support a smoke-free backstage for models, hairdressers and makeup artists. Smoking cessation counselors will be available backstage Read More
You’ve probably heard about Thirteen . It’s the movie about a 13-year-old girl, Tracy, who falls under the spell of a femme fatal named Evie, a racy, lawless girl who comports herself like a 20-year-old. Having been a well-behaved child, Tracy hooks up with a drug-abusing, tongue-piercing, orgy-throwing crowd. By the end of the film, Read More
Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen , from a screenplay by Ms. Hardwicke and Nikki Reed, has been rapturously received by most of my esteemed colleagues, and I can’t fathom why. The adventures and misadventures of two nubile, mischief-making middle-school teenagers in Los Angeles is a case of too much and, at the same time, simply not enough. Read More
When the current silly season is over, Arnold Schwarzenegger may win over the pectoral college, but Kevin Costner will get the popular vote. His wonderful new film Open Range is the kind of movie guaranteed to make just about everybody happy. If cowboy movies are passé, it’s because they all look and sound alike. But Read More
In the wee hours of a recent Tuesday morning, Tracy Westmoreland and some pals trashed Siberia Bar, a dive tucked away inside the subway station at 50th Street and Broadway.
“Somebody–I think it was me–threw a bottle against the wall and everybody thought, ‘Oh, what a witty thing to do,’” said the six-foot-tall, 260-pound Read More
Michael Hoffman’s William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream materializes on the screen as a mélange of miscalculations. Let me count the ways. First, the colorful hyperrealism of the Tuscan settings for the Athens scenes makes the murky fairyland habitats manufactured in Rome’s Cinecittà studio look more lugubrious than liberating. Then there are the obtrusive anachronisms Read More
A Monica in Training
Since every downward trend produces at least one optimistic side effect, I knew if we waited patiently enough, the current plague of teenage flicks would eventually offer an exception that people over the age of 15 could sit through without suffering brain damage. Election is that film–a rare excursion into the Read More
