After June’s ugly shuttering of the Shooting Gallery, the outlook for New York’s film community got considerably brighter on Aug. 2 with the announcement that United Artists, the film company founded in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith and William S. Hart, would be returning to its New York birthplace with Read More
William Morris co-president Jim Wiatt has been at the talent agency for barely two years, but already he seems to know what he wants to do next. Film-industry sources familiar with the situation said that Mr. Wiatt has been making a strong push for Sony Pictures Entertainment chief John Calley’s job, and he’s been taking Read More
If there was any question that things had gotten serious between billionaire Ronald Perelman and the actress Ellen Barkin, the answer lies in the hairstyle that Mr. Perelman has been showing off, along with his date, at a series of public events in the city, including the 40th anniversary of the Four Seasons restaurant.
Mr. Read More
Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight , from a screenplay by Scott Frank, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard, crackles and snaps on the screen as the kind of exhilarating entertainment that makes it all look easy. All you need is a good script from a good novel, with sharp, pungent dialogue, creative direction that 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
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
