Truth. Not a thing in wide use these days. I mean, where's George Washington and his hatchet and crappy cherry tree when you need him. Today the world lies about everything. Like this lady told her husband: "More...
March 21, 2010 12:00 AMNEXT month comes "Date Night" with Steve Carell, Tina Fey and Taraji P. Henson, who said: "They were great to work with. We had such laughs. They impro vise a lot. And I do that a lot." Since when does she do...
March 19, 2010 12:00 AMJulianne Moore and I sat in the back row of the Landmark Sunshine Theater. And don't let the name fool you. Downtown, somewhere between Forsyth and Eldridge, it's just the smell of a pickle from Katz's Deli and Yonah...
March 18, 2010 12:00 AMST. PATRICK'S day. Everything's coming up green but the economy. This day brings me to Malachy McCourt. Raised in Limerick, he has children named Siobhan, Conor and Cormac. He's on Radio Free Eireann. The man's...
March 17, 2010 12:00 AMTrivia. I have been collecting these forever and now, because you've been reasonably nice lately, I'm going to share them with you: Marvin Hamlisch's kid nickname was "Fingers" because of his ability at a piano . . ....
March 16, 2010 12:00 AMLast year's Oscar nominee for "Doubt," Viola Davis, and a fella called Denzel Washington come into the Cort Theatre next month in the August Wilson revival "Fences." "This came about when producer Scott Rudin...
March 15, 2010 12:00 AMSo this person says to me, "The problem with you is you're an uber-American." Possibly . . . hard to imagine . . . but . . . maybe . . . possibly . . . there exist small things wrong with me. A little (hardly...
March 14, 2010 12:00 AMThe play "Next Fall" opened last night at the Helen Hayes. Produc ers? Elton John and his David Furnish. The drama, which had a nice suc cess off-Broadway last year, suddenly became a wham bam slam glam opening....
March 12, 2010 12:00 AMK elsey Grammer -- and may his tribe increase because we love him -- hits Broadway next month in "La Cage Aux Folles." So I asked: How come? So he said, "It's what came along. "Sometimes things come at the right...
March 11, 2010 12:00 AMI have returned myself from our nation's western frontier, a strange land where the natives never saw a part of a woman's anatomy they did not wish to expose. And I am thankful -- yea, grateful -- to be back in the...
March 10, 2010 12:00 AMSo Vanity Fair's boss is stuffed into some small corner surveying all these movie stars who came to his little party -- Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Judd Apatow, Carey Mulligan, Vera Farmiga, Katharine...
March 09, 2010 12:00 AMIt's raining here. Also freezing . . . I cannot tell you the thrill of being in sunny Southern California. And 10 Best Picture nominees? Before the evening's over, forget Joan Rivers needing a facelift -- we'll...
March 08, 2010 12:00 AMBeverly Hills -- I am out in the far reaches of our Western frontier. A strange land peopled by different beings who look differently, eat differently, talk differently, dress differently. Grass and alfalfa is a...
March 07, 2010 12:00 AMANDY Garcia's "City Island," which won the Tribeca Film Festival's award for best family comedy, is about to come upon us. "This film is all about New York," said Havana-born Andres Arturo Garcia Menendez. "The...
March 05, 2010 12:00 AMSo this one week it was openings for Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, who rushed around, pistols akimbo, saving us from bad guys. And Matt Damon single-handedly protecting the entire planet from terrorists. The latest...
March 04, 2010 12:00 AM
Mag gie Gyllenhaal. Up for Best Supporting for "Crazy Heart." She said she'd call 4:30 p.m. She called exactly 4:30 p.m. The wind was whistling through her cell phone. "Sorry for the crackling sounds," she said. "I...
March 03, 2010 12:00 AM
I tell you what becomes a legend most. Hard work. Oscar nominee Mo'Nique called 9 a.m. on her way to doing her Atlanta TV show. "That's where I was, in the car, 8:30 in the morning when I heard I'd been nominated....
March 02, 2010 12:00 AMThat snowy, awful blizzardy night Cinema Society hosted Universal's "Green Zone." Boy, was it not green. The screening was 7:30. Matt Damon, I was told would show 6:45. Sweet, easy, affable, friendly, just not...
March 01, 2010 12:00 AMI have written before about having a rotten cold. I now write again about having a rotten cold. And why is that? Because I have one again, that's why. I'm feeling lousy. And I see no per centage in suffering...
February 28, 2010 12:00 AMWILL Albany's coneheads pay atten tion to what they're losing while they dither and dicker about this gambling racino thing? John Cusack: "A hot hand with dice is my idea of heaven. I can't describe it. Anyone who...
February 26, 2010 12:00 AMIt's coming up Oscars. It's coming up Quentin Jerome Tarantino of "Ing lourious Basterds" fame. Born 1963, the Tennessee-born high school dropout has an Oscar, a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Palme d'Or awards, and he's been...
February 25, 2010 12:00 AMBruce Willis -Tracy Morgan movie "Cop Out" had its shout-out Monday night. In person, the diametric opposites were diametrically opposite. Tracy, hot. Bruce, cool. Tracy banging pals on the back. Bruce, pecking them...
February 24, 2010 12:00 AM
The root of the word gossip is "gospel." In fact, the first four gossips were Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. So gossip has been around since the beginning of time. Unfortunately, "Mr. & Mrs. Fitch," the new play about...
February 23, 2010 12:00 AMC hristoph Waltz of "Inglourious Basterds" is so hot you can burn your fingers just touching his résumé. He called two seconds after he heard I wanted to speak with him. Jeremy Renner of "The Hurt Locker," who's 11...
February 22, 2010 12:00 AMWe speak of the joys of home reno vation. I am now living in what re sembles down town Baghdad. Friends suggested decorators. One super-refined type, making it plain that if the economy hadn't tanked he'd never...
February 21, 2010 12:00 AMThe round dining-room table in the handsome New Jersey home featured veal Milanese, pasta with shrimp, Mediterranean salad. Two darling little girls with wet hair chattered to Mom and Dad about their swimming class....
February 19, 2010 12:00 AMWhile Sadie the Scottie, West minster's Best in Show, hit yes terday's talk-show circuit, I spoke to her parents. And what personal goodie did Sadie get for winning this huge prize? "A hot dog," said Dan Musser. "She...
February 18, 2010 12:00 AMSo where was "Inglourious Basterds" Oscar nominee Christoph Waltz when he heard: "In bed in LA. Sound asleep. And it took me forever to fall asleep. I was actually afraid to listen. My wife was listening. And...
February 17, 2010 12:00 AMC arey Mulligan is up for a first-time Best Actress Oscar. In fact, she's up for a first-time Oscar period. She's a hot 24. Soon out in "Wall Street 2," she's actually up for her work in "An Education." When we...
February 16, 2010 12:00 AMSo this Judy Twersky p.r. lady says I must go down to the Gotham Com edy Club, 23rd between Seventh and Eighth. I say, Why'd I want to do that?" She says: Because Marion Grodin's doing stand-up tonight." I say, "What...
February 15, 2010 12:00 AM
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