Blood is Thicker Than Blood ... The single advantage the awful Twilight movies have over Stephenie Meyer’s awful-but-gripping novels is that, unlike the books' sad sack, movie ...
Some Nouns, Some Verbs, and 9/11: Milking Tragedy in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ... Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn't like: After 2002's The Hours, a lugubrious women's-problem picture touching on AIDS and as...
Spielberg and Fincher: Taming Creatures ... Consummate technicians with bankable interests and personal trademarks, Steven Spielberg and David Fincher are something more than auteurs, but also s...
How to Be a New Yorker ... In 1964, Doubleday published "a terribly useful guide" called, terribly usefully, How to Be a New Yorker, by Joan and Leslie Rich. Joan was a Brooklyn...
Fantasy Island: Alexander Payne's Feel-Good Hawaiian Excursion, The Descendants ... As life-or-death dramedy, The Descendants poses several important questions: Why has it taken Alexander Payne seven years to follow up on his critical...
100 Most Powerless New Yorkers ... Have you noticed that power lists, which have been spreading like the clap lately, from the Time 100 to the Forbes 500, tell you things you already kn...
A Bond Makeover for Sherlock Holmes in Game of Shadows ... Although supplying boy's adventure thrills on the side, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are remarkable for how they make the process of e...
Damien Hirst (1965–2012): In Memoriam ... Damien Steven Hirst, the world's richest artist ($332 million according to Britain's Sunday Times), full-time businessman, part time art-collector, so...
"Which Cougar Swings Both Ways?" And Other Sizzling Blind Items ... Let's start with some blind items. You'll thank me later. Which foreign-born designer waves and keeps running whenever she sees her plastic surgeon i...
I Don't Know How She Did It: Thatcher as Victim in The Iron Lady ... In the first scene of The Iron Lady, which reteams director Phyllida Lloyd with her Mamma Mia! star Meryl Streep, eightysomething Margaret Thatcher is...