Guillermo del Toro. Mexican filmmaker. He produced and wrote Katie Holmes' new movie "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark." Round body. Hairy face. Rumpled clothes. Shape less shoes. Eyeglasses. Easy, affable, friendly, chatty,...
August 11, 2011 12:00 AMMonday was New Movie City. "One Day" starring Anne Hathaway premiered at Lincoln Square Theater, 68th and Broadway. "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" starring Katie Holmes premiered at Walter Reade Theater, 65th off...
August 10, 2011 12:00 AMJeremy Kyle. You don't know him. I don't know him. We'll soon know him. Six years he's done British TV three hours five days a week, and Sept. 19 his daily syndicated TV hour starts here 4 p.m. on Fox. I graciously...
August 09, 2011 12:00 AMJudy Collins. Age 70. Folk music legend of the '60s. In showbiz 50 years. Over 40 albums, top 10 hits, Grammy nominations, gold and platinum records like super-hit "Amazing Grace." October brings Judy's personal,...
August 08, 2011 12:00 AMNot been a great week. I'm not talk ing about Obama or problems with the entire United States of America, including Guam and parts of Puerto Rico. I'm not talking about prices up and jobs down. Not talking...
August 05, 2011 12:00 AMOver breakfast bagels at my place, Ricky Gervais, who was probably doing TV even when he was in the womb, said: "In New York, I'm working on creating a new show. It's called 'Afterlife,' and it's about a confused...
August 04, 2011 12:00 AMVanity Fair's 2011 In ternational Best- Dressed List is out. Nothing named Kardashian made it. Duchess Fergie's two attention-starved daughters who trundled to Kate and William's wedding with crullers on their heads?...
August 03, 2011 12:00 AMBeing burbled about is "The Whistleblower" with Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn, Monica Bellucci, Rachel Weisz. Rachel alone made the screening. Vanessa, David and Monica possibly had a better offer. Cinema...
August 02, 2011 12:00 AMBrooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is of the opin ion our four lesser boroughs should stop picking on Marty Markowitz. Taking no time to breathe, he said: "Today's borough president is powerful, unique, for...
August 01, 2011 12:00 AMI am not one to complain about termi nology, but there exist inequities. Lan guage favors the male sex. When someday aging Harry Potter, 65, set for retirement, chugs into Hog warts on a wheelchair, J.K. Rowling...
July 29, 2011 12:00 AMJudy Gold is not like anyone else. She's a comedienne. Six feet tall. A lesbian. With two children, 10 and 15. And a live-in partner. Also tem porarily a live-in ex-partner. Also a Jewish mom not totally up on the whole...
July 28, 2011 12:00 AMYesterday Steve Guttenberg said he's doing a trilogy of Woody Allen, Ethan Coen, Elaine May comic one-acts. Considering I still don't know what he's talking about, today I ask its director, John Turturro, to explain....
July 27, 2011 12:00 AMSteve Guttenberg is coming to New York. Professionally. Person ally, he's already in New York. He says: "I'm a New Yorker. I never changed my number. Five years ago I moved back to be near my parents, two sisters...
July 26, 2011 12:00 AMRoseanne. Ask not Roseanne who. No Roseanne Schwartz or Roseanne Gutierrez with a longtime sitcom is famous for strangling our national anthem. Having seen the Roseanne's 2-week-old Lifetime TV series, I asked why? Not...
July 25, 2011 12:00 AMSunday, New York's first day for same-sex marriages, brings a new rendition of that old wedding song. It'll now be: "Here comes the bride . . . here comes the bride . . . " Officiants will say things like: "Do you,...
July 22, 2011 12:00 AMFigures Warners fig ures "Crazy, Stupid, Love" will make money because at Tuesday's premiere its outdoor tent was air-conditioned and "Crazy, Stupid, Love" was embroidered on its red carpet. Stars Steve Carell...
July 21, 2011 12:00 AMBen Sprecher, who made his bones as owner of the one-time Promenade Theater, is producing a musical of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel "Rebecca." Its price tag was put at $16 million. I asked how come Broadway's become...
July 20, 2011 12:00 AMWEDDINGS. We speak weddings. If not pooped from Yankee Stadium concertizing, Sir Beatle McCartney marries longtime ladyfriend New Yorker Nancy Shevell, come fall. In London. Considering she's done this before and he's...
July 19, 2011 12:00 AMPaul McCartney's nearly three- hour Yankee Stadium con cert Friday was not a bad little event. Be sides future wife Nancy Shevell, future father-in-law Mike Shevell, former in-law Vanessa Eastman and Hollywood-handsome...
July 18, 2011 12:00 AMWagnalls and his pal Funk define "hoarding" as "amassing . . . putting away . . . storing up treasure." Treasure? Take a person I know. Her mother passed on before King Tut and, still, she keeps Mama's dentures....
July 15, 2011 12:00 AMKeith Olbermann's Mouth That Roared is open again. Although he burbles, "I don't know why MSNBC shed me," reluctance disappears when discussing his new "Count down" show on Al Gore's Current TV station 103. "No...
July 14, 2011 12:00 AM'Sarah's Key," a new searing draining Holocaust movie, stars Kristin Scott Thomas. "My daughter, 22, told me about the book two years ago," she said. "Not believing it would be so great, I thought, 'yeah . . . yeah...
July 13, 2011 12:00 AMMichelle Paterson, former governor David Paterson's wife, is writing a book. "It's about getting thrown into being first lady. How the press treated us. About those who served David and who didn't. All from my own...
July 12, 2011 12:00 AMThe Mrs. Anthony Weiner story. Supersmart. Loyal. Able. Important. Good-looking. International. Connected. A Rolodex that goes from a Hillary Secretary of State private cellphone, which not even Obama has, to a Sultan...
July 11, 2011 12:00 AMIt's wedding season. Brit royals. Mon aco royals. Kardashian kommoners. Forgetting Sandra Bullock's ex, whose mantra is, "Try not to ask, and I won't tell," even Hollywood movie stars try it a week or so. Politicians...
July 08, 2011 12:00 AMTyne Daly's reprising Terrence McNally's "Master Class," about the late Maria Callas, the most famous, reviled opera singer ever. She opens tonight at the Samuel Friedman Theatre. So, she nervous? "If the audience...
July 07, 2011 12:00 AMLooming Sept. 11 brings World Trade Center memories. Now over seeing the University of Paris renovation logistics is Jean-Louis Blon deau. Blondeau, who was in 2009's Best Documentary Oscar-winning "Man on Wire,"...
July 06, 2011 12:00 AMBOSTON -- Philadelphia takes credit for July Fourth. It has the Liberty Bell. But don't go there for a history lesson because the last time I went to Philly it was closed. Although New York was our nation's first seat...
July 05, 2011 12:00 AMJuly Fourth is coming. The only intel ligent thing is to sponge off someone. Usually that's a human who, when I had a country home, I hated having as a houseguest. Considering I have no summer place anymore and they do...
June 30, 2011 12:00 AMIn the new movie "The Perfect Host," David Hyde Pierce plays a lunatic who lives with imaginary friends and kills strangers. Not exactly a musical. Explains DHP: "My character's Warwick Wilson. He's having a dinner...
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