Thursdays, 11:30 p.m., Lifetime’s new reality thing is “The Russian Dolls.” Said Renata Krumer, “Our people originally coming here from a cold country loved beach and ocean. They found Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach. Then...
September 01, 2011 12:00 AMTony-winning Brian Dennehy I last saw on B’way in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman. So great I wanted to take him home and freeze him. He’s now gone Shakespeare on us and is in Canada doing “Twelfth Night.” Me: So...
August 31, 2011 12:00 AMThe Cohen Media Group’s documentary “Chasing Madoff” is out. Reviews excellent. It’s the true story of “No One Would Listen,” whistleblower Harry Markopolos’ best seller about 10 years trying to nail Mr. Piggy Bernie....
August 30, 2011 12:00 AMAtt: Mildewed New Yorkers, back to work. Thanks to the Second Avenue Deli’s week-old newest incarnation, 75th and First, I survived. I shlepped home enough pastrami and rye to last until April. Thanks to our building...
August 29, 2011 12:00 AMPEOPLE are growling that our street signs and official documents should also be in Spanish. That America should operate with a second language. Yeah? How about getting back to our first language? English. When’s the...
August 26, 2011 12:00 AMZooey Deschanel opens in the new movie “Our Idiot Brother” Friday. Starts Fox-TV’s original series “New Girl” in September. Brings out her Christmas song album in October. She’s like crabgrass. She’s all over. “I love...
August 25, 2011 12:00 AMHarry Belafonte is heading for immortality. I’m reading a proof of Knopf’s coming book, “My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte.” Co-author’s Michael Shnayerson. Due November but, to coincide with Harry’s coming HBO doc,...
August 24, 2011 12:00 AMCurtis Sliwa, Chief Red Beret, is on the market. Mary, his wife of 11 years, and he have grown apart. Now live apart. As he put it: “It’s difficult being with Curtis Sliwa. I live a topsy-turvy life. Never home, 24/7 I...
August 23, 2011 12:00 AMElaine Paige opens Sept. 12 in a revival of a revival of “Follies.” She says: “I never saw the original or any version of it. Bernadette Peters is wonderful in this production. We met once 13 years ago. In London....
August 22, 2011 12:00 AMAmerica is becoming more tolerant. Accommodating gay marriage. Fine with codaddies raising babies. Adjusting to two nonbiological mommies having children. Getting used to pregnant high school teens who flunk math but...
August 19, 2011 2:37 AMTomorrow“ 5 Days of War” opens. About Russia’s 2008 devastation of Georgia, it stars Rupert Friend, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Heather Graham, Andy Garcia, Val Kilmer. Said Val: “One scene with explosions had Russian choppers...
August 18, 2011 12:00 AMMovie actress Vera Farmiga made her movie directorial debut. “Higher Ground” screened at 19th and B’way’s AMC. The film was 7:30. She was due 7 p.m. Cameras, 6:30. We always see stars posing in front of their...
August 17, 2011 12:00 AMHelen Mirren. A Dame. The celluloid Queen of England. Anyone but me know she lived on an Israeli kibbutz? No, of course you didn’t. That’s what you have people like me for. Helen Mirren. Oscar, Emmy, SAG, BAFTA, Golden...
August 16, 2011 12:00 AMThe Jonas Brothers' Kevin Jonas. Gorgeous. Talking with him close, face to face, the kid is so good-look ing that your contacts fog over. And sweet. Although his minder or keeper or whoever his commandant was did not...
August 15, 2011 12:00 AMAbout April in Paris, I don't know. About summer in the city, I know. It stinks. As do out-of-towners who think bathing is only on alternate sides of the street. Spending the season traveling to fund-raisers is our...
August 12, 2011 12:00 AMGuillermo 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,...
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