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Here are just a bunch of random items/links/what-have-you that have been jostling around my head over the past couple days: I actually ran across this a couple weeks ago and laughed my ass off, but then I forget about it until I saw Wonkette had linked to it. It’s a mock profile by commercial directorContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: STUFF THAT JUST WON’T LEAVE MY BRAIN”

Yes, I know … I’ve failed you again. You depend on my constant reminders about the brilliance that is , and although I did do that big month ahead preview, I can’t expect you to keep going back to that. Hell, it’s not even on this main page anymore. And who might you have forgottenContinue reading “TCM WATCH: ASTAIRE, REED, GARNER, DUNNE AND BRANDO SHINE BRIGHT”

So yeah, I didn’t get to one movie this weekend. Nada. Niente. Nothing. I meant to. I even tried to. But between seeing seven Fringe shows and the other random stuff I had to do, I just couldn’t make the time to get to anything. As I mentioned previously, I’m covering the Fringe Festival forContinue reading “A WEEK(END) IN REVIEW: GOTHAMIST GOES TO THE FRINGE”

Best casting news ever? How awesome would it be if Pope John Paul II really had been a male gigolo.

Ah the The Fringe Festival, how you torture me so. Magnificently, every year for the past nine, the Fringe has helped stage a couple hundred works of theatre in a variety of forms from straight plays to musicals to interpretive dance to puppetry to performance art, helping give theatre folk from around the world aContinue reading “THE FRINGE IS HERE! THE FRINGE IS HERE! WAIT, WHY AM I EXCITED?”

Wow. Another week just flew by, and here were are with an even larger selection of new and/or worthwhile films opening in our fair city. Oh sure, you wouldn’t know it from the three major Hollywood releases coming out this weekend, but there’s still plenty of potentially interesting fare. Not that I’m actually managing toContinue reading “THE WEEKEND IN PREVIEW: ENOUGH TO KEEP YOU OCCUPIED”

Another week of Gothamist Interviews comes to a close with one of (I think) the best interviews we’ve ever run. All credit goes to the subject because as brilliant as my questions are (oh yes, pure genius, of course … I definitely didn’t knock them out it 30 minutes while sitting at a Starbucks orContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: AUGUST DAY 5 — PAUL SCHEER”

This week is just flying by, and these days, I really don’t like that. There’s definitely never enough time each day, and I’m just happy that this go ’round, Lily and I were smart enough to get all these Gothamist Interviews done ahead of time. I haven’t been going out at night; I haven’t beenContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: AUGUST DAY 4 — KIRSTEN CHILDS”

Back in June after going to see New Pornographers play in Prospect Park, my friend Sean and I went for some pizza. Not just any pizza, though — pizza at Amorina is amazing. Not just your traditional NYC slices, but some wonderful you-put-that-on-pizza? combinations and toppings as well. The restaurant is run by a friendContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: AUGUST DAY 3 — NAZLI PARVIZI”

Whew. The days are passing way too fast for me here. Yeah, I had a burst of inspiration with the post writing yesterday, and I meant to do a bunch more today, but I’ve run out of time. Maybe it had something to do with finally taking a day to winnow an inbox of overContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: AUGUST DAY 2 — CHRiS STEIB”