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Thank you NY Times for giving the brilliant Avenue Q its due with your story in Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section. It was a good counterbalance to the useless A.O. Scott Cannes Film Festival wrap-up five pages later. Avenue Q is about to go down (in my book at least) as one of the bestContinue reading “DEAR GRAY LADY: STICK WITH THE PUPPETS — THEY OBVIOUSLY HAVE MORE SENSE THAN SOME OF YOUR WRITERS”

I’m pretty sure Uncle Grambo had this info at least a few days ago, but I can’t check right now because he’s so damn popular his site went over its bandwidth limit and is now down until June comes around. And I know it was on E! online after it was reported by Star magazineContinue reading “WILL THE WHOLE MOVIE SIMPLY BE HER TRYING TO OPEN THE CAR DOOR?”

I’m sure this has been floating around forever, but it just landed in my mailbox today. It’s kind of like the poor “Star Wars Kid” who’s video floated around a while, but this actually made me laugh more. Obviously the result of a Photoshop user with too much time on his hands, I guess thisContinue reading “I SUPPOSE THE OLSENS FINALLY WANTED TO CLAIM MORE INDIVIDUAL IDENTITIES”

Today’s Variety (sub rq’d) reports that Gwyneth Paltrow has decided to only play iconic historical real-life women from now on (thanks Reuters). Following her take on Sylvia Plath (I must confess I have not seen Sylvia; I have heard she was good and the movie was not), Paltrow apparently plans to follow her maternity leaveContinue reading “IN GERMAN, THE NAME WOULD BE “APFEL””

I admit it. Even after ranting about The WB’s Superstar USA last week, I have to cop to the fact that when this level of train-wreck television shows up on the schedule, I’m eerily drawn to it like the mosquito to the zapper. I still say the show is terribly produced — they continue toContinue reading “ON SECOND THOUGHT, MAYBE NICKY’S EX ISN”T SO BAD”

Michael Moore’s “controversial” film Fahrenheit 9/11 was awarded the top prize — the Palme d’Or — at the Cannes Film Festival earlier today. I haven’t seen any of the films in competition at Cannes, so I’m not saying it wasn’t worthy. And Moore looked genuinely shocked, even though he says he flew back to CannesContinue reading “MICHAEL MOORE IS THE KING OF THE WORLD! (OR IS IT QUENTIN TARANTINO)”

As has been reported in several places today (but I’ll give credit to IndieWire), Vincent Gallo‘s roundly trounced The Brown Bunny has been picked-up for distribution in NY and LA by Wellspring Media. The movie caused a war of words (to put it politely) between critic Roger Ebert and Gallo, and it basically has aContinue reading “VINCENT GALLO FILLS ME WITH ENOUGH BILE TO CHOKE CHLOE SEVIGNY”

The best part about The WB’s Superstar U.S.A. is that it gives the home viewing audience another chance to be annoyed by former Carson Daly and current Ryan Seacrest wannabe (and even more infamously, former Nicky Hilton paramour) Brian McFayden. McFayden has had a phenomenal career-curve, starting as the not-quite-the-next-Daly MTV-VJ, and then popping-up onContinue reading “HOSTED BY SEACREST-LITE, WHO ALSO WANTS TO BE A SUPERSTAR”

I had myself a little C.S.I. franchise night, sort of by default because there was nothing else on. I like the original show, but I don’t watch it that much because I’ve got too much other crap on my plate. I never watch the Miami spin-off because I can’t really take all that much ofContinue reading “MIAMI RED, NY BLUE”

Today’s Page Six details the thievery occurring at Cannes, and strangely enough, it has nothing to do with Tarantino stealing the presidency of the jury. Rather, it seems that someone snuck into A.O. Scott’s room — while he was there and asleep — and stole his wallet and laptop. The poor guy has been relegatedContinue reading “HAS ANYONE SEEN ELVIS MITCHELL SKULKING AROUND CANNES?”