Sad holiday weekend news today. Peter W. Kaplan, the longtime editor of The New York Observer, has died at age 59 of cancer, The New York Times confirmed. Kaplan’s accomplishment was this: he took a salmon-colored weekly and made it a must read dissection on the glitter of Gotham power players. He injected the publication with relevance and invested his personal stamp, a love of dogged reporting on niche subjects like media, high finance and publishing, down to who sat where at lunch in Manhattan’s most important restaurants and who was getting fired in the magazine business and why. In transforming his publication into a must read, Kaplan’s tenure at The Observer reminded me of when Kurt Anderson, Graydon Carter and Tom Phillips launched Spy Magazine. They took a much more acerbic and satirical look at the subjects, but both were imprinted by the vision of editors. Kaplan...
- 11/30/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Hugh Jackman: deadpan comic wizard or in need of a nap? Probably both at this point in awards season, but that's the question raised by a Time magazine video interview where the "Les Miserables" star "can't remember" Daniel Day-Lewis' name.
As part of the magazine's "Great Performance" series, Jackman and his "Les Mis" co-star Anne Hathaway, both Oscar nominees, sat down to discuss their craft and experiences on Tom Hooper's film. Toward the end of the video, the conversation turned to 2012's abundance of wonderful movies.
"There were a lot of great performances this year. Naomi Watts in 'The Impossible'; every performance in 'Life of Pi,' including the tiger," Hathaway said, before Jackman jumped in: "'Lincoln's' a movie ... but the lead guy, who I always forget his name ..." After Hathaway told Jackman it was Day-Lewis, his fellow Best Actor nominee, Jackman perked up: "He's awesome.
As part of the magazine's "Great Performance" series, Jackman and his "Les Mis" co-star Anne Hathaway, both Oscar nominees, sat down to discuss their craft and experiences on Tom Hooper's film. Toward the end of the video, the conversation turned to 2012's abundance of wonderful movies.
"There were a lot of great performances this year. Naomi Watts in 'The Impossible'; every performance in 'Life of Pi,' including the tiger," Hathaway said, before Jackman jumped in: "'Lincoln's' a movie ... but the lead guy, who I always forget his name ..." After Hathaway told Jackman it was Day-Lewis, his fellow Best Actor nominee, Jackman perked up: "He's awesome.
- 2/7/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
It's the rumor that wont die. A couple weeks back, a rumor started that Man of Steel was looking to enlist the help of The Dark Knight trilogy's surprise ending, by using a Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as Batman, cameo in the film. This was later debunked by Gordon-Levitt's reps. The rumor has found some new legs, however, from an unlikely source, Christopher Nolan. During the Museum of the Moving Image's salute to Hugh Jackman Frank Digiacomo of Movieline caught up with Nolan and asked him about the possible Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or any Batman cameo, happening in Man of Steel. "I can't talk about that. You know that," Nolan said with a big smile. This in no way shape or form confirms that this is true, however, it is a little odd that Nolan didn't squash the rumor once and for all. As most know at the end of The Dark Knight Rises,...
- 12/12/2012
- ComicBookMovie.com
Over five tireless decades of service, the amorous activities of fiction’s most eligible and elusive bachelor (perhaps arguably, given the recent arrival of one Christian Grey), have spanned time and space and ruined women for any other the world across. And now it’s been documented.
Thanks to the creative talents of TinyMaster, also known as Emma Price, James Bond’s sexual escapades are lovingly preserved as an infographic, or as she aptly refers to it, “nymphographic.”
From the era of censors who would faint dead away at contemporary flexibilities, through the game-changing public health issue rendering such revelry a much riskier proposition (as if espionage weren’t enough!), to today’s new man unafraid to wrestle emotional torment and identity crisis, 007 has produced some very amusing stats (fully tallied and catalogued complete with icons, of course).
Interestingly, as Movieline’s Frank Digiacomo wryly notes, the compendium is perhaps surprisingly vanilla,...
Thanks to the creative talents of TinyMaster, also known as Emma Price, James Bond’s sexual escapades are lovingly preserved as an infographic, or as she aptly refers to it, “nymphographic.”
From the era of censors who would faint dead away at contemporary flexibilities, through the game-changing public health issue rendering such revelry a much riskier proposition (as if espionage weren’t enough!), to today’s new man unafraid to wrestle emotional torment and identity crisis, 007 has produced some very amusing stats (fully tallied and catalogued complete with icons, of course).
Interestingly, as Movieline’s Frank Digiacomo wryly notes, the compendium is perhaps surprisingly vanilla,...
- 11/7/2012
- by Lisa Elin
- We Got This Covered
"The Place Beyond The Pines" debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday night, marking the first public showing of the newest Ryan Gosling film.
"'The Place Beyond The Pines' is a cinematic accomplishment of extraordinary grace and insight," wrote Kevin Jagernauth on the Indiewire blog The Playlist.
At Movieline, Frank Digiacomo called "Pines" a "seriously good movie," before adding that the film's strong performances -- from Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes and Dane DeHaan and Ben Mendelsohn -- would make "figuring out who to honor with a nomination" difficult for Academy voters.
Directed by Derek Cianfrance (who last worked with Gosling on "Blue Valentine"), "Place Beyond the Pines" sprawls out over 15 years and tells the story of a bank-robbing stunt motorcycle driver (Gosling), a cop-turned-politician (Cooper) and how their tangled relationship affects their sons.
"Except for the bank-robbing and road-chase sequences I didn't believe a single moment in this film,...
"'The Place Beyond The Pines' is a cinematic accomplishment of extraordinary grace and insight," wrote Kevin Jagernauth on the Indiewire blog The Playlist.
At Movieline, Frank Digiacomo called "Pines" a "seriously good movie," before adding that the film's strong performances -- from Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes and Dane DeHaan and Ben Mendelsohn -- would make "figuring out who to honor with a nomination" difficult for Academy voters.
Directed by Derek Cianfrance (who last worked with Gosling on "Blue Valentine"), "Place Beyond the Pines" sprawls out over 15 years and tells the story of a bank-robbing stunt motorcycle driver (Gosling), a cop-turned-politician (Cooper) and how their tangled relationship affects their sons.
"Except for the bank-robbing and road-chase sequences I didn't believe a single moment in this film,...
- 9/8/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
• The first of 33 miners trapped in Chile’s San Jose mine have been brought to safety after 69 days trapped underground. [NPR] • Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are related, according to the genealogists at the Web site ancestry.com. [Huff Post] • The esteemed Richard Johnson bids farewell to Page Six today. If you want more juice, read Page Six alumnus Frank Digiacomo’s oral history. [Page Six] • A federal judge repealed the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law yesterday, though the justice department has 60 days to appeal. [AP] • Transportation workers in France have extended their strike after the government announced changes to raise the retirement age with a full pension from 65 to 67. [New York Times]...
- 10/13/2010
- Vanity Fair
While the previous rumors were the Untitled Star Trek Sequel would begin filming in January, it looks like that's not going to be the case. Zachary Quinto, who played Spock in the 2009 feature, tells MTV, "it probably won't be until next year at this time." Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are still working on the story and J.J. Abrams is not yet confirmed to be directing the sequel, but Quinto explains that he would still be on board even if J.J. Abrams isn't directing.
With Cop Out thankfully behind us, we can begin looking forward to Kevin Smith's next original work, Red State. Eric Eisenberg over at Cinema Blend has the news that Michael Parks has been cast in the horror film that will be loosely based on the Westboro Baptist Church. Parks, who you probably recognize as Texas Ranger Earl McGraw in a number of Tarantino and Rodriguez films,...
With Cop Out thankfully behind us, we can begin looking forward to Kevin Smith's next original work, Red State. Eric Eisenberg over at Cinema Blend has the news that Michael Parks has been cast in the horror film that will be loosely based on the Westboro Baptist Church. Parks, who you probably recognize as Texas Ranger Earl McGraw in a number of Tarantino and Rodriguez films,...
- 7/26/2010
- by Kevin Blumeyer
- Rope of Silicon
Today on Vf.com, Vanity Fair contributing editor Frank Digiacomo takes a look back at a decade’s worth of infidelity, betrayal, and schadenfreude in a piece titled “The Mistresses of the Decade.” There were plenty to choose from, given the abundance of high-profile sex scandals that ensnared everyone from New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to golf god Tiger Woods and Material Girl Madonna. But only one “Mistress,” as we’ve rather loosely defined the term, can reign supreme. So check out the slide show and then tell us: who deserves this deeply dubious honor? Who Is the Mistress of the Decade?(survey software) Related: The Mistresses of the Decade...
- 12/29/2009
- Vanity Fair
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