Golden Celebrity

· Ani DiFranco is a singer songwriter loved by the Lilith Fair set. Susan Faludi is the best-selling author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. Tonight they meet at the Hammer. Men, attend [...]

As a Jew, I’ve often heard that my people control the media. That’s why on my Bar Mitzvah, I was expecting to be handed the keys to a movie studio and told to “have at it, Ketzele.” But, it’s been years since that momentous occasion, and still no key. Despite my membership in the tribe, [...]

Making good girl Anne Hathaway look bad is no easy feat, but her longtime boyfriend has managed to pull it off by allegedly committing check fraud. Raffaelo Follieri, Hathaway’s 29-year old Italian real estate developer boyfriend, was apparently ordered by a D.C. court to pay up $250k in overdue payments to a PR firm, but [...]

Actors have finally been found to play the two soldiers in the G.I. Joe crew who most resemble members of the Village People. At least, according to movie scoop site Latino Review they have. G.I. Joe, Steven Sommer’s tentpole movie about the legendary action figures, will be hitting theaters in the summer of ‘09. And [...]

The prospect of Francis Ford Coppola imposing a “sex change” on Javier Bardem had us a million ways of excited (and just a little faint) today — and then we read the fine print. It turns out the director decided during rehearsals for his upcoming film Tetro that a woman would be a better mentor [...]