“Atonement,” the movie adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel set in 1930s and 1940s England, has just opened the Venice Film Festival. Most of the reviews are rapturous, including this one from Variety. Can the film go all the way to the 2008 Oscar winner’s … Read more »
Is it possible Mark Cuban, Floyd Mayweather Jr,. or Wayne Newton can dance? Viewers will find out on the new season of “Dancing With the Stars,” which has assembled another eclectic field of contestants. Cuban, the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner, welterweight boxing champ Mayweather, and … Read more »
Now that “Grey Gardens” has been turned into a Broadway musical and been discovered by the mainstream media, it’s time to find a new documentary about batty eccentrics. Here’s my candidate: a movie called “The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun,” which opens today at … Read more »
It isn’t just beefcake marketing, like the photo at left from a shoot for the book “Dieux de Stade,” that have made rugby players more popular over the past few years. Many factors have made the sport’s attendance boom. In fact, the most popular … Read more »
The father-in-law of the British singer Amy Winehouse urged her fans yesterday to boycott her music and said she should be ineligible for awards until she seeks treatment for drug addiction, the BBC reported. In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, Giles Fielder-Civil said … Read more »
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announced yesterday their first full-scale international tour since 2002-3. The 13-country journey begins in Hartford on Oct. 2, the release date for Mr. Springsteen’s album “Magic,” and ends in London on Dec. 19. Mr. Springsteen and the band … Read more »
Eve Best has joined the cast of the Broadway revival of “The Homecoming,” taking on the role of the seductress in Harold Pinter’s play about an estranged son’s return to his family home. Best, a regular presence on London stages, made her Rialto debut last … Read more »
