Art Basel Miami has fast become the Sundance of the art world: the place that used to be cool but that has long since ceased to be about art and is now devoted to scene-making and hangers-on. This year’s Art Basel Miami begins next week, … Read more »
For anyone who booked a trainer after seeing Brad Pitt’s six-pack in “Thelma and Louise” or who re-booked a trainer after seeing him in “Fight Club,” there is sad news: the actor says that he won’t be doing any more nude scenes.
The buff (but not … Read more »
According to Variety:
Musical vets Robert and Richard Sherman are looking for a Broadway berth in 2008. The siblings — who penned the songs for “Mary Poppins” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” — have written the score for “Busker Alley,” a tuner about love among street … Read more »
The next production for New York’s Project Shaw will be “Pygmalion.” It will take place on Monday, December 17, at The Players. This robust comedy has become George Bernard Shaw’s most famous and iconographic play. In it, he takes on almost every major social and … Read more »
Media screenings of the Dec. 21 release “Sweeney Todd” movie have finally begun. Official reviews are not supposed to be posted until mid-December, but here are the words that recur whenever I talk to anyone who’s seen the movie and whose opinion I trust: “limp,” … Read more »
Variety’s Todd McCarthy likes it, he really really likes it. “It” is “Charlie Wilson’s War.” While McCarthy thoroughly enjoyed the movie, he questions its potential to be boffo box office. Here’s hoping it is: the sophisticated, witty comedy-drama with big fat movie stars is an … Read more »
Ron Shelton has been set by HBO Films to direct a pic about San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds (left) that will air on HBO. Bonds just ended a season in which he broke baseball’s all-time home run record only to be indicted on … Read more »
