Variety is reporting this morning that the “Sex and the City” movie is estimated to have grossed $20 million on its opening day — and that’s just domestic numbers. At this pace, it will do at least $200-250 million in the U.S. and another $300-350 … Read more »
Show-biz media like Playbill.com have just announced that Ethan Hawke and Richard Easton are joining the cast of Sam Mendes’ productions of “The Cherry Orchard” and “The Winter’s Tale.” Lemonwade told you these things almost two months ago. I wonder how long it will be … Read more »
It is “not strictly a movie. It’s more like a TV show on steroids.” — Anthony Lane, commenting on the interminable ‘Sex and the City’ movie. Here’s Lane’s absolutely brilliant review of this weekend’s biggest release. Oh, hell, here’s another snippet: “Secrecy has clouded ‘Sex … Read more »
Discovering “hidden gems” is what all lovers of music and books and movies crave, so finding one among late-18th-century opera last night was for me a confirmation of why I sit in the theater so often and put up with mediocre fare. The occasion was … Read more »
Unlike the new movie, which clocks in at 145 minutes (compared to the TV episodes, each of which were as brisk as a lunchtime sidewalk crowd in midtown Manhattan), I will be brief:
1) In recession-ridden 2008, it’s a lot harder to care about women blowing … Read more »
The details are here. Pollack directed only one comedy, “Tootsie,” but it is one of the finest ever made.
Liza Minnelli just began her first British tour in more than 20 years. But she almost didn’t make it through customs. The Oscar-winning star arrived at Heathrow airport to discover that she did not have the requisite work permit. Travellers were confronted by the unusual … Read more »
There were two prizes at the just-concluded Cannes Film Festival that were unanimously decided by the jury: the Palme d’Or (the top honor) went to the French movie “The Class” (whose junior-high-school kids are pictured here at the awards podium with director Laurent Cantet; … Read more »