Daniel D'addario
Plenty happens each day—how to keep up with it all? Time to test your memory! --How did Tina Fey acquit herself as a tertiary character in a fake Bravo reality show? --...and how does Mel Gibson do in Jodie Foster's new dip into... MORE >
Plenty happens each day--how to keep up with it all? Time to test your memory! --Which public figure is, for some scary reason, the subject of political polling--and is more electable than Sarah Palin? --Which network, under new management and ownership, just renewed its beloved and low-rated... MORE >
Avy Kaufman, one of New York's top casting agents who's cast movies from Brokeback Mountain to American Gangster to the upcoming Lincoln-assassination drama The Conspirator, had no idea who she'd cast as Sarah Palin in the upcoming HBO film Game Change.... MORE >
“I am tweeting right now,” Neil Diamond said Monday night in a room at the Waldorf-Astoria. “I’m just trying to communicate with people. Young people, old people, all kinds of... MORE >
Adrien Field, a stylist for Vibe and a fashion blogger, is working on a new novel, about the world of New York stylists, and he’s confident that he can get it published. “Between Vibe, writing for the Huffington Post, my blog, going out and gathering press about myself--I don’t know anyone as compelling as myself.” He looked befuddled for a moment. “People get books published, and they’re writing from... MORE >
On Wednesday, the Film Forum will premiere Richard Press' new documentary Bill Cunningham New York, about the indefatigable New York Times fashion photographer. Access to the press-shy shutterbug was perhaps the most challenging aspect of the film, though Mr. Press told The Observer that he had the inside track: "Actually, I knew Bill, because when I first started making movies, I was freelancing as an art director at The Times...... MORE >
Tina Brown has made good, in her way, on her promise to decode "crackling, confusing digital dots": Newsweek this week synthesizes Charlie Sheen's every manic Ustream with Bret Easton Ellis's theory, long promulgated over Twitter, of "Empire" and "post-Empire" entertainments. Mr.... MORE >
Plenty happens each day, but the devil's in the details. How much do you remember? --Which actor incensed a performance artist by dissing her UCLA commencement speech? --Which network is experiencing an "executive exodus"? (It's the one you... MORE >
Last night at the Hammerstein Ballroom, a mixed bag of celebrities gathered to roast Donald Trump for a Comedy Central special to air March 15. Mr. Trump, who had said on the red carpet that he did the roast in order to get paid and funnel that money to charity, sat rather gamely on a stage bedecked with ersatz gold buildings and the Trump logo-even after Seth MacFarlane, roast master, said that his "resting... MORE >
Arcadia,Ethel Barrymore Theatre, opens March 17... MORE >
Watermill Quintet, Guggenheim Museum, March... MORE >
Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reasonby Anne Roiphe(Nan A. Talese, $24.95), March 15... MORE >
The StrokesAnglesMarch 22, RCA ... MORE >
Desert FlowerNational GeographicMarch 18... MORE >
The Queen of Spades, Metropolitan Opera, begins March 11... MORE >