Daniel D'addario
BAM is to host a near-month-long retrospective of Catherine Deneuve's films, from March 4 to March 31. The season will be a high-water mark in New York's interest in French cinema--March 3 to 13 will see the "Rendez-Vous with French Cinema" series at Walter Reade, which opens with a Deneuve performance in the new film Potiche and includes appearances by French director Catherine Breillat and actor Gaspard Ulliel.... MORE >
Piers Morgan joined New York social-media startup VYou yesterday--the service allows users to communicate with friends, fans, and followers by recording short videos answering questions of varying degrees of pertinence. Piers's default video, running on a loop, shows him sitting in front of a picture of Kim Kardashian, covering his mouth with a closed fist then straining to smile. Morgan hasn't yet mastered VYou--he has 23 followers, and follows no one.... MORE >
Radiohead's digital release of new album The King of Limbs was bumped up by a day, thanks, apparently, to a good tech team and an eager band. "With everything ready on their website, the band decided to bring forward the release," said the band's press release. The Observer hasn't paid for a copy yet (unlike their last such release, In Rainbows, prices for The King of Limbs are fixed--at $9 for MP3 files.... MORE >
As a response to Stephen Colbert's joking on The Colbert Report about "The Colbuffington Re-Post"--a site, identical in all particulars but name to the Huffington Post, that he planned to sell for $316 million--the Huffington Post announced its own new initiative, The Huffbert Nation.... MORE >
Who will finally be on Piers Morgan Tonight--if he doesn't get bumped, again? What's Martin Scorsese's next collaboration with Leonardo... MORE >
As we reported Monday, Arianna Huffington spoke last weekend at a Columbia Spectator journalism awards dinner and casually offered everyone in the room a job. While we're not sure she'll get back to anyone (especially in light of the newly merged company retaining Booz to reportedly hash out layoffs, not hirings), she's at least making an... MORE >
Today on Twitter, Congressman Chris Murphy (D-CT) declared that he was a proponent of Justin Bieber's newly announced belief in the Canadian health care system, posting a link to a Huffington Post roundup of Bieber quotes and the hashtag "#mycaseofbieberfever." Shortly thereafter, having read, perhaps, all of the controversial... MORE >
Vogue's new iPad app, "Vogue Cover Exclusive," focuses on the one part of the issue people pay attention to: the cover.... MORE >
Shockingly, The Social Network and other of this year's Best Picture contenders are not wholly factual, reads an exposé in The Hollywood Reporter. Those Oscar-season films you've been enjoying--or enduring? They were written, by fiction writers, to entertain!... MORE >
Justin Bieber's forthcoming Rolling Stone cover has already merited a correction; the teen star's stance on abortion, definitely an important thing about which to know, is not quite as absolutist as it initially appeared! The quote from the initial interview, via... MORE >
Which tech start-up helped fund a statue of RoboCop as civic art in Detroit? Which newsweekly magazine is putting arts coverage Firth and foremost? Which Lindsay Lohan "friend" says he put her forward for a Late Show... MORE >
More news out of Bravo today, as Lisa Hsia has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Bravo Digital Media. Bravo's release detailed Hsia's responsibilities--overseeing Bravo's flagship site and their recap mecca, Television Without Pity, as well as working on various multiplatform initiatives.... MORE >
All that's missing is a Maya Rudolph novel! The women of Saturday Night Live's early-2000s renaissance are following in Tina Fey's footsteps by writing books.... MORE >
Faith Salie sounded exhilarated when we spoke to her around eight last night. The TV special she hosted, a television adaptation of New York magazine's highbrow/lowbrow "Approval Matrix" feature, had just finished taping: "It's hot off the presses--today's news." The thirty-minute special, titled The Approval Matrix as well, is to air tonight at 11p.m., following Top Chef. Salie, a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!... MORE >
We were excited when we received yesterday's press release, announcing that Lindsay would be appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman to deliver a Top Ten list. Would she wear "That Dress"? Today's press release, though, is a bit disappointing. Says a spokesperson for Letterman's production company, Worldwide... MORE >
