We’re not sure exactly when last night’s annual Celebrity Charades benefit for LAByrinth Theater Company, sponsored by Entertainment Weekly and Duracell, devolved into complete chaos, but we’d say it was inevitable from the moment Julia Roberts took the stage. The night was part live auction, part charades playing, all set on a battle-ready stage that cleaved the St. Paul of the...
Cheerleader by Dona Ann McAdams. (Image courtesy of Opalka Gallery.) Last year when we spent the year slacking around Rome, we were fortunate to spend many of those hours wandering the streets with photographer and activitst Dona Ann McAdams — the artist best known for Caught in the Act, a book of photographs chronicling the work [...]
"I have never believed that everything happens for a reason. But I do feel very strongly that everything happens so that it can be turned into a column." - Gail Collins Ah, such wisdom. I am often baffled when I can't get an idea for a column, because so much...
class=goatTitle--> MOVIE-STAR WATTAGE Empirical evidence is mounting for the case that you can’t have a Broadway show these days without a marquee name attached. Scarlett Johansson, in her Broadway début, and Liev Schreiber star in Arthur Miller’s 1955 classic, “A View . . .
Small theaters around Dallas once again are brimming with big ideas and hot talent. The show to see right now—one that will make you excited about live theater, even if you haven't been to a play in years—is Upstart Productions and Project X's staging of Eric Bogosian's T...
With over 2.3 million Americans currently incarcerated, prison outreach is a vital vocation. Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was Jackson Taylor , the novelist and Mediabistro teacher who has directed PEN's Prison Writing Program for the last 20 years. Taylor shared his experiences working with hundreds of imprisoned authors and creative writing mentors. The writing program will be celebrated...
Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was Jackson Taylor , the novelist and Mediabistro teacher who has directed PEN's Prison Writing Program for the last 20 years. Taylor shared his experiences working with hundreds of imprisoned authors and creative writing mentors. The writing program will be celebrated on Monday at Breakout: Voices from Inside --a fundraising event with appearances by Mary Gaitskill...
Talk about your shift change. Law & Order: Criminal Intent is getting an overhaul and then some as its adds bisexual actress Saffron Burrows and Oscar-nominated actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio to its upcoming ninth season. The new cast members come in the wake of the departure of four series regulars: original stars Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe along with Eric Bogosian and Julianne...
As another Monday winds down, here are some odds and ends from the day's publishing news... Next week, Mary Gaitskill , Eric Bogosian , John Turturro , and others will read from stories written by inmates for PEN's Prison Writing Program . Author Stephen Fry defended Twitter and the Internets in a video interview about a generation of kids growing up online. In a True Slant interview about "...
...Say what you will about the whole business on a moral level, but all of David Letterman's sex scandal shenanigans have at least been good for ratings. The Late Show with David Letterman is up 13% in overall viewers from last year, though it has dipped some in the coveted adult demographic. Still, he certainly hasn't bled viewers the way the Conan O'Brien-led Tonight Show continues to do, which is...
I told you a few weeks ago that “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” was letting go of three main players: Vincent D’Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, and Eric Bogosian. Now I can tell you this: one of their characters will die. “CI” just finished filming an episode in which one of the three is murdered. That’s the exit show for the other two as well. I am told by “CI”...