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New York Magazine's arts and entertainment blog, including witty analysis of movies, TV, music, books, theater, and art, plus original video and sneak previews of upcoming releases.
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R.I.P. Jeanne-Claude, 1935–2009
Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park art installation "The Gates" along with her husband and artistic partner Christo, passed away last night after suffering from complications of a brain aneurysm. She was 74 years old. Related: See Adam Sternbergh's piece entitled The Passion of …
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New Moon Director Chris Weitz Pouts As Barrage of Negative Reviews Roll In
When Summit Entertainment surpisingly canned Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke from New Moon in favor of Chris Weitz, who just so happens to be a penis-having dude, many predicted that the franchise would take a disappointing turn. Aside from the fact that the second entry in the four-part Twili …
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Kristen Stewart Is Now Just a Great Talk-Show Guest
Smiles. Laughs. Jokes. Interacts. Just the other day, we were marveling at Kristen Stewart's improvement as a talk-show guest after she went on Conan and didn't come across as snobby, "too cool," disinterested, indifferent, or unaware that she was on television and therefore expected to enterta …
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Movie-Theater Popcorn Is Still a Caloric Nightmare
A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. It doesn't even seem like it's been that long since we all learned that eating popcorn just because you're at a movie theater was a sick indulgence on the level of stuffing five fried Snickers bars in your face just because it's a Wednesday, but it' …
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Beyoncé Stage-Dives While Pantsless
If you thought that Beyoncé ceding the spotlight to Taylor Swift at the VMAs was the most awesome thing she was going to do this year, well, you were wrong. At a recent concert in London, B must've felt the spirit of rock and roll wash over her as she decided to spontaneously stage-dive into the tee …
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Kristen Stewart is Now Just a Great Talk-Show Guest
Smiles. Laughs. Jokes. Interacts. Just the other day, we were marveling at Kristen Stewart's improvement as a talk-show guest after she went on Conan and didn't come across as snobby, "too cool," disinterested, indifferent, or unaware that she was on television and therefore expected to enterta …
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Movie Theater Popcorn is Still a Caloric Nightmare
A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. It doesn't even seem like it's been that long since we all learned that eating popcorn just because you're at a movie theater was a sick indulgence on the level of stuffing five fried Snickers bars in your face just because it's a Wednesday, but it' …
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Beyoncé Stage Dives While Pantsless
If you thought that Beyoncé ceding the spotlight to Taylor Swift at the VMAs was the most awesome thing she was going to do this year, well, you were wrong. At a recent concert in London, B must've felt the spirit of rock and roll wash over her as she decided to spontaneously stage dive into the tee …
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Friday Night Lights: Do the Right Thing
Real talk, people: With this dizzyingly great fourth episode of the season, its time to step up and call Friday Night Lights what it is: the Best Show (Almost) on (Network) TV. Mad Men and Breaking Bad are gone till 2010, Lost is still months away. And dont even get us started on Glee. Nothing curre …
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Vulture Exclusive: Werner Herzog Guides Us Through Bad Lieutenant’s Infamous Iguanas Scene
Cinema's wildest and wiliest animal, Werner Herzog has recently flirted with domestic respectability — casting Batman Christian Bale in his manic war movie Rescue Dawn, and winning some of the best reviews of his career for his bear-bites-man documentary Grizzly Man. So when he cast National T …
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Anne Hathaway Latest Actress Rumored to Play Villain in Spider-Man 4
Vulture buddy Nikki Finke must be anxious to score herself another one of her patented "TOLDJA!" headlines, as she posted a rumor on her site last night that Sony was very interested in casting Anne Hathaway in Spider-Man 4. What she doesn't mention is that every Hollywood studio, not just Sony, is …
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Glee: I Just Crush a Lot
After the realistic delights of last weeks episode more secondary characters, believably emotional father-son talks Glee headed straight back to Crazytown this week, with mixed results. Some plot points moved ahead, as Finn and Quinns parents demonstrated the two ways to learn your kids are pregna …
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Werner Herzog Guides Us Through Bad Lieutenant’s Infamous Iguanas Scene
Cinema's wildest and wiliest animal, Werner Herzog has recently flirted with domestic respectability — casting Batman Christian Bale in his manic war movie Rescue Dawn, and winning some of the best reviews of his career for his bear-bites-man documentary Grizzly Man. So when he cast National T …
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Anne Hathaway Latest Actress Rumored To Play Villain In Spider-Man 4
Vulture buddy Nikki Finke must be anxious to score herself another one of her patented "TOLDJA!" headlines, as she posted a rumor on her site last night that Sony was very interested in casting Anne Hathaway in Spider-Man 4. What she doesn't mention is that every Hollywood studio, not just Sony, is …
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TV Report Card: British Actors Playing American
"Americans do this lovey-dovey rubbish, right?" Fiennes and Walger in FlashForward. Two years after the New York Times pegged a British-actor invasion to Hugh Laurie and House, a true army of (quite decent) Brits have landed starring roles playing Americans on U.S. TV. (At the time of the Times …
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John Irving’s Porcupine-Bludgeoning Finally Attracts Protest
We were expecting PETA to bring its full fury down on John Irving following New York's expose of the novelist's brutal baseball-bat bludgeoning of a porcupine inside his three-car garage, but we heard only crickets — until today. We're told by a reliable source that Irving was confronted by a …
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Simon Baker to Serve as Surf Sensei
Surf Wax Australia: Mentalist star Simon Baker and producer Mark Johnson have acquired the film rights to Tim Winton's novel Breath. Both Baker and Johnson will produce and Baker will play a lead role in the story of two 16-year-old Australian boys who take up surfing with the help of a wacky instru …
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McCann, Stiles Win National Book Awards
Remember books? Yeah, those things you download on your Kindle. Well, authors Colum McCann and T.J. Stiles won awards for theirs yesterday. McCann's Let the Great World Spin and Stiles's The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt won National Book Awards in the fiction and non-fiction c …
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List Of Oscar Docs Doesn't Include Anvil!
Today the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the full-length documentaries that have qualified for the chance to take home an Oscar. A list of 89 eligible films was narrowed down 15 and we can't but notice that it doesn't include Anvil! The Story of Anvil!. This is no good. But it …
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Forbes: Will Ferrell Makes Too Much Money
According to a list by list-loving Forbes, Will Ferrell is the most overpaid actor in Hollywood. Its methodology: 'Forbes' looked at 100 top actors based on their widely released films over the past five years. It factored in the production costs of those movies against how much box office, …
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