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Inquiring Minds Book Store - New Paltz, NY
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New York State Wrestling Federation- New Rochelle, NY
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Arctica Bar- NYC Book of 'Bert' release party
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Book of 'Bert' signing - Borders Eastchester NY
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Joint book signing with Gary Chattman - Scarsdale, NY
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Nobody puts Patrick Harris in a corner
By Andrew Plotkin
Neil Patrick Harris, one of the stars of the new movie Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, never would have expected that his Hollywood renaissance would have resulted from playing a cocaine-snorting, lap dance-loving, degenerate named…Neil Patrick Harris. But that’s exactly what happened in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Following his unforgettable turn as “Neil Patrick Harris” (note the quotation marks, because the real-life NPH won’t hesitate to point out the ways that he differs from his punctuated counterpart), the actor previously best known for playing a medicinal prodigy was cast on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, currently in its third season. On that series, he plays Barney Stinson, a suited up, catch-phrase spewing, only slightly less vulgar adaptation of his role from H&K. NPH even garnered an Emmy nomination last year for the role. Read the rest of this entry »
We caught Jane Fonda on her way to filming a Loreal commercial next to Gramercy Park the other day. Hopefully she makes a political statement in the commercial - you know like lend support for Obama or David Cook.
Liza Minelli arrives at JFK with cigarette in hand as she gets ready to fly to Nice, France. She told photographers that she was to appear on a Italian TV show and was excited that she would be singing. Call me when she signs on for the Arrested Development movie, and I’ll cry tears of joy.
Photos/Mike DiScuillo
George Takai Promotes The Book of Bert - High-Class Stars with Some High-Class ‘Stache in the green room at Sirius Radio with authors Jon Chattman and Rich Tarantino. Mustaches!
We’re sure Madonna was glowing at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, but I’m pretty sure in this photo she’s beaming because I’m a crappy photographer. Still, it was cool to be thatclose to a trio of amazing artists. Too bad they didn’t answer questions from the crowd, one out of three may have answered my mustache question. More on this year’s ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria later today.
Don’t start any rumors…that’s just Julia Roberts walking with her bodyguard from The National Arts Club, where she is working on her new film Duplicity which is due out in 2009. Duplicity stars Clive Owen, whom she starred opposite in Closer. That bodyguard looks a little like 1980s wrestling star Virgil. No?
Julia Roberts posed for us outside of Serge Normant at Johm Frieda after getting her
hair done. I’m more struck by her glasses, because mine are currently breaking. The screw fell out of one side and I’m too lazy to get them fixed. I wonder if Julia relates to my eyeglass problems.
Definitely not the catchiest headline, but hopefully we sucked you in. We spotted the Oscar winning director getting into his car after leaving the Waldorf Astoria yesterday. Scorsese will hand out the Best Director Academy Award on Sunday. Our guess? Schanbel or The Coen Bros. Sadly, no Streisand.
Victoria Beckham spent the afternoon shopping yesterday at Tom Ford, Donna
Karan, Gucci, Chanel,Whole Foods and Tourneau Watches before heading
to the Spice Girl Concert. I can barely afford Old Navy at this point. Photos/Mike DiScuillo Read the rest of this entry »
Odds are you remember Alan Thicke for his role as Dr. Jason Seaver from the 80’s classic Growing Pains, but his list of accomplishments is long and impressive and spans across numerous art forms. He’s a successful author with two comical books on parenting advice, he’s a sought after emcee, an accomplished theme song musician, a current television star on the Canadian hit Jpod, and you can see him starring alongside Jeremy Piven and Will Ferrel in The Goods: The Don Ready Story, a film set to release this summer. He’s also a notoriously cool customer, cool enough to have spawned America’s soul singer man crush of 2007: Robin Thicke.
Thicke was kind enough to grant the pop a good chunk of his time for an interview, and for your reading pleasure, I suggest reading his responses in the cool melodic tone of Mr. Alan Thicke himself. It’s 100 percent guaranteed to enhance your enjoyment as you read the proud papa’s thoughts on topics like sabotage at the Miss Universe pageant, how to get away with a recurring character named Boner, and working with some kid named Leonardo DiCaprio. Read the rest of this entry »
The headline is a bit misleading. What we meant to say is Bono stopped to sign some autographs at Sundance. We mean no disrespect - just trying to get more hits out of this post. We love Bono. We want to interview him or share a drink with him. We’d even buy.
Woody Harrelson takes to the slopes in Park City last week during the Sundance Film Festival. Wood remains one of our favorite actors and overall our favorite Woody next to Woody Allen and Woody from Toy Story. On a serious note, we wish he had more lines in No Country for Old Men or at the very least, wrote a different ending. Read the rest of this entry »
“Midnight” Show: Linkin Park ready to hit the road
By Jon Chattman and Oren Phillips
Linkin Park have more hits than Fraggle Rock’s Uncle Traveling Matt had adventures. After their smash albums in the early 2000s (Hybrid Theory, Meteora…that remix cd that kicked ass but we forget the name) the countdown was on last year for Minutes to Midnight, their less-than-Nu-Metal follow-up almost four years after Meteora. Starting Feb. 12, the band will embark on North American tour to support the Midnight, which has already spawned such hit singles as “Bleed It Out,” “Shadow of the Day,” and the breakout “What I’ve Done.” On an unrelated note, I enjoy making the sound effects in that song with my mouth to mimic a Transformer. (Insert: huh? here)
We were fortunate to speak with Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda about the tour, and their current album, which they believe has helped them stay fresh and not get pigeoned holed into any one genre. Without further delay…here’s the interview.
Ideally, Bono would appear on this site weighing in on David Crosby’s mustache and Rick Moranis’ career highlights, but we’re almost as happy to have him here for a snapshot. We spotted Bono at the airport en route to a screening of U2-3D, which premiered at the festival. If you haven’t seen the film, check it out now. It’s really cool - much better than Jaws in 3-D.
Entourage’s Adrian Grenier seemed like a real pro at the ski slopes. We’re more excited to report that he’s actually an all around good guy. You’d think a dude like that could be as pretentious as he wants. Nice to see Vinnie Chase off-screen is pretty much Vinnie Chase on-screen.
Kevin Sorbo was not promoting Meet the Spartans at Sundance. We’re pretty sure he was promoting a movie, but we don’t want to take the time to look it up on IMDB. All we know for sure is everytime we see him we want to burst out with an Eddie Murphy Kump-style “Her-cules, Her-cules, Her-cules!”
Ben Kingsley and date arrive to a screening of The Wackness, a quirky teen dramedy also starring Mary Kate Olsen. Love those shoes, Ben. Oh, and you deserved an Oscar nomination for You Kill Me. That movie rocked.
Ben Kingsley and date arrive to a screening of The Wackness, a quirky teen dramedy also starring Mary Kate Olsen. Love those shoes, Ben. Oh, and you deserved an Oscar nomination for You Kill Me. That movie rocked.