January 14, 2009
Sanaa Lathan: 'My Fans Had Fun Hating Me. I Love That.'
PW: Were you concerned that this woman was so different from anything you've ever played before?Sanaa: The thing that scared me about it the most was the fear of playing...
An Open Letter to Michael Cera
Dear Michael, Big congrats on all the post "Arrested Development" fame -- you deserve it. Just wondering if you're familiar with the expression, "don't forget where you came from?" or...
J.Lo's Fictional Life Imitating Real Art
Stopping short of actually cribbing the title from Jennifer Lopez's 2002 film "Enough," Star Magazine is claiming that the singer/actress/queen of all things fabulous has become a victim of domestic...
Bagging on Kim Kardashian
Since Kim Kardashian seems to be so concerned with labels -- thrusting Chanel and Vuitton in our faces -- then I think labeling her is only fair. Whaddya say, is...
Jennifer Hudson's Super Return
Since the brutal and shocking murder of her mother, brother and nephew three months ago, Jennifer Hudson has been laying low -- understandably so. Well, it seems that she now...
Emoting Classes, Only 50% Effective
Doesn't Kelly look like she's having the best time? Seriously, stop being so excited. Anyhoo, while I could care less about 75 percent of this clan, I adore Sharon Osbourne...
"American Idol," And So It Begins
8:07 p.m.This is when we were treated to our first "after the break" from Ryan Seacrest, who had quite an eventful evening. Not only did he utilize his tension-building catchphrase...
MYSTERIOUS EXIT FROM NEW YORK TIMES
WHILE media watchdogs are be moaning "the relative paucity of black journalists at the White House" (Washington Post), the New York Times just lost Jonathan Hicks, an African-American political reporter...
LOVE THE ACTORS, NOT THE SCENE
NOW, Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber's glamorous glorious gorgeous premiere of "Defiance" at the Landmark Sunshine Theater. Landmarked? The thing should be condemned. Sunshine? Their VIP reception room is a...
OUT OF CONTROL
A LOUIS Vuitton publicist got an impromptu lesson in crowd control at the tribute to designer Stephen Sprouse at the Deitch Gallery the other night. "It wasn't that crowded, but...
EX SETS CASEY'S HAIR ON FIRE
CASEY Johnson - the madcap Band-Aid heiress whose father, Woody Johnson, owns the Jets - is said to be wearing her hair in a short, butch style following a vicious...
FAKE ORGASM II
MALLORY June (above) will make a big splash at the Sundance Film Festival as the star of the short movie "Acting for the Cameras," by director Justin Nowell and cinematographer...
MEDIA MASSACRE
THE past week brought another round of media pink slips. OK! magazine laid off at least a dozen employees, sources say. "Two reporters who were fired from People are getting...
HOW COSMO QUEEN GOT BOOTED
HEARST suits itched to kick legendary editrix Helen Gurley Brown out of the top job at Cosmopolitan for more than 10 years as circulation slipped - but it took a...
BIRTHDAY GIRL
MARY J. Blige (above) got quite the shock on her 38th birthday. The singer's manager and husband, Kendu Isaacs, invited Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Russell Simmons, Busta Rhymes and embattled Knicks point...
KURT'S HANDY TIPS FOR WRITERS
KURT Vonnegut's private correspondence with a student he bedded in the mid-'60s is about to be bared for the first time. The "Slaughterhouse Five" author was a professor at the...
A DUTCH DEBUT
MICHAEL Imperioli's big- screen directing debut, "The Hungry Ghosts," is set for its glitzy world premiere - not in New York, where the family drama is set, but in Rotterdam,...
FOOL IN LOVE
FIRST Dominick Barbara fights 'em, then he falls in loves with 'em. Four years ago, the beefy matrimonial lawyer represented a Long Island husband, Sheldon Geller, who was divorcing Stacy...
O'S 'RIGHT' EAR
President-elect Barack Obama reached across the aisle - and the table - last night, breaking bread with a slew of conservative writers at the Chevy Chase, Md., pad of syndicated...