January 22, 2009
"Return To Oz" Still Haunts Me
For the uninformed -- and non-scarred -- "Return To Oz" is a sequel to "The Wizard of Oz. But while "Wizard" was a sing-songy treat with mild moments of fright,...
Brad and Angelina Make My Gray
Proving that there's no rest for the weary -- or sexy -- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie resumed their intergalactic promotional journey in Paris today. He was there to openly...
5 Questions About "Lost's" Premiere
Although our lovely lady of the rising sun told both Charles Widmore and Kate that her endgame is to kill Benjamin Linus, I think Sun's hiding something. Sure she blames...
"American Idol" Professional Pause
Looking back at season seven, there were more pseudo-professionals in the top 12 than any previous year, which calls into question whether contestants like Justin Guarini, Diana DeGarmo or Kellie...
Oscar Nominations Actually Surprise!
Best Picture"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button""Frost/Nixon""Milk""The Reader""Slumdog Millionaire"No major surprises here except for "The Reader," which is majorly dividing audiences, snagging the fifth slot that many thought might go...
Remembering Heath Ledger
"The first six weeks of our daughter Matilda's life was this incredibly insular, protected time. It was just he and I and her, living in our new house in Brooklyn....
WE'RE FINALLY WINNING THE RACE
'HOPE, the best comfort of our imperfect con dition," wrote the historian Edward Gibbon. Recently, I wrote about Piers Brendon's new book, "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire."...
NOT THE DADDY
YOU can take the name of Francois-Henri Pinault off the list of suspects who may have fathered the baby of French Justice Minister Rachida Dati. Pinault's lawyer informs us: "This...
'SALVATION' ED STRIKES AGAIN
ED Limato - the flamboyant agent who left ICM to bring such clients as Mel Gibson, Richard Gere, Steve Martin and Denzel Washington to William Morris - just snagged another...
ALEXIS STEWART GOES TO BOOB MAGICIAN
EVER since Sirius radio host Alexis Stewart posted before-and-after pictures of her breast-lift on her blog last spring, fans have been wondering who performed the gravity-defying miracle. Now we're told...
FUN FOURSOME
HEADS swiveled at Le Cirque on Tuesday night as patrons checked out the unusual double date going on in the middle of the dining room. Ivanka Trump and her boyfriend...
HISTORY THROUGH THE EYE OF A MEDIA STORM
AS the world's eye recorded history this week, I watched how The Eye itself, CBS-TV, recorded this his tory. CBS News President Sean McManus allowed access to his network the...
HOT FOR BARACK
MICHELLE Obama better watch her back. "I'm in love with Barack Obama . . . I wanna get married - like, I wanna have his kids," raspy-voiced songstress Macy Gray...
STILL GREEN FOR GANNETT SUITS
GANNETT executives who recently told 35,000 employees to take off a week without pay have a skewed sense of financial hardship. Last weekend, after newspaper division chief Bob Dickey informed...
CELEBS' INAUGURAL EGO TRIPS
THE boldfaces were not always on their best behavior before and after Barack Obama's presidential inauguration. Jessica Alba called Bill O'Reilly "kind of an a - - hole" at Sunday...
LEAVING TOWN
HUGH Hefner may be old, but his Playboy Enterprises is taking a new approach to ease the ache of the crumbling magazine market. "Playboy is combining its Web site and...
BACK TO THE '90S
GOOD news for alterna-rockers who are stuck in the '90s - No Doubt is getting back together for a 2009 summer tour. Gwen Stefani, who rose to fame with songs...
FESTIVAL FISTS
FISTICUFFS broke out at Sundance yesterday after Variety critic John Anderson told Jeff Dowd, press rep for the documentary "Dirt! The Movie," that it "was poor, too simplistic." A resulting...