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William Wharton, Author, Dies at 82
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 6:18am GMT by By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Mr. Wharton was a successful painter whose first novel, “Birdy,” won a National Book Award and became a critically acclaimed movie.
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A Panoramic View of the City, Framed With Art
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 6:01am GMT by By ANNE BARNARD
A new exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art juxtaposes drawings by Stephen Talasnik with its New York panorama, which has long inspired Mr. Talasnik’s work.
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Art Review | Jan Lievens: A Forgotten Baroque Painter, Shown Free of Rembrandt’s Shadow
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 5:38am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
Jan Lievens, the subject of an interesting exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, is not a household name now, but in his time he was famous for his portraits and his religious and history paintings.
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Movie Review | 'Dear Zachary': A Provocative Story of Loss
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:45am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
It is impossible not to be fired up by Kurt Kuenne’s incendiary cri de coeur, “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.”
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Movie Review | 'Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback': United by Shared Ambivalence
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:43am GMT by By NATHAN LEE
“Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback,” an ambitious but unfocused documentary, bids to immortalize this short-lived if influential group.
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Movie Review | 'My Name Is Bruce': The Evil Dumb
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:42am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
In “My Name Is Bruce,” a silly horror comedy that only a cultist could love, Bruce Campbell, the star of countless B-movie thrillers, mercilessly spoofs himself.
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Books of The Times: You Thought It Was Hell? War Is Sporty
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:34am GMT by By BARRY GEWEN
In Martin van Creveld’s survey of conflict in societies throughout history and around the world, peace is the aberration, pacifism a quixotic ideal.
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Antiques: Let Them Have Splendor: France’s Lavish Century
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:34am GMT by By WENDY MOONAN
The cliché that the very best always sells will be tested on Thursday in New York at Sotheby’s sale “Important French Furniture, Decorations, Ceramics, Silver and Carpets.”
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Art Review | International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair: Stretching the Concept of Print to Its Outer Limits
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:31am GMT by By KAREN ROSENBERG
In what is shaping up to be a subdued art season, the annual International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair at the Park Avenue Armory is a reassuring presence.
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Inside Art: Pigs, Worms and Pink in the Atrium at MoMA
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:31am GMT by By CAROL VOGEL
MoMA’s first site-specific commission for the atrium is “Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters),” a video, sound and sculptural installation by Pipilotti Rist.
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Art Review | Joan Miró at MoMA: Miró, Serial Murderer of Artistic Conventions
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:29am GMT by By HOLLAND COTTER
“Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937” is an absorbing, invigorating and — Miró would be mortified — beautiful show at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Art Review | 'theanyspacewhatever': Museum as Romantic Comedy
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:27am GMT by By ROBERTA SMITH
The Guggenheim’s exhibition “theanyspacewhatever” aims to resensitize people to their everyday surroundings and, moreover, to one another.
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Movie Review | 'Splinter': Night of the Living Spastic, Ravenous Porcupine Flesh-Eaters
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:19am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT
With “Splinter,” the director Toby Wilkins honors the conventions of the horror genre with skill and enough wit to keep the scares sharp.
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Movie Review | 'The Matador': All the Life Surrounding Death in the Afternoon
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:19am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Stripping away centuries of civilization, “The Matador” confronts something primal in human nature, daring us to do the same.
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Movie Review | 'One Day You’ll Understand': In Search of Family History Despite the Threat of Pain
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:18am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT
“One Day You’ll Understand” contains no great revelations or surprises, but rather is suffused with a quiet glow of sympathy and enlightenment.
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Movie Review | 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno': Skin Flick? Nah, It’s a Love Story
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:17am GMT by By . A. O. Scott
“Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” in spite of its lewdness, follows a gee-whiz romantic-comedy formula that would not be out of place on the Disney Channel.
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Theater Review | The Big Apple Circus: One-Ring Show Sings Many Different Tunes
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:16am GMT by By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
“Play On!,” the 31st edition of the Big Apple Circus, performed under its little big top in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center, shining a spotlight on the music essential to the spectacle.
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Television Review | 'Brotherhood': Mobster and Politician, Neither Rolling in Clover
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:16am GMT by By GINIA BELLAFANTE
“Brotherhood,” which begins its third exceptional season on Sunday, is yet another Showtime drama featuring main characters who rationalize self-interest as altruism.
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Music Review | Metro Station: Answering Flirty Come-Ons With Squeals or Singalongs
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:15am GMT by By JON PARELES
Trace Cyrus and Mason Musso of Metro Station sang peppy songs about barely legal sex to squealing young girls, many with parents in tow, at the Nokia Theater on Wednesday.
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Music Review | Enrico Pieranunzi: Two Hands, Many Keyboard Styles
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:14am GMT by By BEN RATLIFF
The Italian jazz pianist Enrico Pieranunzi, who is usually known for his good taste and good experience, gave a dull performance on Wednesday night at Birdland.
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Music Review | Daniel Bernard Roumain: Nodding Orchestrally to Two Historical Figures, and to His Own Haitian Roots
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:14am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN
Daniel Bernard Roumain’s overcrowded score, performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday, involved Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and the Haitian singer Emeline Michel.
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Arts, Briefly: Free Tickets for Met’s Faust
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:13am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
The Metropolitan Opera will be offering 3,000 free tickets for its final dress rehearsal of Berlioz’s “Damnation de Faust.”
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Arts, Briefly: The God Delusion Jr.? Dawkins Is Working on a Children’s Book
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:13am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has said he is writing a book for children that would explore their relationships with fairy tales.
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Arts, Briefly: ‘Doctor Who’ Actor Steps Down
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:12am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The actor David Tennant announced that he would not play the time-traveling Doctor in the next season of the series, scheduled for 2010.
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Arts, Briefly: Painting Stolen by Nazis Is Returned to Heirs
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:12am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has returned a painting by Fernand Léger to the heirs of a French art collector after the museum concluded that the painting had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
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Arts, Briefly: Digital Mystery Tour: The Beatles' First Video Game
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:12am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The game developer Harmonix and the publisher MTV Games entered into a partnership with the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd. to produce an interactive game.
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Arts, Briefly: Hollywood Set, Broadway Name
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:11am GMT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY; Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
David Rockwell, whose Rockwell Group has designed sets for Broadway shows including “Hairspray” and “Legally Blonde,” has signed on as set designer for the next Academy Awards show.
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:11am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
“Black Watch,” Gregory Burke’s play about a Scottish Army regiment’s perspective on the war in Iraq, has extended performances through Dec. 21 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
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Arts, Briefly: The Phillies Win! (Fox, Too)
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:11am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The Philadelphia Phillies’ World Series triumph provided a ratings victory for Fox on Wednesday night.
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Video Game Review | Dead Space: Lost in Space, Facing Horror’s Greatest Hits
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:10am GMT by By SETH SCHIESEL
Dead Space, a new sci-fi horror game from Electronic Arts, sticks to familiar genre tropes but delivers the thrills.
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Music: The Music Is Classical, and the Bar Is Busy
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:08am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Le Poisson Rouge is following in the path of places like Joe’s Pub in the East Village and Barbès in Park Slope, clubs that mix classical and contemporary fare.
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Letter: Cabaret Performers
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 3:10am GMT
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Letter: Keepers of the Flame
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 3:07am GMT
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Letter: Irish Police Films
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 3:05am GMT
IT COULD BE WORSE.
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Art in Review
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 12:21am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Nasreen Mohamedi at Talwar Gallery, Vivan Sundaram at Sepia International, Donald Moffett/Yuichi Higashionna at Marianne Boesky and more.
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Art: Tapped Out?
Posted: October 30th, 2008, 9:19pm GMT by By CAROL VOGEL
With the market easing, the big auction houses brace for the fall sales.
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The Saturday Profile: In Mozambique, Singing a Song of Sanitation and Hoping to Change Habits
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 5:55am GMT by By BARRY BEARAK
While Feliciano dos Santos, one of southern Africa’s leading musicians, sings about love and sorrow, he is better known for songs of a more peculiar sort.
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Russert Tribute to Be on Tuesday
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 5:21am GMT
A tribute to Tim Russert, the NBC newsman and who died on June 13, is to be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. on Tuesday at St. Peter’s Church at Citigroup Center, Lexington Avenue at 54th Street.
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Arts, Briefly: Casting Ahoy for ‘On the Town’
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 5:05am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
The New York City Center’s Encores! series revival of “On the Town” has announced its full cast.
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Arts, Briefly: Sotheby’s Suffers Losses on Guaranteed Prices
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 5:04am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Disappointing art auctions in London and Hong Kong this month cost Sotheby’s $15 million in losses on guarantees to sellers, Bloomberg News reported.
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Dance Review | Wave Rising Series: Effortless Leverages From Floor to Air
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS
On Wednesday night at John Ryan Theater in Brooklyn, the second gala in the Wave Rising Series showcased the six companies that will perform through this weekend.
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Theater Review | 'The Doll Sisters': Returning to New York to Retell an Ancient Tale
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By ANITA GATES
“The Doll Sisters” is a genteel and seductive play-with-marionettes now at the Annex Theater at La MaMa E.T.C.
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Dance Review | Tami Stronach Dance: The Lengths That Love Will Go to, Stilts and All
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Tami Stronach’s “But it’s for you,” which had its premiere on Thursday at Danspace Project in St. Mark’s Church, depicts the grim, obsessive end stages of love.
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Bridge: From a Very Close Finish, Several Lessons in Defense
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:45am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER
If you are thinking that today’s deal looks familiar, do not be alarmed: it was used in last Saturday’s column.
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Music Review | Musica Sacra: A Decisive Bach Moment, Delivered With Drama
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:44am GMT by By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Musica Sacra performed Bach’s “St. John Passion” at the Rose Theater on Wednesday evening.
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Dance Review | Dance Theater Workshop: Who’s Watching Whom? Only the Mirror Can Tell
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:42am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS
“Sublime is Us,” a dance piece by Luciana Achugar that is performed before a large mirror, is alternately fascinating and boring.
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Movie Review | 'Roadside Romeo': Bollywood: Often Energetic, Now Animated
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:38am GMT by By RACHEL SALTZ
“Roadside Romeo” is something new under the Bollywood sun: sophisticated computer-generated animation that uses stars to voice the characters.
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Movie Review | 'Saw V': Grand Guignol, by Way of the Tool Shed
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:38am GMT by By NATHAN LEE
The latest and least of the “Saw” films is just plain boring and even a little tame — albeit by the standards of a genre that helped bring the phrase “torture porn” into the lexicon.
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Music Review | Lynda Carter: Former Ambassador of the Amazons, Singing the Tunes of Her Muses
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:36am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Onstage, Lynda Carter, who opened a one-week engagement at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency on Tuesday, blends the confidence of a beauty queen with the attitude of a blues singer.
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Movie Review | 'Passengers': Lost Luggage Is the Least of Their Worries
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:34am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
“Passengers” is a supernatural thriller so mechanically inept and lacking in suspense that it doesn’t even pass muster as lowbrow Halloween-ready entertainment.
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Dance Review | RoseAnne Spradlin: Andy Warhol, a Beaded Curtain and a ’60s Sensibility
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:33am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS
RoseAnne Spradlin’s newest work, “Blue Liz,” shown on Thursday night at the Kitchen, finds its spark in Warhol’s 1963 painting “Blue Liz as Cleopatra.”
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Music Review | St. Lawrence String Quartet: Drawing on the Optimism in African Gumboot Dance
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:31am GMT by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
The St. Lawrence String Quartet gave the premiere of David Bruce’s lively “Gumboots” for clarinet and string quartet on Thursday at Zankel Hall.
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Arts, Briefly: A Rock Musical About, Yes, Cleopatra
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:31am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
The director Steven Soderbergh, whose body of work includes the films “Schizopolis,” “Kafka” and “Ocean’s Thirteen,” is planning to make a rock ’n’ roll musical about Cleopatra.
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Charging Bias by Theaters, Female Playwrights to Hold Meeting
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:29am GMT by By PATRICIA COHEN
Frustrated by what they describe as difficulty in getting their work produced, some female playwrights will air their grievances with New York theater representatives on Monday.
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Arts, Briefly: World Series Whiffs Against CSI on CBS
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:29am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
CBS’s prime-time shows topped Fox’s coverage of the World Series on Thursday night.
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Arts, Briefly: Guns N’ Roses and Free Soda
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:27am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Dr Pepper announced earlier this year that it would give a free soda to everyone in the United States if the Guns N’ Roses album “Chinese Democracy” came out. Now, the beverage company will have to drink its words.
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Arts, Briefly: Mediator Is Selected in Actors Guild Impasse
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:27am GMT by By BROOKS BARNES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
A federal mediator will try to break the contract stalemate between Hollywood’s major film and television studios and the Screen Actors Guild.
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Arts, Briefly: Radar and 02138 Fold
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:25am GMT by By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA; Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
Two magazines with upscale appeal, Radar and 02138, folded on Friday.
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Arts, Briefly: Council Votes to Remove Banksy Mural in London
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:25am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
A council in London has ordered that a 23-foot Banksy mural must be removed from the wall of a building on Newman Street.
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For CW, a New Plot: Improved Ratings
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:22am GMT by By BILL CARTER
The once-foundering CW Network is offering a few indications this fall that it may have found a key to survival: high school kids in expensive clothes.
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For Once, CNN Takes News Less Seriously
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:20am GMT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
“D. L. Hughley Breaks the News,” which has its premiere Saturday on CNN, represents the channel’s belated (and risky) entry into the genre of news delivered with a satirical smile.
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Dance Review | American Ballet Theater: Inconsolable in Their Gloom and Grief
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:16am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
American Ballet Theater danced Jiri Kylian’s dreary “Overgrown Path” with the kind of bleak intensity and restrained anguish that it is all about at Thursday night’s company premiere.
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Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Hearing a Classical Score With a Contemporary Ear
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:12am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The conductor David Robertson, a regular guest of the New York Philharmonic, led the orchestra through works by Brahms, Mozart and Bartok on Thursday night.
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2 Relatives of Jennifer Hudson Reported Slain
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 2:17am GMT by By MITCHELL L. BLUMENTHAL
The mother and brother of the Academy Award-winning actress were reportedly found shot to death in Chicago.
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Movie Review | 'Let the Right One In': Pale Boy and Pale Vampire in a Still, Wintry Landscape
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 5:40am GMT by By MANOHLA DARGIS
“Let the Right One In” takes the morbid unhappiness of its young characters seriously.
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Movie Review | 'Synecdoche, New York': Dreamer, Live in the Here and Now
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 5:39am GMT by By MANOHLA DARGIS
To say that Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York” is one of the best films of the year is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now.
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Movie Review | 'Changeling': A Boy Gone, a Mother Scorned
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 5:38am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT
When it works best, “Changeling” is a feverish and bluntly effective parable of wronged innocence.
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Antiques: Designers for the Rich and Famous Meet Again
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:50am GMT by By WENDY MOONAN
At the Cleveland Museum of Art, extravagant examples of the use of flora and fauna in the designs of brooches, cigarette cases, silver centerpieces and clocks are on display.
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Books of The Times: A Goody-Two-Shoes Trips the Spy Fantastic
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
In her ridiculous new novel, Diane Johnson attempts to use the war on terror as a backdrop for a social comedy about a clueless young American woman named Lulu.
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Art Review | Mary Heilmann: Unabashedly Joyful Paintings That Look Fun and Easy, but Don’t Be Fooled
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:47am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON
There’s a charming sloppiness about Mary Heilmann’s paintings, which are on display in an exhilarating retrospective at the New Museum.
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Art Review | 'Pompeii and the Roman Villa': Pompeii Style, B.C.E. (Before Catastrophic Eruption)
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:42am GMT by By KAREN ROSENBERG
There are some eerie parallels between Pompeii’s frozen-in-time culture of excess and our own staggering economy as evidenced in a show at the National Gallery.
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Inside Art: Investing in Old Masters in Economic Hard Times
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:42am GMT by By CAROL VOGEL
Some collectors who have mainly been interested in the new are starting to buy art of an older vintage.
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Art Review | 'The Philippe de Montebello Years': A Banquet of World Art, 30 Years in the Making
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:41am GMT by By HOLLAND COTTER
“The Philippe de Montebello Years” at the Metropolitan Museum, a tribute to the museum’s director at the end of his tenure, catches a monumental institution at a moment of major change.
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Exhibition Review | 'Yaddo: Making American Culture': Shadows of Yaddo
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:38am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH
The artists’ colony Yaddo, which is the subject of an absorbing new exhibition at the New York Public Library, has always had an unreal, Gatsbylike quality.
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Art Review | 'Picasso’s ‘Marie-Thérèse': Picasso in Lust and Ambition
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:37am GMT by By HOLLAND COTTER
Tales of love, art and restoration surround the must-see show of Picasso’s works at Acquavella Galleries.
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Theater Review | 'Basic Training': A Solo Show, Starring a Crowd
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:29am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
Kahlil Ashanti is a sort of one-man army in his engaging solo show, though “one-man Air Force” might be more correct.
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Theater Review | 'Cato': Leadership and Honor, Noble and Not So
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:29am GMT by By JASON ZINOMAN
Joseph Addison’s rich play, which receives a rare and powerful staging by Jim Simpson, is more than just a historical curiosity.
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Movie Review | 'Zidane': Portrait of the Artist as a Global Soccer Star
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:26am GMT by By MANOHLA DARGIS
You learn little by way of hard facts about the adored French soccer star and famous head-butter Zinédine Zidane in the formalist exercise that bears his name.
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Movie Review | 'Pride and Glory': A Band of Loyal Brothers, Not All of Them Honorable
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:25am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT
“Pride and Glory,” directed by Gavin O’Connor, plods across familiar ground. It’s yet another movie about the fraternal disorder of the police.
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Movie Review | 'I’ve Loved You So Long': A Broken Soul Wandering Aimlessly on the Long Path to Redemption
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:25am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT
In the drama “I’ve Loved You So Long,” Kristin Scott Thomas’s furious honesty rules out easy, unearned redemption.
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Movie Review | 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year': Omigosh, Real Guys Love Sports and Musical Theater
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:24am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
How lovely the American high school experience might be if it offered even a smidgen of the euphoria in “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.”
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Dance Review | Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: No Distractions: Just the Seamless Dancing, Ma’am
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:22am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS
Steve Reich’s music is in excellent hands in this tribute to the Minimalist composer by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Music Review | Anat Cohen: Horn Player, but No Slouch in the Dance Department
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:21am GMT by By NATE CHINEN
The performance of ballads, sambas and reggae-influenced sounds also included some dancing by the multireedist Anat Cohen at the Village Vanguard.
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Arts, Briefly: An El Greco for Athens
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:20am GMT by By ANTHEE CARASSAVA; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
An oil painting by El Greco once owned by the ousted Philippine president Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda, has been acquired by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation.
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Arts, Briefly: Brush Fire Quelled Near Getty Center
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:20am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
A brush fire that began early Thursday morning in Los Angeles came within a few miles of the Getty Center and J. Paul Getty Museum before it was brought under control by firefighters.
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Arts, Briefly: World Series Puts Fox on Top
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:19am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Game 1 of the World Series delivered Fox’s largest audience on a Wednesday since the finale of “American Idol.”
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Arts, Briefly: 'Curb Your Enthusiasm': Seventh Season Looms
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:18am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Larry David has gained another season of his cringe-inducing, aren’t-you-glad-it-didn’t-happen-to-you comedy series on HBO.
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Arts, Briefly: A Morrissey Memoir? Possibly Very Soon
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:18am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
If you’ve recently found yourself feeling upbeat and optimistic about life, Morrissey may soon put a stop to that: he has announced that he is working on his memoirs.
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Arts, Briefly: F.B.I. Questions Miley Cyrus Hacker
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:18am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
On Monday, the F.B.I. raided the home of a 19-year-old who had been bragging in Internet posts about hacking into the MySpace account of the Disney Channel star Miley Cyrus.