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Vampires and sports stars going global for Calvin

Last week, YSL sent a racy new video promo/ad film by fashion photographer Bruce Weber into cyberspace (New York magazine labeled it NSFW because of the nudity). Now comes word that fashion’s long-time...

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Selling ‘Catfish’: fake innocence fuels Facebook ‘documentary’

The pseudo-documentary “Catfish” has been getting a lot of attention since it debuted at Sundance last winter and went on to be picked up for national distribution. The movie opened theatrically in New...

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Jumping the gun on ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’?

The antiquated Broadway preview system took a huge hit earlier this week when the ultimate New York City theater arbiter — The New York Times — made the decision to send its top critic Ben Brantley to...

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Staying in the here and now at ‘Now. Here. This.’

The charming and super-talented quartet of actors and writers who were responsible for the cult musical “(Title of Show)” — Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Susan Blackwell and Heidi Blickenstaff — are in the...

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Coming: riveting Wall Street expose ‘Confidence Game’

The financial disasters of recent years have some produced excellent documentaries including the Oscar-winning “Inside Job” and “Client 9.” The other night I watched an advance screener of another...

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‘Dark Knight’: who to ‘blame’ for the horror in Colorado?

Yesterday in this space I wrote about the death threats some film critics received earlier in the week when they panned “The Dark Knight Rises” before the picture debuted at midnight showings all over...

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‘Trial by Fury’: no room for doubt on the Internet

It has probably happened to all of us at one time or another. You see something really dumb on Facebook or Twitter or some website — something you know is inaccurate — and in the hopes of sorting out...

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ThrillerFest VIII: two days in the world of thriller writers

The Grand Hyatt in Manhattan was buzzing over the weekend – with ThrillerFest VIII ensconced on Friday and Saturday, and then the players, management and fans of the All-Star Game rolling in on...

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#FridayReads ‘The Circle’ by Dave Eggers: ‘criminality of privacy’

Dave Eggers has written a perfect variation on “Brave New World” and “1984” for the early years of the 21st century. “The Circle” (Alfred A. Knopf) is set within a giant California company that feels...

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‘Drone Wars’: making new enemies in Pakistan

We all had a good laugh last week over the “60 Minutes” infomercial for Amazon — hosted by corporate cheerleader Charlie Rose — which introduced Jeff Bezos’ plan to deliver goods via unmanned drone...

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#FridayReads: ‘Good News’ from n + 1 on multiple fronts

The three-times-a-year Brooklyn journal, n + 1, is always packed with an ecelectic mix of goods and Number Eighteen, which is called “Good News,” is no exception. The book-size publication includes a...

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Baron Wolman’s ‘Woodstock’: captivated by the crowd

It’s hard to imagine a music festival today having anything like the cultural impact of the 1969 Woodstock gathering. The three-day event that started on August 15 attracted a crowd of somewhere around...

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When movie ads get covered as ‘news’

How bad a movie summer are we in? So bad that the press seems to be giving more attention to trailers than movies. The Hollywood Reporter sent out a news flash on Monday announcing that the trailer for...

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Marian Seldes R.I.P.: actress & theatergoer

The marquees of Broadway theaters will be dimmed tonight at 7:45 p.m. in memory of the great actress Marian Seldes who died on Monday at the age of 86. I saw Marian Seldes on stage many times — in...

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‘Follies of God’: the women who inspired Tennessee Williams

James Grissom took a huge chance by sharing so much of his research work on Facebook during the many years he spent putting together “Follies of God” (Knopf), the fantastic new book about Tennessee...

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‘Santangelos’: ballsy women & the men who love them

500 million books sold and counting, Jackie Collins could have rested on her laurels — and her royalty statements — a long time ago. But, clearly she still has lots of stories to tell about the rich...

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‘My Salinger Year’: coming of age in the publishing world

Vintage Books has published a paperback edition of Joanna Rakoff’s justly acclaimed 2014 memoir, “My Salinger Year,” about her first post-college New York City job at a literary agency. Rakoff had no...

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What would Joan Crawford say to Anne Hathaway?

So much of a star’s image is shaped off screen now – via social media and gossip sites such as TMZ – that there are new pressures and anxieties that Golden Age icons like Joan Crawford and Bette Davis...

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‘Author: The JT Leroy Story’: the literary hoax

The new documentary, “Author: The JT Leroy Story” takes us inside one of the great hoaxes of recent literary history. JT Leroy was one of the most written about authors of the turn of the century, a...

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‘Weiner’: politics & sexual role-playing

At one point late in their documentary “Weiner,” Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg ask New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner the key question – Why did you agree to do this film? Weiner never...

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