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Brett Ratner and Roman Polanski Visit Auschwitz
Brett Ratner, director of the Rush Hour trilogy, X-Men: The Last Stand and the new New York, I Love You, was the guest editor of this month’s issue of Heeb magazine. Mr. Ratner decided to take his...
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Fashion Roundup: Siriano’s Shoes, Jacobs’ Nudes, ‘Polanski’s’ Greed
Project Runway contestant Christian Siriano has signed a deal with Payless to design a line of affordable shoes and handbags. [NY Post] Designer Roberto Cavalli has been cleared of all tax evasion...
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Crime Waves: Polanski, Monserrate
Roman Polanski was arrested this weekend in Switzerland on 1977 charges that he had sex with a 13-yeal-old girl; “why he would suddenly be arrested after flying in and out of Zurich without trouble for...
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Crime Waves: Post Plays Kid Brother, Polanski Lives in Luxury
Today is little-brother day at the New York Post. First, the paper details al Qaeda’s development of a “butt bomb.” On the Lower East Side, police have “stepped up” their efforts to catch a BB-gun...
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There’s Nothing to Be Scared About: Ira Levin’s Park Pad Sells for $2.05 M.
Called “the Swiss watchmaker of suspense novels” by Stephen King, Ira Levin set the bar for thrillers as the master of macabre. “He makes what the rest of us do look like cheap watchmakers in...
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Opening This Weekend: Scorsese and Polanski Get Their Thrills… Will You?
Good news, cinephiles: a couple of Mount Rushmore-ready directors open films today. Even better news: only one of them brings a scandalous criminal record to theaters as well! (Hint: his name rhymes...
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Roman Polanski Can Remain Silent No Longer!
“I can remain silent no longer!” writes Roman Polanski in La Regle du Jeu: he’s kept quiet since his arrest last September in Zurich, but no more. For one thing, February testimony from a deputy D.A....
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Eye Opener: Monserrate on the Prowl
The fairytale romance of Hiram Monserrate and Karla Giraldo ends. [NYP] Syracuse students didn’t really get naked to protest Jamie Dimon. [NYP] Uncharted frontiers of fatty meat: sheep-pig bacon....
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Thanks Man: Woody Allen Sticks Up for Roman Polanski
Woody “The Heart Wants What It Wants” Allen thinks we should give Roman Polanski a break, according to an interview with France Info radio he gave while in Cannes. Reports the AP: Allen said Polanski...
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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein Puts Roman Polanski’s Statutory Rape Lawyer...
Via Getty. It’s being reported by Reuters today that Goldman Sachs CEO, avowed Lady Gaga fan, and G-Unit extended family member Lloyd Blankfein has recently hired and retained high-profile defensive...
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The New York Film Festival Nears 50
Polanski. (Photo: Miguel Medina / AFP / Getty Images) The first New York Film Festival, in 1963, featured Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water, the then-30-year-old director’s Polish-language feature...
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Award-Winning Play God of Carnage Grows Up On Screen
From left: Reilly, Foster, Waltz and Winslet. Roman Polanski’s Carnage, a brisk, 79-minute adaptation of the wildly successful play God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, is a case of the right film by the...
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Roman Polanski To Film Another Broadway Adaptation–of Venus in Fur
Sorry, Nina Arianda–you may have been the toast of Broadway for your role in David Ives’s Venus in Fur, and even won a Tony, but there’s no room for you onscreen! The Hollywood Reporter writes that Mr....
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J.D., Roman and Woody: Why ‘Great Men’ Get a Pass From Their Peers
NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 16: U.S. Actor-Director Woody Allen (L) speaks to reporters in New York, NY after a pre-trial hearing 15 December, 1992 on the custody fight between Allen and former girlfriend...
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Roman Polanski Won’t Be Extradited, G&G on Compulsory Cunnilingus, And More
Your art news roundup for October 30.
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Weekend Edition: 11 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before April 11
This week: a Ramones retrospective in Queens!
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Tarantino Enters Unfamiliar Territory With Film About Manson Family Murders
How will the director approach violence when the victims were real, innocent people?
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