IT TUNES INTO MORE THAN MUSIC
OK, so it can’t do your taxes for you or help you get a date on a Saturday night (then again, spot another iPod-person with those telltale white headphones, and you’ve got a ready-made pickup line)....
View ArticleSIZE MATTERS; IPOD USERS GO MANIC WITH MEMORY ENVY
I have an original. It never bothered me, until I started seeing other people’s newer and better equipment. Paging Dr. Freud – I’ve got a raging case of iPod envy. Yes, size does matter, and my...
View ArticleHEAT ON ‘FAHRENHEIT’
HE may have been the darling of Cannes, but Michael Moore isn’t winning any praise from Ray Bradbury. The 84-year-old science-fiction author railed against the filmmaker in a recent interview with a...
View ArticleA REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE – ANDRE AGASSI’S BEEN BREAKING THE RULES OF TENNIS...
Blame it on Andre. When asked why she designed herself a tennis skirt made of denim (along with those much talked-about boots), Serena Williams pointed out it was Agassi who first wore jeans on the...
View ArticleCOLORS? HUE BET – DULL TENNIS DUDS ARE NOW WHITE ELEPHANTS
Staid country clubs may demand their members wear all white – but then there’s the U.S. Open, which turns into a runway for the latest trends in on-court fashion. A rainbow of primary colors has...
View ArticleOUR FREE CLASSIC IS ONE FOR THE BOOKS
Mark Twain once defined a classic as a “book which people praise and don’t read.” But his own “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is the exception to that rule. Twain’s undisputed masterpiece is one...
View ArticleDEMOCRATS’ SURVIVAL TIPS
DEMOCRATS, don’t despair. You made it through the first four years. Here’s a survival guide for the next four. * Marry a Canadian. Live up to your threats – and make the move up north. You’ve already...
View ArticleGOLDEN GLOBES’ GLAM SHAM – IT’S HOW YOU LOOK, NOT HOW YOU ACT THAT GETS THE...
YOU just can’t throw an awards show without Nicole Kidman. So what if her movie bombed – with critics and audiences? With star-colored glasses firmly in place, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association –...
View ArticleAWFUL MURDER FLICK NOT WORTH FILM IT’S SHOT ON
THE most disturbing scene in “Murder-Set-Pieces” is one we know all too well – that heartbreaking shot of the scarred towers burning, the plumes of smoke reaching to the sky. That such footage should...
View ArticleHOOP SCHEMES
STOP me if you’ve heard this one before: A dedicated teacher takes a job at a disadvantaged high school and, through a unrelenting dose of tough love, inspires his students to previously unimaginable...
View ArticleLOVE AMONG THE RUINS
‘ROMEO and Juliet,” this isn’t. True, many love stories begin with two people who can’t stand each other and have little in common. It’s how they fall in love that makes a movie worth watching – and...
View ArticleJOYFUL REUNION – NAZIS COULDN’T SINK JEWISH SWIMMERS
THEY weren’t exactly the Yankees, but in the 1930s a team of Austrian women swimmers came close – dominating most competitions they entered. They were talented, graceful – and Jewish. And so shortly...
View ArticleHIDE – DON’T SEEK; SAME OLD TRICKS DON’T TREAT THIS MOVIE WELL
HIDE AND SEEK Ready or not, here it comes. Running time: 105 minutes. Rated R (frightening sequences and violence). At the Union Square, the Chelsea, the Empire 25, others. LET’S hope Dakota Fanning’s...
View Article‘NOMI’ THAT TUNE
WACKY. Mysterious. Cartoonlike. And, ultimately, tragic. That’s how performance artist Klaus Nomi is remembered in “The Nomi Song,” a reverential documentary chronicling the “freak among freaks” who...
View ArticlePROBING LOOK AT SOME UNHOLY ALLIANCES
MY MOTHER’S SMILE ½ (two and a half stars) A test of faith. In Italian, with English subtitles. Running time: 102 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At the Cinema Village and the Lincoln...
View Article‘BIGGER THAN THE SKY’ LAMER THAN THE TITLE
THERE’S one funny running joke in “Bigger Than the Sky”: the casting of Patty Duke – who famously played twins on her ’60s TV show – as twin sisters who are never in the same place at the same time....
View ArticleTHOSE GOLDEN YEARS, FULL OF BRASS
IMAGINE the “Golden Girls” a few years later, when they’re all in a nursing home, and you’ll get “Sunset Story,” an alternately funny and somber documentary that won a special jury award at the Tribeca...
View ArticleSIS-BOOM-BLAH
MAN OF THE HOUSE Half a star Move out. Now. Running time: 97 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, sexual content, crude humor, drug reference). At the Loews E-Walk, the Lincoln Square, the Union Square,...
View ArticleCARPET BOMBING
* MONEY can’t buy taste, an adage the Hilton sisters have proved time and again. Paris somehow found a dress that made her look like she eats more than once a week, and Nicky clearly got too close to a...
View ArticleMOST IMPROVED – FORMER FASHION VICTIMS SURPRISE US WITH STYLISH, SEXY GOWNS
OUR prayers for a fashion intervention have been answered. At award events past, these stars have bombed on the red carpet with frumpy, ill-fitting and unflattering frocks. But rather than burrow even...
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