Allison Williams: Trust My Dad Because of This Story About a Dance
Allison Williams, a woman who has not (to the best of my knowledge) ever undergone a DNA paternity test, says you can trust her father.
Who Has More Clout at NYC's Top Restaurants: Brian Williams or Geraldo?
It's difficult, these days, to find examples of the name Brian Williams not being preceded by the word "disgraced," but is the suspended newsman as much of a pariah in New York City at large as he is in journalism circles? To figure out, we ran a (highly scientific) experiment. Gawker, posing as the personal…
NBC's live dress rehearsal of Peter Pan bombed in the ratings, averaging 9.2 million viewers and half of what The Sound of Music drew last year in the all-important 18-49 demo. Per Vulture's Josef Adalian, numbers took a notable dive in the production's third hour—more people watched a rerun of The Big Bang Theory and…
Allison Williams Makes a Real Cock of Herself on Live TV
"I've Gotta Crow" is a bad song in a bad play, and yet, this is somehow dreadful beyond my imagination and understanding.
Allison Williams's Fiance Looks Like Peter Pan
By "looks like," I mean "when he had that haircut in 2009," and by "Peter Pan," I mean...
Brian Williams "Reports" His Daughter Allison's Casting in Peter Pan
Allison Williams must be so embarrassed right now. Her dad, Brian, "reported" on the NBC Nightly News tonight her casting in NBC's forthcoming live production of Peter Pan. "Family members confirm that she's been rehearsing for this role since the age of three and they look forward to seeing her fly," he said on-air.
Things Continue to Work Out Just Fine for Allison Williams
Girls star Allison Williams got a bit of good news today, and then another bit of good news, and then another bit of good news, and so on and so forth until bits of good news arranged in neat, orderly piles covered nearly every square foot of her home. The bits of good news had that hot, paper-fresh-from-the-printer…
Daughter of Newsman Brian Williams Has Flack Censor Softball Interview Question
Allison Williams, co-star of the HBO hit Girls, is the daughter of NBC News anchor Brian Williams, a man who makes his living by asking the tough questions. A cynic might even allege that Allison Williams would not be a famous TV star now were it not for her famous newsman dad. It would seem ironic, then, for Allison…
Girls Creator Lena Dunham on Nepotism Charge: I Challenge Critics to Tell Me Who My Parents Are
Writer, director, producer, and star of HBO's much-dissected comedy series Girls Lena Dunham recently issued a formal rebuttal to critics who pick on the show for featuring a main cast composed entirely of celebrity offspring.
Brian Williams Talks Nepotism and His Kids with David Letterman
On tonight's Late Show with David Letterman, NBC news honcho and Gawker correspondent Brian Williams chatter with David Letterman on a variety of subjects, one of which was his kids. When Letterman suggested that Williams might hire his son, as aspiring sports journalist, Williams joked about that being nepotism. Hey…
'I Don't Want a Baby That Looks Like That': A Girls Recap
The appropriate response to Girls, a television program about pretty young White Nationalists seeking abortions and love in the Big City, is silence. But we are in the noise business, and today is the 21st anniversary of the death of Johnny Thunders, so here is a recap.
How Fate Plucked Allison Williams From YouTube Obscurity and Dropped Her on Her Dad's Friend's TV Show
In making the unending publicity rounds for Girls, co-star Allison Williams has been peddling a YouTube discovery myth: Producer Judd Apatow, the tale goes, happened to come across a video of her singing a self-produced mash-up of the theme song to Mad Men in October 2010 and immediately knew that she was the…
'Small Girl Big Mouth': A Girls Recap
Today is Ian MacKaye's 50th birthday so I guess it's as good a time as any to realize you hate young people. Girls is a television program about the children of wealthy famous people and shitty music and Facebook and how hard it is to know who you are and Thought Catalog and sexually transmitted diseases and the…
Brian Williams' Daughter Is Up to No Good
Though we love her news anchor dad, we are worried about this young actress. Also today: let's analyze Suri Cruise for absolutely no reason, more exciting wedding news about the world's most important wedding, and Amanda Seyfried fesses up.
Watch This Amazing Recreation of the Mad Men Theme Song
Allison Williams (daughter of Brian Williams) stars in this stunning music video, singing a mix of the Mad Men theme song and "Nature Boy." Impressively, the video is all one long shot that will leave you begging for more.
Brian Williams' Daughter Plays Sensual TA in College Musical Web Series
Allison Williams, daughter of news anchor Brian Williams and former student at Yale, plays a sexy TA in College Musical, a production starring fellow Yale student and YouTube star Sam Tsui.
NBC Deletes Message Board Overrun with Conan Separatists (and a Weird Yale Theater Plug)
Just when NBC thought it could slip back into Lenonian ennui, aTonight Show forum for "things you want Jay to see" overruns with I'M WITH COCO's and is deleted. Weirdly, Brian Williams' daughter singing Ke$ha on YouTube plays a role.
