The Moon and the Stars Align Perfectly For Lindsay Lohan Once Again

Elle is letting LiLo off the hook over the jewels everyone seems convinced that she stole, two cops try to blackmail Sarah Jessica Parker/Matthew Broderick, Mariah Carey will star in a London play and Justin Timberlake loves tequila shots. More »

Nick Hornby Getting The Hang Of This Screenwriting Crap

The soaring success of An Education is the worst-kept secret in Park City today, and novelist and breakthrough screenwriter Nick Hornby isn't about to let star Carey Mulligan hog all the Sundance-darling honors. More »

'An Education' Takes Commanding Lead Among Sundance's Best

Coming into Sundance, we had a feeling the coming-of-age dramedy An Education would probably be pretty good. But as 282 lucky ticketholders at Sunday's premiere soon discovered, "good" isn't the half of it. More »

Nick Hornby Hates E-Books!

High Fidelity author Nick Hornby remains unimpressed with the Amazon Kindle and Border's iLiad electronic book-reader in Britain, and he'll tell you why after the jump. (Also, did we know that he's just quit his "Stuff I've Been Reading column in literary mag The Believer after 5 years?) More »

Nick Hornby Wants to Save You a Dollar On Your Next Munchies Purchase

Lazy-student-targeting fast food delivery site Campusfood.com is offering a huge $1 dollar-off promotion for the latest probably readable-but-kinda-crappy film adaptation-ready Nick Hornby novel. It's called SLAM and it's about teenage parenthood and, uh, Tony Hawk. If you and like 40 friends order soon you'll save enough to get yourselves some Plan B! More »

Music Critic Catfight: Sasha Frere-Jones v. Nick Hornby

The New Yorker's wildman music critic Sasha Frere-Jones has called out New York Times op-ed music-lover Nick Hornby. Looks like he's going to kick Hornby's ass after school, by the bike racks:

It turns out that the [NYT's] idea is not to find rockist crackers or closet bigots or plain old crabcakes who just wanna rail against music as it exists and operates now — the idea is to find people who are unable to hear music as it exists and operates now, and then ask them to write about it. And if you're looking for someone who can't confront or discern the present moment, there is no greater spokesbaldy than Nick "Mojo Magazine Invented Me In a Diabolical Laboratory And Now They Can't Kill Me" Hornby.

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