Just Cancel Law & Order Already
Seriously. Its best actor is leaving the show, so just be done with it. Also today: more Captain America news, two directors sign on to two dubious sounding projects, and ABC Family has the saddest TV pilots.
Stephen Daldry Buys, Kristen Johnston Sells
• Stephen Daldry, the director of The Hours, The Reader, and the Broadway production of Billy Elliot, The Musical, has picked up a new home: He paid $3.8 million for a five-floor townhouse in Chelsea. Daldry clearly has some work ahead of him. The 4,600-square-foot property located at 347 West 21st Street is…
Mega-Sale at the TW Center, Another Listing at 15 CPW
• Investor Gerhard Andlinger has sold his penthouse at the Time Warner Center for $37.5 million, making it the biggest residential deal the city has seen in nearly a year. Not that this should necessarily be interpreted as a sign the real estate market is back. The 8,300-square-foot apartment, which was sold to an…
Director Stephen Daldry on Sex, Moguls and Surviving 'The Reader'
The culmination of our dedicated coverage of The Reader — from Rudin/Weinstein blow-ups to Oscar prognoses to its sexual audacity — arrived this weekend when director Stephen Daldry phoned Defamer HQ. "Sorry, I overslept," he said in his dignified brogue — a forgivable lapse under the circumstances, with his Kate…
BREAKING: Scott Rudin Yanks His Name From 'The Reader'
We don't always know what to believe anymore when it comes to The Reader, but after a turbulent period of fighting, making up, gossip-page ensnarement and a charity payout, no one watching the tormented relationship between Scott Rudin and Harvey Weinstein could have realistically expected it to survive another two…
Bet-Losing Harvey Weinstein Spends First $1 Million on 'Reader' Oscar Campaign
No distance seems far enough, no HazMat suit thick enough to defend against the radioactivity let off by Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin's toxic Reader mess. This morning we're getting an idea of the clean-up cost for both parties — none more prohibitive than Harvey's, who today pledged $1 million to charity if Nikki…
Peace at Last! Scott Rudin and Harvey Weinstein Slate 'Reader' For '08
After a brief but concentrated period of friction over the release date for their Oscar-bait drama The Reader, Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin issued a joint statement late Sunday confirming the film would arrive in theaters Dec. 12, 2008. Thus anticlimactically ended Rudin/Weinstein Death Match II, their first…
Stephen Daldry
A former theater director, Daldry directed the movies Billy Elliot and The Hours.
Soho House report
"You want to make me walk up stairs?!" I harrumphed. "Are you kidding? What kind of snotty exclusive private club is this?" I trudged up the stairs anyway. Stairs with dirty carpet, industrial steel rails, and oddly, really cool bizarrely shaped chandeliers.
Dinner at Tina's
According to NY Mag, anyone attending a dinner party at ex-Talk editor Tina Brown's "must visit the 'loo'it�s covered in carefully preserved press clippings about [Tina and husband, Harry Evans]." Also: no seating arrangements. "'It was a little intimidating,' says one visitor of a party given for Stephen Daldry.…
