Anthony Lane on "Sweeney Todd": "Sondheim is serious about the misanthropic malice of his hero, whereas Depp's Sweeney comes across as one more mournful Burton wacko. His singing gives off the Cockney yowl of someone who has listened to too much early Bowie, and his ivory-pale face is crowned by a stiff black mane…
This week's edition of Newsweek features a cover story on famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, whose new collection, A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005, features many of Leibovitz's personal photos, both of her extended family and "the person she was closest to for that decade and a half—the late writer and critic…
The inscrutable logic of Amazon.com's targeted-marketing emails, as manifested in a friend's inbox yesterday:
The Looker notes that both late author Susan Sontag and shock rocker Alice Cooper were/are daily movie-goers. So quit harping on the physical similarities, you pricks.
· Manhattan publicists Steven Hall and Sam Firer, owners of Thatbar, say their paperwork is in place to host five smoke-filled events this year as part of the city's exemption for promotional events. The first is May 11. [Page Six]
· Unik and Kiki, the Haitians who made Serafina so hot on Wednesdays, have taken over…
"Electroclash," if you haven't heard the term, refers to a New York-centric musical genre that combines 80s synth-pop with New Wave electronica, and increasingly, overtly theatrical on-stage productions that involve elaborate "ironic" '80s-influenced costumes, Flock-of-Seagulls haircuts, and the obscenely…
It was midnight-ish at the Tribeca Grand on Tuesday night and varied and sundry Billyburg hipsters were lined up at the coat check to avail themselves of their artfully torn fur coats and intentionally satin jackets. The twenty-something girl in front of me had a magazine picture of Justin Timberlake safety-pinned to…
· City Council candidate Vincent Gentile, who is opposing a gay-rights bill, has a constituency of drag queens threatening to campaign for him. [Page Six]
· Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag have broken up because Annie ran off with the nanny. [Page Six]
· Steven Greenberg's new club, Cobalt, features 1940s-era…
