“Rosy forecasts for American Dream also fly in the face of predictions that, ultimately, Internet shopping will all but eliminate brick-and-mortar shopping.” Just like The Great Gatsby!
Garish Unwanted Monstrosity Would Like Public Financing
"Xanadu" was the original name of a plan dreamed up by Satan to blight the earth, in the form of an outrageously large, atrociously garish, criminally expensive, and blatantly unwanted shopping mall in New Jersey, Satan's earthly dominion. It costs nearly $4 billion! It's been in the process of being built for eight…
The New Old Gay Boys Are Back in Town
The gays are back! The gays are back! I mean, they've always been around, but lately New York's new crop of gays has seemed a bit... anonymous. Too comfortably folded into the general sea of hipsters in tight pants and v-neck white t-shirts, swaying at MGMT concerts in abandoned swimming pools. Why, they're just like…
Pistol-Packing Angelina Jolie No Match for Puttering Pixar Robot
Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your handy cheat sheet to the best and worst of this weekend at the movies. Not that a new Pixar film requires much tire-kicking ahead of time, or that we haven't already spilled our guts about its gloriously confectionery pop-trash competition, or that last weekend's biggest…
'Xanadu' Weaves Its Campy Spell On Most Curmudgeonly Critic
Has someone adjusted life-hating Times theater critic Charles Isherwood's medication? Possibly! Or maybe he's discovered the gay Prozac, in the form of Xanadu, the musical. Today he delivers a (slightly hedging, but you take what you can get from this guy) rave.
'Xanadu' Has Arrived!
If you're a gay—or just like to pal around with the gays—today is a very nearly a holiday: Xanadu, the musical, opens on Broadway! That's right, a musical based on one of the worst movies ever made, camped up to a Gaydar-shattering 11. Last night "Nightline" spoke to the producer whose dream it was to see The Most…
