Graydon Reflects

from The New York Times via DNYUZ Graydon Carter and the Golden Age of New York City Media Lorne. Graydon. Keith. Three abiding kings of New York City’s cultural life are the subjects of new books. Lorne is Lorne Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” who is...

Val Kilmer Gone

from Variety Val Kilmer, Star of ‘Batman Forever,’ ‘Tombstone,’ Dies at 65 By Pat Saperstein Val Kilmer, who played Bruce Wayne in “Batman Forever,” channeled Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone‘s “The Doors” and starred as a tubercular Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” died...

Bay Rocks

from The Hollywood Reporter Michael Bay Is Still a Blast (And So Is His “Illegal” New Parkour Movie) The action icon on his thrilling new documentary ‘We Are Storror,’ the dismal state of Hollywood (“no one can greenlight anything anymore”),...

Fuck Rock

from Authors Equity You can’t hand-deliver books to Rock Center. And other lessons from our first year. by AUTHORS EQUITY Author dinner with James Frey. Hi, all. A year ago today, I was part of a tiny sleep-deprived band setting out on the streets of midtown...

Hackman Gone

from The Atlantic There Was Never a Movie Star Like Gene Hackman Story by David Sims In 1956, an aspiring young actor named Gene Hackman joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California, struggling to find a way into a field he’d been fascinated with since childhood....