This is heartbreaking. Bingham Ray, one of the nice guys, a champion of independent film, died today at age 57. He suffered two strokes at Sundance. Bingham guided dozens of indie hits at various studios i... Read More
Monica Lewinsky? Like a lot of people (including my mother) I saw in a recent newspaper item that insisted Monica was a ruined girl with no life and no prospects. So imagine my surprise when Ms. Lewinsky t... Read More
There’s been a lot of speculation about why James Franco’s art installation in New York was shut down last week. His “High Low/Rob Lowe” show at the Asia Song Society in Soho (aka A... Read More
Oscar nominated actor James Franco has received his Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. His diploma–it’s real–is right here. This is quite an accomplishment for anyone, but a wo... Read More
There’s a gigantic billboard that’s gone up on Sunset Boulevard towering over the Chateau Marmont. It’s for a James Franco art exhibit that opens officially on Saturday at the Gagosian Ga... Read More
The real creator of the mouse and squirrel characters–Rocky and Bullwinkle--has died at age 90. All this time I thought Jay Ward created the characters, but it was his original partner, Alex Anderson... Read More
James Franco got great reviews today for his work in “Howl.” It’s just the beginning of his assault on the American public. Next comes Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours,” which w... Read More
James Franco is the entertainer of the year. Let’s see: he’s heading to the Toronto Film Festival where he stars in Danny Boyle‘s “127 Hours.” There’s Oscar talk, of cou... Read More
Barbra Streisand is directing her first movie in what seems like ages. No, it’s not “The Normal Heart.” It seems she may have lost the chance to make that since now Ryan Murphy of ̶... Read More
Crazy Mel Gibson gets very nuts in his taped conversation with Oksana Grigorieva about being broke. He screams at her that he had to sell art work. In fact, Mel and ex wife Robyn sold their estate in Green... Read More