Business
Good News for Tom Petty’s Estate: Sam Smith’s Knock Off of “Won’t Back Down,” “Stay with Me,” Has Sold 10 Million Copies
Tom Petty must be smiling in heaven.
Sam Smith's 2014 knock off of Petty's 1989 hit "I Won't Back Down," called "Stay with Me," has...
Movies
Review: Shia LaBeouf Goes Full Frontal with Vanessa Kirby in a Movie Called “Pieces of A Woman” That Explores Marital Heartbreak
Where to begin with "Pieces of A Woman," from Hungarian director Kornél Mundrucz? Is it a Lifetime movie pretending to be High Art, as...
Movies
Gotham Awards Nominations Start the Oscar Drum Roll for “Nomadland,” Plus “The Assistant,” “Relic,” “Never Rarely,” “First Cow”
The Gotham Awards-- which will be held on January 11th-- start the drum roll for Chloe Zhao's "Nomadland" and Frances McDormand. I'm a little...
Music
Watch Patty Smyth Rock it Out on Jimmy Fallon Last Night with First Single, “Build a Fire,” from New Album
Patty Smyth rocked it out with two singing appearances last night on Jimmy Fallon. Later in the show she performed "Build a Fire," the...
Books
Flashback: Kurt Vonnegut Would Have Turned 98 Today. Here’s the Interview We Did for His 80th
I interviewed Kurt Vonnegut for his 80th birthday in 2002. His wife, photographer Jill Krementz, helped put it together. I miss Kurt a lot...
Movies
Review: Mel Gibson’s “Fatman” is a Terrible Movie, But the Real Insult is Casting a Black Woman to Prove He’s Not a Racist
Reviewing Mel Gibson's "Fatman" is easy enough, like shooting fish in a barrel. It's a terrible movie, a piece of junk that shouldn't be...
Media
No Happy Ending for Writer Jeffrey Toobin: Fired from the New Yorker After Masturbation Scandal, CNN Next?
This comes as little surprise but Jeffrey Toobin has been fired from The New Yorker.
The magazine conducted an investigation after Toobin was seen pleasuring...
Television
Nicole Kidman’s “The Undoing” Doing Pretty Well on HBO: Episode Three Brought in over 1 Mil Viewers Across Platforms
Nicole Kidman has really struck gold with "The Undoing."
Even though Nielsen screwed up the monitoring of Sunday night's ratings, HBO tells me Episode 3...