Monday, May 25, 2015
“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” played its 6th preview yesterday afternoon at the Foxwoods Theater. It’s been a whole week since the first preview. Yesterday’s celebr…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMAnd so they’ve kept coming to Elaine’s all weekend to pay respects. And have dinner. Elaine wouldn’t like it if someone didn’t eat. Saturday night: Charlie Rose came …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMExclusive: Sarah Jessica Parker‘s next feature film is shaping up nicely. SJP starts shooting “I Don’t Know How She Does It” in mid January, with Douglas Mc...
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMLast night, Jimmy Fallon got to sing with another Beatle. He had Ringo Starr on this summer, and now Paul McCartney. Since McCartney is going to be on “Saturday Night Live” this …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMI’m going to go out on a limb here. I don’t think any other act has had four songs on “Saturday Night Live.” Paul McCartney just closed the show with “Get Back.…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMRobert DeNiro is so happy about reuniting with Harvey Keitel in “Little Fockers” but their meeting is brief, and funny. The pair are associated in people’s minds from early…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMPaul Simon--who I think dreads reading his name in gossip columns but listen–we have to promote what he’s doing. Paul tells me he’s going to play his holiday song, “G…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMJulie Taymor is not concerned about postponing the opening of “Spider Man: Turn of the Dark” from January 11 to early February 2011. “We’re happy about it,” Tay…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMThis will not be like the famous scenes from Blake Edwards‘ masterpiece satire, “SOB.” A studio executive dies on Malibu beach, and no realizes it. Dogs and kids run around…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMExclusive: Julie Taymor is not concerned about postponing the opening of “Spider Man: Turn of the Dark” from January 11 to February 7, 2011. “We’re happy about it,…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PM“Spider Man” is on again. The Broadway show will skip just one performance and resume tonight. Both Actors Equity and OSHA have cleared the show. Monday night’s accident wa…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMSunday’s matinee of “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” produced no injuries and only one short stop, in the first act. Otherwise, the well publicized previews of this ambitiou…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMIt’s 10:45pm. I’ve just returned to Greenwich Village from 57th St. and Seventh Avenue. And guess what? Not one street is plowed. My cab driver, a great guy, went very slowly dow…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMThis is tough: Natalie Mendoza is leaving “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark,” but there are no tears backstage. Mendoza famously suffered a concussion a couple of weeks ago playing …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PM“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” may be the most controversial Broadway show ever. But it’s also a hit. The Julie Taymor-Bono & the Edge musical played at 100 % capacity…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PM2010? It wasn’t so bad. The worst thing was losing friends and people we admired. I am not through saying goodbye to our dear Elaine Kaufman. None of her friends will ever get over tha…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMHere comes the big awards week. This is the week when a lot of different groups vie for attention as they hand out movie awards. None of them are the Academy Awards. Those aren’t hande…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PM“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” turns on the money. Last week, “Spider Man”–still in previews–was the number 1 grossing show on Broadway. The $65 million …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PM“James Bond 23″ will be released in November 2012, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond movies. So says Barbara Broccoli, exclusively. She was having lunch wit…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PM“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” won’t officially open until March 15th, set back from February 7th. And January 11th. And December 21st. At least. Who can remember? The wor…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMThe Golden Globe for Best Picture went to “The Social Network.” Now what will the Academy do? Last year, after the Globe went to “Avatar,” the Academy chose “Th…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMRobert DeNiro, who doesn’t like to speak in public, had a rough time tonight on the Golden Globes. DeNiro — a little looser than usual– mocked the Hollywood Foreign Press A…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMIt’s unclear if anyone outside of Sundance will ever see it, but James Franco debuted his “Three’s Company: The Drama” last night at the New Frontiers exhibition play…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMSundance 2011 opened with a lot of interesting moments, if not the best films. Friday’s biggest revelation: that those annoying publicity hounds Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, aka the Ols…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMHappy Birthday, Oscar nominee James Cromwell–beloved star of “Babe.” He turns 71 today and celebrates with a big, big year: he’s directing his first film and he’…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMActually, there are fewer than three degrees between Meryl Streep and Abraham Lincoln. Streep’s son-in-law to be, Benjamin Walker, signing on to play “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hu…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMVanity Fair should be announcing its cover stars for its annual Oscar issue any minute now. But I am told that the number 1 Hollywood magazine snared Oscar hosts Anne Hathaway and James Fran…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMYes, James Franco and Nicole Kidman are headed to Broadway this fall for Tennessee Williams’s “Sweet Bird of Youth.” I told you that Franco was joining Kidman back on Novem…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMA Barbra Streisand concert? Sort of impossible to get into. If she has one. But Streisand kicks off Grammy weekend when she receives the Person of the Year Award from MusiCares on February 1…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMThe grind of having two Oscar nominations for Best Picture has taken its toll on producer Scott Rudin. Sony Pictures chief Amy Pascal stepped in for him tonight in Hollywood at the WGA Award…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:58PMWhat a Super Bowl weekend. Prince did what he always does, and canceled a concert at the last minute, leaving everyone high, wet, mad in the Dallas snow. Maybe he checked the two existing fe…
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