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Andre Balazs, the hotelier behind the impeccably chic Standard hotels of downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood and Miami, has brought his gifted brand of innkeeping to Lower Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Rising up over the Hudson River, the Standard New York is a visually striking property, designed by Todd Schliemann of New York City's Polshek Partnership Architects and built right above the Highline - a former elevated rail track in the process of being converted into an aerial park. The Highline's first section is open to the public and runs between Gansevoort Street and 20th Street. As Manhattan's newest...
...private radio stations and two television stations - it plans to take more off the air soon - and just passed a sweeping and often vague new education law outlawing media material that "produces terror in children" or "goes against the values of the Venezuelan people." (Read about why the Hollywood left loves Hugo...
...Town Crier of Hollywood," Army Archerd made two simple requests of the celebrities he covered: "Give me a call" and "Don't let me read about it." Archerd, who died Sept. 8 at 87, spent more than half a century chronicling the industry's élite for Daily Variety. He interviewed Humphrey Bogart on his deathbed, Marilyn Monroe (below, with Archerd) in her dressing room, Charlie Chaplin in the director's chair and nearly every other star in Tinseltown. For nearly 50 years, he also served as the official greeter at the Academy Awards--a role that helped earn...
...consider himself a gossip columnist; he preferred fact over rumor and straightforward prose over snark. His staccato dispatches almost always began with a cheerful "Good Morning." Toward the end of his career, after Archerd had traded in his typewriter for a computer, Variety rechristened him "Hollywood's original blogger"--a title that perhaps best describes his tireless approach to covering what he called "the most exciting city in the world...
...like marriage and follow their economic self-interest, which aligns with Democratic policies. But people care about culture regardless of their finances. “It’s no less ridiculous to complain about evangelical Christians in Kansas voting for Republicans than to complain about movie stars in Hollywood voting for Democrats who will raise their taxes,” said Ross G. Douthat ’02, a columnist for The New York Times...