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Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman in 'A Steady Rain': What did the critics think?
Culture MonsterWhen the stars align on Broadway, the potential for box-office gold is great. But the potential for critical disaster can be greater, as many screen-to-stage actors can attest. Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman both have impressive theater credentials to... -
Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig hailed for 'A Steady Rain'
Gold DerbyHugh Jackman and Daniel Craig opened last night in "A Steady Rain" on Broadway to excellent reviews. While Keith Huff's play about two Chicago cops revisiting their troubled lives received mixed notices, these two movie stars were welcomed to the rialto... -
Gold Derby nuggets: CMAs clobber competition | VES knocked out by James Cameron | Mike Tyson delivers blow to Oscar hopes
Gold Derby⢠The CMAs did well for the alphabet net Wednesday night, drawing 16.8 million viewers to watch Taylor Swift sweep the awards. As James Hibberd reports: "That's 24% higher than the Emmys this year and up slightly from last year's CMAs. ABC won the... -
The extremist: Nathan Myhrvold and 'Modernist Cuisine'
Holding the business end of a centrifuge in one hand and a jar of pea solids and their liquid in the other, Nathan Myhrvold explains with a gleam in his eye how to separate pea purée at a force 40,000 times Earth's gravity. "It's a fun thing to do to food...Tags: Book, Science and Technology, Science, Paleontology, Recipes
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Marie Knight dies at 84; gospel vocalist sang with Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Marie Knight, a gospel singer who came to fame singing duets with gospel-music star Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the late 1940s and made a noteworthy late-in-life comeback as a solo artist, has died. She was 84. Knight died Sunday of complications from...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Achievement Records, Mahalia Jackson, Bob Dylan, Obituaries
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Travel readers on hits, misses around world
You know those destinations you feel obligated to visit but don't really want to? Travel section readers do. We asked them to tell us about some of the places they were certain weren't right for them, and here's what they said. Sometimes, the...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Paris (France), Weather, Mountains, Travel
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Gold Derby nuggets: 411 on 'Nine' | Two perspectives on 'Avatar' | Four toons top 50 Oscars snubs
Gold Derby⢠Tony-winning composer Maury Yeston talked in great detail to Harry Haun about the journey of "Nine" from screen (as "8 1/2") to stage and back to screen. "There are only two ways to approach Broadway shows becoming movies," Yeston says. "One of them... -
Queens of L.A.'s lo-fi scene
It's the night after New Year's Eve and hundreds of kids are crammed into the Smell, the downtown DIY tabernacle of the Los Angeles avant-garde. A sweating mass of art students, skate punks and subterranean scene staples ecstatically moshes to a...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Popular Music (genre), Fleetwood Mac (music group), Weather, Jersey Shore (tv program)
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Gold Derby nuggets: Kathy Griffin guests on 'SVU' | Is Meryl Streep playing favorites? | Denzel Washington returns to Broadway
Gold Derby⢠Who volunteers to tell Kathy Griffin that the guest actress Emmys don't get presented on the prime-time kudocast but are relegated to the creative arts awardsfest that she has dubbed the Schmemmys? The two-time Emmy champ for her reality series "My... -
Lucille Lortel Awards honor best of off-Broadway
Gold Derby"When the Rain Stops Falling," a time-shifting tale of four generations by the Australian playwright Andrew Bovell, won five of its six Lucille Lortel bids -- director (David Cromer), featured actress (Mary Beth Hurt), set, lighting and sound design --... -
Karla Kuskin dies at 77; children's author and illustrator
Karla Kuskin, an award-winning children's author and illustrator who first achieved fame with "Roar and More," a 1956 book about animals and the noises they make that was her senior project at Yale, has died. She was 77.
Kuskin died Thursday at her...Tags: Obituaries, Weather, Poetry, Animals, Yale University
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Biggest shockers among Tony Award nominations: Where are 'Enron,' Hugh Jackman and 'Idiots' stars?
Gold DerbyThe Tony Award nominations included lots of surprises. Although "American Idiot" has been widely perceived to be the front-runner to win best musical on June 13, its actors, choreographer and director were snubbed by the nominating committee. In the...
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