Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'henryviii'
February 28, 2008
Another Will Ferrell sports flick will inflate this weekend, capping off a nationwide “Funny or Die” promotional tour that brought him to Radio City Music Hall Sunday night. The movie is Semi-Pro, which stars Ferrell as Jackie Moon, owner of the 1976 Flint Michigan Tropics, a team in the maverick ABA basketball league. To keep his career alive against all odds, Moon initiates off a series of increasingly desperate publicity stunts to attract fans –......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movie Forecast: Balls Vs. Babes"April 25, 2006
In a city where there’s as much theater as there is here, we’re never too surprised when shows open that have a lot in common, but it’s always fun to note and wonder what was happening in the creative Zeitgeist to generate technically unrelated but similar works. This week, for instance, Rachel Shukert’s Bloody Mary opens, bringing the life of the notoriously unbalanced daughter of Henry VIII to the stage in suitably off-the-wall fashion (Mary......
Continue Reading "Theater This Week: Finding (Un)Common Ground"May 2, 2004
Nice! The Post gives attention to that little known about group of women, The Third Wives Club, with the engagement of the Donald and Melania Knauss marking his third marriage. The Post mentions other third wives of note, like Patricia Duff (Ron Perelman), Thalia (Tommy Mottola), and Judi Nathan (Giuliani), but Gothamist finds it odd they didn't mention last weekend's new third wife, Suzy Westlaufer-Welch (Salman Rushdie's new wife, Padma Lakshmi, is his fourth wife).......
Continue Reading "Third Time's Another Wife"