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Posted Nov. 4, 2008,
About Last Night... The 14th Annual ARTWALK at the Metropolitan Pavilion
By Caroline Torem-Craig
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Every year, for the past 14 years, ARTWALK gathers the most extraordinary, eye-popping collection of contemporary art and has a lively, live and silent auction to benefit the Coalition for the Homeless. This year, PAPERMAG snapped photos of three separate big guns -- seasoned, but still steamy, stars Alec Baldwin and Richard Gere and James Rosenquist's murder weapons in serigraph form. The event was also a tribute to America's treasured, innovative and influential abstract expressionist Robert Rauschenberg who died this year.
Posted Feb. 21, 2008,
Monopoly, the Movie!
By Alexis Swerdloff
Word on the street, aka Google News, is that Hasbro has signed a six-year partnership deal with Universal Pictures to make at least four feature films based on Hasbro games and toys, including Monopoly, Candy Land, Clue, Ouija, Battleship, Magic: The Gathering and Stretch Armstrong. Apparently, Ridley Scott is attached to Monopoly the movie which is expected to be a "comedy thriller." We can totally see Alec Baldwin as Mr. Monopoly! And what about Paul Dano as the hat? Oh, and what happened to Chutes and Ladders?? That would be a thrilling movie!
Photo of Paul Dano by Alexander Thompson
Posted Nov. 28, 2007,
About Last Night... The Lydia Hearst for Puma Launch Party and Artwalk Auction
By Caroline Torem Craig
The 60 Thompson Hotel was packed to the brim with glamourpusses galore at the Lydia Hearst for Puma launch party, hosted by both Lydia and PAPER Magazine. It was a madhouse up in there as everyone showed up to get a glimpse of Miss Hearst, who glimmered and glammed in a slivering, silvery number. The crazy thing is that every one of her handbags worked well with her outfit. There was, however, a moment of torment and torture for me, as Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem were at the hotel, but unavailable for photographs! But! I swear to God they were right in front of me looking like the superstars that they are.
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Posted Apr. 30, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Tracy Morgan SCRAMs, Vanity Fair Discovers Yoga and Pete Wentz Gets His East Village on Tonight
By Alexis Swerdloff
1. It's an exciting time to be English. Kate Moss’s Top Shop line debuts tomorrow! According to Reuters, “To try prevent fights among shoppers when the doors open, each person will be able to buy only five items.”
2. Apparently, Vanity Fair is running a “yoga spread” with high-profile yogaphiles (Donna Karan, Sting and Trudie Styler, Ali MacGraw, etc.) for their June issue. Doesn’t that seem very 1997 to you?
3. Ben Brantley gives new musical Legally Blonde a pretty middling review in the Times today calling it superficial, potentially anti-lesbian and compares watching the show to eating candy. While a cute comparison, he took the candy metaphor and ran with it in a serious way. In the first three grafs alone, he mentions that audience members might want to floss between songs, and dropped M&Ms, Hershey’s, empty-calories, Gummi-Bears and “confectionary charms.” We get it, it’s candy-like. No need to hit us over the head.
4. We’ve never heard of a SCRAM (Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring) bracelet before, but apparently Tracy Morgan has to wear one! A result of a DUI charge and a subsequent probation violation, Morgan will have to wear a SCRAM for the next 90 days that will check his blood alcohol content every 30 minutes. How Orwellian! Now that Alec Baldwin may not return to 30 Rock for a second season, we especially hope that Morgan doesn’t mess up and drink, because a 30 Rock without Baldwin and Morgan would be no 30 Rock at all!
5. So long dodgeball, hello Dance Dance Revolution. According to the New York Times, gym teachers across the country are using the Japanese video game Dance Dance Revolution in P.E. classes. The article suggests that “more than 1,500 schools are expected to be using the game by the end of the decade.”
6. Tonight’s the opening of the Pete Wentz/Gym Class Heroes bar in the East Village… Look out for Wentz’s GF Ashlee Simpson on Avenue A.
7. Feist’s The Reminder received a whopping score of 8.8 on Pitchfork today. Go, Feist, go!
Posted Apr. 27, 2007,
Reporting from the Front Lines of the Vanity Fair Tribeca Film Fest Party
By Alexis Swerdloff
PAPER nightlife photographer Caroline Torem Craig is the nightlife photographer to end all nightlife photographer. Here's her report from the Vanity Fair's Tribeca Film Festival opening night party the other night:
On a warm and breezy Monday evening, celebrities ascended the beautifully-dressed Supreme Court steps (I am referring to hundreds of tiny candles and orange lights). It was the Vanity Fair opening party for the Tribeca Film Festival. Every year it is THE challenge to catch a flick of of Robert DeNiro as he makes one last grimace and races by the red carpet. David Bowie usually leaves the "posing " to Iman but this year, to our delight, he was incredibly animated and shared with us the fact that this was their 12th year anniversary. As he neared my camera, I asked if they were "still spiders from Mars." I truly don't know if he heard me, but this little dance move occurred out of the blue.
It was such a TRIP to see Narciso Rodriguez direct Jessica Seinfeld to pose for PAPER.
While it is common knowledge that Whoopi Goldberg can be cranky, this evening she told ET (as she glanced at nearby guest Kerri Washington), "See, I lost her in weight -- I lost 43 pounds and that's just about what she weighs."
Some of the other guests were Minnie Driver, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon, Harvey Wenstein, Amy Sacco, Amy Fine Collins, Christy Turlington and Ed Burns, Walter Cronkite and host Graydon Carter. Interesting note: these were all loyal attendees last year and the year before.
One of the most bizarre questions posed to Kerri Washington was what she thought about Alec Baldwin's tirade and inappropriate phone call to his daughter. Without skipping a beat, she replied she was not a parent so couldn't comment except to say anything that took our minds off the war in Iraq was a good thing.
(Photos by Caroline Torem Craig. From left to right, Robert DeNiro, Grace Hightower, Iman, David Bowie, Jessica Seinfeld, Narciso Rodriguez and Kerri Washington.)
Posted Apr. 12, 2007,
Barbra by Halstead: Dog Call Part Deux
By Ann Magnuson
The genius that is Barbra by Halstead continues! Here is Part Two in the ongoing saga of The Canine Crank Phone Call. Gosh, why can't this show be on NBC's new fall line-up, right before "30 Rock"? Bet it would help boost their sagging ratings! In fact, why not have Barbra by Halstead as a guest star? I bet 'she' and Alec Baldwin could collectively chew all the scenery between 30 Rock and The Pacific Palisades!