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• FILM GUYS' POLITICS

  February 23, 2007 - 'MURDER IS a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is!" So wrote the scholar Gershon Legman back in 1977. If Gershon were still alive, he would probably in...more >

• GOOD WORK FROM OVER THERE

  February 22, 2007 - 'DRESS BRITISH! Think Yiddish!" goes the very old saw that most likely originated in Hollywood. This year we could echo that other great statement made from horseback by Paul Revere - "...;more >

• OSCAR NIGHT'S SPECIAL

  February 21, 2007 - 'I SHOULD probably just go stand in the freezer and freeze this moment right now!" says an ebullient Eddie Murphy when he talks to Barbara Walters for her Oscar-night special on ABC. Eddie...more >

• LITERARY MAN TO BE MISSED

  February 20, 2007 - 'THOSE ARE my friends, and those are my enemies. Start with the enemies, dear boy, and you'll get a bet ter book," advised Noel Coward to the critic Sheridan Morley, who was about to...more >

• SELF-MADE MAN CLUB

  February 19, 2007 - 'I DIDN'T really say everything I said," to quote Yogi Berra about the many famous remarks attributed to him. Louis Menand makes history of a flock of sayings never actually said in his...more >

• BETTE'S BUILDING US A PARK

  February 18, 2007 - 'ONE DOOR closes, another one opens, but it is hell in the hallway of uncertainty," says that wise philosopher Billy Norwich of Vogue. BETTE MIDLER is the favorite girl of Verdant magazine...more >

• IT'S BRADY BABY FOR 'SIXY' STAR

  February 18, 2007 - BRIDGET Moynahan, the star of ABC's "Six Degrees," is expecting and the father is New England Patriot All-Pro quarterback Tom Brady, although the couple is no longer together. Moynahan...more >

• BASH MAKES HISTORY

  February 16, 2007 - 'HAPPY birthday, Steve!" said top dog Steve Schwarzman to himself this week. Well, he had to be the one to say it and give himself a party at age 60 because nobody else could have afforded...more >

• CARRIES ONE FILM, ON TO MORE

  February 15, 2007 - 'SOMETIMES ONE has to choose between good taste and being a human being," said Robert Mitchum in "Secret Ceremony." 'FACTORY GIRL" - the story of Andy Warhol and his...more >

• ELTON SET TO PARTY

  February 14, 2007 - 'LOVE TEACHES even asses to dance," goes the French proverb. ELTON JOHN'S big Oscar night fund- raising party to raise money for his AIDS Foundation will be a joyous occasion, as it...more >