Andy Warhol: "Everyone Will Be Famous for 15 Minutes" Like every other New York dandy born after 1980, I'm a huge fan of Warhol. He allows me to dream big and in fantastic technicolor. This exhibition features Polaroids of indiscriminately famous faces. He wants you to know that everyone is a celebrity.
17 Again is the kind of movie you want to like. Zac Efron took much of the boy-next-door thing he had going on in the High School Musical trilogy, and applied it to his first non-singing lead role, as Mike, a talented high school basketball player, who reappears decades later as a 30-something-year-old in an adolescent's body.
I'll admit it. My timing is a bit awkward, starting a new column in the last issue of the semester. A more logical idea might be to wait until September-but who knows, these guys could be uber-famous by then and you'd miss seeing them rock out Brooklyn basements and dive bars in all their earnest glory.
Seth Rogen, one of Judd Apatow's favorite Freaks, has gained an awkward reputation for playing altered versions of the very same character-a chubby, scruffy, stoner who rocks a Jew-fro and curses endlessly. Some love him for it and some can't stand his sight, but all will be shocked by the persona-flip in Rogen's latest film, Observe and Report.
In season three of NBC's The Office, there's an episode called "The Negotiation," where everyone realizes Michael Scott (Steve Carell) is wearing a pantsuit. This is a classic Michael Scott moment-he mistakenly bought the suit because it was on sale and didn't realize the inherent differences between suits made for men and suits made for women.
On his second album, Trilla, Rick Ross rapped; "I'm the biggest boss that you've seen thus far." But in-between Trilla and his new album, Deeper Than Rap, Ross was exposed as the biggest fraud thus far, when pictures and documents showing his past life as a corrections officer surfaced on the internet.
Yes, Asher Roth is indeed white. Yes, Asher Roth's voice is similar to Eminem's. No, Asher Roth cannot hold a candle to Eminem. Yes, Asher Roth is a pretty good rapper. Yes, Roth's "I Love College" became a big hit. No, Asher Roth's debut album, Asleep In The Bread Aisle, does not live up to the hype.
The eleventh of Hunter North is usually a ghost town at night, but on March 26 and 27, it had a MOMA-esque, SoHo gallery feel. Light chatter, a hint of background music, and studio lighting pervaded the gallery. Every one of the 40 well-dressed attendees sipped Alfasi wine, while taking in the portraits and the atmosphere of the "Taboo Jew" exhibit.