John Malkovich

Burn After Reading
Running time 96 minutes
Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton

Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading, from their own screenplay, strikes me as one of the most willfully awful movies I’ve ever seen. What makes it even worse is that every one of the “name” performances—George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, and Tilda Swinton—seem determined to best each other in projecting the idiocy of their caricatured middle-aged losers. Yet the early scenes are not intended for middle-aged audiences, but, rather, for teenage viewers and listeners who can be expected to howl with laughter at every gratuitous use of the F and S four-letter words.  read more »

A little before 10 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 15, the actor John Malkovich was slouched at a table in the Neue Galerie’s Café Sabarsky, wearing tweed over a striped dress shirt. He had just polished off a plate of spätzle with peas after attending a screening of director Raúl Ruiz’s Klimt. Mr.  read more »

• Bored with what few leather bars remain in New York, the chaps-clad set has taken to MoMA instead.
• It's fashion week! And our crack(ed out) team did it all. Come for a walk on the projectile runway.
• John Malkovich and Francesco Rulli make clothes for men who understand they all have a little pink inside them.
• Welcome to Page Six, the magazine, baby.
• Is the New York Times actually NY1?
• Say a bunch of Christians get on a boat in New York harbor and the bartender feeds them drinks.
• What happens when Dick Cavett gets seated next to you at a TV awards gala? Everything becomes much less boring.
• Johnny Damon finally scores a high-rise apartment.
• The crazy Guccione Mansion is back on the market, sort of: for $99 million dollars.
• In January, CNN.com had 1.3 billion page views. Hello, cash!
• Zillow!
• And happy Valentine's day, in the form of a surprise letter from George Gurley to his lady-lover. It's... really something.
• Finally, for those who care about serious things: With the 2006 elections already zooming our way, it seems more and more possible that Democrats could take back the House.