By Lindsey Cherner 6/06/12 12:00pm

Broadway

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Liza Minnelli and Tony Danza. (Jonathon Ziegler/PatrickMcMullan.com)

Liza Minnelli “Suprised” to Receive Lifetime Achievement (from Mikhail Baryshnikov and Tony Danza!) at Astaire Awards

The Observer stood in front of a less-than-generous red carpet on Monday—more of a red doormat, really—flanked by photographers and awaiting the arrival of fashionably late Broadway dancers, choreographers and filmmakers.

We were at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts for the 30th annual Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, which recognizes outstanding achievement in dance on Broadway and film each season—the only award show of its kind, so they advertise. Read More

By Ted Gushue 5/08/12 12:00pm

As Seen in SCENE

Priyantha De Silva

Crash and Burn

If you haven’t met Priyantha De Silva, there’s still a good chance you’ve encountered him, perhaps when he was pretending to be someone else: cherubic cocktail chaser, uncredited Academy Award-winning producer, conspicuous Condé Nast editor, philandering philanthropist, ICM agent or the creator of the Kardashians. Some say that if you put your ear to a martini, you can almost hear his overdone debonair voice: “What do you mean I’m not on the list? Don’t you know who I am?” Priyantha De Silva was that really, really sweaty guy of Sri Lankan descent who successfully crowbarred his way into progressively higher social circles, ultimately crashing down into of Manhattan’s most closely guarded venues: Rikers Island. Read More

By Ted Gushue 4/20/12 4:27pm

Party Report

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The Cinema Society & Men's Health host a screening of "The Lucky One"

We Almost Squeezed Zac Efron’s Butt Last Night; Tony Danza: Still Awesome

Has Zac Efron ever wondered if there was more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking? His resume doesn’t lend much insight: Men’s Health cover boy, professional chick-boner inducer, potential cyborg sent here to destroy us—the guy has it all. We found ourselves within point blank range of the Zef at last night’s Cinema Society screening for The Lucky One, a fact we relayed to a female friend later in the evening: Read More

By Drew Grant 3/14/12 11:37am

Party Report

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Premiere of Tribeca FilmÕs DETACHMENT hosted by American Express & The Cinema Society

Cinema Society’s Detachment Premiere: Sad Film Leads to Happy Drinking with Adrien Brody


Last night The Cinema Society, along with American Express, hosted Tribeca Film’s dark drama, Detachment. The movie, starring Adrien Brody, James Caan, Lucy Liu, Marcia Gay Harden, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, and breakout teen Sami Gayle, marks the first major non-documentary by director Tony Kaye since American History X (which he famously tried to take his name off of because of his fight with New Line Cinema). Read More