Despite its cinematic genius and our own attempts to broach the matter with its stars, no one has really spoken publicly about Tiptoes, a 2003 film in which Gary Oldman ("In the role of a lifetime") plays a dwarf and brother to Matthew McConaughey. But in an interview with Times Magazine, former Brooklynite Peter Dinklage, who inexplicably plays Gary Oldman's friend and not his character, is asked about the movie: “Oh, that movie. That was something.” more ›

Aspiring actor, midtown bartender and Ed Sullivan Theater-crasher Jimmy Whittemore says he regrets getting tanked and bashing the glass doors of Letterman's Late Show home. "I'm ashamed. I'm still bothered," Whittemore tells the Daily News, "I just want to apologize to the theater people." After hitting the town and the bottle for a night of karaoke, he claims he had no idea what had happened until he was arrested. "I just wanted to go out and do karaoke…Next thing I remember is laying down on the floor, surrounded by cops." As if you needed another reason: karaoke is evil. more ›

Details are emerging from yesterday's destruction of the Ed Sullivan Theater's glass doors, and it appears that the suspect, 22-year-old James Whittemore, was an aspiring actor who had hit a rough patch. Whittemore graduated from the AMDA in 2009, and worked in restaurants between stints at regional shows at the Tropicana in Atlantic City and the Six Flags in Massachusetts. Just two weeks ago, he was jumped near his home on W. 135th Street and had his nose broken. "Jimmy is a good kid with a bad life," his foster sister tells the Daily News. Whittemore's mother was allegedly an alcoholic who hung herself in prison, and his father is a homeless ex-con. His uncle tells the paper, "The demons just grow in our family like that." more ›

NBC's decision to cancel Law & Order doesn't just mean that we'll no longer get to guess which headlines were ripped (Hookergate! The Taconic Wrong Way Crash! Hipster Grifter!) on the latest episode, it also means that $79 million will not go towards NYC businesses, actors, and interests. That's the amount that NYC Film, Theater and Broadcasting Commissioner Katharine Oliver estimates the productions spends annually—and she also told the NY Times that the show employs about 4,000 people, each year, including one-day parts. Oliver said Law & Order producer-mastermind Dick Wolf "really proved that New York City is an affordable place to shoot." more ›

Answer: Some of them don't! Matthew Broderick's difficulty remembering lines during performances of Kenneth Lonergan's new play The Starry Messenger has, ahem, prompted a long article in the Times on the history and ethics of learning lines. The takeaway is that some actors, including the great Angela Lansbury, use earpieces to stay on cue. more ›

Gus Van Sant’s new film Milk tells the story of Harvey Milk, who in 1977 became the first openly gay man to be elected to a major public office in the United States, only to be assassinated within his first year of serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. At turns tragic and exhilarating, the film chronicles the last eight years of Milk’s life (played by Sean Penn), when he worked on campaigns for public office and the protection of gay employees. more ›