It turns out ex-transit worker Michael Martin's movie was filming in Brooklyn yesterday. Photos of Ethan Hawke, Lily Taylor and a NY Post prop were taken on location. The movie, Brooklyn's Finest, is described as a drama involving the three intertwining story lines of Brooklyn cops. Variety just named Martin one of the top 10 screenwriters to watch, and they make note of one idea he's had for a subway-set miniseries, amongst other things. He......

Ever wonder what that mysterious delay on your subway line was caused by? It could have been MTA worker Michael Martin sneaking away from his duties to write down the latest line in his screenplay (or for the latest screenplay he was hired to write, New Jack City 2). NY1 reports on Martin's rise from the underground to the mainstream.Martin was a subway conductor, and after totaling his car in an accident, entered a screen-writing......

EVENT: Come feel the love at the hotel QT tonight, as the Love party returns. Get those swimsuits out of storage, because there's a pool! And don't worry, the open vodka bar (8-9) will help you warm up. Friday // 7pm to 2am // Hotel QT [125 W 45th St] // Free MUSIC: There's a lot of music options for your Friday night. First up, at Bowery Ballroom, Brooklynites A Place to Bury Strangers and......

New York native Josh Hamilton has long been one of the most fun-to-watch actors working in independent film and downtown theater. Fans of Noah Baumbach’s 1995 film Kicking and Screaming remember him for his iconic performance as the anxiously intelligent Grover; he also created the role of Dennis in Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth and excelled as the coolly detached Mickey in the 2005 stage production of Hurlyburly. Hamilton can currently be seen starring......

The Nanny Diaries (directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini) For a while there it seemed like the book-reading public couldn't get enough of those thinly veiled New York-centric roman à clefs. There weren't very well-written but hoo boy were they juicy. Fortunately as these fluffy chick novels and insider smack downs like The Devil Wears Prada and now The Nanny Diaries have begun to make their way to the silver screen, they've proven......

Just after Ethan Hawke declared more love for the Hotel Chelsea and more fear about the changes there being the final nail in the coffin of "old New York," The Observer suspects his exes ex of helping to hold the hammer. Earlier this summer hotel developer André Balazs was spotted in the lobby of the hotel once it was under management of his pals Richard Born and Ira Drukier of BD Hotels (together the trio......

With a new movie coming out based on his first novel, The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke talks to The Daily News about how New York has changed since it was his muse in 1997. "You know that great diner where we talked before?" asks Hawke, talking about the Chelsea spot he was giving interviews at last fall for his Tony-nominated work in the epic trilogy "The Coast of Utopia." "It's gone! I went away and......

Start sharpening your spurs, gays and gals, because Jake Gyllenhaal is coming to Broadway! If director Mike Nichols has his way, you’ll soon have your chance to stalk the sensitive heartthrob as he flees through the stage door of Farragut North, a new play about presidential campaign hardball penned by a former Howard Dean staffer. According to today’s Post, Gyllenhaal (who made his stage debut in a Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed production of Cats in their parents’......

Yesterday we headed over to the Hotel Chelsea to have a chat with Stanley Bard. Over the past month there have been many changes at the landmarked establishment that have left an unsettling feeling amongst the community. This community is one that Bard himself refers to as "A Mutual Admiration Society," and his description couldn't be more accurate. He and the hotel residents really respect and know each other, the only problem is that......

All sorts of people have been showing up at the Hotel Chelsea, or writing in, to express their thoughts on "new management". It was only a matter of time before Ethan Hawke stopped by (and we're glad he did)! His famous ex-wife famously dated Andre Balazs, who will now be "helping" to "rejuvenate" the hotel. From the front lines, the Hotel Chelsea blog reports (and even snapped that photo of his visit): Earlier today Ethan......

New York singer/songwriter Jesse Harris might be known for his songs performed by others, in 2003 he won the Grammy for Norah Jones’s “Don’t Know Why," and he's also written songs for Willie Nelson, Bright Eyes, Feist, M Ward, and many others. Tonight, however, he'll be belting out his own tunes at the Living Room. Come check him out, and get to know him a little bit first... What has your experience been like as......

Stars of stage and screen will be rearing their boldface names on April 9th to blow out 443 candles for the boldest face of all: Billy Shakespeare. Broadway’s Michael Cerveris (Sweeney Todd), Debra Messing (Will & Grace), the esteemed Philip Bosco (Copenhagen) and other notables will perform scenes from the Bard’s plays at The Shakespeare Birthday Marathon at Hunter College’s Kaye Playhouse. But perhaps the most anticipated star at this free event is TV’s Rainn......

READING: The reclusive "Lemony Snicket" (known to grown-ups and non-believers as Daniel Handler) will be showing up - hopefully in a cloak and mustache disguise! - at Barnes and Noble tonight to celebrate the release of The End, the aptly-titled final chapter to his best-selling Series of Unfortunate Events. Expect the place to be rammed with excited screaming children, and maybe a suspiciously tattooed foe or two. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras Friday // 4pm //......

A monstrous wave of theater will engulf Lincoln Center next month and Tom Stoppard, the protean dramatist of unparalleled wit and imagination, is at the center of the squall. His three play cycle, “The Coast of Utopia”, will have its U.S. premiere in October and seems like an ideal autumn theater overload. The opus spans thirty years of Russian life in the mid-19th century as revolution swept Europe and a group of intellectuals, anarchists and......

Dare we say it? Poor Ethan Hawke. First Uma, now this! Early yesterday morning a fire broke out in a newly renovated office on the second floor of the above building. The blaze quickly spread from the second floor all the way up the fifth and along the way it ripped through and completely destroyed the fourth-floor office of one Mr. Ethan Hawke. What this means for Hawke's currently filming project, an attempt at......

Bruce Levingston, Clasical Pianist...

There's something sort of sweet and sad about this video of Macauley Culkin reading from Junior, his recently published autobiographical novel. As much as we'd like to make some sarcastic remark, he seems like he turned out to be a relatively cool and laid back kind of guy. Not that we're rushing out to buy his book-- we're still working on Ethan Hawke's novel, for godsakes! [Related: the sheer number of Macauley fan sites......

- Governor Pataki leaves the hospital and will try to "do some work" or whatever he calls what he's doing to our state - A look at the African Burial Ground's location - Mayor Bloomberg and State Senator Bruno meet so the press can get off their backs - but they probably still hate each other - You're warned: The film adaptation of Ethan Hawke's book, The Hottest State, is shooting in town -......

Halley Wegryn Gross, Hurlyburly...

In a city full of struggling artists, the last thing we need to hear is Julia Roberts doing an AOL voiceover that could have paid for our dinner. It just isn't fair when too much is never enough for some people. The ubiquitous celebrity author would be another example of this phenomena. Why, WHY?! Fortunately the Lit Lite Lousy Literature Reading Series exists. The series continues its celebration of the worst books ever written this......

Remember when Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy first met on that eurotrain back in 1995? No? Well they probably don't remember all the details either, but they attempt to recall the memories of their brief time together just 9 years after the fact. Catch their first encounter and their last(?) as Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, which was nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar this year, play back to back at the Steinhardt Building [35......

The new hit off-Broadway production by the New Group of Hurlyburly is reportedly transfering to Broadway, we are especially glad that we had the chance a few nights ago to see it at the intimate Acorn Theatre at 42nd Street's Theatre Row complex. The David Rabe-penned Tony-winning play was originally a big hit back in 1984, when some brilliant casting director came up with the dream ensemble of Christopher Walken, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith......

Oh, Paul Giamatti... Hollywood may like good acting, but Oscars loves pretty faces better. Gothamist thought that when you didn't get nominated for your role as Pig Vomit in Private Parts, it was because of the whole movie-about-Howard-Stern thing. When you didn't get nominated for American Splendor, we guessed "Maybe Oscar voters don't get indie cartoons." But, now, as your peers in the Actors' Branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have......

Once in a while, the Today Show can really come through, because it's made any possible Ethan Hawke sighting marginally more interesting. See, during a Today Show interview, apparently either Hawke or one of his handlers told the Today Show (probably in a pre-interview) - or maybe the crack Today Show research team dug this up - that he gets mistaken for Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath. Gothamist couldn't tell if Hawke was irritated......

Reverend Billy, Street Preacher, The Church of Stop Shopping...

Buried within A.O. Scott's Movies > Movie Review | 'Before Sunset': Reunited, Still Talking, Still Uneasy" href="http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/07/02/movies/02SUNS.html">review of Before Sunset, the sequel to Before Sunrise, is the not-that-spoilery but still tidbit "At one point, Celine claims not to remember whether or not they had sex, which is a little bit shocking (especially to Jesse)." Gothamist laughed, because as the character of Jesse has become incredibly associated with the actor who portrays him, Ethan Hawke, we......

This weekend Gothamist caught Before Sunrise on�ahem, the Lifetime Network. Tonight is the premiere of Before Sunset, the long-awaited sequel. Finally, 9 years later, we can get some closure. Apparently Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) never rendezvoused again. Instead, after parting ways in Vienna and promising to come back to each other in 6 months...the intrigue wore off. At least that is what we are assuming as in the sequel it is also......

Tim Smith, Artist...

Amy Blair, The Black Table...

The Tony Awards are tonight, and if you're like Gothamist, you're going to watch the shows because you secretly know more than you should, given how few musicals and plays you actually saw last year, about all the nominees because you just have too much time your hands (we love Audra McDonald, but if she gets her fourth Tony tonight, we're officially calling the Tonys the "Emmys"). That and Wolverine shimmying around in sequins. Yes,......