Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'martinlawrence'
February 6, 2008
Everyone is abuzz about the latest art world scandal, and here's what is known about the life of the Warhol painting at the center of the controversy.1981: Andy Warhol creates a number of his "Dollar Sign" pieces, using the same theme with different colors and sizes. Medium: polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas. February 14th, 1998: One of the two "Dollar Sign" pieces measuring at 16 by 20 inches is reported stolen from the......
Continue Reading "New Woes Over Stolen Warhol"March 1, 2007
If you haven't heard about Christina Ricci, Samuel L. Jackson and Justin Timberlake's Southern Gothic exploitation movie, Black Snake Moan, you may have been living under a movie-free rock. Ricci plays a bad, bad girl who must learn to mend her ways under the racially and sexually fraught tutelage of jazz musician Jackson. How shall he do that? Why chain her to the radiator until she repents of course. One of this movie's key words......
Continue Reading "The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Glowing Lanterns Edition"January 26, 2006
Baby, it's cold outside. Though Gothamist thinks it's always a good time to go to the movies, this time of year is particularly perfect for cozying up at the cineplex. Hot cocoa goes great with popcorn. This week there's the option of a hunky officer in training (Annapolis), a magical nanny with a freaky nose (Nanny McPhee), a Dane's further impressions of Americana (Manderlay), and a film distribution experiment at work (Bubble). We're anticipating that......
Continue Reading "The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks, Sir Yes Sir Edition"
