The Devil may wear prada and Superman may wear tight red briefs but what's really should get you hot and bothered on a long holiday weekend is Amy Sedaris in prosthetic teeth and high rise pants. Wooh-wee, that's some sexy stuff. No matter how you felt about Lauren Weisberger's thinly veiled roman a clef about life in the Vogue trenches, you have to admit that the preview for The Devil Wears Prada movie with Meryl......

Bobby Short, the irrepressible entertainer who sang and played the standards at the Cafe Carlyle, Arts > Music > Bobby Short, Icon of Manhattan Song and Style, Dies at 80" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/arts/music/21cnd-short.html?hp&ex=1111467600&en=49eab08251a9d060&ei=5094&partner=homepage">died at age 80 yesterday from leukemia. While Gothamist never got to see him perform in person, we always equated him with a beautiful, serene and, yes, very Woody Allen version of New York where people would just sit and listen to wonderful renditions of......

The NY magazine piece about Elvis Mitchell's departure from the Times, the one Gawker hinted at last week, is online It's an interesting look at Mitchell's enterprise as film critic, professor, social butterfly, media personality, and black journalist. If you're into film criticism, you'll find it a good read, as it marks a fascinating turn of events from five years ago, when Mitchell and newly promoted chief movie critic, A.O. Scott, were first annointed -......

Gothamist barely knows how to read more than four consecutive paragraphs, so when we read Times movie critic Stephen Holden's aritcle about the pluses and minuses of recent films, we were ridiculously excited. Holden writes about the depressing looking Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly film, House of Sand and Fog, "It's no coincidence that this film recalls the superior 'In In the Bedroom.' Both movies were adapted from fictional works by Andre Dubus III in......

It's Gothamist's second favorite Times Arts & Leisure feature of the year (after the Fall Preview, which, even though "Fall" is less of an event in film and TV, just seems to be an exciting way to ring in the best season), when all the critics give their favorites and hateds of the year. The film critics list their best, with Elvis Mitchell calling Pirates of the Caribbean his top movie (Merry Christmas, Jerry......

The Man in Black, Johnny Cash, died today, at age 71, from diabetes-related complications. Cash was one of the first popular musicians of this century to live hard, play hard, and sing about it. His long and storied career recently took a turn into the twilight, culminating with his cover and video of Hurt, which many called Johnny's farewell, as his voice ached and the images summoned up the highlights of his life and career.......

Hmm, if you're in New York this weekend, the weather looks like it'll be perfect for cleaning and catching up on movies and trying out restaurants while everyoe is out of town. Check out Stephen Holden's list of independent movies that have made the summer movie going season worthwhile. Or look through New York magazine's Where to Eat for a new restaurant to try. Or realize that the whole summer's weather blew on Newsday.......

The last film on deck for Gothamist's run at New Directors/New Films is Camp, a film about teenagers going to summer musical camp. The Daily News interview director Todd Graff. Stephen Holden of the Times likes Camp. More on seeing movies at Alice Tully Hall.......

I saw the French film "Embrassez qui vous voudrez"/"See How They Run" last night, as a part of Rendez-vous with French Cinema at the Walter Reade Theatre. It's essentially a comedy about two families and their friends who go on vacation, and hilarity ensues, but there's also this strange serious undercurrent that makes it a little harder to take just as fluff. What I liked were that the women's roles, which would have been stereotyped......

The other Times Talk panel I went to was "Films that Deserve a Second Look" - films that New York Times film critics Stephen Holden, Elvis Mitchell, and A.O. Scott felt audiences missed the first time around. Many of the films they mentioned were victim to just being dumped by their distributors because they were not easily marketable as a teen comedy or date movie. Another problem is that films live and die in one......