“Gatsbaby” Tabber Benedict Was Involved in 2011 DWI Accident in The Hamptons
The Observer has learned that Tabber Benedict, one of the three men featured in this weeks' cover story on Gatsbabies, has something in common with Jay Gatsby that's a little less charming than his...
View ArticleWhich Magazines Are the Most Screwed by Gatsby Switch?
The highly-anticipated Great Gatsby re-boot (or whatever!) was to be released this Christmas, but it's avoiding the Anna Karenina/Django Unchained/Hobbit pile-up with a move to next summer. Totally...
View ArticleThe Great Gatsby’s Destruction of Editorial Calendars Has Begun
The Great Gatsby, the biggest movie of this winter until it was to be the biggest movie of next summer, has screwed its first magazine with its release-date switch. Gatsby is the lead item in Elle's...
View Article‘Gatsbaby’ Tabber Benedict Pleads Guilty To Multiple DWI-Related Charges
Tabber Benedict (photo courtesy of Patrick McMullan) As November ended, Tabber Benedict, a "Gatsbaby" featured in a June, 2012 report in The Observer, pleaded guilty in a Suffolk County court to ten...
View ArticleJay McInerney Is Not Writing a Book About The Great Gatsby, Except in the Way...
Jay McInerney at Observer's 25th Anniversary party. (PMc)"I don't know where you got that idea," Jay McInerney scoffed at The New York Observer at our 25th Anniversary Party last night at the Four...
View ArticleA Triumph on the Page, The Great Gatsby Founders Miserably on the Silver Screen
As the new Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio is hopeless, a little boy in his first After Six tuxedo. Let’s face it. The Great Gatsby never has been—and probably won’t ever be—successfully turned into a great...
View ArticleBaz Luhrmann on Gatsby Excess: ‘Sometimes a Party Is Just a Party’
Ain't no party like a Gatsby party. Great Giggling Gatsbys! After taking a hit for over-romanticizing the gaudy decadence of the roaring twenties in hist latest film (and subsequent press tour),...
View ArticleCannes: A Paean to Excess and Flash That Has Something for Everyone
CANNES, France — It’s official: Steven Spielberg just watched a man set someone’s genitals on fire. The Cannes International Film Festival, which kicked off its 66th edition Wednesday night with the...
View ArticleTo Do Thursday: Party Like Gatsby
Great Gatsby fans, if you’re passing through Washington, D.C., make sure to check out the party for A Fitzgerald Companion: Libations, Destinations and Quotable Ruminations Favored by the Literary...
View ArticleRex Reed: The Worst Films of 2013
1. TO THE WONDER Directed by: Terrence Malick "Plotless and almost mute, To the Wonder is the kind of fiasco that keeps film-festival programmers salivating and discriminating audiences stampeding...
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