Broadway Pays Its Last RespectsThe marquees of the theaters lining the streets off Times Square and Broadway will be dimmed for one minute at 8 p.m. tonight to salute Paul Newman.
ByJessica Coen
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Exclusive: Sam Mendes Tells His Best Paul Newman StoriesMendes, who worked with Newman on the Oscar-nominated gangster epic ‘Road to Perdition,’ had many memories of their time together, some funny, some inspirational, all moving.
BySara Cardace
Mediavore
Date Your Dream Chef; Butchering on the RisePlus Paul Newman’s legacy in the world of organic foods, and one woman’s mini Chinese cooking empire, from our glance at the morning headlines.
ByMichael Alan Connelly
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‘Gossip’ Girls Are Causing Mayhem in the Village!Blake walked her dog off the leash while Jessica ran up a $3,000 tab at Bagatelle! And everybody laughed at Bill Clinton’s quip about his own horniness! In today’s gossip roundup!
Cancer Has Not Impaired Patrick Swayze’s JudgementPatrick Swayze passed on playing a gay cheerleading coach in Fired Up for “creative reasons,” not because he’s sick. The script for Saturday’s Inner Circle show at the Hilton had to be overhauled in light of Spitzergate. Tom Brady made a rare post–Super Bowl public appearance with Gisele at the opening of the Zegna store on Fifth Avenue. Anne Hathaway bought five bottles of absinthe and borrowed an absinthe fountain from a restaurant for a party she was hosting with her boyfriend Raffaello Folllieri. ABC may cancel Rachael Ray’s show because of poor ratings. Padma Lakshmi and Salman Rushdie shared an “uncomfortable silence” after being seated six feet apart from one another at a Cinema Society screening.
