Midnight In Paris is yet another delight from Woody Allen. Gil (Owen Wilson) serves as the “Woody Allen character,” a disgruntled Hollywood screenwriter who dreams of reaching a higher level of literary genius by writing a novel. Unfortunately, he is engaged to a pushy girl, Inez (Rachel McAdams), who loves big diamonds and even bigger [...]

So now that I have returned to Paris, after four months of being back in the United States, I am appreciating all that the French have to offer. Except for one thing — their obsession with critiquing you on your appearance. It’s a severely gauche cultural trait that they think is totally normal and acceptable.
Yes, [...]

I saw the new Basquiat show at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and it made me think about celebrity. A Brooklyn-born boy of Puerto Rican and Haitian descent, Jean-Michel Basquiat became a star in the art world because he was a talented graffiti artist who caught the attention of some gallery owners.
His work [...]

I just moved to Manhattan, but the city has already sufficiently bruised and beaten me. Well, I am just complaining because I still don’t have a job. Now people are telling me that I should be a waiter or a nanny. That’s exactly what I did in Paris because I was foreign and couldn’t get [...]

France has been absorbed in a convoluted scandal starring Liliane Bettencourt (the billionaire heiress of the L’Oreal fortune), her daughter, a gigolo photographer, and now, President Sarkozy.
It started when the heiress’ daughter filed suit against her geriatric mother and complained that the aforementioned gigolo photog, Francois Marie-Banier, was seducing the old lady so that she would [...]

I have always been obsessed by glass houses, and even more so by the people who inhabit them. Robert Rubin is a total pimp and a collector of something even more exciting than fine art … fine architecture.
After Rubin got rich on Wall Street, he was able to pursue his real passion for collecting, and [...]

Yesterday I had a refreshing break from the evil Parisians who seem to despise me and seize any chance they get to be rude to my face. After I had a riff with some xenophobic Frenchmen at lunch, I was strolling past the old-school, pink VW van of a charming pizzeria in the Marais. It [...]

I recently received an expensive camera as a belated birthday gift, and it makes HD-quality videos, so basically, I can shoot my very own vodka advertisements, and other important things like that for Youtube.
But filmmaking is hard. Apparently even Woody Allen, the miniature king of cinema, does not yet have sufficient funding for his next [...]

I was dining at a chic Parisian restaurant when I heard the abrasive, American voice of a drunk girl. I turned my head to find Tara Reid, the D-List celebrity who is famous for partying too much and exposing her naughty bits to the paparazzi. She was in a popular, raunchy teen movie about 100 [...]

I went out for a girl’s night at Bus Palladium, an old-school nightclub in Paris. There was a private party/concert and Johnny Depp was apparently on the premises. My friends and I snuck ourselves in and enjoyed the mediocre, Jim-Morrison-inspired live music and amusing dance scene.
But the real drama took place when we left the [...]