Last night at the premiere of The Great Buck Howard, we asked director Sean McGinley what it was like working with John Malkovich, who plays the has-been mentalist. Because he seems, well, kind of scary: “You know, the company that financed this film, they came to me about two weeks before we ...

White House social secretary Desirée Rogers has spent most of the first weeks of her job inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but was lured to New York for the School of American Ballet's winter ball by her friend Pamela Joyner, who chaired the event. "I would say right now, you know, most of my ti...

It was surprising enough when Justin Timberlake showed up at the New York Academy of Art's annual Tribeca Ball last night and meandered through the booths, asking the students about their work. (One student told us that JT made detailed inquiries about technique and mentioned he wanted to take a pai...

It's Valentine's Day tomorrow, and New York's intrepid Jada Yuan has spent the past few weeks finding out what New Yorkers are doing to celebrate the day. Unsurprisingly, she found a lot of New Yorkers were pretty cynical about theHallmark holiday. Stephanie March said that she and Bobby Flay "won&r...

Like us, Mario Cantone is a fan of Michael Phelps. “I think he’s sexy and odd,” Cantone told us at the amfAR gala last night. And he also thinks the whole bong brouhaha has really gotten of hand. “I think they should leave him the fuck alone," he said. "I think it’s app...

Despite the fact that Natalie Portman inexplicably allowed him to date her, Moby claims he has not been so lucky in love: "I'm 43 years old and I haven't ever really had a good relationship," he told us at the Cinema Society screening of Two Lovers last night. He's been lucky in real estate, though....

And no, we did not ask Alan the question he so obviously wanted us to ask. Surrounded by huge projections of scantily clad supermodels from photographer Russell James’s new book, partygoers at Donna Karan’s Urban Zen space couldn’t help but fantasize about who else they’d lik...

At last night's Hip-Hop Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C., boxing promoter Don King was weaving metaphorical magic. "America is pregnant with a new baby we call hope and freedom," he said. "She will give birth tomorrow at 12." View our Party Lines slideshow to see other Inauguration Eve craziness. ...

In Defiance, Liev Schreiber stars as one of the heroic Bielski brothers who saved hundreds of Jews from Nazis during World War II. When we saw him at the Nextbook.org-sponsored Cinema Society screening on Monday, we asked if he'd committed any acts of bravery in his own life. “I made love to a...

When Barack Obama gets sworn in on January 20, be looking for Angela Bassett. “I have my tickets,” she told us at Wednesday’s premiere of Notorious. But she’s iffy on attending any inaugural balls: “We’ve all done parties.” Hear from Sean Combs, Fabolous, an...