A new era began Monday in the time slot commonly known as "12:30" (more accurately, 12:37 a.m.) as Fallon arrived with a new-era version of "Late Night," flush with his wired-up personality, a classy, comfy set and a super-cool house band, the Roots. ...more

March 3, 2009

Did Robert De Niro just walk into the restaurant? And is that Paris Hilton there drinking champagne with Tiger Woods? And did six Playboy Playmates just saunter to the private lounge? ...more

January 29, 2009

If those A-list celebrities really are in Tampa, it's likely at a Super Bowl party, and it probably was months in the making, with dozens of managers, promoters and staff all toiling in anonymity to create a temporary atmosphere of sheer luxury and celebrity glitz. ...more

January 28, 2009

A former actor on "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed an off-duty police officer. ...more

January 9, 2009

From tokers on the run to Neil Sedaka remaking his songs for children, the media shelves seem a bit surreal today. And don't get us started on the wasted opportunity of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the same movie. ...more

January 6, 2009

Paul Benedict, the actor who played the English neighbor Harry Bentley on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," has died. He was 70. ...more

December 5, 2008

It's not that the crime thriller "Righteous Kill" is spectacularly awful. It's just thoroughly mediocre - a standard police procedural, a long episode of "Law & Order," unremarkable but for the pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. ...more

September 14, 2008

Because I have spent a better part of my life hanging around the hustings as a scribbler, there have been times when I have deluded myself into thinking that, in another life, I would have made a pretty fair-to-middling political consultant. ...more

September 2, 2008

•"Goodfellas" (1990) Tampa is featured in one of the best gangster movies. The mobsters played by Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro are sent from New York to get money from a man in Tampa. The short segment begins with the pair beating the man in a car, then taking him to the "Tampa City Zoo" and holding him over the lion cages. "They must really feed each other to the lions down there, because the guy gave the money right up," says Liotta. ...more

August 6, 2008

Tampa again finds itself in the center of the latest chapter of mob intrigue. ...more

August 6, 2008