Mary-Louise Parker

Hu-llo? Even Mary-Louise Parker Can’t Rescue Ruhl Cell Phone

Mary-Louise Parker in Sarah Ruhl’s <i>Dead Man’s &lt;br /&gt;Cell Phone</i>.
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Mary-Louise Parker in Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s
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In Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, there’s a wonderfully ghoulish true story about a cell phone that started ringing inside a coffin.

It happened in Belgium some five years ago: The grieving family of the deceased had gathered at the funeral parlor to say a private, loving farewell around the sealed coffin when they suddenly heard a cell phone ringing inside. (What makes it worse—or funnier—is that the badly shaken family subsequently sued the undertakers for negligence).  read more »

Nick Nolte, Sober!

Move over, Hogwarts ... here come the hobgoblins.
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Move over, Hogwarts ... here come the hobgoblins.

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES
RUNNING TIME 97 minutes
WRITTEN BY Karey Kirkpatrick, David Berenbaum, John Sayles
DIRECTED BY Mark Waters  read more »

Mary-Louise Parker Joins Curtains Cast

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In her free time from playing a MILF who slings weed on Showtime, Mary-Louise Parker will appear in Curtains, the musical comedy whodunit, currently starring David Hyde Pierce (from Frasier) on Broadway. It'll only be for one night though (dang!) at "A Musical Celebration of Broadway Honoring Roger Berlind" in the Rockefeller Plaza Rainbow Room on Feb. 11.  read more »

Low-Hanging Listicle: Out 100 Party Tonight!



Tonight, Out magazine will honor its 100 most influential people in gay culture with a big bash at Cipriani Wall Street. Kathy Griffin must be on a cruise ship somewhere, so Tori Spelling and Tim Gunn will co-host the camp affair, where the five people on the cover of Out’s December issue—Jennifer Hudson, Mary-Louise Parker, Bryan Batt, Thom Browne and Bill T. Jones—will be among the bellini-sipping award-winners this evening. Annie Lennox is expected to make a special appearance, and Chaka Kahn and Kat Deluna will perform.

We spoke with the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Aaron Hicklin, today to learn more about the selection process behind this year’s honorees.

He talked a lot! Click "Read More" below to read what he said.  read more »

The Transom

Next Year in … Antigua? New Yorkers Flee City for Tropical Seders    read more »

The Transom

Next Year in … Antigua? New Yorkers Flee City for Tropical Seders    read more »

Proof Positive of Fragile Life and Love Through Higher Math

I know where I stand when it comes to the dramatically brainy subjects of nuclear physics, Fermat's  read more »