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Is The Angel of Darkness A Serial Killer?
The Angel of Darkness , by Caleb Carr. Random House, 629 pages, $25.95. When I first picked up Caleb Carr’s The Angel of Darkness , the sequel to The Alienist , there was a heaviness to my step....
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Hollywood’s Second-Oldest Story: Jon Karp Signs With Rudin, Flees
For the last two weeks, members of the New York publishing and film worlds have put their many heads together to try to solve the dual-industry un-mystery of what happened to Jonathan Karp, the...
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Stardust Memo
Dear Hollywood, It’s time to renew the memorandum of understanding between your town and ours. You remember us—New York, whence the books and plays come? The city with the whole bad-plane-incident...
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Year of the Click-Clack? Rudin Rues What Could Have Been
New York producer—and the city’s worst boss, according to Gawker—has two—count ‘em!—two films nomimated for the best picture Oscar, There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men. And what’s he have to...
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Coen Brothers to Adapt Chabon's Yiddish Policemen's Union, Rudin Producing
Perhaps hoping for a repeat of No Country For Old Men, the Coen Brothers are once again teaming up with producer Scott Rudin to make a movie out of Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,...
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Miramax, Richard Price Drink Up Lush Life Movie Deal
Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin have acquired screen rights to Richard Price’s novel Lush Life, just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Mr. Price, who recently won the Edgar Award for his...
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In Which Portfolio Says Scott Rudin Made a Big Mistake Buying the Film Rights...
A short item on Portfolio.com by Lauren Lipton argues that super-producer Scott Rudin was unwise to acquire the rights to Philip Roth’s brand new novel Indignation "given Roth’s Hollywood track...
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Morning Memo: Harvey Weinstein Not Vindicated; Sharon Stone’s Dubious...
Per his agreement with Page Six, Harvey Weinstein now owes a charity $1 million after a leaked Scott Rudin email describing Weinstein’s bad behavior during the production of The Reader turned out to be...
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Something Special In the Air? Scott Rudin and Friend Fly ‘Priority Access’
More proof that flying private is sooo 2007: Movie producer and chronic novel-optioner Scott Rudin was spotted filling a first-class seat on creaky old American Airlines Flight No. 10, the red-eye from...
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Toronto Film Fest Taps Clooney, Madonna as Maybe-Oscar Frontrunners
Canada-bound director Madonna. (Getty Images) September’s Toronto Film Festival–not the most glamorous or eagerly awaited among the film festival circuit, but the one whose placement in the calendar...
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Chad Harbach’s Art of Fielding Optioned; New York One Big Content Farm,...
Harbach. Chad Harbach, n+1 editor, novelist and now “consulting producer” has been snapped up in HBO’s general raid on everyone in New York City who has written a book. Variety reports that Scott Rudin...
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Scott Rudin Buys Film Rights to The Marriage Plot
Eugenides. Scott Rudin has bought the film rights to Jeffrey Eugenides’ bestselling novel The Marriage Plot, reports Deadline Hollywood. That’s right: not HBO! So who will play which part? James Franco...
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Actor’s ‘Corrections’ Departure Imperils ‘Clybourne’
Scott Rudin (Getty Images) The New York Times reports that film and theatrical Scott Rudin (currently nominated for an Oscar) has left the upcoming Broadway production of Clybourne Park because the...
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Producer Roth Saves ‘Clybourne’ After Rudin Backs Out
Jordan Roth, president of Jujamcyn Theaters and owner of the theater at which Clybourne Park is to be presented, has swooped in to the rescue to save the production. After Scott Rudin backed out of...
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Culture Roundup: Baby Agent Edition
Vanity Fair examines the risks inherent in taking on a “baby agent”–that is, one in the early twenties. They’re better, though, than “in utero agents” in their teens; those little jerks just roll your...
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Because We All Miss Entourage, HBO Creates Silicon Valley Sitcom
Shooting has wrapped on HBO’s new TV show Silicon Valley, and the sitcom is debuting in April. Typical unnecessary tech embargo.
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