BRET EASTON ELLIS, the author of ''Less Than Zero'' and a man who knows a thing or two about the 1980s, recently tweeted, ''The two key American films of the 1980s: 'Blue Velvet,' 'Something Wild'...'' The first choice is no surprise, but the second confused some of his followers. ''When I tweeted it, people responded to 'Blue Velvet' but asked,...
Television allows men to grow old and forces women to stay young. There is no better illustration of that disparity than the latest his/hers series on WB. On the sitcom ''Twins,'' Melanie Griffith plays a wife, mother and trussed-up bimbo. ''Just Legal,'' a procedural drama, stars Ms. Griffith's ex-husband Don Johnson as a hard-drinking trial...
If Only They'd Had Feathers and a Beak Most of the film events we go to have paparazzi lining the walkway and publicists with clipboards at the door, so we were delighted to be invited to the home of the documentary maker ALBERT MAYSLES for a party celebrating his 50 years in filmmaking. The party was held in his art-filled, multistory apartment in...