Giancarlo Esposito

Other presidents have come into office concerned about the arms race. This one, the economy. But when you're planning the parties that celebrate a new president's inauguration, the real issue on your mind is the battle of the bands. Right now, anyone...

When you're the Boss, you're the boss -- even when the other guy has been elected. Next to the Man himself -- and in this case, the "man" is President-elect Barack Obama -- the guy most in demand during the coming inaugural season is Bruce Springsteen,...

Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tim Daly and Matthew Modine will host a luncheon and briefing about America's health care crisis at the Long Island Marriott Hotel in Uniondale this afternoon in conjunction with the presidential debate. The luncheon event,...

'Hair" is not the only modern theater legend being revisited this summer. The Negro Ensemble Company, a huge force in the tumultuous '60s and '70s, is the focus of a retrospective by Off-Broadway's invaluable Signature Theatre Company. Like "Hair,"...

When James Earl Jones takes the stage as Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," the Broadhurst Theatre fairly trembles. For all the fussin' and flitterin' of Maggie (Anika Noni Rose), Mae (Lisa Arrindell Anderson), Big Mama ( Phylicia Rashad), Gooper (...

2½ stars (out of four) This loopy, clever comedy opens with Shakespeare's "all the world's a stage" passage, a concept the movie takes to heart. Beautiful young actress Helen (Michi Barall) arrives at her Manhattan apartment after being propositioned...

Sherrybaby is the intentionally ironic title of a movie about a trashy, drug-addicted tart who gets out of prison and tries to get to know the little girl who has been growing up without her. Maggie Gyllenhaal is Sherry, an impulsive recovering heroin...

Maggie Gyllenhaal is becoming so adroit at playing coy that it won't be long before her every screen appearance will make viewers look up the word "coy" in the dictionary. It won't be to find Gyllenhaal's picture, but to make sure that the definition is...

3 stars (out of four) Maggie Gyllenhaal can't brush her teeth without making another movie, and by this point in her screen career we can take stock of her considerable and rather deceptive abilities. Why deceptive? Because in every film she has a way...

As the year turns into an ongoing Maggie Gyllenhaal film festival, there's the danger she'll be overexposed. Yet you wouldn't ant to miss seeing her in her latest, "Sherrybaby." The material isn't exactly fresh -- drug-addicted mom just out of prison,...

You'd have to do the math to know for sure, but casual analysis suggests that stories about drug addicts, especially recovering ones, make up a disproportionate number of stories told on the screen. American movies are fixated on the twin forces of...

Funny thing about "Derailed:" It's well-made and everything, but when it's over, you realize you've just sat through an expensive and not particularly inspired production of a Showtime thriller -- you know, the kind where the lure of illicit sex leads a...