Cintra Wilson

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  • Letters

    So many smarmy roles, so little time. Christopher McDonald fans come out of the woodwork to praise their unsung hero's performances in movies like "Quiz Show" and "SLC Punk."
    May 25, 2004

  • Beautiful bastard

    You know him as that red-faced rageoholic or the drippingly sarcastic dad. But you probably don't know Christopher McDonald's name, despite the dozens of movies he's stolen from bigger stars.
    By Cintra Wilson May 20, 2004

  • Devoured by demons

    Klaus Kinski played the messianic monster, consumed by an epic lust and a taste for violence. His screen roles were pretty weird, too.
    By Cintra Wilson April 22, 2004

  • A world of Hurt

    He's been a killer, an Elephant Man and an alien-infested, chain-smoking astronaut. And through it all, John Hurt has never been anything less than irresistible.
    By Cintra Wilson March 18, 2004

  • Oscar bombs

    "The Passion of the Frodo" sweeps, and more beautiful stars bravely impersonate the genuinely homely to great success. But all the crooked teeth in New Zealand can't save a dull, dull Oscar night.
    By Cintra Wilson March 1, 2004

  • Inside Mel Gibson's "Passion"

    A clergyman infiltrates the grass-roots campaign for Gibson's new Gospel film to catch a screening and reports that Jews, Arabs -- and Christians -- should be worried.
    By Cintra Wilson January 27, 2004

  • The 75th Oscars: Hollywood dons its war paint

    Movie people act all serious while Marines die, the Academy actually provides some surprises (Adrien Brody, anyone?) and Michael Moore pees on the furniture. And Nicole, honey, write a speech, OK?
    By Cintra Wilson March 24, 2003

  • Robby Benson's clean white underpants

    The pretty-boy teen movie idol of the late '70s was uncool, ultra-girly and as sexless as a Ken doll. It's about time he was given more respect.
    By Cintra Wilson November 12, 2002

  • Dirk Bogarde's art of decadence

    He started off as the Leonardo DiCaprio of his day -- and became art film's leading Gentleman Pervert.
    By Cintra Wilson August 8, 2002

  • Living in oblivion

    Idiosyncratic indie director Tom DiCillo on how he made the best film of his career, and why Hollywood won't let you see it.
    By Cintra Wilson July 10, 2002

  • Men who hurt themselves for a living

    Whimpering existential wimp-thug David Blaine lays his cojones on the scales against cackling, criminally irreverent feces-diver Johnny Knoxville. Knoxville's have more heft.
    By Cintra Wilson May 21, 2002

  • Mickey Rourke's desperate truths

    He was one of America's sexiest, saddest and most sensitive movie actors -- until bad women, bad liquor and bad plastic surgery beat him down.
    By Cintra Wilson May 15, 2002

  • The Gumball 3000 rally: Yet another reason to hate the rich

    Depraved rock stars and party-hearty Playmates in overpowered Toadmobiles are our betters, and as they careen across America we must bow before their power.
    By Cintra Wilson April 27, 2002

  • Oscars 2002: Somebody make it stop!

    It's the Oscars of Defensiveness (TM): Four-plus hours in which Hollywood tries to pretend it's not racist -- and Tom Cruise is revealed as that Scary Flaming Eye from "Lord of the Rings."
    By Cintra Wilson March 25, 2002

  • Buy humbug!

    Xmas fills the air with dashed hopes and chicken nugget-eating depression. These holiday pranks will keep your misanthropy at bay.
    By Cintra Wilson December 7, 2000

  • Svetlana Khorkina: The movie

    She is brazen and wild, an untamed, sensual creature perfect for TV.
    By Cintra Wilson October 5, 2000

  • I survived the Pitt-Aniston travesty

    Take it from one who was there: Brad and Jennifer's wedding made one of Caligula's decadent bacchanals look like a bingo party.
    By Cintra Wilson August 14, 2000

  • Star sex

    Why are we so obsessed with two meteors of human attention colliding in prurient orgasm? Plus: Will Prince William become a photo slave or will he be as the wisteria tree?
    By Cintra Wilson July 13, 2000

  • Is sexism to blame for the Central Park maulings?

    "Obnoxious bumper stickers are only symptoms."
    By June 28, 2000

  • What's to blame for the Central Park maulings?

    What nobody's asking is where those men ever got the idea that enjoying the power to sexually terrify women is OK.
    By Cintra Wilson June 23, 2000

  • Censorama! A gambling resort for persecuted writers

    Move over Siegfried & Roy, here comes Salman Rushdie. Now more than ever, Las Vegas is for smart people too.
    By Cintra Wilson June 5, 2000

  • The 49th Annual Miss Universe Pageant

    The wank parade of inflato-chested international hose bags that won't go away.
    By Cintra Wilson May 17, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Where have all the sexy movies gone? Plus: Songwriters should share credit; is "three strikes" on its way out?
    May 12, 2000

  • Joel-Peter Witkin

    Is his darkly imaginative photography an intellectually camouflaged freak show or high art?
    By Cintra Wilson May 9, 2000

  • I have seen the future: It's Tenacious D

    If watching these two short, fat, weird guys perform doesn't make you happier than you've been in years, you're withered and dead within.
    By Cintra Wilson April 27, 2000
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