From gripping thrillers, witty satires and poignant epics to captivating histories and juicy memoirs, 2025 was full of great books. Read on for 30 of our favorites. FICTION Karen Russell (Knopf)The latest from the Pulitzer finalist and MacArthur fellow is set in Nebraska during the Great Depression — a very real backdrop for a very surreal … Read more
Cameron Crowe doesn’t traffic in regrets, except maybe one. He almost cast David Bowie in “Almost Famous” — the Oscar-winning 2000 movie loosely based on his life as a teen journalist on the road with a rock band — but didn’t. His original plan, Crowe told The Post in an exclusive interview, was to cast … Read more
Cameron Crowe dropped a major bombshell about the most iconic scene in “Say Anything.” The director of the 1989 teen rom-com revealed that John Cusack did not want to film the sequence where Lloyd (Cusack) plays “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel from a boom box outside Diane’s (Ione Skye) window to win her back. … Read more
Big ups to BFs. National Boyfriend Day arrives on Oct. 3, allowing us to recognize the ways our partners show up in relationships. It need not be a celebration of romantic partnership, but of platonic friendship as well. As National Today declares,” Although there’s no sole officially-credited source that initiated this important day, some smart … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Broadway fans, we are only T-minus 40 days away from the 2023 Tony Awards. And now that all 27 nominated productions have been announced for the 76th annual … Read more
Crowe noted the irony of a movie set in the 70s being trounced at the box office by a re-release of the 1973 horror classic, “The Exorcist”. Source link
At the start of “Almost Famous,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, the frontman of the fictional rock band Stillwater, Jeff Bebe, barks backstage in San Diego that a young Rolling Stone reporter in their midst is “the enemy!” Theater review 2 hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, … Read more
Jimmy Fallon may soon be hitting the Great White Way. The 48-year-old comedian allegedly will be reprising his role as band manager Dennis Hope at certain performances of the musical adaptation of “Almost Famous” on Broadway, reports Deadline. News of Fallon’s surprise cameos in the show comes after he received an open invitation from the … Read more