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Category: Events
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When Patti Smith met Sam Shepard back in the day, she thought he was a drummer cowboy named Slim Shadow, until Jackie Curtis set her straight, “He’s the biggest playwright off-Broadway. He won five Obies!” Now his Fool for Love is on Broadway under Daniel Aukin’s expert direction at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, an…
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Truth, a riveting movie about the famous scandal at CBS 60 Minutes that cost Dan Rather his nightly news anchorship, is based on Mary Mapes’ account. A sassy, hard working producer, Mapes was fired in this incident calling into question George W. Bush’s military record. Rather and Mapes knew they were reporting a true story,…
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The famously reclusive and curmudgeonly photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank smiles throughout the documentary Robert Frank Don’t Blink, as if he’s having a good time with Laura Israel, a longtime assistant who deigned to make a film about him. When she asked, the Swiss-born artist did not say no. In distinct stages marked by evocative music (Velvet…
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Jan Donovan Amorosi had just seen Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies at a special screening the night before its New York Film Festival premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday night. “We had no idea what our father had gone through when we were growing up in Brooklyn,” she said, now preparing for a second…
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Labyrinth of Lies, a new Holocaust themed movie, the German entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar, takes place in the era after World War II, when 22 “ordinary” German men who committed anti-human crimes at Auschwitz were brought to justice in Frankfurt. Filmmaker Giulio Ricciarelli, a Milan born German from Munich is proud to…
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Broadway luminaries attended the American Theater Wing gala on Monday night at the Plaza Hotel to honor James Earl Jones: Angela Lansbury, Tony Bennett, and Cecily Tyson, who is starring with Jones in The Gin Game. The annual event always features performances in the Plaza’s Grand Ballroom: among other performers, Norm Lewis blew everyone away…
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Defying categorization, Roger Waters The Wall premiered this week, not just a rock concert filmed, although it is that; even more, in a classic Oedipal journey, Roger Waters seeks his paternity, the father and grandfather he did not know. The casualties of the two world wars, these men become the objects of a quest in…
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When James Marsh’s Oscar winning documentary Man on Wire premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008, it seemed like a miracle, not only Philippe Petit’s stunning walk across wire 110 stories in the air, but the image of the World Trade Towers from August 7, 1974, as their destruction was fresh in everyone's mind.…
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You have to love Nancy Meyers for her happy endings, and her optimism about women’s lives. In her latest film confection, The Intern, a laugh-out-loud, melt-in-your-mouth bonbon, the adorable Anne Hathaway plays Jules Ostin, a workaholic founder of a successful women’s wear Internet business housed in a chic downtown loft. Launching a senior intern program for retirees,…
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By the time I got home from the Sicario premiere at MoMA this week, the film’s star Emily Blunt was trading puke takes with Stephen Colbert on his Late Night Show. The vomiting is not as random as you’d think: the new movie directed by Denis Villeneuve has such grim imagery, the characters, FBI agents…
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MCC’s production of Matthew Lopez’ The Legend of Georgia McBride at the Lucille Lortel in the village, like Kinky Boots on Broadway, features stunning high heeled footwear and over-the-top pastel wigs. Add to that padded rumps and sequined brassieres, sized triple D! Backstage at the Cleo bar in Florida’s Panhandle, a sweet-faced Elvis impersonator, Casey…
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Out on Eastern Long Island, real food and real estate rule, somebody who knows recently told me. This wisdom was proven at a special dinner at the Pollock-Krasner House on the waterfront Springs site where the artist couple lived, and at Guild Hall’s annual Garden as Art tour featuring vegetable gardens at several spectacular estates.…
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When Michele Lee did her show at 54 Below this past June, celebrating Cy Coleman just a stone’s throw from Broadway, she was secretly planning to return to star in Wicked as Madame Morrible—a schoolmistress cum sorcerer. As the character’s name suggests she’s marvelous as she is horrible. With a look that channels Effie Trinket…
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Talk about extreme sports. The new documentary Meru will make you wonder why anyone would want to put themselves so far out of any human comfort zone. That doesn’t mean you won’t want to watch this daring film. Meru, in fact, plays like an action thriller, because the characters’ extreme drive is compelling as are…
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“This story wasn’t going away,” said David Simon explaining his persistence in making the six-part mini series, Show Me a Hero, he co wrote with William F. Zorzi based on Lisa Belkin’s 1999 book. The story in question is about chaos in Yonkers in the late ‘80’s, over desegregation in housing. Yes, the ‘80’s are…
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Grey Gardens: The Musical was made for a run at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater, just a few miles from the original East Hampton real estate that inspired the Maysles’ Brothers classic documentary film. Starring the two Edies Beale, inseparable mother and daughter, the nonfiction film spawned an HBO movie from the Broadway play, book…
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A place of transformation, where Memory Motel late night drinkers spill onto Montauk Highway, oblivious to traffic, and outsized master-of-the-universe houses have replaced beach shacks, Montauk has been much in the news. Yet, some new comers and longtime residents are unified by a vision of Montauk as Paradise:
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Last week, at a special screening at Guild Hall, Michael Shannon spoke about his work on 99 Homes, a feature directed by Ramin Bahrani about the housing crash, specifically dramatizing the horror to families as their homes are reclaimed by those from whom they were offered home loans in the housing boom. Michael Shannon plays…
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