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Daniel Boulud makes a mean red carpet, a special cocktail of that name for Oscar night. This, the second year in a row chef Boulud is host to the east coast academy of arts & sciences members, everyone hopes his restaurant, Daniel, will become a tradition; the fare matches the grandeur of the occasion. Daniel…
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On Tuesday night with an ice storm looming, George Clooney worked the room, a very big room. The elegant Metropolitan Club featured its signature ice sculptures dripping over the raw bar; with its ceiling paintings, this was an opulent and fitting locale for Monuments Men, a movie about the recovered art of Europe during World War…
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Forest Whitaker takes her calls. Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe so epitomizes the strength of simplicity, the Oscar winning star of Last King of Scotland— he portrays the dictator Idi Amin-– form a likely alliance in helping young people in Africa recover from the horrors of vicious murderous rebels like Joseph Kony who, like Idi Amin, brutalized…
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It would be impossible to imagine two more wrong-headed individuals than Anthony Reilly and Rosemary Muldoon, the next-door neighbors in John Patrick Shanley’s new play, Outside Mullingar. The idea that they would live side by side for their entire lives and not realize their desires for one another strains the imagination. But if the playwright…
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Among the fine documentaries on the short list for Oscars is HBO’s Life According to Sam. Not your usual leading man, its star Sam Berns was an odd looking teen, bald and pin headed because of a genetic disease, Progeria, so rare few have heard of it. Last summer Life According to Sam made…
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When a fan tells him she’s tongue tied, Martin Scorsese becomes wildly animated: “Why? You don’t need to be. It’s just me,” and gives her a hug. You could say his buoyant spirit reflects some optimism. It was Tuesday, and he’d just been nominated for the Directors Guild Award. Now surrounded by friends and colleagues at…
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What can’t Meryl Streep do? Presenting a Best Actress award to her friend Emma Thompson, she offered the 700 gala guests of the National Board of Review at Cipriani 42ndStreet an option, a short speech of praise, or a longer complaint. I don’t remember a show of hands. Wearing a souvenir trucker hat emblazoned with…
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In 1935, at age 5, Harry Belafonte saw his first movie, Tarzan, and knew he never wanted to be one of those people from Africa. This bit of personal history was the entry point for the 87-year old performer and activist, putting the achievement of Steve McQueen, the British director of 12 Years a Slave…
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The French provincial brocade couches in Carmine and Dolly’s Camden, New Jersey house in “American Hustle” tell you what you need to know about the characters’ domestic life. But the “American Hustle” soundtrack goes far to define the movie’s con artists’ ethos; for example you hear The Jefferson Airplane’s classic “White Rabbit,” but it’s not…
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Invisibility is perhaps desirable if you are going to be the mistress of one of the most popular writers of all time. The story of Charles Dickens’ mistress, a young actress, Nelly Ternan 27 years his junior is compelling material, Ralph Fiennes’ second feature as director. Known for performances in The English Patient, Quiz Show,…
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Not all soldiers are heroes, but in Lone Survivor, director Peter Berg’s film based on the book by Marcus Luttrell, heroism is in full display. The movie’s three acts are well defined: first, the rigorous training of a team of Navy Seals, then a covert mission of four men on a mountain to take out…
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Leonardo DiCaprio made a cameo at The Four Seasons on Wednesday at the luncheon celebrating his new movie, Wolf of Wall Street. Brief public appearances are par for the course for this star; we forgave him cutting out before the short ribs. He was en route with director Martin Scorsese to the White House to show this…
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Christmas came early this year. First there was the gift of the documentary “20 Feet from Stardom,” now shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar. Then, there were the celebrations: the most recent on Thursday night at the Edison Hotel’s Rum House featuring cast members, Judith Hill and Lisa Fischer, accompanied by pianist Robbie Kondor for Christmas carols.…
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Never one to miss a quip, Harvey Weinstein introduced the movie August: Osage County at its Zeigfeld premiere, noting Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts were singled out for Golden Globe acting nominations: “We like to promote new talent.” In truth, the Weston family depicted in this tragicomedy is an ensemble, reflected in a SAG nomination.…
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After a screening of his American Hustle, at a party at the Monkey Bar sponsored by OPI, director David O. Russell held court. Having paved the road toward Best Actor/ Actress awards for many cast in his movies over the years, actors must be dying to work with him although he made it clear that…
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Lee Daniels, always a provocateur, addressed the huge crowd at Cipriani Wall Street at this week’s Gotham Awards with a confession: he hates white people. No one gasped. It was not clear whether this proclamation was part of his complaint that no one in the cavernous space was listening to his introduction of honoree Forest…
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After a best actor award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, there’s no stopping Bruce Dern. As Woody in Alexander Payne’s masterpiece “Nebraska,” featured in Toronto, New York, and the Hamptons Film Festivals, he’s a doddering but endearing old fool who takes seriously one of those announcements that he’s a sweepstakes winner, and convinces his…
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Casey Affleck has a youthful intensity: he’s too vulnerable to go to the deadly places he explores as a fighter to prove himself in the testosterone fueled “Out of the Furnace,” in theaters this week. The opening scenes are so brutal, with a screw loose Woody Harrelson going ballistic on his date at the drive…
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Onstage backstage, at the Pearl Theater’s production of “And Away We Go,” six actors celebrate theater history. Set in the detritus of years of costumes, props, deflated dolls, and chandeliers, this new play by the venerable Terrence McNally sits on the most cluttered set north of 14th Street. (Small Engine Repair’s garage at the Lucille Lortel…
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Ethan Hawke is a manly Macbeth in a leather skirt. The men in “the Scottish play” look good in skirts, even John Glover’s “weird sister,” with pendulous breasts. At this stylish “Macbeth” directed by Jack O’Brien, you pause wondering: Alexander McQueen? Gaultier? Marc Jacobs? Catherine Zuber’s costumes, like the regal sets by Scott Pask, lighting…
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Two benefits this week featured a back stage glimpse into how theater is made: on Sunday night, Stanley Tucci, along with Anne Tatlock, was honored at the Plaza Hotel, at the New York Stage and Film Winter Gala for his contribution to theater. Fitting, the presentation included performances: Li-Manuel Miranda and Anika Noni Rose sang from Miranda’s…
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