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“I’m a sports nut,” explained Hugh Jackman, joyful that his son decided to join the school soccer team. The actor and song man was making his way around The Monkey Bar at a luncheon celebrating his new movie Prisoners on Thursday. He might just as well have been talking about the thriller’s opening scene, when he,…
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Kevin Spacey still talks about the excitement of meeting Jack Lemmon when he was 13, and hearing him say, “You were a touch of terrific.” Now introducing 134 young musicians from 50 countries, at Lincoln Center this week, he recounted that story as a way of explaining the importance of encouraging young talent. The World…
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Is Alec Baldwin a good sport? At a pre-screening cocktail party at Mary Jane and Charles Brock’s East Hampton residence, a property complete with croquet and golf courses, Alec Baldwin M.C.’d a competition, kids against adults putting on the green to benefit the Hamptons International Film Festival. Of course one of the kids was Sky…
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An intimacy with the protagonist of the movie, The Patience Stone, is immediate. We see the young mother, performed by Golshifteh Farahani, at home, revealed in casual dress. In the street, she must cover up so completely, even her eyes are shielded by the cloth grate of her burqa. More remarkable: the intimacy goes further.…
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On a field of lights, on a stage bare except for a podium, a big chair, and a neon rectangle that could have been a James Turrell design, Laurie Anderson performed violin, made vocal sound, and mused on many topics at Guild Hall Saturday night. What if we renamed the planet Dirt, she challenged: “Then we could…
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The most stunning film of the year, Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster displays a fight genre as ballet, limning a history of Ip Man, Bruce Lee’s martial arts teacher. Introducing the movie at its U.S. premiere last week, with Samuel L. Jackson, Susan Sarandon, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson in attendance, director Wong said, “People…
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A revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is always welcome, with its lively music, antic humor, acrobatic sight gags, and Feydeau-like farce. Minus the slamming doors, it’s a carnival with a plot at Bay Street Theater. This colorful production in Sag Harbor, the third of Bay Street’s summer offerings,…
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“This is our best show ever,” exulted Guild Hall Executive Director Ruth Appelhof, repeating what she says every August, as she greets guests for the late summer exhibition. She may be right this time. Chuck Close’s signature portraits writ large occupy the elegant space like old friends, one gallery devoted to recent work, the other…
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In the new movie about Apple Computers founder Steve Jobs with Ashton Kutcher in the lead, Jobs drops acid, eh, windowpane, with a woman he has just bed, and takes another tab for his girlfriend. You could call that ‘70’s “rude.” Cut to a blanket spread outdoors, where, between his best friend and girlfriend, he…
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Famous for casting many of the Woody Allen films, including the most recent Blue Jasmine, Juliet Taylor made her way around the rooftop at the Gramercy Park Hotel, among actors Dana Delany, John Ventimiglia, Sakina Jaffrey, after a screening of a film she did not cast. Finally recognized for their important contribution to films, casting…
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Even Lady Gaga in her most monster-friendly would merely blend in at the Watermill Center’s annual summer benefit, themed Devil’s Heaven. A woman in a red cocktail dress with matching angel wings was a random guest. Artist Evangelia Rantou performed a solo with chairs from Medea, collapsing her stilt-like props mid-pool. A tethered artist struggled…
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Blythe Danner in an evening gown? Yes, of course. How about a clown suit? She does that too, and she sings and dances in the medley of one act plays, Tonight at 8:30, penned by Noel Coward and directed by Tony Walton now showing at Guild Hall. The third play, “Red Peppers,” features Danner in a…
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Mason, as played by The Newsroom’s John Gallagher, Jr. does not scream sexy when we first see him in the new film Short Term 12. Recounting an incident involving a runaway from the facility for difficult teens where he works, he describes a moment of taco tummy, when his body fluids give out all over…
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Kevin Pearce is lucky to be alive. When you see this expert snowboarder taking the near fatal plunge in Lucy Walker’s riveting documentary, The Crash Reel, to air on July 15 on HBO, you know the outcome won’t be good. His rival for competitions and the Olympics, Shaun White, was the subject of a 2008…
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At the VIP (polo) lounge set up at Nova’s Ark, a Bridgehampton sculpture field, two giants went head to head: Edward Albee and Faith Ringgold. A former assistant to Larry Rivers was on the panel too, but David Joel, executive director of the Larry Rivers Foundation, did not get quite as many questions from a…
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Introducing Bay Street Theater’s current production on Saturday night, of Charles Ludlam’s 1983 breakout masterpiece The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful, the actor Richard Kind had to kill time. Opening on the same night as Sag Harbor’s fireworks, Vep was set for 7, but the audience, delayed by more than usual heavy Hamptons traffic, was…
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“It’s a film about justice and injustice,” said Harvey Weinstein, introducing Fruitvale Station, a debut film by Ryan Coogler who wrote and directed, based on a true story in San Francisco. That story is unfortunately echoed in a trial we are all watching on television, seeking resolution for the death of Trayvon Martin. In the…
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What would the July 4 holiday weekend be without fireworks? Somehow the ones emerging from the faucets of ordinary citizens who happen to live where fracking chemicals have infiltrated the water system are not what the patriotic have in mind. The onscreen vision of pipes aflame, along with director Josh Fox’s banjo playing, were part…
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