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  • Barack Obama in SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden

    A force of nature himself, Harvey Weinstein did not let impending Hurricane Sandy deter his plan for a screening of Seal Team Six in Washington, said director John Stockwell at a post-storm screening hosted by Peggy Siegal in New York this week. “Harvey likes to stir things up,” he said. Wanting to insure that key…

  • Roman Polanski: Wanted, Desired, and in his Own Words

    Known as much for his personal life as for his film career, director Roman Polanski’s last scandal, for having illegal sex with a 13 year old and his flight from justice, still polarizes the public. “I don’t care,” said one viewer after a private screening of a new documentary, Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, a conversation…

  • Bowling for Our Time and West Side Story on Broadway

    Among the many theater talents donning their bowling shoes at Lucky Strike on Monday night in support of Our Time—Paul Rudd, Steve Kazee, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Eve Plumb, Noah Emmerich, Mariska Hargitay, to name a few, one stood out: Julianna Padilla. A young woman who bravely introduced herself in a determined effort, illustrating a mastery of…

  • Dr. Ruth on Sex in The Sessions

    Excuse the pun: When Peggy Siegal introduced The Sessions as the feel good movie of the year at a special screening Thursday night, she was not kidding. Based on the true story of Mark O’Brien, a poet who spent much of his time in an iron lung, a result of childhood polio, The Sessions tells…

  • Chasing Ice: Weather Woes: Meltdown in the Forecast

    A documentary exploring one photographer’s obsession with man in nature, Chasing Ice must be one of the most beautiful films of the year. But the raw splendor of ice, in the far reaches of Iceland and Greenland to name a few locations, belies a grim truth: global warming is real. As photographer James Balog pointed…

  • The Girl on HBO: Do Blondes Have More Fun?

    British actress Sienna Miller plays Tippi Hedren to Toby Jones’ Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO movie The Girl. Observing the movie’s star at this year’s Hamptons International Film Festival receive honors at “Variety’s 10 to Watch: Breakthrough Performers of 2012,” a brunch held at Nick & Toni’s, you think, oh yes, blondes have it all.…

  • Two Films from Israel at the New York Film Festival: Fill the Void and The Gatekeepers

    Is it too soon to talk about Foreign Film Oscars? Fill the Void, Rama Burshtein’s glimpse into Tel Aviv’s Hasidic world, Israel’s entry for Academy Award consideration, should make the top five. Among the many pleasures of the New York Film Festival in its 50th year, this stunning drama takes the viewer into the marriage practices…

  • Ann Roth: Reluctant Honoree at the Hamptons International Film Festival

    How do you pay tribute to a star in the film industry, playfully dubbed “The Meryl Streep of Costume Design?” That was the dilemma Nathan Lane faced in front of a crowd at the Hamptons International Film Festival that included Scott Rudin, Bruce Weber, and eh, Meryl Streep. “You have to say something nice,” said…

  • Grace on Broadway: Let Us Now Pray

    The play Grace, written by Craig Wright and directed by Dexter Bullard, takes stylistic liberties, showing the end at the beginning, and playing scenes in reverse, almost cinematically, so that the actor Paul Rudd walks backwards trying desperately to return to pre-cataclysmic grace. But as you can guess, some things you simply can’t take back, particularly…

  • Not 83 Anymore: Vampire Daughter in Hotel Transylvania

    You know the 3D animated feature Hotel Transylvania is for kids because it starts with diaper changing, fart, and piss jokes aplenty. Fortunately, it moves on to be a father-daughter tale about tolerance. Mavis is turning 118 and her doting dad Count Dracula wants to throw her the party of the year. The venue is…

  • Revisiting Death Row: The Exonerated and The American Theater Wing Honors the Redgraves

    To know that the American justice system is flawed, just say OJ. That name is invoked in the theater piece The Exonerated, now revived for its 10th anniversary at the Culture Project with its script by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, woven from court transcripts, interviews and testimonies of those jailed and sentenced to die for…

  • Penny Marshall’s My Mother Was Nuts at The Monkey Bar

    If Penny Marshall’s honking nasalese leaps off the pages of her memoir, My Mother was Nuts, it’s not because she wrote the book. Rather, this is the work of a ghost writer, the best in the business, Todd Gold, said Marshall’s literary agent Daniel Strone of this well known secret. If he is writing Ann-Margret,…

  • The Master: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Naturalist Fable and Francine

    You cannot take your eyes off The Master, neither Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film nor Philip Seymour Hoffman in the role of Lancaster Dodd. Whether the fascination is a result of the film’s having been shot in rich 65 mm film stock, a visual treat evocative of the way films used to look, or because…

  • Hamptons Journal: The History of Art and The Big Apple Circus

    Audrey Flack and the History of Art String Band offers a crash course in such giant art figures as Caravaggio, Camille Claudel, Lee Krasner, Van Gogh, Picasso, Mary Cassat, and Jackson Pollock. “Oh, oh, action Jackson,” sings Flack, an early photorealist painter, sculptor of goddesses, and resident of East Hampton, strumming her banjo and accompanied…

  • Ethel: A Daughter’s Tale, Summerdocs Finale

    In Ethel, a new HBO documentary that premiered at Sundance and was screened in East Hampton as the finale of the Hamptons International Film Festival Summerdocs series at Guild Hall, the fascination with all things Kennedy shifts to the legacy of Robert, murdered in 1968 while campaigning for president of the United States. The filmmaker…

  • Hamptons Journal: Theater Out East

    Rounding his shoulders and shuffling his steps, Alec Baldwin does a sheepish, lowkey Justin Bieber. Strutting tall and leggy, Christie Brinkley does a bravura Miley Cyrus, explaining how the teen’s name morphed from Destiny to Smiley, to, well, you know, and how lucky she was when free tampons poured forth from a vending machine just…

  • Hampton Journal: Author’s Night Reads and Marcus Samuelsson’s Yes, Chef

     “Non-fiction for sale here,” hawked comedian Robert Klein, seated in a row of writers under the Author’s Night tent at Gardiner’s Farm this past Saturday. Readers crowded about, one wanting to know whether the location in his memoir’s title, The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue, was in Brooklyn or the Bronx. The Bronx, said Klein,…

  • Looking Good: Richard Gere in Arbitrage

    Richard Gere in Arbitrage does for Brioni what he did for Armani in American Gigolo. He looks good in a suit. On Sunday night for the new movie’s East Hampton premiere, he wore a blue denim shirt, his signature look out east. The film, written and directed by Nicholas Jarecki, is suit specific, Brioni donated,…

  • Can She Sing? Big Maybelle: Soul of the Blues at Bay Street and Into the Woods at the Delacorte

    A fine new musical had its world premiere at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater last night, Big Maybelle: Soul of the Blues at Bay Street, based on Maybelle Smith, a blues singer from the early 20th century, who once opened for Billie Holliday and toured America in the perilous segregation era, plagued by diabetes, an unhealthy girth,…

  • The Gang’s All Here: Eric Fishl at Guild Hall and other East End Galas

      “Beach Life,” the new exhibition at Guild Hall features Eric Fishl’s large-scale oils, including “The Gang” from 2006. The 84 x 108” canvas has the artist’s swimsuit clad wife April Gornik walking toward the viewer, and many of his painter posse and others—including Donald Sultan, Ross Bleckner, and Ralph Gibson-– looking on. On Friday…

  • The Museum as Funhouse: Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney/ “Ghosts in the Machine” at the New Museum, “Century of the Child” at MoMA

    The wow kicks in early at these exceptional shows at museums uptown and down. First at the Whitney: Polka dots, the signature pattern for the artist Yayoi Kusama now in her ‘80’s, are appropriated for fashion. Louis Vuitton is doing for her designs what the luxury line does collaborating with Takashi Murakami. The museum features…

  • Hamptons Journal: The Big Bang at The Watermill Center, Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo, Babette’s Feast, Garden as Art

    The Big Bang may have been the theme of this year’s Watermill Center extravaganza of a summer gala, with its outsized red phalluses, neon ninjas, and popping balloons, but many East End events make big noise. At the Watermill Center on Saturday night, even a heavy downpour did not deter a dancer clad in wedding…

  • Documentaries of Summer: Ai Weiwei Never Sorry, Detropia, About Face

    Is it too soon to think about Oscar contenders for non-fiction films? Several summer/ early fall releases are especially noteworthy. Not only is Ai Weiwei Never Sorry the story of a major visual artist in China who has felt the wrath of his government for speaking out, but a film that utilizes the social media,…

  • St. Barth’s in the Hamptons: What Recession?

    In case the Hamptons edenic sun and sand are not enough, you can always shop. That was the message at a deluxe event sponsored by Social Life Magazine and Rand Luxury at East Hamptons Studios last weekend. Bringing St. Barth’s to the Hamptons is not much of a stretch, as some of the promo materials…

  • The Campaign: Politics as Usual

    The Campaign plays the current election season for laughs. Candidates for Congress, Will Ferrell as Cam Brady and Zach Galifianakis as Marty Huggins vie for votes in a how-low-can-you-go campaign. Forget issues; by the time facial hairs on one provide mud slinging evidence of ties to Taliban for the other, you know the real butt…