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  • Turning Japanese: Tennessee Williams and Robert Wilson

    What are the chances that on a given day you can see performances by American theater masters influenced by the Japanese arts? On Sunday afternoon, a little known, experimental work by Tennessee Williams, “The Day a Man Died,” was performed at East Hampton's Ross School. Forget the romantic reveries of “Glass Menagerie,” “Cat on a…

  • Alec Baldwin hosts It Might Get Loud

    On Friday night, East Hampton's Guild Hall was packed for the Hamptons International Film Festival SummerDoc's screening of a new documentary opening next week. “It Might Get Loud” limns the history of rock & roll from the perspective of three generations of electric guitar players, interweaving interviews and performances, archival and live, featuring Led Zeppelin's…

  • Nora Ephron Does it Again: Julie & Julia

    Sir Howard Stringer introduced Nora Ephron at the Julie & Julia premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater on Thursday night, calling the writer/ producer/ director who is also a dynamite cook as readers of her best seller “Heartburn” know, “a woman for all seasonings.” Little wonder that she would concoct a most delicious movie combining the…

  • Do You Like My Hat? Polo in Bridgehampton/ Samuel Waxman Foundation for Cancer Research

    The six Saturdays of the polo matches in Bridgehampton are more than just sports. Viewers sip champagne or Stoli cocktails, munching on popped potato chips and mini-Crumbs cupcakes, and mill around looking for A-listers. Yesterday, some actually attended to the players: Black Watch vs. Great Oaks, while I chatted with John Gruen of Optyx, one…

  • The Cove’s Killing Field

    If you are old enough to remember the tv show Flipper, featuring a dolphin jumping high out of the water and sporting a shit-eating grin, you will be amazed at the documentary, The Cove, which tells the story of how the show's host, Richard O'Barry after years of buying new Porsches on his earnings, turned…

  • Pushcart Performances at Guild Hall

    “There's food, water, and stories,” said Cedering Fox, producer of Los Angeles based Word Theater on Saturday night at Guild Hall in East Hampton at a program featuring a dozen actors reading short stories. “I believe that storytelling is a primary need.” The daughter of the late poet/artist Civ Cedering whose Sagaponack home was the…

  • Marilyn Maye at the Metropolitan Room/ Dan Zanes at the Museum of Natural History

    To call Marilyn Maye a saloon singer is like calling a Rolls Royce a car. This chanteuse, elegant at 81, likes her martinis straight up, and favors Johnny Mercer tunes made famous by Frank Sinatra like “Summer Wind,” and especially “Drinking Again,” and “One for my Baby and One More for the Road,” songs that speak…

  • NYWIFT Honors Designing Women

    NYWIFT's annual Designing Women event to honoring behind the scenes artists in makeup, hair, and costumes for film and television is traditionally warm, informative, with a lot of laughs. This year, John Turturro, proclaiming himself a woman in film trapped in a man's body, presented an award to his Yale Drama School classmate, Donna Zakowski,…

  • Woody and Larry: Whatever Works

    The creative collaboration of those two whiny masters of comedy, Woody Allen and Larry David, seems like a no-brainer.  So it was a surprise to learn at the press conference for Allen’s new film “Whatever Works,” in which David stars as the Woody surrogate, that he had originally written this comedy with the late Zero Mostel…

  • Eric Schlosser’s Naked Lunch: Food, Inc.

    You are what you eat, is the simple way to say it. The writer William S. Burroughs called his iconic examination of literally what is at the end of your fork “the naked lunch.” As a student of anthropology, Burroughs was referring to addiction as an aspect of science, as in the human organism's need…

  • Youssou Ndour’s Grandmother

    Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour, a Sufi Muslim with a soulful sound has a secret weapon beyond the spirit of Allah: his grandmother who died shortly after being filmed in the documentary “I Bring What I Love,” opening this Friday. Introduced at the Paris Theater last week, at a special screening hosted by Mike Nichols, Ndour said he…

  • Nurse Jackie on Showtime/ Smile Pinki on HBO

    If you ever find yourself in a hospital emergency room, will you want Nurse Jackie tending to your wounds? Showtime's new series starring the intelligent, non-Carmela Soprano coiffed  Edie Falco gives you enough behind the scenes black humor in the form of snappy dialogue and sight gags to make anyone think twice about being in…

  • The Hunger at the Waverly Inn

    Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter with his ski slope sculpted white hair and Ecco Press's Daviel Halperrn in a halo of white frizz hosted a party for chef John De Lucie's “The Hunger,” at The Waverly Inn on Monday night. This book records his rise from low management head hunter, to cooking school, working through the…

  • PEN World Voices/ Daphne’s Depression

    What an international mecca New York was last week, with Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda arriving for the premiere of “Still Walking,” for example, or the Irish playwright Conor McPherson in town-(his play “the Seafarer was all the rage on Broadway last season)– showing “The Eclipse,” both films part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Dovetailing with…

  • Tony Nominations

    The Millienium Hotel in the theater district was in a state of controlled pandemonium a day after Tony nominations were announced: Jane Fonda, Liza Minnelli, Geoffrey Rush, Allison Janney were escorted about by publicists for photographers and press. By all accounts, this has been a stunning season on Broadway, with more shows than in previous…