Barry Levinson’s What Just Happened? is not a particularly good or funny or incisive inside-Hollywood movie, but no one who was leaving the film’s premiere on Wednesday evening at the Museum of Modern Art seemed to mind. Afterward, on the second and third floors of the nearby 21 Club, Sean Penn–who before the film started Read More
Last night the much-discussed Hollywood contingent here in Denver, who have been lending their “visibility” to myriad
events and causes all over town, congregated in the V.I.P. section of the Black Eyed Peas concert. Members of the Creative Coalition’s
hard-working band of entertainers—Alan Cumming, Tim Daly, Anne Hathaway, Spike Lee, Barry Levinson, Read More
DENVER—After hosting a lunch in support of helping diabetes patients at the restaurant Panzano, the Creative Coalition gathered its merry band of New York-based celebrities into a back section of the restaurant to get on with the showbiz-oriented non-profit’s lesser known agenda this year: a documentary, called Poliwood, featuring their historic voyage to the Democratic Read More
LOS ANGELES-February marks the end of the rainy season in
Los Angeles. The air is cool. The nights are chilly. A strange,
spirit-dampening meteorological phenomenon occurs out here that we on the East
Coast might call “weather”: There are entire days when the sky is filled with
rain clouds, when the glorious California sun doesn’t Read More
My mother has been known to make Thanksgiving dinner on any night but Thanksgiving. She expertly microwaves the local kosher butcher’s turkey, stuffing, spinach soufflé and noodle kugel in, oh, May or March. But never on Thanksgiving. No, on Thanksgiving, for as many years as I can remember, my family goes to a movie and Read More
Levinson Does 1954; Depp Dresses 1799
Barry Levinson is back in Baltimore, and Liberty Heights is the latest in what I call his Baltimore Quartet-four movies about the writer-director’s hometown in the 1950′s that include Diner , Tin Men and Avalon . There was apparently something darker and campier going on than the Read More
