Wonderful Winger

Rachel Getting Married
Running time 113 minutes
Written by Jenny Lumet
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Starring Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Bill Irwin

Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married, from a screenplay by Jenny Lumet, is said to have been inspired by Robert Altman’s satirically free-wheeling A Wedding (1978), and probably by Read More

Wedding Crasher: Anne Hathaway Smokes, Snipes and Charms!

Rachel Getting Married
Running Time 114 minutes
Written By Jenny Lumet
Directed By Jonathan Demme
Starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Mather Zickel, Debra Winger

After dazzling tough film festival audiences in Venice and Toronto, Jonathan Demme’s pulsating new film Rachel Getting Married has arrived on Read More

Ruda Awakening

Morgan Freeman and his wife, Myrna Colley-Lee, were the first to arrive. They stepped out of a town car in front of the French restaurant Tocqueville on East 15th Street and made their way to the empty bar area. Neither knew what to expect; the hostess, Ruda Dauphin, had called it a “salon.” They were Read More

An Ode to Writing, the Only Thing Harder Than Marriage

Arliss Howard’s Big Bad Love , from a screenplay by James Howard and Arliss Howard, based on stories by Larry Brown, gives me the opportunity to pay my belated respects to Debra Winger on the occasion of her return to the screen at the reported urging of her actor-director husband, Mr. Howard, after being voluntarily Read More