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 Looking up in New York
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Looking up in the Guggenheim Museum for The Cinema Society's screening of “The International.” |
| “God of Carnage” by Yasmina Reza, opened Monday night at the Bernard Jacobs Theater, starring Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Marcia Gay Harden and James Gandolfini. Ben Brantley apparently liked it. We saw it in London last June with Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Ken Stott and Tamsin Greig. Two contemporary couples meet to discuss a problem between their two sons. |
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Tommy Tune and Rachel York |
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Lauren Ward and Matthew Warchus |
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Deborra-Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman |
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| The night we saw it in London, the audience was at first a little tense because of the hostile vibes developing between the two couples. Soon, however, the hostility drifted into the waters of absurdity and there were moments when the show was a laff-riot. In the beginning I was one of the few in the theater who seemed to think it was funny, and found myself guffawing into a sea of silence. I couldn’t help it. Eventually the entire audience couldn’t help it. It is a wonderful metaphor for the later boomers. |
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Linda Emond |
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John Lithgow |
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Maggie Grace |
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Tianna |
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Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola |
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Martha Stewart |
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Kathleen Marshall |
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Nancy Sheppard and Joey Pantoliano |
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Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini, and Marcia Gay Harden |
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Fran Drescher |
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Colin Hanks |
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Bill Sadler |
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Alan Alda |
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Cody Green |
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Kenneth Cole and Maria Cuomo Cole |
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Christine Lindsay-Abaire and David Lindsay-Abaire |
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David Hyde Pierce |
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Elaine Stritch |
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Eric Mabius and Ivy Sherman |
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Edie Falco |
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America Ferrara and Amber Tamblyn |
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Christopher Hampton |
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Bobby Cannavale and Sarah Paulson |
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Harvey Weinstein |
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Geoffrey Rush |
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Jeremy Irons |
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Judy Craymer |
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The Cinema Society held a celebrity packed screening of The International. Angel by Thierry Mugler co-hosted. The film’s two stars Clive Owen and Naomi Watts were both there, as was director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). Afterwards there was a fabulous party for all those fabulous kids at the Guggenheim Museum (the location, it so happened, of one of the picture’s more memorable shoot-em-up chases).
Cinema Society founder Andrew Saffir welcomed glitterati et al, as well as Owen and Watts and other members of the cast, as well as a celebrating cast of hundreds including Brian F. O’Byrne, Jack McGee, and Felix Solis, along with Spike and Tonya Lee, Michael Stipe, Isla Fisher, S. Epatha Merkerson, Chris Diamantopoulos, Ashton Holmes Alana De La Garza, Dick Cavett, Vincent Pastore, Andrew McCarthy, Tyrese Gibson, Terry George, Bryan Lourd, Lee Radziwill, Salman Rushdie, Katrina Bowden (“30 Rock”), Amanda Setton ("Gossip Girl"), Zach Galligan, Rosanna Scotto, John Varvatos, Amy Sacco, Nicole Miller, Debbie Bancroft, Daniel Benedict, Olivia Chantecaille, Olivia Palermo, Adam Senn Alex Lundqvist, Irina Pantaeva, Cornelia Guest, Sandy Gallin, Elaine Wynn, Amy Pascal, Robert Wiesenthal, Candy Pratts Price, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Eugenia Silva, Poppy Delevingne, Lorenzo Martone, Valesca Guerrand-Hermes, Princess Alexandra of Greece, Thierry Mugler President Joel Palix, Clarins Group/Thierry Mugler’s Danyelle Boilard-Paul, Pierre Salamon, Lionel Uzan, Tanya Pushkine and Erin Cohen, Eric Warren Singer (writer), and producers Charles Roven, Richard Suckle Lloyd Phillips, Alan Glazer, and Henning Molfenter. |
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Clive Owen |
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Naomi Watts and Joel Palix |
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Andrew McCarthy |
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Valesca Guerrand-Hermes |
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Cornelia Guest |
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Debbie Bancroft and Nicole Miller |
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Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos |
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Chris Diamantopoulos |
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Katrina Bowden and Andrew Saffir |
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Dick Cavett |
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Alex Lundqvist, Tyson Ballou, Noah Mills, and Adam Senn |
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Daniel Benedict and Ashley Lloret |
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Ben Watts, Josephine Solimene, and Steve Torres |
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Derek Blasberg, Andrew Saffir, and Lyle Maltz |
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Michael Stipe |
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Genevieve and Luke Bahrenburg |
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Robert Benton |
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Erin Cohen, Danyelle Boilard, and Tanya Pushkine Rojas |
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Greg Calejo, Amy Sacco, and Ray Chambers |
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Director Tom Tykwer |
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Poppy Delevingne, Lorenzo Martone, and Amanda Setton |
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Irina Pantaeva and Arkady Bulgatov Pantaeva |
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Eugenia Silva |
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Johannes Huebl and Olivia Palermo |
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Lee Radziwill |
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Nicolas Mirzayantz, Princess Alexandra of Greece |
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Rosanna Scotto and Louis Ruggiero |
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Jeffrey Bilhuber and Candy Pratts Price |
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Vincent Pastore and Kat Mesa |
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Lionel Uzan, Danyelle Boilard, and Pierre Salamon |
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Sandy Gallin |
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Joel Palix, Rob Wiesenthal, and Lionel Uzan |
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Bryan Lourd and Lorenzo Martone |
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Olivia Chantecaille |
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Richard Johnson and Sessa von Richthofen |
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Shala Monroque |
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Salman Rushdie and Pia Glenn |
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S. Epatha Merkerson and Alana De La Garza |
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Tyrese Gibson |
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Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee |
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| Patricia Bosworth and Joel Conarroe hosted a party for Brad Gooch and his new biography of "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor." |
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Joel Conarroe, Patricia Bosworth, and Brad Gooch |
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Andre Balazs, Kate Boleyn, and Paul Rauschenberg |
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Brad Gooch, Robert Caro, and Sidney Olffit |
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Barbara Heizer and Michael Scalisi |
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Barbara Goldsmith, Frank Sanchis, and Suzanne O'Malley |
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Brad Gooch, Jeff Seroy, and Doug Stumps |
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Bobby Zarem and Maria Cooper Janis |
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Brad Gooch, Shelly Wanger, and John Richardson |
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Brad Gooch, Chad Hahne, and Matt Rooney |
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Ben Taylor, Joel Conarroe, and Fred Myers |
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George Hodgman, Jennifer Barth, and Wayne Lawson |
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Carl Wittmann |
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Jennifer Barth, Ira Silverberg, and Joy Harris |
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Michael Anderson, Kate Stimpson, and Michael Roberts |
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Janet Coleman |
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Fred Myers |
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Adrienne Adams |
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David Mortimer, Andre Balazs, and Frederick Eberstadt |
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Linda Healey and Neil Baldwin |
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Doug Clifford and Edla Cusick |
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Robert Caro, Hannah Pakula, and Sidney Offit |
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Linda Yablonski, James Reginato, Brad Gooch, and Judy Hudson |
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Michael Scalisi and Elizabeth Delude-Dix |
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Ruda Dauphin and Bobby Zarim |
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Steven Yee, Bob Morris, Ira Silverberg, Kevin Sessums, and Brad Gooch |
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Paul Dierkes and Brian Kim |
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Star Black and Alan Slatas |
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| Photographs by Jori Klein (NYPL); PatrickMcMullan.com. |
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