That could be you there in the background, under Charlotte's swinging arm!
We all know that everyone comes to New York to be a star. The great thing is, you can still share screen time with the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker and company even if your star is just a tiny little twinkle right now. That’s right! Break out you Carrie-best because Grant Wilfley Casting is holding an open call for background performers for SEX AND THE CITY 2. And that lucky gal walking right next to the fearsome foursome and holding a Fendi could be YOU!
They’re looking for people (SAG or NON SAG) to play: Fashion Models, Celebrity types, Upscale socialites, Urban Club goers, Gays and Lesbians, International types (Middle Eastern, Arabic, Asian, European, British), or Professional Soccer Players. For some of you luscious lovelies, you won’t even have to act! So get something fabulous together, practice your fiercest walk, and go have the experience of a life time.
There are a few questions about film that leave me stumped. Whenever I mention that I work in the industry the immediate response is one of intrigue and an eagerness to delve into conversation about what movie they recently saw or absolutely hated. But the most present question is one that every film geek gets bombarded with and consequently judged by: What is your favorite film? I would bet my life that the most common response is something along the lines of denying the plausibility to even be able to limit oneself to a handful of films let alone just one. Recently, this question has been following in my shadow. I cannot seem to shake it. And, I too lay claim to that card-toting group of people who snootily remark that such a title is impossible to label onto any film.
That being said, of course I have a set list that I quickly refer to because people want an answer. They want to discuss these films and they want to see what kind of a person you are based on your film choices. I can deal with it. I have had my top 5 list, with the ever-changing subsequent 5 to round out my top 10, for a solid 7 plus years now. As such, I realized that I have not offered even one film from my “top ten” yet. A situation that needed to be remedied. Read more »
Events of the last 100 years have been distilled in stories by people in the community and connected through interweaving matrices of local ecology, the internet, social commentary and interactive mobile technology. It winds through the first divided lane highway system in the US and highlights green technology past and present.
Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what’s on the other side? Could it possibly be thirty years since this sweet little song, sung by a green amphibian burst on to the scene and biked away with our hearts?
I don’t know about you, but growing up in the 70s meant spending many a night hunkered down in front of the TV and watching the Muppets telling silly jokes, bantering with the big stars of the day, and singing some of the best songs around, all while Statler and Waldorf pooh-poohed their efforts with zinging one-liners. It was heaven.
Even better was when the Muppets came to the big screen with The Muppet Movie. And now, they’re coming back again. If you’re too young to remember it the first time, get your butt over to BAM and enjoy all the innocent fun of the Muppets at their best. Or, if you’re a doddering old fogey like me, regain some of your youth again. As part of the BAMcinématek series The Muppet Movie 30th Anniversary will be playing Tuesday, July 28 at 9:15. But wait! There’s more! At 6:15 you can get to BAM for Muppets History 201. You know you want to.
Lewis Carroll did it with Alice in Wonderland … L. Frank Baum did it with The Wizard of Oz: gave us stories of fantastical worlds where innocent girls stumble backwards into their watershed moment and grow up from the inside out. Now, playwright Kate Marks brings us another place of fantasy where not one but two girls on opposite sides of the same world struggle with the same journey. This is Bird House. (Directed by Heidi Handelsman and currently playing at Theater 3.)
Just as Wonderland begins with young Alice bored on a lovely day sitting near her sister, her life nothing so confounding as the frustration of trying to read a book without pictures, so begins Bird House … innocently. Young (or rather, of indeterminate age… but “childlike”) Louisy (Cotton Wright) is excitedly sitting in wait with the more grown-up (and therefore completely underwhelmed) Syl (Christina Shipp) for the clock to strike 8, for that is when Kook (Anthony Wills Jr.) and Ooo (Ora Fruchter), the two puppet birds who live in the cuckoo clock, will come out and announce the hour. Louisy is beside herself with excitement. She’s baked biscuits. Syl is bemused by Louisy but calmly reading the paper … (a book without pictures). It’s all so idyllic. So charming. So … safe. You can just see a rabbit hole and a tornado on the horizon.
Brief ExplanationFor Absence
Sorry for my hiatus guys, but I’ve been standing on one of these really long unemployment line these past three weeks. Then I was hungry so I went to the Shake Shack line. Then I was waiting on line outside a Rhode Island strip club with a couple high school sophomores I scouted at the local mall. I guarantee there were no 16-year-old strippers before the media decided to turn this into a story, but now there is a totally sleazy club owner actively seeking out 16-year-old girls from troubled homes. This makes me sad. Strip clubs are the worst. Going to a strip club is like buying a submarine sandwich and then looking at it from between 2-4 feet away in a dark, loud room, occasionally putting it on your lap, but never eating it.
"We are gonna get that dog so f*cking high."
Bad Late Night Jokes of the Week (As Created By Me)
Undercover officers in North Carolina arrested another undercover officer from a different force after buying drugs off him. When asked to explain the mix-up the arresting officers shrugged their shoulders and said, “It was really good shit.”
Now that the weather has finally started to cooperate, you can enjoy all that New York fitness has to offer – for free! You’re out of excuses because I’ve found something for you to try every day of the week:
MONDAYS
Group Training Runs
WHAT: Weekly runs sponsored by Nike. Join running enthusiasts of all abilities.
WHEN: 6:30 PM weekly
WHERE: Meet at New York Running Company at The Shops at Columbus Circle
You… undo the locked snack cabinet and steal them quickly before mom sees!
At least you do if you are my 4-year-old JT, who is always quickly found out, since he leaves the evidence all around his mouth — there’s no question about what he’s just done.
It’s important to me that my kids are good eaters. My husband is a chef, so they get provided with a lot of yummy and interesting options. In fact, I was one of those moms who always complained about the plain-pasta-and-butter-kids that were sick all the time from getting no veggies and protein in their diet.
When I came on to the staff of neighborbee in October of 2008 as the theatre columnist I had no idea that just nine months later I’d be this immersed in the Off-Off Broadway community. But here I am, 29 weeks, 32 shows and 25 reviews later … writing not just for this site but for The Fab Marquee as well (go check it out!) … and thrilled to be part of a mechanism every week which (I hope) gets people off the couch, out of their homes and into these charming, cozy, sometimes unpredictably configured independent theatres. I love knowing I play a part in helping to get audiences out there in order to watch amazingly talented performers break new ground with never-before-seen plays, or bring the classics alive again for a whole new generation of theatre-goers. I’ve been lucky enough to see a bit of both in these last nine months and have enjoyed virtually every single performance I’ve reviewed. And you know, even the clunkers have a charm all their own, and can sometimes stay with me far longer than expected, just like that other indispensable New York linchpin that can be an equal hit-or-miss: the pushcart hot dog. But I digress.
The festival starts tomorrow so be sure to consult their schedule. Join us in checking out Children of Invention, which we missed last month at the BAMcinemaFEST (covered by Kristin here). There are a variety of genres (documentary, shorts, experimental) from the U.S. and abroad to choose from. Short on cash? Volunteering is a sure way to get into one or two.
