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Meow at the Algonquin Last week’s Reception and Cats in Fashion benefit at the Algonquin Hotel for Matilda and friends drew about 150 people and loads of cats in costume. All proceeds from the event went to the Bideawee animal shelter. Cat costumes were the biggest attraction. In addition, pet lifestyle expert and author Nikki Moustaki hosted the event. And let’s not forget the guest of honor, none other than Matilda, the cat, who is the Algonquin Hotel’s current in-house cat. The hotel has had a house cat since the 1930s, and Matilda has been with the hotel since at least 2007.
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TEDx Rocks the Upper East Side Local TEDx conference brought new ideas to the community By Megan Bungeroth Matilda, the cat at the Algonquin Hotel, guest of honor at the Bideawee Reception and Cats in Fashion benefit
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n a world where creative capital rules and the right idea could mint the next multi-millionaire Author Lorna Kelly presents her TEDx talk at the tech entrepreneur, Bohemian National Hall on East 73rd Street. TED Talks, once the bastion the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through of an insular nerdy world, TED-like experiences at the local level.” The have become part of popular culture. TED events take the signature TED conference (which stands for Technology, Entertainment, format – presenting a series of live presenters Design) is a non-profit organization devoted who give short, curated talks on a far-ranging to sharing “ideas worth spreading.” It started number of topics – and replicate that at a in 1984, but the somewhat recent ability for localized level. thousands of people to stream internet video That’s what happened on Sunday, of their biannual conferences has spawned August 4 on the Upper East Side, when the many fans of the TED Talks from all over the neighborhood hosted its first TEDx event world. at the Bohemian Hall. Organized by Sara TED officially sanctioned a new program called TEDx, which is “designed to give communities, organizations and individuals Continued on page 6
Teenager Celebrates with Upper East Side Woman Who Helped Save Her Life Helane Brachfeld-Colvin carries on her husband’s legacy with Project Kids Worldwide By Katya Johns
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ast Thursday, Marisel Rodriguez celebrated her Sweet Sixteen over lunch with family, friends and the woman who saved her life. Although she didn’t look it, the cheerful teenager had just undergone life-
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saving heart surgery the week before. It was the third, and last time, she would have to treat her double outlet right ventricle, thanks to Helane Brachfeld-Colvin’s fund, Project Kids Worldwide (PKW). Working through a Spanish translator (a flagged waiter at the restaurant), Marisel haltingly described how she ended up in Bistango restaurant on Third Avenue between 29th and 30 streets, just blocks away from New York University Langone Medical Center. She had traveled with her mother, Marisol, and her grandmother, Augusta,
from the Dominican Republic on a subsidy that Brachfeld-Colvin provided. Twelve years ago, Brachfeld-Colvin’s husband Dr. Stephen Colvin, former chairman of the cardio-thoracic surgery department at NYU, decided that pioneering a minimally invasive alternative to open heart surgery was not enough if he couldn’t use it on those who needed it the most. So, in between his shifts at the hospital, he launched a nonprofit organization to give Continued on page 16
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Rombas Rumble A thief stole a man’s phone as he was getting into his car. At 3:45 AM on Thursday, Aug. 8, a 21-year-old man from Rombas, France was getting into his vehicle at the northwest corner of Madison and East 93rd Street, when he was approached by an unknown 30-yearold man who asked to use his phone. The driver refused, and the other man grabbed his phone. A struggle ensued until the thief managed to get hold of the phone, then fled the scene. The thief was apprehended, arrested, and charged with robbery.
A 25-year-old woman was mugged by a 30-year-old woman as she was entering her building. At 3:45 AM on Friday, Aug. 2, the younger woman was returning home and opened the outer door to her apartment building on East 90th Street, when the older woman tapped her on the shoulder. The younger woman turned around, and the other woman punched her in the face with a closed fist. The victim sustained pain and swelling to her nose. The thief then took the victim’s property and fled eastbound on 90th Street. Police searched the area but were unable to locate the female felon. The victim was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital by EMS, but received some good news when police managed to recover her stolen property at 6:30 AM. Items stolen and recovered included credit and debit cards, the young woman’s New York State learner’s permit and student ID, plus $50 in cash.
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Shoe Despair Thieves broke into and robbed a shoe repair store on Second Avenue. At 8:30 PM on Sunday, Aug. 4, a 68-year-old male employee locked the store’s door and metal security gate. When he returned to open the shop the following morning at 7:30 AM, he noticed that the security gate was broken, it had been forced open, and property inside the store was missing. Security cameras were on duty in front of the store, but not inside. Police searched the neighborhood but did not find the thief. Items stolen were a cash register valued at $100, a credit card reader worth $80, and $70 in cash.
A dry cleaning and laundry store on East 74th Street was also broken into and robbed. At 6:40 AM on Tuesday, Aug. 6, a 65-year-old male employee returned to the shop to open business for the day, when he saw that the front gate had been jimmied, and he noticed broken glass on the ground. He entered the store and found that $700 had been removed from the unlocked cash register. Preliminary investigation revealed that the front gate had been jimmied from the bottom and a side glass window panel had been smashed, allowing access to the door lock inside. A large rock was found in the store, and a metal pipe was found outside. Surveillance video of the store’s exterior was available.
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19th Precinct News: Police warn neighborhood small shop owners that they have been seeing a pattern of robbery in which burglars have jimmyed gates and broken windows before robbing stores. Shopkeepers are urged to follow these precautions: 1) Do not leave cash in the register when you close shop at night. 2)
Make sure to lock the store’s front door. 3) Lock the security gate on both left and right sides.
Street Closure: A reminder that Park Avenue will be closed to motorists from 7 AM to 1 PM on Saturday, Aug. 10 and 17 for the Summer Streets event.
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East River Views A four-bedroom coop with three fireplaces and East River views is on the market for $14.975 million at 10 Gracie Square in Yorkville. Featured on the cover of Elle Decor, Unit 3A features floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, dining room and library. Adjacent to the dining room is a breakfast room that leads into the chef ’s kitchen with furniture quality cabinetry, custom terrazzo floors and a large walk-in pantry. In addition, the main floor includes an elegant powder room, laundry room and storage room. Up a short flight of stairs is the master suite
Union Backs Kallos DC 1707 AFSCME, one of the largest social service workers unions, has backed Ben Kallos in the City Council District 5 Race, saying that “Ben Kallos knows that every child needs early education to lay the groundwork for a life of equal opportunity.” Kallos has said that if elected, he would work to create more Pre-K seats on the Upper East Side, where parents have had to scramble in recent years. “The confidence of this
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that includes a large, corner bedroom with gas fireplace, dressing room with abundant closets, spa bathroom with wet room clad in silvered glass walls, slab marble floors and counters and a private office. There are two additional bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and a media room or fourth bedroom with bathroom. The hall is lined with additional storage cabinets and closets. The building is a white-glove, full-service cooperative building. Amenities include a squash court, storage room and a private driveway entrance. Other features include gorgeous hardwood floors and doors leading to the granite terrace that runs along all the public rooms.
city’s daycare workers in our fight to expand education is invaluable to my campaign,” said Kallos in a statement. This is just one of a wave of endorsements Kallos has received in the past few weeks following the high-profile accusations of sexual harassment against his competitor, Assembly Member Micah Kellner, who allegedly harassed a female staffer four years ago. Kallos has also received endorsements from NOW-NYC, the women’s rights group, as well as the Tenants’ PAC and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.
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Ronald McDonald House Creates a Safe Haven for Young Cancer Patients Giving Comfort, a non-profit group, distributes care essentials while children are away from home By Joanna Fantozzi
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or young cancer patients, going through treatment is only half of the battle; they also have to continue living their lives -- getting an education, making friends and getting the basic necessities. This week, Giving Comfort, a non-profit organization that distributes toiletry products, toys and items of comfort to cancer patients- is making that a little easier for Ronald McDonald House residents, a non-profit organization that
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temporarily houses children and their families going through cancer treatment and other difficult illnesses. “The diagnosis of cancer is devastating enough, but the thought of having to be displaced and spending time away from your home is very difficult,” said Natalie Greaves, a representative from the Ronald McDonald House. “There are things you do miss when you’re away and these kits are like a home away from home.” As a surprise for the young cancer patients and their families, Giving Comfort came to the Ronald McDonald House this week with care packages containing items like fuzzy socks, blankets, tea, games and puzzles. Each package also comes with a personalized note from the volunteer worker who put the package together, which usually comes in a backpack or tote. The Ronald McDonald House is their first Giving Comfort was formed in the fall of last year after Carrie Varoquiers, the founder of the organization decided that there was a need for assisting people going through cancer treatment with basic needs, and after interviewing 1,000 oncology doctors and nurses, she came up with a list of items for the recipients, which are divided by age and gender. They already have 100 different distribution partners around the country, from outpatient facilities to other Ronald McDonald houses. “We usually do this as a surprise, there’s so many surprises with cancer, so it’s nice to have one that’s pleasant,” said Elizabeth Howland, director of development with Giving Comfort. Howland has a personal connection with the organization, because she lost her husband to cancer two years ago. “It’s a lonely time to go through cancer treatment and I think through these comfort packages, they also feel a real connection.” At any given time, up to 84 families can stay at the New York Ronald McDonald house, located on East 73rd Street, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary. Once there, children not only have housing, but they can also participate in a variety of
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activities from tutoring to classes and social events with other children. For Nargis Khamidov, who came over from Tajikistan with her infant daughter and teenage son, Khamid, who was suffering from a form of leukemia, said that Ronald McDonald was a lifesaver. At the house, she learned how to speak English, and her son practiced karate and participated in teen movie nights. “I had two options: to go to the shelter or go here, and thank God I chose here,” said Khamidov. “My family is so happy.” The Khamidovs are now living in a house in the suburbs, and she also said that Khamid’s cancer is in remission. He is awaiting surgery on his hip after a bout with avascular necrosis (collapse of the bone from cellular death).
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hich neighborhood has the largest number of oldest residents? Not surprisingly, the answer is the Upper East Side where in 2011, according to New York University’s Furman Research Center, almost 19.8 percent, or just under one-fifth of Upper East Siders were over the age of 65. The Upper West Side isn’t too far behind with 16.8 percent of residents at retirement age. In the Financial District, Greenwich Village and Soho, the numbers drop significantly with only 11 percent of the population at 65 or older. And on the Lower East Side, the numbers are higher at 14.4 percent of the population at the golden age. It may sound like the Upper West Side and Upper East Side are neck in neck in terms of an aging population, but in reality, the Upper West Side’s demographic over age 65 has only grown one-tenth of a percent from 2010 to 2011, whereas, in just one year on the Upper East Side, the senior population has shot up 2.2 percent. In fact, the Upper East Side has the most rapidly aging population in the entire city, according to the Furman Center’s study entitled, “Gossip Girls or Golden Girls?” The senior citizen population has spiked 5.6 percent from 2000-2011 on the Upper East Side. Only Coney Island still has a larger percentage of retirees – almost one-quarter of Coney residents are over 65, but the Upper East Side numbers are really catching up.
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Beth Allen, a local branding specialist, the event featured 13 speakers giving talks on education, personal inspiration, overcoming fear and living better lives in myriad ways. Lorna Kelly, an author and former Sotheby’s auctioneer, spoke about risk-taking. “My risk-taking is not of the dramatic variety,” said Kelly. “I was very close with Mother Theresa, and I got into a lot of peoplepleasing elements with her.” Kelly spoke about how she journeyed to India, expecting simply an experience to remember while she went back to her regular Upper East Side life, but that ended up changing her whole outlook and pulling her back to work with the famed missionary. “I went from Madison Avenue to wrapping up the dead and tending to lepers and tweezing maggots out of flesh; it was a far cry from selling Picassos,” Kelly said. She told the TEDx audience about a time when taking a personal risk became of paramount importance. As an alcoholic in recovery, she was confronted with an unusual situation while in India with Mother Theresa. “When I was beside her sick bed, the priest was saying mass, there were only four of us in the room, and the priest was dipping the
host in the a chalice of wine, and I thought to myself, please God not here, I don’t want to make a fuss here,” she said. But she summoned the courage to say something – taking a personal risk – and not worry about pleasing everyone around her, a lesson that resonated with her and that she shared with Upper East Siders last week. “One of the most interesting parts was hearing everyone’s story and not just the other speakers,” said presenter Richard Dedor, who spoke about fear and the control that the emotion has in people’s lives. “Whether it is Bill Gates speaking on malaria or Amanda Palmer speaking about music, the world decides which messages to share and it will be the same here. For me, fear impacts everything in our lives and is something that must be dealt with.” The idea of the TEDx local event is to get the community buzzing, and it seemed to have worked. “The TEDx event connected people in ways that many other events are unable to do so,” said Courtney O’Connell, founder of Idea Blend EDU, who gave a walk on ‘Going All In on Changing Education.’ “The variety ensures that someone in the audience will have at least one message with which to connect, if not more than one.”
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aybe the logo of this column should include the words, “desperately seeking.” Desperately seeking national conversations on nights out against crime, including the traffic kind. Of course, the primary national conversation should be against violent crime, above all. And there’s the desperate need for media to give priority coverage to every murder regardless of age or life position. Also, the Hassidim’s view that the murder of innocents is “cataclysm.” must be universally adopted. And that’s how it was in the robbing and shooting death of 64 year-old Paul Setteducato whose rent collection job had him working at night in Flatbush. But, to my knowledge, only the Daily News gave this cataclysmic crime any coverage, and then only on page 16, with the too casual title,”Gramps Robbed & Slain.” So it’s the coverage, the coverage, the coverage, that’s needed, including follow up on the ongoing suffering of Setteducato’s wife, “too distraught to speak,” and his three bereft adult daughters. And all his grieving brother could say was what a “beautiful man” Paul Setteducato was. But those who so savagely, and let’s not forget, sinfully, inflict such terrible suffering and loss, should get little attention, other than an all-out effort to apprehend them (as they do, say, for abducted children) and bring them to swift and
rightful justice. At this writing, no media word of the apprehension of this beloved family man’s killer or killers. But will it make the news when and if it happens? Ah, that is the question, and the problem when the victim is not a child or wellknown individual. Ironically, this good man’s so wrongful death occurred on the 30th anniversary of the National Night Out Against Crime. I went to the 19th Precinct’s event located in idyllic Carl Schurz Park. But of all the East Side elected officials, only Assemblyman Micah Kellner had a table of anticrime information and crime-fighting whistles. And that took some courage, what with his being under the shadow of some sexual harassment allegations. I spoke at length with his chief aide, Tony Morenzi, about traffic threats still unsolved after all these years. On a personal safety note, Tony wished his mother wasn’t reluctant to use a walker, and was happy to see mine, which is especially needed in a crowded gathering. Indeed, consciousness among the able-bodied needs raising about these ever more commonplace vulnerabilities. I so wished for more crime-fighting and crimeprevention talk from the podium where mostly a five-piece band held forth and rather deterred any type conversation. Maybe unplug the music next year? But above all, media must give priority coverage to every case of, again, the crime the Hassidim so rightfully call, “a cataclysm” And we must never forget Paul Setteducato and his family.
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SATURDAY, AUG. 17 WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14 The library book club at NYPL-58th St. meets this month to discuss The History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason. 5:30 PM. Lego Wednesdays at NYPL-67th Street: Design buildings, space crafts, little villages or whatever your imagination can dream up. Ages 5-12. 3 PM – 4 PM.
THURSDAY, AUG. 15 The Wild Garden, a hands-on exhibition illuminating the history, ecology, and management of the woodlands; 10 AM-5 PM. Dana Discovery Center (inside the Park at 110th Street between Fifth and Lenox avenues); tour guide by appointment for groups of 10 or more; call 212-8601370 for more information; every day until 09/01.
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Last weekend of “Summer Streets,” 6.9 miles of traffic-free fun & food activities from Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park along Park Ave. 7 AM – 1 PM; summerstreets@dot.nyc. gov. The 82nd Street Greenmarket will sell local produce, collect old clothes, recycle household items and compost; East 82nd Street between 1st & York avenues; Grownyc.org. Carl Schurz Park Volunteer Gardener Group meets to work in the park; students or children must be accompanied by adults or parents. 86th Street Mall at East End Avenue. 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Rumsey Playfield, off the 72nd St. & 5th Ave. entrance, 7-9 a.m., free The famous rappers will be performing in a free and live concert during the taping of “Good Morning America.” Viewers interested in joining the GMA show are encouraged to arrive at 6 a.m. when the park opens to the public.
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Avery Fisher Hall, 65th St. & Columbus Ave., 8 p.m., $50-85 Conductor David Afkham leads the Second Symphony, along with violinist Vadim Repin and cellist Truls Mørk to perform Brahms’s stunning Concerto. The performance is one hours and 45 minutes, with intermission.
Lecture: “The Ethics That Truly Satisfies, In Drama, Art and Life”
p.m. M-34.org, $15 Come celebrate opening night of the world premiere of James Rutherford and Elliot B. Quick’s dazzling play, in which literature’s most dazzling wit (Oscar Wilde) faces down its most red-blooded stoic (Ernest Hemingway). For a limited engagement only.
Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, aestheticrealism.org, 8 p.m. For those who like art with a moralistic theme, poet and critic Eli Siegel will be giving a public lecture on Kaufman & Hart’s 1936 comedy “You Can’t Take It With You,” followed by a dramatic reading from the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company.
Jazz Age Lawn Party
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Governors Island, Ferry from Battery Maritime Building btw South & Whitehall Strs. dreamlandorchestra.org, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., free Under a canopy of century-old trees and historic building, dance to Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra’s 8th annual celebration of the Jazz Age. This is the last show of the summer so don’t miss it. Alternate rain date: Sept. 14th & 15th.
The Public Theater, Shakespeareinthepark.org, 8:30 p.m., free Romance, revelry and enchanting songs give Shakespeare’s beloved comedy a charming musical update. Camp out in Central Park to secure your tickets to see Obie Award winner Michael Friedman (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) and two-time Tony Award nominee Alex Timbers (Peter and the Starcatcher) reunite on stage. Runtime: 1 hour and 40 minutes without intermission.
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Pier 46, 353 West Houston St, riverflicks.com, 8:30 p.m., free A childhood classic about a deceased couple who haunt the new owners of their old home until they run into trouble from Beetlejuice. Rated PG. Free popcorn served.
Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway ◄ The Access Theater, 380 Broadway btw Walker & white Streets, 8
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HBO Bryant Park Movie Mondays 40th St. & 6th Ave., bryantpark.org, 8 p.m., free The nation’s premier outdoor film festival presents a classic film that is out of this world. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) directed by Steven Spielberg, tells the story of a young boy who befriends an alien stranded on Earth. 115 Min. Lawn opens at 5 p.m. Movie begins at sunset.
Old Cats The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2. Moma.org. 7 p.m. As part of its Film Screening exhibition, MoMA presents Sebastian Silva and Pedro Peirano’s 2010 joint collaboration, Old Cats, which director Silva himself will introduce. In Spanish with English subtitles. 89 min. Playing every day this week except Wednesday.
adult ticket Stephen Frears’ 1986 film about a young British Pakistani who opens up a laundromat with his white punk lover (a young Daniel Day-Lewis) inspired an entire generation and established the genre of Queer Art. Runtime 97 min.
Short Cuts Film Festival Semi Finals School of Visual Arts Theater, 333 E. 23rd St., nbcshortcuts.com, 7-10 p.m., free By popular demand, the semi-finals for the 8th annual Short Cuts festival - founded by actor/comedian Wil Sylvince and backed by NBCUniversal will be a two-day event this year from August 20-21. Comedians Hannibal Buress and Sherrod Small will lead the festivities which includes a panel discussion at 5 p.m. and a screening at 7 p.m., both nights. Seating is limited so RSVP to diversity@nbcuni.com
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Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow Street,www.cake-shop.com, 7-9 p.m. Every third Wednesday of the month, the Cake Shop holds a reading and music series, co-curated by Melissa Febos and Rebecca Keith, featuring established and emerging poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, and bands. While listening, browse the Cake Shop’s eclectic mix of hard-to-find vinyl offerings.
253 W. 125th St, Apollo Theater, 7:30 p.m., $20-32 Every Wednesday night until November 27, a line-up of contestants show off their talent for singing, dancing, rapping, spoken word and more, to compete for the ultimate prize: the title of Super Top Dog with a $10,000 cash prize. The audience also competes in cheering or jeering the loudest until their favorite performer is the only one left standing. Amateur Night at the Apollo is hosted by the comedian Capone. Each show begins with a festive pre-party featuring video and music by DJ Jess.
Crazy for Lulacruza David Rubenstein Atrium. 66th St. btw Broadway & Columbus Ave. Lincolncenter.org, 7:30 p.m., free Lulacruza is an electronic folk duet made up of Alejandra Ortiz and Luis Maurette, Columbian and Argentinian influences and instruments, as well as ultramodern and tribal sounds. The result is advertised as “a cross-genre, world-esque music with mesmerizing vocals, aquatic textures and handcrafted South American rhythms.”
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Parker Jazz Festival Screening ◄ Charlie The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, 55 W. 13th St. cityparksfoundation.org, 6:30 – 9 p.m., free The Girls in the Band (2011) tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 30’s to the present day. Following the screening, Director Judy Chaikin, drummer Kim Thompson, singer Sheila Jordan, and moderator Dr. Lara Pellegrinelli will join in a discussion about women in jazz.
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Run, Forest, Run Civil Rights history gets trivialized in Lee Daniels’ The Butler By Armond White “The room should feel empty when you’re in it,” says Clarence Williams III, instructing his waiter-trainee on the etiquette of black servitude in Lee Daniels’ The Butler. It’s a funny line for this film since director Lee (Precious) Daniels always makes a big noise when he enters a room--this time releasing a film with his own name in the title same as Fellini’s 8 ½ or Tyler Perry’s Diary of Mad Black Woman no less. How Daniels asserts/inserts himself into his films is crucial to the failings of…oh, let’s just call it The Butler. While Daniels purports to make a biography of Cecil Gaines, a Black Southerner who went from picking cotton in Georgia to serving as butler in the White House for seven Presidential administrations, the film primarily displays Daniels’ opportunism. The Butler’s major malfunction is its inexact parallel to Obama’s own biography; Gaines’s suffering through the post-slavery experience is completely different from Obama’s story. Daniels feeds the marketable concept that Gaines’s very particular sojourn represents the entirety of Black America’s struggle for equality. He distorts Gaines’s private life into a national epic, making him an emblem rather than a character. Everyone in this parade of liberals, from Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave to the various Presidential caricatures, look like waxworks. From the beginning, Forest Whittaker plays the title role as a thin, wizened symbol of oppression and endurance--a Morgan Freeman figure of quiet dignity and rectitude. His wife (Oprah Winfrey) and two sons (David Oyewelo and Isaac White) seem like appendages rather than family. Gaines’s estrangement from his world suggests a reverse Benjamin Button aging through decades, keeping quiet during eras of social turmoil. He—and this film--most resembles Forrest Gump, that symbolic idiot savant witness to social progress he played no part in. The Butler is unconvincingly noble--without even that streak of psychotic behavior in the ridiculous shit pie scenes of The Help. Gaines is always crotchety and proper, leaving dirtyminded resilience to Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding, Jr in scene-stealing supporting roles--they’re surrogates for Daniels the salacious auteur who’s uninterested in what propriety and self-control mean. Instead of a freaky-deaky view of the Civil Rights Movements’ behind-the-scenes hook-ups (even Taylor Branch’s
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Parting the Waves quotes Martin Luther King defending masturbation as a great release), we get an Obama-ized tale of Gaines as a dogged, enigmatic paragon. Rectitude as political caution was better dramatized in the far superior Jackie Robinson story, 42. But this film is so solemn and disingenuous it neglects its opening thesis: Daniels and screenwriter Danny Strong never confess what it feels like to make a room “feel empty” (although Whitaker’s zombie performance gives an inkling). They trade the existential torment of self-abnegation (refuted by decades of Hollywood’s servile-yet-impudent stereotypes) for the cliche of long-suffering martyrdom. (Daniels lacks the talent to show what being close to power feels like.) A more credible film would consistently portray the advice of Gaines’s father “Don’t lose your temper with the Man. Dis his world; we just livin’ in it.” The Butler will feel inauthentic to most Americans who painfully, cagily work menial jobs; it is designed to appease condescending elites—which politicians call “the Middle Class”--who like to sentimentalize about workers who are beneath their regard (symbolized by the everchanging line of Presidents, lightly satirizing the indifference of patronizing whites). The Butler may feature a largely Black cast under a Black director’s baton, but it’s really a movie for whites who seek self-congratulatory lessons rather than entertainment. Daniels’ key trope is the presumptuous montage: Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworth’s contrasting formal White House dinner parties--pseudo-political juxtapositions that would make Eisenstein wince. Daniels uses montage for
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sensationalism--not feeling or politics. The entire film exploits subtle and overt American racial violence. The first striking image poses a lynching next to the American flag. Such cheap, Spike Lee rhetoric trivializes history. The 1929 flashback to Gaines’s mother being raped and father being killed isn’t just horrible, it’s an infuriating simplification: The son’s modern attitude shows ignorance of Southern custom; pressuring his father (“Pop, what you gonna do?”) is what gets his Dad killed. When titles say “Inspired by a true story” it merely means an anachronistic fantasy of Black American history adapted from Wil Haygood’s Washington Post article (“A Butler Well Served By This Election”) celebrating Obama’s inauguration. Daniels panders to the hip-hop attitude that Black youth know more about survival than their hard-working ancestors. The scene of Gaines driving through urban chaos following MLK’s assassination is as phony as the riot scenes in Dreamgirls. Pandering to history and violence lacks the politic detail of Melvin and Mario Van Peebles’ Panther; this more resembles Tarantino’s unrealistic s&m circus Django Unchained. These discomforting prevarications are angled toward Osama’s “Tonight is your answer” election speech— turning historical pain into shallow, maudlin victory. Daniels’ tendency to falsify Black American experience and then exploit it is as offensive as Spielberg-Kushner’s factitious Lincoln. A more personally honest, openly licentious fantasy would be more interesting. Now that he’s played his Obama card, I’m sure Lee Daniels’ Satyricon will come next. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair
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ere’s an evergreen question: how does an emerging artist get his or her work out there? These days, the answer seems to lie in navigating an ever-proliferating, oftenoverwhelming array of apps and social media possibilities. Somewhere between figuring it out on your own and overly formal “how to” conference lectures is room 505 at the venerable Music Building (584 8th Ave.), a sprawling warren of 70 rehearsal spaces untouched by time since it opened in 1979, where ArtistEngage, a band of music and visual artists, including noted DJ Journey (Will Jackson), is offering a free, densely informative workshop series (Wed. 4pm-8pm) that began in July and continues throughout August. “We’re organizing a community of artists as we flesh out the dialogue on what obstacles people face or what success they are achieving through social media, self-branding, and taking their careers into their own control,” says Ruhi “Roo” Shamim, the Music Building’s Community Director and Content Producer. “In the 70’s, artist skills meant creating something physical in a raw space, like wiring and plumbing. Now artist skills are wholly digital but we are also creating a physical environment that’s always important to people’s dialogues.” The workshop’s third meeting on July 24, led by musician/marketer Dave “Ravin” Iannoa, offered a thorough explication of Key Actions for carving out one’s stake in today’s digitalscape: exploration, experimentation, amplification, partnering, and measuring, with illustrations drawn from artists’ careers, most notably visual artist Borbay, who systemically
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fulfilled his vision to become a successful professional artist by canny self-marketing and tireless audience cultivation. One, he selects subjects relevant to others (ie. a painting of Jay Z). Two, he documents in detail the process of creating each piece through videos posted on Daily Motion and amply tagged blogs on Word Press. Three, he pursues key partnerships. In one instance, Borbay created paintings outside the Guggenheim for 5 days straight, documented and shared the process through social media and then partnered with the Guggenheim in blogging about each other. When Time Out New York named him one of NYC’s most creative people, he joined with the magazine to blog extensively about the story. He partnered with the Sidewalk Café by bringing in his fans to watch his process live, thereby increasing both parties’ audiences. If you missed the first workshop sessions, no problem. The series is being videoed by the CBGB team and ArtistEngage plans to go on the road. “Our goal is to create a trans-media documentary, ‘Flip the Switch,’ and take this workshop to different cities,” says Roo. “The artists engage in workshops and events we’re creating to flesh out this documentary and engage people on multiple media platforms. It’s all an experiment. As we go along we’re seeing what works and what doesn’t work.” R.S.V.P. for ArtistsEngage at: http:// artistengage.splashthat.com/
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Ken Price’s Balls Congo, 2003, Fired and painted clay, 22 x 18 x 18 in. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen
The art of communication at the Met By Kate Prengel
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he crowd around me breathed a sigh of relief as we walked into the last room of the Metropolitan Museum’s Ken Price retrospective. “Oh, I like these!” said one woman, hurrying closer to a case of little ceramic cups. The whole room was full of small, shiny objects just begging to be touched, just begging you to smile at them. The exhibit works in reverse chronological order – Price’s earliest works are at the end. Evidently the sculptor was more eager to please at the beginning of his career. In his works from the 1960s the textures are appealing, the objects look made to be palmed. The work is abstract but still related, however loosely, to ordinary objects: cups and staircases and familiar geometric shapes. By the end of his life, Price’s sculpture took on a chillier tone. The pieces, still bright and shiny, are too big to hold and too resolutely smooth to crack into. And so, we’re presented with a sort of red octopus (Balls Congo), or with an orderly pile of red coils (Little D) or – sometimes the names help us out – a crater with one sunken eye, titled “Phobia.” It’s like
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looking at a room full of strange mummies, or endlessly suspended aliens. They all resist quick understanding, but they do deserve to be given a long look, because after a while their very stillness, their remote strangeness, becomes inviting, something to project yourself onto. You can see yourself in these works. Of course, a whole exhibit full of nothing but yourself is a lonely prospect. Thankfully the Met kept this show on the small side. And thankfully, Price’s earlier work is more generous to those of us who like to get out of ourselves now and then. His series of “geometrics,” from the early 1980s, is a pleasure for the eyes. These look, satisfyingly, like ultra-modern buildings, or like staircases; they look like they are going somewhere. They’re also a reminder of how very still the later pieces are. Or take Price’s series of “egg” sculptures from the early 1960s, which, is a little bit disgusting but also very appealing. These are smooth, polished balls with cracks showing their innards; in some cases the innards ooze out at you. What a pleasure, really, when the artist still wants to ooze out at you – when he still believes that some kind of direct communication with his audience is possible. “Ken Price: A Retrospective” runs through September 22 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The GPS Dance Urban romance takes a spin in The Happy Sad By Armond White
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hen Pet Shop Boys released Very (their finest album?) 20 years ago, its AIDS-era sensibility was a landmark in pop sexual identity. Probably too subtle for mainstream recognition, its sophistication can yet be universally appreciated. The territory explored on Very’s opening track (“Can You Forgive Her?”) is evoked by the sexual competitiveness of the millennial characters--a heterosexual and gay couple--in The Happy Sad. These young adults hurt each other because they can’t decide which side of the road they
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want to sleep on. The fact that they have options doesn’t mean they live on carefree terrain without sink-holes and pitfalls. Director Rodney Evans uses an emotional Global Positioning System in this adaptation of Ken Urban’s original stage play--emphasis on urban as when Marcus (Leroy McClain) complains to Aaron (Charlie Barnett), “You read my e-mail, then you go screw some NYU boy!” The Happy Sad depicts the particularly urban opportunities for hook-ups and confusion now available to young men and women who use the city to sort out their sexual and sentimental affinities. Not simply another gay love story like Weekend, the recently overrated British film, The Happy Sad crosses Marcus and Aaron with Annie (Sorel Carradine) and Stan (Cameron Scoggins); the two couples collide through bisexuality as another complicated option. What the Pets knew about the range of fluid
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sexual identity in contemporary London’s bars, theaters and the romantic imagination of its socialites is repeated in Evans’ understanding of young New Yorkers’ sexual traffic. Evans showed a similar awareness in his 2004 debut Brother to Brother (a rare film about gay life in Harlem, partly a biography of the poet Bruce Nugent). In The Happy Sad, Evans observes the world of struggling artists, waiters and indie rock where the classes and races also converge and combust. The very daring Annie proposes a new-style relationship to Stan: “We can be different. Try something new. Open things up.” He’s willing but she’s more honest: “It’s like you’re my boyfriend and my gay best friend rolled up into one.” Interestingly, the film doesn’t pivot around Stan; even though he is the common link to the characters he’s no less confused than the others. But as the white male, privileged by cultural hegemony, Stan represents something distinctive in Evans’ worldview. All the actors are attractive but Stan’s singer-songwriter ambitions (and coy swagger?) position him as the sexual ideal all the characters must pass through--even the black male couple Marcus and Aaron who confuse that normative
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ideal with love. In the film’s most subtle development, Annie eventually steers herself away from that ideal toward two ethnically and emotionally different women. In the urban dance that is The Happy Sad, deep emotions appear on the surface but seem superficial. We’ve seen this dance in greater art like Max Ophuls’ La Ronde with its elegant juxtaposition of erotic fears and delusions. This is a La Ronde for the post-AIDS era, infected by inconstancy and impatience. (“We’ve got unlimited minutes, now listen!” Marcus demands.) Esthetically, Evans doesn’t achieve Ophuls’ visualization of spatial/ spiritual distance as when Marcus and Aaron phone each other from adjacent rooms. He could study Antonioni, too. Still, no Mumblecore film that I’ve seen explores personal relations with this kind of acuity--and no Woody Allen movie, either. The value of Evans and Urban’s contribution to New York cinema comes out of their informed attention to urban mixing: how women and men traverse the security of race and genre roles, sorting out a sense of being that Pet Shop Boys might approve. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair
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ack in the day, 1998, my nine-year-old friends and I traveled from group to group at Downtown Day Camp singing Spice Girls Songs to all. Fifteen years later, I got the chance to become a different kind of spice girl, boldly sampling the newly-arrived cuisine of two chefs notorious for their use of spices in their cross-country fusion creations.
Benares Tribeca, 45 Murray Street Full disclosure, I’m actually not a fan of Indian food, but I’ve been trying to be more adventurous lately. There was a lot of buzz surrounding this one — you can barely find a seat during lunch hour — so I decided to boldly go where I’ve never gone before. The restaurant’s storefront is deceptively kitschy, but the inside screams four star luxury. It’s beautiful, modern and feels like it should be way more expensive than it is. On this huge (seriously it’s huge) menu, Chef Peter Beck, heralded for his cuisine at the Michelin-starred Tamarind and Chola, pays homage to all 28 states of India, fusing Indian flavors with a number of other global influences. Chef Beck’s seared Tawa scallops adopt Mexican accents with tomatillo, green chili, ginger sauce, and mango-tomato relish (sort of like chutney-meets-salsa with kick), and the Kashmiri Tikki appetizer is made with beetroot instead of the more traditional Indian potato cake, spiced with ginger, fennel, garlic and cumin, and served with a cooling mint relish. The Adraki Samosa is amazing — my trusty sidekick, Jessica, is an Indian food fanatic, and says she’s never had ‘em like this; the cumin and mango powder linger on your lips, giving a cinnamon-like aftertaste to the potato and pea filled turnovers. Classics like Chicken Tikka Masala Tandoori are juicy and spicy, and naan gets a number of herb-inspired nods with varieties like garlic and rosemary. I’ll end with this: I had chocolate lava cake served with a scoop of rose petal ice cream for desert, which needs no further explanation.
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Khe-Yo, 157 Duane Street Chef and restaurateur Marc Forgione, owner of the nearby Restaurant Marc Forgione, has made Laotian Chef Soulayphet Schwader, also known as “Chef Phet,” his Executive Chef in charge of the menu. “Khe-Yo,” which translates to “green,” pays homage to the restaurant’s tables made of reclaimed teak and to the ingredients Chef Phet uses, which are sourced from local greenmarkets. The elephant mural on the back wall represents Laos, the Land of a Million Elephants. When the waiter brought over a little bin of sticky rice and instructed us to dig in and palm a “chunk” of it, I was incredibly intrigued. After being further instructed to smear it with Bang-Bang sauce like butter on bread (but without the pesky knife), I knew I was in for an exotic experience. The BangBang sauce is made of chilis, garlic, lime juice, palm sugar, mortar and pestle. The main staples of Laotian cuisine are ingredients like galangal, lemongrass, kaffir lime, padek, chilis, and ginger. Sticky rice, or Khao-Nieo, serves as the centerpiece of Chef “Phet’s” menu, which includes Crunchy Coconut Rice, Lemongrass Berkshire Spare Ribs, Chili Prawns (complete with heads), Sesame Beef Jerky, Bamboo Grilled Ginger Quail, and Pork Jowl Red Curry. The people at the table next to us were very enthusiastic about the Jurgielewicz Duck Salad, and one of the patrons, an older gentleman, tried to feed me a spoonful of Bang-Bang sauce on my way out. Chef Phet will soon be serving a lunch menu of Bahn Mi sandwiches from the restaurant storefront’s takeout counter called — what else — Khe-Yosk.
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eads up, divas, Russia’s in the house – and it’s got your name; literally. Diva millinery, from Russia with love, is handmade by the skilled artisans of a three-generation family business – but you needn’t pull out your passport to check out the goods. A chic little shop named La-Di-Da at 2410 Broadway, between 88th and 89th, is one of the select boutiques to stock Diva chapeaux – and oh, what chapeaux these are. Consider the uniquely brimmed model woven of sinamay – a natural fiber that’s a type of straw, informs La-Di-Da’s charming owner, Sema Timurhan (shopping here’s educational!). The finely woven hat gives the kind of translucent, dressy look you might associate with, say, a full-bodied organdy; but it’s the double-layered generously sized brim that commands attention: Rather than forming a rigid border, it flows and dips and curves in the most fetchingly flirtatious way. Suffice to say, wear it at any event and you’ll be the cynosure of all eyes. I love this hat in its champagne color version -- with a discreet leopard-print fabric banded bow ($199); though you might wish to consider the teal or black model with different accents. Another standout Diva number, in an entirely different vein, is the jaunty taupe beret woven of parasisal (yep, another type of straw we didn’t know about before). A large woven-flower accent on one side is studded with shiny cocoa-colored beads – chocolatydelicious looking; $169. (Note: All Diva summer hats are now 15-30% off.) In other “headlines” – more local this time – La-Di-Da also stocks Abigail Aldridge chapeaux, many of which the New York artisan makes exclusively for this shop. To wit: the black woven fabric headpiece that’s a cross between a face-framing little “fascinator” and a beret (um, just picture a fascinating beret) that has a perky little brim in back but dips down in front. A clutch of faux juicy-looking cherries, complete with green leaves, is the delicious-looking accent on this piece; $149. While hats are a predominant category – find everything from cloches to caps and boaters to berets – there is so much more. Artfully stacked to the ceiling are hatboxes plus designer costume jewelry, scarves, picture frames and all manner of bibelot. Vintagelook baubles abound here: French-made La Vie Parisienne earrings and delicate necklaces evoke timeless elegance, while domestically handmade pieces by such names as Anne
LA-DI-DA 2410 Broadway Phone: 212-875-8505 ■ WHAT’S SPECIAL: This little jewel-box of a boutique boasts spectacular hats, hardto-find clip-on earrings, exquisite vintagelook costume jewelry, glittering ornaments – and now clothing, too. Elegance and exclusivity abound at all price points and sizes.
Koplik, Clara Beau and Ayala Bar are equally finely made and irresistible. Materials include gold-plated brass and Swarovski crystals. (See some close-ups of hats and jewels at facebook. com/ladidathestore – you will “like” what you see.) Another headline: This women’s accessories store will be carrying clothing, featuring local designers’ jackets, tunics, pants and more. All easy fit, with a wide range of sizes, going up to XXL. “This is my 20th year,” says Sema. “It’s hard for small stores – but I try to keep a variety of styles and prices and exclusives, and I give personal service. I appreciate my customers’ loyalty.” They doubtless appreciate you, too, Sema. When it comes to serving her clientele, this lady brings it.
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Live By The Test, Die By The Test The Common Core is counting the wrong metrics for education By Tom Allon
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ew York City’s education system, like the rest of America’s, has been hijacked by politicians who are eager to tout their success at making much-needed gains. Remember “No Child Left Behind?” That was the George W. Bush administration’s catchy title for revamping public education in America. That lasted about eight years, and was then replaced by “Race to the Top,” another peppy slogan invented by the Obamaland educrats. How did that work? Well, it got a number of states to commit to important reforms that got them a pot of federal money. But has it made our overall education system better? Are our children better off today in the classroom than they were four years ago? Twelve years ago? Thirty years ago? No, no and no. And now comes along another slickly named new idea: “The Common Core.” I’m not sure more than 10 people in New York can give you a comprehensive explanation of what Common Core means, but it’s now the talk of the town and has emerged as the new hot topic in the mayoral race. In a nutshell, Common Core means that we are now shifting the way we assess student progress, with a greater emphasis on critical thinking, higher reasoning and strong writing skills. These are, obviously, all worthy goals, and who could argue that this is a longoverdue reform in an ossified education system. But so many things have been botched... where do I start? Last spring, my very intelligent 13-year-old daughter came home and told me she took a very hard statewide test. “Daddy, I had to skip eight questions. We didn’t even learn that stuff. Why would they test that?” This, from a student, who tested well enough to get into New York’s most prestigious public high schools. It was one of those rare moments as a parent when words failed me and I couldn’t explain to her why she was was being tested on material she had never seen before. Why wasn’t Common Core phased in?
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Tom Allon We’ve known about it since 2009, so why weren’t teachers prepared to teach it much earlier and then our kids wouldn’t be set up for a test everyone knew the majority would fail? Is making children and their parents frightened about lack of “proficiency” a political policy to shock the sytem? And what about that large segment of students who may not be well-suited for liberal arts educations or high-end professional careers - shouldn’t we be preparing curriculums or tests that play to their relative strengths? Why, in education, do we always fall for the mistaken notion that “one size fits all.” Tests are not a substitute for great teaching and real learning. They are a blunt tool that measures “progress” and “proficiency” but we now live in an age where everything must be quantified so we can hold students, parents and teachers “accountable.” I think I speak for many parents and a “silent majority” of concerned citizens when I say: Let’s slow down, focus on training great teachers and make sure that our children learn effective communications and basic computational and reasoning skills. But let’s not lurch from one panacea to another - from “No Child Left Behind” to “Race to the Top” to “Common Core Curriculum,” we are just packaging the latest fad in education reform and losing sight of the fundamentals of teaching and learning. As one pretty poor student named Albert Einstein once famously said: “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” How true. Tom Allon, the president of City & State, NY, is a former English teacher at Stuyvesant High School and the father of three teenagers. Comments? Email tallon@cityandstateny.com.
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Living the Good(ing) Life in NYC Cuba Gooding Jr. on his new film, talking about buying a brownstone. starring on Broadway, and loving How is living in LA different from life our city here? By Angela Barbuti
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uba Gooding Jr. is making history in his newest film. In The Butler, out on August 16th, viewers are taken on a tumultuous journey through the civil rights movement, seen through the eyes of a White House butler, played by Forest Whitaker. Gooding, who plays a fellow butler, was surrounded by an incredible cast - see movie poster- who worked to give the poignant piece the reverence it deserved. “The biggest ego was the story,” said Gooding. The film is based on real-life butler Eugene Allen, who peaked producers’ interest when he was interviewed for The Washington Post during President Obama’s 2008 election. Director Lee Daniels, of Precious fame, got his hand on the script and the rest is, literally, history. Gooding, 45, confesses that the creativity in New York is possibly coercing him and his family to make the city their home. So if you see him around town one day, you may get the urge - like many people he encounters - to shout out his famous catchphrase, “Show me the money!”
You were born in NY and are now back here for your Broadway run. What are your favorite places in Manhattan? Well now it’s Soho. I’m in love with Soo, man! The cobblestone streets and hotels down there are so - I don’t know the word - cool. My wife and kids came and we hung out in Central Park; that was cool too. Stuff that I never knew of when I lived here, obviously. As I’ve been visiting back and forth, I’ve only seen certain snippets. Like I’d never been to Times Square, and I’ve been at the Steven Sondheim since February. It’s like Vegas there! I mean the West Village might even be better than Soho to me because there’s something about those streets and those buildings. Sant Ambroeus - go there a get a bottle of white wine on a Sunday and just chill. The whole vibe of Manhattan has been this thing that’s been pulling me back; every time I leave and am away from Manhattan more than a month or two, I gotta get back. It’s so many people connected. My wife, who I met at North Hollywood High School -she was born in North Hollywood - is dropping hints about moving here now. Of course, our son is going to college on the East Coast and she doesn’t want her first baby to be too far away. She’s
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You bump into people here. Whereas in LA, if two people bump into each other, they have to stop and have a conversation of apology. I was down at Sant Ambroeus one day and Julian Schnabel comes by and says, “Hey, come see my house,” and I’m going to see his paintings! That shit doesn’t happen in LA; it just doesn’t. You have to go to a premiere or a museum to be exposed to artwork. Here you see it; it’s around you.
This is your first experience on Broadway. What has it been like for you? Life changing. It reminded me of the time I used to do Shakespeare Film Festivals and had to understand the material before I tried to act it. It was in-depth research and I forgot about a lot of that stuff floating through from film to film. I’m doing eight shows now and it’s my life. It’s something I’ll always look to do between films. It’s reawakened my soul. I completed my first screenplay that I just registered at the Writers Guild. I had the opportunity to write it in my dressing room, between shows. I’m telling you girl, I am in a creative place where I haven’t been in a long time.
hockey players and these guys, when they’re not in a game, they’re working out. As an actor, you don’t get to do that unless you’re paid. You can’t go into your garage and say, “Roll camera.” It doesn’t work; you need to be on a set. What I tell my sons now is, “Stay creative. Keep your mind engaged because an idle mind is the devil’s playground.” I understand that now.
The cast of this film is incredible. What was the atmosphere on set? It was absolutely great. Forest [Whitaker], Lenny [Kravitz], and I were the three butlers that moved through with all the different presidents. So we had to keep our schedules completely open because we’d have Robin Williams, and the next day, Liev Schreiber. Since those were small parts, we had to be accessible and available to them. It was fun because you’d come to the set and wouldn’t know who you’d be working with. I’ve done movies with a lot of big names before, and there’s such a hierarchy of who gets called out of the dressing room first so you’re not waiting around - it’s just such bullshit. With this, there was none of that. Lee doesn’t put up with any of that shit. He’ll yell and scream until everyone is focused on him. I think that helps because it allows you to just blend into the background.
So you’re looking to direct?
Was it strange to see those actors portraying presidents?
Acting was always my first love, but my second was directing. I’ve always wanted to be a director and been placated by representatives for years. And now I got a piece of material that people are sparking to and I’m gonna attach myself to it right it into the director’s chair. [Laughs] One way or another, I’m getting my black ass into that director’s chair!
It was at first because they were so immersed in these looks. Alan Rickman - oh my goodness - he was so Ronald Reagan! He came out of that dressing room and you were like, “Woah!” There were caricatures though - like John Cusack’s Nixon - that was just so subtly portrayed, I just thought it was beautiful.
The director of The Butler, Lee Daniels, is a good friends of yours.
This movie is a history lesson. Did you learn anything?
We were friends long before he was even a producer, when he was just a manager. We study scripts and films together. He sent me The Butler five or six years ago. I did the lead in his directorial debut with Shadowboxer and sat in the editing room with him. He’s allowed me into that world and you absolutely get the bug when you make a suggestion and it’s used to better the piece.
I learned more about stuff that I knew vaguely - civil rights actions and situations. But just to hear it from the point of view of servants in the White House, we see that certain viewpoints of presidents weren’t what we thought they were in the press at the time. That stuff blew me away. I grew up when a lot of this stuff was happening, so I remember it from then, but a lot of kids seeing it today won’t.
It’s nice to hear you are so passionate about your work. I didn’t know why I would be slipping in these bouts of depression before, but it was because my mind wanted to be working! Most of my friends are pro boxers and pro ice
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You’ve been married for almost 26 years. What is the key to a successful Hollywood marriage? I’ve been on Broadway since February and I got to home. I just got to get home. The secret to our longevity is being honest and open and never taking what the other says to the other out of anger, too seriously. And that’s hard to do because sometimes you’re just like, “I can’t believe she did that or said that.” I have relatives who haven’t spoken to each other in years. I started to get that way and then they’ll call me because they’ll see a movie coming out, and I pick up the phone and have a conversation like it was never said. I try to say that to my relatives. You can’t take any of those things said between people who love each other, too seriously. At the end of the day, just let it go. Everybody says stuff they don’t mean sometimes.
Do people come up to you all the time saying, “Show me the money?” All the time. These two girls, we drove by them on the way here. The window was rolled down and there was a red light. These two crazy crackheads were yelling, “Show me the money!!” They kept saying it over and over again.
Two girls? Two girls - that’s a first! Usually it’s a drunk dude at a party.
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