BUZZ
BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE AUGUST 2017
By Joe Alexander with Photographs by Patrick McMullan
Dunkirk & War for the Planet of the Apes Harry Styles proves he can act in Dunkirk, a thrilling WW2 blockbuster. He confesses, “You’re never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you.”… Andy Serkis delivers a complex performance as the ape Caesar in War for the Planet of the Apes. This dark vision of a Human vs. Ape civilization is an action epic and a thought provoking morality tale. Serkis opined, “Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it.” His co-star Woody Harrelson who plays the evil Cornell said, “It’s an odd beast, fame. It’s got multiple personalities.”
Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley @ Dunkirk
James McAvoy and Charlize Theron @ Atomic Blonde
Alec and Hilaria Baldwin @ Blind
Nancy Chemtob, Star Jones, and Susan Moss @ Balancing the Scales
Victoria Secret’s Rachel Hilbert and Symrise’s Achim Daub
Janna Bulock, Peter Thomas Roth, and Lauren Roberts @ LJ Cross Copious Row
Atomic Blonde & Spider-Man Charlize Theron stars in the crash and bash smash Atomic Blonde. She said, “if they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.” … Tom Holland who soars in Spider-Man: Homecoming, admits, “I’m very much a mommy’s boy.” Adding, “I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.” His co-star Robert Downey Jr. said, “Life is painful, messy and hard but worth it.” Michael Keaton summed it up, “Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore.”
Blind & Balancing the Scales Alec Baldwin plays a blind man in love with Demi Moore in Blind. Dylan McDermott plays her immoral husband to a T. Alec, whose wife Hilaria has a cameo teaching a yoga class, is a strict vegetarian in real life. On the set of Saturday Night Live, the hilarious Trump impersonator chooses roasted red pepper wraps from Brody’s chef, Adam Woldman. The rest of the cast and crew gobble up the caterer’s mac and cheese with lobster dish. Brody’s, the preferred corporate catering company because of its critically acclaimed chef, also works with Conde Nast, Goldman Sachs and HBO. brodyscatering.com… Star Jones and her divorce lawyer and pal Nancy Chemtob who has also represented Michael Douglas’s wife Diandra and Tory Burch hosted a screening of Balancing the Scales. The intriguing documentary explores the history of women lawyers in the U.S. and why their attempts to break the glass ceiling have failed. Chemtob law partners Susan Moss Joshua Forman lead the applause at the post-screening forum at the Core Club. cmfesq.com
Karl Lagerfeld & Isabelle Bscher Gallerist Isabelle Bscher’s new show is Judd/Malevich, an exhibition curated by Flavin Judd, the son of sculptor Donald Judd. It is being shown at her family’s Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich, Switzerland. The show pays homage to the dual exhibition The Moscow Installatio, featuring the works of Judd and Kazimir Malevich. originally done at Galerie Gmurzynska in 1994. The critically acclaimed exhibition runs through September 15th. Bscher has also presented ground breaking exhibits at TEFAF and Miami Art Basel. She represents the photographs of designer Karl Lagerfeld and has represented the work of Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, James Turrell, Yves Klein. Robert Indiana, Richard Meier, Zaha Hadid and the paintings of the actor Sylvester Stallone. Gmurzynska.com
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