tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60302702009-01-03T11:01:04.676-05:00The life and times of an independent flimmakerLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059290175058722816noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030270.post-56429854995135430562009-01-03T10:56:00.004-05:002009-01-03T11:01:04.687-05:00

If you've seen this movie, you know what I'm talking about. The best hair scene is the one where Rourke is in a beauty salon telling the woman exactly how to do the highlights. Man. Rourke is back, and this girl is happy about it. I would also like to give a retroactive award for 2007 to Javier Bardiem, whose hair turn in No Country for Old Men will serve as an inspiration for all future

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Hello there boys and girls. Want to know what I did last night? I made myself a kick ass dinner and holed up at home with a bottle of Prosecco - and wrote in my blog. Which means it's really tonight, but to you, it was last night. Make sense? It was a great time to reflect on the kind of year I had and the kind of year I want to have. For all that's happened in my life in 2008, nothing beats

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Yesterday, my friend Sunny and I went to the first weekend of the Brooklyn Art Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The main and now permanent attraction is Judy Chicago's great 70s installation "The Dinner Party". It depicts her idea of an intimate gathering of some of the greatest women in history who in their own way hugely impacted feminism and all areas of women's

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10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, manservant - basically any of his shit. 9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors house (which I think should already have been covered in #10) 8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 7. Thou shalt not steal (unless it's downloading music) 6. Thou shalt not commit adultery (you all saw Fatal Attraction, right?) 5. Thou shalt not

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I must love and miss Walter Matthau deep in my very soul as I dreamt of him last night. I was at my family's place and my mother had just turned on the TV to watch the Oscars. I begged her to turn it off because I just REALLY didn't want to watch. I had also stated that the only thing that would we worth watching was the Ennio Morricone tribute. Then I asked my mother who else was getting

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So I just found out that King Henry VIII has a MySpace page. Here is his quote: "It ain't easy being beasty...just remember- bros before hoes dude" This doesn't surprise me. Among his top friends are Marie Antoinnette, Lord Byron and Chuck Norris.

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Yikes! That smell. Stories like this make me love this town. First up, last week, a 50 year old construction worker saved a 20 year old man from getting creamed by an oncoming train. Seems the young man fell off the platform after having some sort of "medical episode". He happened to miss the rails and fell in the space between the them. The other man, making a quick decision after seeing

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I hope you all had a more fun time than I. I came back from a long and great trip to Northern California with a wicked bad cold that pretty much leveled me yesterday. So this marks my first completely sober New Years Eve since, well, I guess since I was a kid. Oddly, since I had decided that my focus for 2007 is my health, the universe tested me. There were moments yesterday that I thought I

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I can't decide who looks the weirdest in this photo. Although I guess Patrick Cassidy (far right) looks the least strange. All three, plus Shaun, are part of a star studded Sondheim extravaganza happening in LA in March. That's super exciting. especially if you're a Sondheim geek. Gary, I think you should go.

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I saw Grey Gardens on Broadway today. Might I say that the Beales are the most compelling characters on the Great White Way at this moment. As most of you must know, it's a musical based on the eerie Maysles Brothers documentary from the 70s. Christine Ebersole, who plays Big Edie in Act One and Little Edie in Act Two, was out. She's the star of the show. But her understudy, Maureen Moore,

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Here's why Broadway is making me happy: 1) Kevin Spacey is coming to town in March for a production of Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten", currently showing at the Old Vic in London. As some of you know, Spacey's been the artistic director of the Old Vic for several years. I think he mostly decided that Hollywood could go fuck itself, although I guess he'll kick down an appearance in

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(a really cool pic of Altman would be here if blogger actually worked) One of my absolute favorite filmmakers passed away Monday night at the age of 81. Creator of such timeless films as Nashville, McCabe and Mrs Miller, M.A.S.H., The Player, Short Cuts.....god, the list seems endless. Admittedly I haven't loved all of his films, but the gems still shine incredibly bright. I loved Altman

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I cannot believe that Adrienne Shelley has died, and in such a horrific way. There's already so much written about it that I don't think I have anything profound to add. Like many others, I found out about her through Hal Hartley films. I've always thought she was special and interesting, especially since most actors in the system are so far from that. She set the standard for so called

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I took yesterday off from everything. Friends, family, obligations - everything. I needed to clear my head. So I went to a graveyard. As I said to a friend yesterday on the phone, it's an appropriate place to go and think about your life. It's humbling knowing that someday you'll wind up in one. Hopefully later rather than sooner. Late the night before, I read a brief description of an annual

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If you're one of those people who is killing stingrays just because that Crocodile Hunter got killed by one, you're a DICK.

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Forget Labor Day! Yesterday was the West Indian American parade here in my lovely neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn! I live just two blocks away from the Eastern Parkway where the action was. It was easily one of the best parties around and it continued into the wee hours. All of the important New York politicians were there and about every cop in Brooklyn. I've just put up pics on

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WOW. I just noticed that I haven't written in my blog in over a month. What does that say to the world about me? Perhaps I am one of those lazy miscreants that can't maintain a blog? Although I'd like to think I've just been busy having a rockin' summer in New York! Since there is a lot of miscellaneous crap in my head, I am just going to blurt out some random thoughts. Like to read em, here

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what the HELL??? My nameless but not imaginary friend and I went to a free advance screening of the new Woody Allen film "Scoop" last night. It was hot as blazes outside so we were excited about the idea of sitting in an air conditioned theater for a couple of hours. For that, I'd see a movie by Satan himself. Or even Speilberg. We had checked in for our tickets and were waiting in a very long

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Here's my one and only obnoxious "bests" list. Some of it's NY specific. Liketoreadithereitgo... Best reason to buy a hybrid car: George Clooney and Leo DeCaprio own them, and those guys are HOTT. Best gratuitous cursing on television: Deadwood. I mean, really, what the fuck? Best reason to have children: everyone in Hollywood is doing it. Musical double bill that may want to make you put

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And if so, why was I not informed?

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I have nothing to say to you people. In case you haven't noticed.

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This store is catty corner from my building in Washington Heights. Yeah, I've been living up here EAST of Broadway for almost ten months now. But sadly my sublet is coming to an end and I'm leaving very soon. The good news is that I'm moving to Brooklyn. But I will surely miss it here - my lovely Dominican neighborhood. I'll miss the Dunkin Donuts around the corner. They knew exactly how I

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Last night I found out about the most incredibly genius bit of television programming EVER. The good folks at MTV2's "Adult Swim" have obtained the right to air the most ridiculous episodes of "Saved by the Bell" on their program. It's absolutely amazing. The episode I saw was entitled "Zach Attack". Zach and pals form a super cheesy rock band that becomes world renowned. Of course, the fame

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For those of you who don't know, David Blaine is up to his latest stunt. He's living underwater in a glass sphere outside of the Julliard School in Lincoln Center for a week. This stunt will end on Monday evening as he will emerge only to be wrapped in heavy chains and dropped back into the tank. He will then attempt to hold his breath for a record nine minutes while busting out of said chains.

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