Natasha Lyonne, Gothamist style
You should really read this Gothamist interview with Natasha Lyonne. I really liked her work before the drugs got the better of her, and it seems like she's back on track.
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July 22, 2009
July 19, 2009
Interview with Aviva Kempner
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
Gertrude Berg is often touted as “the Oprah of her day.” Yet today this mid-20th century icon has largely been forgotten. Documentarian Aviva Kempner hopes to rectify that with her new film “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg,” the title of which was her subject’s famous alter ego’s favorite catchphrase.
Now in theaters, the film chronicles the life and achievements of Berg, creator and star of the early television show “The Goldbergs,” which served as the harbinger of “Leave it to Beaver” and generations of other family based sitcoms. With her distinct style of leaning out her apartment window and chatting with her neighbors, or breaking the fourth wall by directly addressing the audience, she became a beloved Jewish-American icon.
amNewYork spoke to the filmmaker.
What are your own personal memories of Gertrude Berg and “The Goldbergs?”
I myself am an immigrant. I was born in Berlin after the war, the first American war baby, and I came to Detroit [when I was] I think three-years-old, so I remember in the home us watching her on TV. But it’s a very vague memory.
What led you to your professional interest in the subject?
In my making film life, in “Hank Greenberg” (“The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg,” her film about the baseball legend) there’s a scene where again in the Bronx, I seem to be a Bronx maven, Greenberg’s neighbors are yelling out the window saying, “Greenberg is a bum.” And I used to see from “Going My Way” where women are yelling out the window, and that [led me to] “The Goldbergs.” And then I made a short film called “Today I Vote for My Joey,” about the Jewish vote going for Pat Buchanan and I wrote that, it’s my one dramatic script, and in it the main character yells, “Yoo hoo, let’s go to vote” and it’s about the 2000 election, so I was really channeling Gertrude Berg. And then when I went to the Jewish Museum and saw an exhibit called “Jews Entertaining America,” the recreation of the Goldberg living room, I said “that’s my next film.” My M.O. is doing under known Jewish heroes, in this particular instance a Jewish heroine.
The Mighty Boosh hits the states
It’s hard to describe exactly what The Mighty Boosh is. British comedians Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt have been working under that name for about a decade, doing their act live and on radio and television.
The show centers around the absurd adventures of Vince Noir and Howard Moon as they get stranded on desert islands, fight kangaroos, etc.
A comedy sensation in their home country, the Boosh has gathered a growing following stateside.
We spoke with the pair about their act.
After 10 years, what keeps you attached to the Mighty Boosh?
Fielding: We’re rubbish at everything else. Sometimes we say we’re going to take a break and do something else, but I can’t repair cars; I can’t do anything else. We always end up coming back together.
July 12, 2009
Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton on being a blond bad boy
Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy,
For an interview with director David Yates, go here.
Thanks to his role as Harry Potter’s foil, Draco Malfoy, in the “Harry Potter” films, 21-year-old Tom Felton has gotten to work with many top British actors.
“A lot of people ask, ‘Have you been to acting school?’ and in a lot of ways I really have,” said Felton, who saw his role in the films increase with “Prince.” “For us it’s been a huge learning experience working with the cream of the crop of English actors.”
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'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' director David Yates dishes on his dark film
Daniel Radcliffe and Michael Gambon in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
For an interview with Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton, go here.
David Yates, the director of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” has a lot of sympathy for one of the film’s stars.
Rupert Grint, who portrays the flame-haired Potter pal Ron Weasley, spent hours on his broom while filming tricky scenes of Quidditch, the wizard sport.
“Poor Rupert Grint had to sit on this broom with a bicycle seat that seriously damaged his chances of having children in later life,” Yates laughed. “And he did it so patiently and so gracefully.”
July 7, 2009
Interview with Anne Fontaine
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
Its picturesque beaches, winding hillside roads and crystal clear waters make Monaco a perfect cinematic location. It’s a challenge, however, to blend a narrative into that scenery that does more than serve as the backdrop for a travelogue. Anne Fontaine’s “The Girl From Monaco” succeeds at that, however, with a twisty story that varies greatly in tone and form, seeming at times to be everything from a frothy sex comedy to a tightly wound thriller and a dark, introspective cautionary tale.
The film stars Fabrice Luchini, a major star in France and Fontaine’s fiancé, as Bertrand Beauvois, an attorney brought to Monaco to defend a millionaire widow on trial for murder. Despite the warnings of his bodyguard Christophe (Roschdy Zem) Bertrand finds himself increasingly distracted by the beautiful local weathergirl Audrey (Louise Bourgoin), who quickly smells blood and sets her sights on him. amNewYork spoke to Fontaine about the film.
Was there always a plan to blend light and dark elements into the film?
At the beginning I wanted to make a cruel comedy. I wanted to try to be light, but underneath to speak about this bizarre thing that is desire and the sexuality for this man who is so in control with words, in control with his life, and his social life…The idea was to make something light, but also to talk about the human condition.
What interested you in Monaco?
It is a place that is completely like a fiction. It’s unreal. You don’t believe it’s its own country. It’s like a little country that doesn’t exactly exist. Everything is completely ridiculous.
June 23, 2009
Darlene Violette relapses
By Ed Condran
Special To amNewYork
• Darlene Violette appears Wednesday at Carolines. 9:30 p.m., $18.
Stand-up comedy doesn’t mean everything to Darlene Violette but it’s certainly a part of the Brooklyn based performer’s varied repertoire.
“It’s something that’s always been important to me,” Violette says. “But there are other things that I focus on as well.”
June 9, 2009
Interview with Nati Baratz
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
In “Unmistaken Child” documentarian Nati Baratz depicts the multi-year search for the reincarnation of Geshe-La, a recently deceased Tibetan Buddhist master, conducted by his devoted disciple Tenzin Zopa.
Set amid the natural splendor of India and Nepal, it’s a serene, inspirational story that simultaneously reveals the depth of the student’s love for his teacher and the peaceful nature of the Tibetan people. amNewYork spoke to Baratz about the film, which is currently playing at Film Forum.
What was it about Tenzin Zopa’s speech at the monastery you were visiting in Tibet that made you want to follow him for a movie?
When I heard his huge heart, his humor, his faith, it was really touching. And at the end of the lecture he asked us to pray for the reincarnation for his master. I was struck. I said, “Oh My God, this amazing monk, amazing person is going to look for the reincarnation of his master, I must make a movie out of it.” I think that Tenzin represents everything [I like] about Tibet, [and] the reason why I love the Tibetans so much. So the story of the reincarnation was just for me a narrative structure, a mythical spiritual structure that would just be an engine for the story. And in that way you have enough patience to stay long enough with Tenzin and just observe him and [to] be able to see his qualities. To me the whole film is Tenzin, and the story is just to make it as interesting as possible.
What really spoke to me about the film, and what I think people will relate to, is the notion of loving someone so deeply that you’d go on such an extended quest to find them.
Many times I say this movie for me is just an ultimate love story. It’s not just [one type of] love. Geshe-La was for him his father, his mother, his teacher, his family, everything, so it’s getting his world back, you know?
June 2, 2009
Megan Mylan interview
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
• "Smile Pinki" that premieres on HBO tomorrow night at 7 p.m.
Before she made “Smile Pinki” documentarian Megan Mylan related to cleft palates in the same way most of us probable have. She’d feel sympathy for the victims featured in those omnipresent magazine ads soliciting help, before turning the page and moving on. Yet, after being approached by The Smile Train, the largest international cleft lip/palate charity, and asked to film the efforts of an Indian hospital in Benares devoted to repairing them, she found herself drawn to a central truth: one simple operation is all it takes for cleft palate victims to be granted a normal life.
The resulting film, which focuses on five-year-old Pinki and 11-year-old Ghutaru as they travel to the hospital to receive the operation, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short at this year’s Oscars. It premieres on HBO Wednesday at 7 p.m.
amNewYork spoke to Mylan about the project.
What specifically inspired you to make a film about clefts?
[I was attracted] once I realized how common clefts were, how far beyond cosmetic it is, how devastating a person’s social ostracism is, [which is] probably the heaviest thing, but there’s also severe speech impairment, nutrition and stuff, and then how totally curable it is. I thought the [Smile Train] model was awfully smart, the idea of supporting [local] doctors around the world rather than funding American [doctors]. Not that there’s anything wrong, I think it’s great when people go off to volunteer, but it was more of that they saw a problem, they saw how easily solved it was, and that there were all these people there who could do it.
May 6, 2009
Scott Hamilton Kennedy discusses "The Garden"
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
While making, “The Garden” documentarian Scott Hamilton Kennedy found himself in an enviable position: standing at the front lines of a local political conflict with tremendous universal reverberations.
The film chronicles the much reported on conflict between the farmers who tended to (and depended on) the largest community garden in the United States, built out of acres of ruins in South Central Los Angeles in the aftermath of the 1992 riots, and Ralph Horowitz, a partner in the company that once owned the property who used behind-the-scenes maneuvering to purchase it back.
It is, of course, about much more than that battle, won by Horowitz. The narrative touches on the fundamental flaws of a sociopolitical hierarchy that favors the rich and well-connected as well as many deeper, elemental themes. amNewYork spoke to the filmmaker about his movie, which opens Friday.
How receptive were the farmers to the project?
They were pretty forthcoming. There was definitely, not paranoia, but there was caution as well to make sure I was going to tell the story [fairly]. There was a lot of media coverage that didn’t give the whole story, and it’s understandable, too. It’s not just the failings of reporters, it’s the failings of the structure of a show. You can’t get across this complicated a story in [a few] minutes. I had the opportunity to tell the whole story, so they were definitely happy [with the film].
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April 20, 2009
Mike Birbiglia talks 'Sleepwalk With Me'
By Scott A. Rosenberg
• ‘Sleepwalk With Me’ is at the Bleecker Street Theatre through June 7.
Comedian Mike Birbiglia has a well-publicized sleeping disorder — rapid eye movement behavior disorder — which has been the topic of his stand-up routine and a focal point of his hit off-Broadway show, “Sleepwalk With Me.”
Strangely enough, after years on the road dealing with the disorder — which was severe enough that he caused himself bodily harm, as he would act out his dreams while asleep — doing his show about it helped alleviate the problem to some extent.
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April 1, 2009
Visting "Paris"
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
“Paris 36,” opening Friday after kicking off last month’s Rendezvous with French Cinema at Lincoln Center, is director Christophe Barratier’s highly polished tribute to the Popular Front era in France, which lasted for a brief time in the mid 1930s. Highly schematic and purposefully infused with artifice, the film centers on a collective theater run by Pigoil (Gérard Jugnot) in a fictional Parisian neighborhood. amNewYork spoke to co-star Nora Arnezeder, a singer making her feature film debut as Douce, the theater’s main attraction.
How did you get the part?
When I first met [Barratier] he said to me that I was too young to play the lead character. And I was really disappointed, but he said to me you can play a smaller part in the movie. But I was really happy, you know, [because] it was better than nothing. So I received songs from the movie and I really fell in love with the songs. So I sang the songs [for him] and he said to me that I’m going to give you the script and you’re going to work for the role of Douce. So I read the script and I realized it was the [lead female] character. I was really afraid because I wanted to prove to myself and Christophe that I was not just a singer, you know, [but] that I could act as well.
March 29, 2009
American Swing
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
Plato’s Retreat, the iconic swingers club of the late 1970s-mid 1980s, is such an apt subject for a documentary that one wonders why it’s taken more than two decades for someone to make “American Swing.”
Co-directors Jon Hart and Matthew Kaufman fill their telling of the New York institution’s story with astonishing (and astonishingly explicit) archival footage and candid onscreen interviews with many of the club’s central players. The film, which opened at the Quad Cinema Friday, simultaneously mourns the loss of the club and the era of sexual innocence it signified. amNewYork spoke to the filmmakers.
The story of Plato’s Retreat is both humorous and sad. Can you talk about bringing both elements to the movie?
Jon Hart: The humor was there. The people were fun. They went there to have fun, and laugh and smile and dance, and you’re scantily clad or nude and you’re vulnerable. You’re naked. So there’s humor there. It’s inherent. There definitely were sexual relations going there, so that had to be portrayed, and the era is over, that era is over and it was sad.
March 6, 2009
Chris Schweizer's 'Vengeance': A Q&A with the creator of 'Crogan's Vengeance'
There’s regular ambition, then there’s Chris Schweizer’s ambition.
Schweizer first graphic novel, “Crogan’s Vengeance,” has recently been published in a beautiful hardcover edition by Oni Press. The story divulges a portion of the Crogan family history – in this case a swashbuckling pirate adventure starring Catfoot Crogan.
After this book, Schweizer has 15 more genre-spanning adventures he’s planning on telling, featuring members of the Crogan family throughout the ages.
So, needless to say, Schweizer, 28, has a lot of work ahead of him.
amNewYork spoke with Schweizer about his graphic novel.
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March 5, 2009
Alan Hruska talks 'Reunion'
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
Alan Hruska presents himself with an enormous filmmaking challenge in “Reunion,” the third film the former trial lawyer has written and directed.
His narrative reunites formerly close-knit Yale alums for a tough, introspective weekend reunion ten years after the death of one of their group’s most vivacious members. Hardly a typical such event, the ceremonies primarily feature the friends sitting around a board room table and rehashing their personal disappointments, significant others affixed at their sides.
This premise seems better suited to the stage than the screen. Making a film in which characters are perched at the same seats in the same location for an hour and a half runs the risk of growing staid quickly by neglecting the medium’s visual needs. Yet, Hruska plowed ahead, assembled a quality cast (including Christopher MacDonald and Cynthia Stevenson) and cinematographer (Learan Kahanov) and shot the movie he envisioned, hoping to avoid that trap. amNewYork spoke to him about the film.
What is it about a reunion that makes it an interesting subject for a film?
Any college reunion is of interest for a lot of reasons. It’s kind of a fascinating experience; you get all these people you once knew years ago who you inevitably had ideas about how they might develop, who would be a world leader, who might not be etc. It’s just fascinating to see how people did develop. I think it’s more fascinating when the reunion is of a group of people with whom you’ve had a real friendship, a solid bond kind of friendship, and they’re the people with whom you shared dreams, aspirations.
February 19, 2009
Interview with Morgan Dews
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
A movie could not have more personal significance for its maker than “Must Read After My Death” does for director Morgan Dews. Culled from hours of audio recordings, eight millimeter home movie footage and letters left behind by his grandmother Allis after her death in 2001, the film tells the story of her difficult, dysfunctional relationship with her husband Charley and their children, and the various forces that pulled their idyllic 1960s suburban household apart.
With Allis’ candid, harrowing testimony and recorded conflicts with Charley and her children providing the soundtrack to the happier footage, the filmmaker puts together a genuine, heartbreaking American horror story, without any sensationalizing. He spoke to amNewYork about the film, which opens at the Quad Cinema tomorrow.
How did your background in history influence your decision and desire to make this film?
There’s a strong connection. One of the reasons I never really pursued history after undergrad was that I didn’t want to be writing so much. But one of the things I love the most about history was the respect it has for firsthand material. One of the great things about social history, one of the things that makes it relevant to this particular [project] is that you only really get to know how people used to live when you find journals and things like that. That does become the real firsthand evidence of what really went on.
February 3, 2009
For the "IT Crowd" nerds
While I'm posting extended interviews from stories that have already been published in the paper, here are some excerpts from my interview with Graham Linehan (producer/writer of "The IT Crowd").
What happened with the American version?
They did a pilot that was exactly the same as the first episode but with one or two minor changes. It was disappointing to me because they didn’t really think to speak to me about it, and I felt that we made a lot of mistakes in the first series that I could easily have told them how to avoid. But instead they just made a carbon copy, and imported all our biggest problems.
I think the actual theme of the show and what the show is about would translate very well to the American setting, but the style the show is in is a very specific style of British comedy. There’s a kind of heightened surrealism that you don’t really see as much of in American comedy, especially mainstream American comedy. I felt that in trying to ape it, they were kind of going away from what’s best about American comedy, to my mind.
On Evolution: An interview with Mark Pallen
For this week's book page, in honor of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday (Feb. 12) I emailed with professor Mark Pallen, the author of "The Rough Guide to Evolution." Unfortunately, due to space restrictions, only the answer to my last question ("How do you read "Origin of the Species?" you'll see it below) made it in the paper.
But the internet is limitless! So below is a full Q&A between Pallen and me.
I really enjoyed the mix of hard science and casual language and pop culture references. What led you to tackle the project in this manner?
For the last five years, I have run a Darwin Day symposium in Birmingham, England, which has exposed me to the wide range of Darwin’s impact on academic life and popular culture. ... One year, we even had a celebration of Darwin’s Origin of Species as a reggae album (something I threw together with a Jamaican colleague, Dominic White). So, when it came to writing "The Rough Guide to Evolution," it seemed perfectly natural for me to explore the impact of Darwin and evolution outside biology — on other sciences, on religion and in popular culture.
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February 2, 2009
The Panic in Needle Park
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
• “The Panic in Needle Park” is at Film Forum through Feb. 5. 209 W. Houston St., btwn Sixth Ave. and Varick St.
On paper “The Panic in Needle Park” — a romantic drama about two drug addicts living in and around Sherman Square, known in the early 1970s as Needle Park — should never really have worked.
When it was released in 1971 director Jerry Schatzberg was known primarily as a photographer. The screenwriters, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, were essayists and novelists. They cast as their leads unknown stage actors named Kitty Winn and Al Pacino.
Now Film Forum is reviving the film. amNewYork spoke with Winn, long since retired from acting, about her memories of the production.
How did “The Panic in Needle Park” come your way?
I was performing in George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan” at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the producer Dominick Dunne came up and saw that production and then came back afterward with the script. He handed me the script and asked me if I would read it and I did.
December 8, 2008
David Wain dishes on Stella
By Scott A. Rosenberg
• Stella is at Nokia Theatre Times Square Tuesday and Wednesday. 8 p.m., $27.50.
NSFW
While Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black and David Wain have done well for themselves on their own, some of their finest moments come when they work together, having collaborated on “The State,” “Stella” and the cult-favorite film, “Wet Hot American Summer.”
The three funny men are reuniting for a tour of their comedy troupe Stella, formerly a nightclub variety act and a Comedy Central show that emphasized short videos.
Wain, 39, has made his name directing, helming “Wet Hot” and “The Ten,” as well as producing and starring in a popular Web-based series called “Wainy Days.”
amNewYork spoke with Wain, who recently rocked the box office with his latest directorial work, the raucous comedy “Role Models,” about the Stella tour.
November 30, 2008
Melvin Van Peebles lands Gotham Independent Film Awards Tribute
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
Melvin Van Peebles’ “Story of a 3-Day Pass” and “Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchy Mutha” are screening at the Museum of Modern Art Monday. “Pass” 6:15pm; “Mutha” 8pm, $10.
In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles changed the film world forever when he directed, wrote and starred in “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” the movie credited with introducing the Blaxploitation genre.
It also provided a blueprint for the creation of financially viable independent cinema that has been followed by multiple successors.
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November 24, 2008
Got 'Milk?" Penn gives Harvey Milk his due in new biopic
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
Despite an acclaimed documentary, “The Times of Harvey Milk,” which celebrated his legacy as the first openly homosexual person to hold elected office in the United States, Harvey Milk is barely acknowledged in most mainstream historical discourse.
Now, 30 years after his assassination at the hand of fellow San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White and amidst the polarizing debate over the passage of California’s Proposition 8, Harvey has begun to get the appreciation he’s always deserved.
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November 9, 2008
Harry Potter star David Thewlis explores his evil side
By Kara Warner
Special to amNewYork
Though David Thewlis didn’t set out to become an actor, he has enjoyed 28 successful years in the business, complete with dozens of high profile films to his credit — Mike Leigh’s award-winning “Naked,” “The Big Lebowski” and, perhaps his most recognizable role, Professor Lupin in the “Harry Potter” franchise.
Thewlis’ in-between-Potter project is “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” in theaters now, a film based on the book of the same name, set during WWII.
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November 6, 2008
Jean-Claude Van Damme: The Muscles from Brussels sprouts anew
By Robert Levin
Special to amNewYork
Unless you’re a big fan of the movie “Replicant” or if just hearing the words “Wake of Death” conjures up rosy memories, you’ve probably spent at least some part of the past nine years wondering what Jean-Claude Van Damme has been doing.
From the mid ’80s through the late ’90s, Van Damme, 48, achieved international stardom with such immortal action fare as “Bloodsport” and “Street Fighter,” and one could reasonably expect that he’d headline at least one or two new theatrically released flicks each year.
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November 5, 2008
Brian Regan returns for the New York Comedy Festival
By Ed Condran
Special to amNewYork
• Brian Regan is at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday, 8pm, $32-$64.50.
• For a full schedule of the New York Comedy Festival, running through Sunday, log on to www.nycomedyfestival.com.
Clever, clean and unpredictable sums up Brian Regan’s comedy. The veteran observational comic, who has been on the circuit since 1980, will perform Sunday at the Lincoln Center as part of the New York Comedy Festival.
The former Heidelberg College football player recently took some time while lounging around his Las Vegas home to chat about his return to New York City.
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November 3, 2008
Lance Bass, of "Dancing With the Stars," is ready for prime time
By Julie Gordon
jgordon@am-ny.com
• "Dancing with the Stars" is on ABC at 8pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Lance Bass has played a lot of roles as of late: Actor, dancer, singer, poster boy for gay youth.
And while the “Dancing with the Stars” contestant, 29, does feel a responsibility to speak out on behalf of gay rights, he’s most comfortable keeping his personal life relatively private.
Hence, a pledge never to do reality TV, but a desire to continue with his first creative love: Acting.
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Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance - A lighthearted look at vice Presidents
By Scott A. Rosenberg
scott.rosenberg@am-ny.com
If history has anything to say about it, whoever lands in the vice presidential spot, be it Sarah Palin or Joe Biden, each has a really good chance of being insignificant.
At least that’s what the comedic new history book, “Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance” by Bill Kelter and Wayne Shellabarger has surmised. From first Vice President John Adams to whoever takes over in January, the office has been a collection of politicians who have not done a whole lot while in office. In fact, the office has been so poorly regarded that it has been left vacant for a total of 37 years for the first 176 years of its existence.
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November 2, 2008
Joan Rivers on politics, plastic surgery and her public persona
Joan Rivers’ red-carpet fashion critiques have been deemed too offensive for television, her jokes too dirty, her views on plastic surgery too out there. She even got booted from a British talk-show earlier this year for calling Russell Crowe a f------ piece of s---.
But the 75-year-old doesn’t plan on holding back any time in the future, and she doesn’t care if others don’t approve.
“I think if I had censored myself I wouldn’t have had a 40-year career,” she told us.
Rivers brings her wit to Manhattan’s Cutting Room throughout November and December.
The show starts on Election Day. How much political material will you do?
That’s all we’re thinking about. But it’s not only political. I’m going to give my opinions on the people and then we’ll go from there.
What’s the funniest part of politics to make fun of?
Every day something else annoys me. It’s just what annoys you, never what makes you happy.
What’s annoying you now?
We can’t get my dog to be housebroken, so you know that’ll be discussed. I’m looking at man’s best friend and thinking of dinner. That dog with six potatoes in a stew would be delicious.
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October 30, 2008
Beth Ostrosky on running the Marathon
Beth Ostrosky didn’t bask in marital bliss the morning after her star-studded Le Cirque wedding to Howard Stern in October. Instead, she ran eight miles.
“I had to stick to my plan,” said Ostrosky, referring to her strict training regimen for the New York City Marathon, which she’s running on Sunday.
Ostrosky, 36, told us about her intense marathon preparation and her new husband’s important role in the process.
How did you decide to run?
Ever Sunday in November when the New York City Marathon happens, I’ve always said to myself, ‘I want to do that someday.’ But I didn’t have an incentive to run. I’m the spokesperson for the North Shore Animal League and I was seeing Lance Armstrong on every interview raising money for his charity. And I thought, ‘My gosh, that’s the perfect thing for me.’ My goal was to raise $10,000 per marathon mile, in hopes to raise $260,000. I raised over $280,000.
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