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They’re nonetheless reeling ’em in
No point out that New York creator Lauren Weisberger wrote her authentic drafts of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” in courses at the West Side YMCA. Longtime. For “The Writer’s Voice,” author Jim Fragale says, “I took classes there when I was young and I know.”
Meryl Streep on this latest Prada pic: “The shoes were more comfortable twenty years ago.”
Yet one other movie. Russell Crowe is one of dozens and dozens of exec producers on one thing known as “Beast.” Also performs a tough-talking coach. Gone from “Gladiator” to “glad I could help.”
Russell: “I read an early draft and told the director, ‘Mate, a good story there, but we can make it great.’ ”
He flew to Sydney and started working. Result? Chop ’em up kung foolery shot in Sydney and Bangkok. Real fights in actual stadiums. See the factor. Wear a black belt. It’s streaming now.
Listen, I’m not one to drag the wool over your eyes — so — worst involves worst you may all the time see the newest Hugh Jackman factor twice. He goes baah-baah in “The Sheep Detectives.” See it, in theaters. Wear a sweater. Thank ewe.
Next Belafonte era ‘shake, shakes’ into line
Harry Belafonte’s granddaughter Sarafina Belafonte sings, too. Also obtained her neuroscience degree from Columbia.
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Sarafina: “My grandfather and I had listening parties in his living room, trading his historical anecdotes for my pop culture. Once came time to play my own music for him. Grandpa a tough critic. I anxiously anticipated his response. When the track ended, he asked, ‘So you made this?’ Then, tears in his eyes, he said, ‘I am proud of you. Keep going.’ I replay that in my mind.”
Her new EP “Like a Man” debuts Friday, with a live performance and release social gathering at 8 p.m. at MMAC Theatre at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center on the West Side. Grab tickets and make a “day-o” of it.
Bumping alongside
Not everybody has it simple.
Once, I walked into the Plaza fundamental eating room and a maitre d’ bowed low, kissed my hand and addressed me as “Mrs. Zimmerman.”
Judge Judy, when late for a VIP appointment, raced from the fitness center, slammed on her wig prepared to fulfill a VIP — solely the wig was on backward.
Years in the past, Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand organized a stunning lodge suite for me in Bangkok. Phone in the front room rang. I ran to retrieve it. Nobody advised me a cot had been opened, in case we needed it — and I cut my leg to bits, after I fell over it.
In days of previous, Kate Smith sang and popularized “God Bless America.” Singing it in a high-school auditorium, on a clean hardwood flooring, she by accident caught in a hand gesture which broke her long, long opera-length pearl necklace and — one-by-one — every very giant spherical pearl hit that naked picket flooring like a drumbeat.
Mother to the principal: “Sir, do you think my boy is trying?”
Principal: “Yes, ma’am. Your son is the most trying kid in this school.”
For sure, can solely be in New York, children, solely in New York.
