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Stars Kick Off Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair-Style

April 30th, 2008

There is no tip sheet for the Vanity Fair Tribeca Film Festival party — which is typically a bad sign — but reporters brush that notion aside for the kickoff soiree held at the State Supreme Courthouse in NYC. After all, it is Vanity Fair, and they host the Oscar party.

While Madonna and Mariah Carey are in town for the Festival, they clearly have other plans tonight. But Jerry Seinfeld and wife Jessica, David Bowie and Iman, James Gandolfini and girlfriend, John McEnroe and his Angie Harmon lookalike wife Patty Smyth and Russell Simmons and his gal pal head up the steps and into the party.

Waiting on the inside is a dinner of leafy green salad with light vinaigrette, chicken pot pie and roasted carrots — capped off with a dessert of warm chocolate soufflé cake, fresh berries and vanilla ice cream. Pretty lime green shamrock chrysanthemums, green tea roses and princess Irene roses fill the space, and the sounds of Don’t Know Why by Norah Jones and Fugees’ Killing Me Softly fill the air.

Here’s Regis Philbin, accompanied by wife Joy. What does he love about this party? “They’ve got an old building and it’s all dolled up,” friendly Reege says. “It’s very New York. There’s a lot of energy.”

Martha Stewart won’t get political while the Pennsylvania primaries are in motion. “It’s very, very close,” she says. Who is she rooting for? “I’ll tell you tomorrow.” But Oprah’s BFF Gayle King is loud and proud. “I got a crush on Obama,” she sings as she crosses her fingers. “And the exit polls look good!”

Chazz Palminteri brings Gianna, his wife of “twenty years,” as his date. Why are they a good match? “We’re two people who really care about each other. We fight, but we want to hang out with each other. And we like making up.”

Billy Crystal, Larry David and Harvey Keitel move through when designer Zac Posen gasps. “What do I say to OK! Magazine?”

Here is John Leguizamo and his wife Justine. He flashes a peace sign, a la Miley Cyrus.

Why do they make a good couple? “I’m Latin and she’s Jewish,” he tells me. “It’s the most perfect blend of people. We’re both neurotic, we’re both passionate, we’re both intense.”

Sigourney Weaver says “I’ll see you tomorrow,” just as Angelica Huston breezes through. Oh, Zoe Kravitz is here! Good times. I chat with Drena De Niro, who tells me her dad – and Tribeca Film Festival founder — Robert makes a great grandfather. (He plays Candyland and Chutes and Ladders with her son. How sweet!)

Padma Lakshmi admits she has no diet tips to share, but Liam Neeson’s wife Natasha Richardson charms with her lilting British accent. “Vanity Fair throws a good party,” she says.

We’re waiting on Clive Owen when word arrives he’s a “maybe” at the end of the evening. It’s not even day one of the jampacked Tribeca Film Festival. Gotta conserve the energy.

 

Pick up the OK! on newsstands this week for more coverage of the Tribeca Film Festival. “Angelina and Brad’s Wedding of the Year” is the cover line.

OK! Interview: The Cast of My Sexiest Year

December 3rd, 2007 / Author: OK! Staff

It was a sexy feast for the cast of My Sexiest Year at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Harvey Keitel, Daphna Kastner, Frankie Muniz and model-turned-actress Karolina Kurkova dined at Prime 103 to toast the premiere of their coming-of-age dramedy and OK! joined them for the four-course meal.

On the menu were steak, salmon and lobster risotto, topped off with banana spring rolls for dessert, and everyone scarfed the dishes down. Yes, that includes the slim and slender Karolina, who confesses she doesn’t diet, and instead chooses to stay in shape through exercise.

"If your body’s strong your mind is strong, so you should sweat it out," she tells OK!

Daphna is also Harvey’s wife of six years, and while many suggest couples to not mix business with pleasure, the actress admitted that working together "is better than not working together."

As for Frankie, he’s finally back at work in the field that made him a household name after a two-year sabbatical. Following Malcolm in the Middle’s cancellation, the 21-year-old turned his focus onto his first love of race car driving and currently competes in the Champ Car Atlantic Championship.

"I love being an actor but if I had to choose one over the other, I’d definitely pick racing cars."

For more on the cast of My Sexiest Year, check out their exclusive gallery and pick up the latest issue of OK!, on newsstands now!

The Cast of My Sexiest Year

November 29th, 2007

Hamptons Weekend With the Stars

October 23rd, 2007 / Author: OK! Staff

The 15th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival brought life back to the beach over the weekend, as stars such as Harvey Keitel, John Cusack, Keri Russell and Lisa Kudrow dropped in to support their recently sold, for-sale or soon-to-be-released films. OK! went beyond the velvet rope, sat front row for all the action, hosted a dinner party for My Sexiest Year and caught up with the festival’s rising stars.


Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007

After checking into The Hedges Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast a short walk from the theater in East Hampton, we went to see My Sexiest Year. Recently acquired by ThinkFilm, My Sexiest Year is a coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s. Harvey Keitel stars as the estranged father to Frankie Muniz’s character, Jack, who moves from Brooklyn to Miami to live with his gambling father after his mother becomes ill. The curve ball leads Jack to his celebrity crush, Amber Valetta, and on a path that will forever change the lives of everyone involved.


Although Amber had to stay in L.A. to celebrate her son’s birthday, after the film OK! had the privilege of hosting a dinner party at Prime 103 for castmembers including Harvey, Frankie and model Karolina Kurkova, who made her big-screen debut in the film. In between courses, Karolina told us she hopes this film is just the beginning of her acting career, Frankie said he’d rather drive race cars, and Harvey shared a story about being in the steam room at the YMCA and overhearing two men who couldn’t see him through the steam talk about a movie they saw and didn’t like. The movie was Mean Streets, starring Harvey Keitel. This time everyone in the audience had only positive things to say about the movie and Harvey’s performance! You can read all about the dinner in an upcoming issue of OK! and see My Sexiest Year in theaters this summer.


Friday, October 19, 2007

Supporting rising star Jess Weixler, we went to see Teeth, one of the Sundance Film Festival’s most much-buzzed-about films (it hits theaters late this year). Be warned: The film is about a teen, played by Jess, who has a medical condition called vagina dentat, which she discovers the hard way when she dismembers — using teeth not in her mouth — a classmate who forces her to have intercourse. Despite the film’s subject matter and graphic gore that can be described as, at best, disturbing, Jess’ talent and charm shine through and should give the actress, who resembles a young Alicia Silverstone, opportunities for more commercial-friendly films in the future.


Saturday, October 20, 2007

The cast alone of the closing night film, August Rush, was enough to pique interest. Starring Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Terrence Howard, Robin Williams and young actor Freddy Highmore, August Rush is a musically driven romantic drama about a 10-year-old prodigy, played by Freddie, who is orphaned at birth and literally uses the music in his head to find and reunite his parents, played by Keri and Jonathan. During the last few minutes of the film there was hardly a dry eye in the house. When we caught up with musical supervisor Anastasia Brown afterwards, she revealed that there were only 60 seconds in the 100-minute movie without a musical score. For me, Jonathan Rhys Myers’ actually singing and playing the guitar in his role as a rock band front man is reason enough to see the film that opens nationwide Nov. 21.

 

To Drink or Not to Drink

October 21st, 2007

I drink often, obviously, I’m Society Editor of a national magazine and a large part of my position entails jetsetting around from party to party, sampling libations one pass cocktail tray and open bar to the next.

Yet, because I drink with such regularity, and because going out and ‘getting wasted man’ never particularly appealed to me, I don’t necessarily drink a lot when I go out, just a few glasses of wine, couple of martinis, tequila on the rocks when I’m tired.

Every now and again I’ll not drink for a bit to prove that I can have fun sober and see if my body feels any different a couple of weeks alcohol-free. This usually coincides with being on antibiotics, as it started this time.

After the sugary concoctions I consumed in Antigua I was happy to stay away from liquor for the days following - which eventually led into the hospital visit, antibiotics and doctor recommending, ‘Don’t drink on these.”

Which brings me to two debates I have with myself and I think are common- can you/should you drink on antibiotics - and does red wine count?

The first 12 days I didn’t  have a drop of alcohol - despite three nice dinners, a dive bar to see a band, the fancy hugo boss affair where champagne was flowing and I had to bop around on the dance floor sober and hosting a dinner party for 40 people including Harvey Keitel the opening night of the Hampton’s Film Festival ! Instead, I had cranberry/soda with lime and I realized, quite like smoking must be, a part of the experience is just having something to sip and hold.

Day 13 was day 2 at the Hamptons Film Festival and over at The Hedges Inn, the quaint bed and breakfast where a few OK!ers spent the weekend (as well as Marcia Gay Harden and some cute boys from Heineken), Carol was behind the bar pouring pinot noir to complement the decadent fruit and cheese spread that graced the bar top for happy hour.

I immediately justified the single glass as antioxidants for medicinal purposes. When I had the second glass I justified that the first was really only half a glass and this the other half. I did the same thing the next night. But is two glasses of red wine that bad on your body or your waistline?

In many European countries kids drink wine with meals. French woman drink wine like we drink our chemically-laden fruit juices and they’re notoriously slim. It’s even said that their moderate and daily consumption of red wine may be the most likely reason they suffer so few heart attacks and two to three glasses of wine a day reduces death rates from all ailments by up to 30 percent. 

So, in my mind the detox continues. Beating myself up about indulging in the healthy libation can only lead to stress - which is not healthy, so I’ll refrain. Cheers.

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