13 December 2006
Bad News for Camels Everywhere
If you have a camel, don't let it fly with Turkish Airlines: in celebration of the delivery of 100 aircraft, maintenance workers at Turkish Airlines bought a camel and sacrificed it at the Istanbul International Airport. Yikes. BBC News report
12 December 2006
The Good Shepherd
Last night (Mon Dec 11) was the world premiere of Robert deNiro's latest film The Good Shepherd, at the Zeigfeld Theater in Manhattan. And guess who was lucky enough to get a ticket...
Leaving work at 5.30 to go home to Brooklyn and change into something nicer than jeans was really pushing the limits of getting back up to 54th Street by 7pm, when the film was supposed to start. I should have known better, though; most people were still outside for all the red-carpet arrivals at 7.00 when I got there, and the screening didn't even begin until after 7.30. In my rush to make sure I found the woman who had my ticket I sort of breezed by all the celebrity excitement, so unfortunately I don't have any photos of that; the only people I saw and recognized were Billy Crudup and the TFF Web Producer (who I see every day anyway). What I did get to see, however, were a couple of short speeches before the screening by Jane Rosenthal and Robert deNiro, who introduced the cast members who were present: John Turturro, Lee Pace, Eddie Redmayne, Billy Crudup, Lars Gerhard, Tammy Blanchard, Angelia Jolie, and Matt Damon (and someone else whose name I can't remember).
And then the film began. It's cool to be able to say that I went to the world premiere, but having seen it now I won't go see it again. The acting is great, the art direction (by Jeannine Oppewall - proud BMC graduate!) and photography are beautiful, but at nearly 3 hours, it was far too long, and it didn't really hold my attention. I'm sure that was partly because I don't know anything about the Bay of Pigs (the incident the film is centered around), but I also didn't know anything about the Cuban Missile Crisis when I saw Thirteen Days, and that one had me on the edge of my seat.
Had I caught up with some coworkers who were also there I might have made it to one of the parties afterward, but I'm one who likes to sit through the credits, and when I finally got out of the theatre the whole place was basically deserted. So I went home and went to sleep. (And found out today that the parties weren't that great anyway, i.e. they were too dry. ;) )
There's a Screen Daily review here...and that's about all the news there is about the film: everything else is reports of Brangelina sightings. My favorite is from sky.com, saying that their appearance together has "finally, publicly, shown they're an item." Because obviously the summer photos of their children aren't proof enough...
Leaving work at 5.30 to go home to Brooklyn and change into something nicer than jeans was really pushing the limits of getting back up to 54th Street by 7pm, when the film was supposed to start. I should have known better, though; most people were still outside for all the red-carpet arrivals at 7.00 when I got there, and the screening didn't even begin until after 7.30. In my rush to make sure I found the woman who had my ticket I sort of breezed by all the celebrity excitement, so unfortunately I don't have any photos of that; the only people I saw and recognized were Billy Crudup and the TFF Web Producer (who I see every day anyway). What I did get to see, however, were a couple of short speeches before the screening by Jane Rosenthal and Robert deNiro, who introduced the cast members who were present: John Turturro, Lee Pace, Eddie Redmayne, Billy Crudup, Lars Gerhard, Tammy Blanchard, Angelia Jolie, and Matt Damon (and someone else whose name I can't remember).
And then the film began. It's cool to be able to say that I went to the world premiere, but having seen it now I won't go see it again. The acting is great, the art direction (by Jeannine Oppewall - proud BMC graduate!) and photography are beautiful, but at nearly 3 hours, it was far too long, and it didn't really hold my attention. I'm sure that was partly because I don't know anything about the Bay of Pigs (the incident the film is centered around), but I also didn't know anything about the Cuban Missile Crisis when I saw Thirteen Days, and that one had me on the edge of my seat.
Had I caught up with some coworkers who were also there I might have made it to one of the parties afterward, but I'm one who likes to sit through the credits, and when I finally got out of the theatre the whole place was basically deserted. So I went home and went to sleep. (And found out today that the parties weren't that great anyway, i.e. they were too dry. ;) )
There's a Screen Daily review here...and that's about all the news there is about the film: everything else is reports of Brangelina sightings. My favorite is from sky.com, saying that their appearance together has "finally, publicly, shown they're an item." Because obviously the summer photos of their children aren't proof enough...
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