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On Saturday, May 23, the Cannes Film Festival awarded an honorary Palme d’Or on its final night of festivities. This honor is a prestigious one, given to only the most accomplished members of the film industry. Past recipients include Agnès Varda, Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, and other legends working both in front of the camera and behind it.… read more.
At the beginning of this month (aka Women’s History Month), I spent a windy Saturday at Salon 94, a gorgeous Upper East Side gallery just off Museum Mile in Manhattan. I did so alongside two women: FF2 editor-in-chief Jan Lisa Huttner and Lisa Alexander (my mother). Time spent at a curated art exhibition is a treat any time, but this experience was made all the sweeter by its artist: Deborah Kass.… read more.
Today, January 8, 2022 – on the second anniversary of her death at age 93 – we remember songwriter Marilyn Bergman.
Marilyn (almost always in collaboration with her husband Alan) is responsible for some of the greatest song lyrics in film history. Throughout their long career, Alan & Marilyn also collaborated with powerhouse composers such as Marvin Hamlisch and Michel Legrand, and, most significantly, with songstress Barbra Streisand.… read more.
Were you to walk the streets of Cullman (AL) on a night in 1975, you would find yourself in a very quiet place. Cullman is small, surrounded on all sides by farmland and clumps of sweetgum trees. On that 70s night, it would have been dark, and, save the radio of an occasional passing pickup, quiet. But if you followed the right street down into a flat residential area, a voice could eventually be made out, just over the din of the cicadas.… read more.
On May 4th (~ 2 months ago), FF2 posted my review of standby Julie Benko’s opening night performance as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl.
Although I have seen many Broadway performances, Julie’s performance was a rare chance to actually see a star being born, and watching her debut is a memory I will always treasure. Since then, Julie has earned many more fans.… read more.
I went to see the new Broadway revival of Funny Girl on April 23, which put me at the last matinee performance on the final day of previews…
Then, after Funny Girl opened the next day and all the reviews started coming in, I asked myself: What show did these critics see?
When I went into the theater, I was already a big Beanie Feldstein fan.… read more.