Woody Allen’s new new movie “Magic in the Moonlight” is out in July. It’s about when he starts his newest new movie. The guy’s more prolific than Octomom.
Woody: “This one’s set in Nice in the 1920s. I have a great cameraman, terrific art director, but finding locations was hard. We had to travel around, do selective shooting to re-create primitive spots like in the old days.
“We’re talking bootleggers, nightclubs, the Charleston. But where were the nightclubs? Nothing was there then. It was a great shock. That era was right after the Russian revolution. Rich Russians went to the South of France to escape.
“First I thought. Wow! Ten weeks. South of France. With a cast of Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish Linklater. Fantastic. My band flew over, and we did concerts and went to other cities. But then came another problem — it’s countryside. And I’m a city person. I don’t do greens, trees and butterflies.”
Odds, ends
Kentucky native band leader Bob Hardwick and “Legally Blonde” Tony nominee Laura Bell Bundy did whatever they do — besides bourbon — at Louisville’s Derby Eve Julep Ball. Plus, they were ecstatic to have had — ready? — Orange County Real Housewhatever Lizzie Rovsek. I knew you’d want to know . . . Our unannounced non-running presidential candidate? The husband, the daughter are Out There. Doing luncheons, colleges to get the young’uns, even Hillary’s unborn grandchild is signed with a lecture agent.
Peek at Brando on the beach
JUNE Departures shows an “exclusive first look” at the Brando, Tahiti’s new eco-hotel, which opens in July. Filming “Mutiny on the Bounty,” Marlon, 26, fell for Tarita Teriipaia, 19, and in 1960 paid $260,000 for this Teti’aroa property.
1970. With Marlon off filming, I visited their Polynesian hideaway. Said Tarita: “I have no help. Nobody. I do all the cleaning, cooking, laundry myself. With my own sewing machine, I sewed curtains for the four bedrooms.”
Living room? Bare. Lone costly item? His motorcycle. Tarita: “When Marlon’s here he mostly just sleeps. Or stares at his only true love — his daughter Cheyenne.”
Two decades later Cheyenne, a dancer in Papeete, was involved in killing her lover. Her brother Christian, convicted, was imprisoned. She committed suicide.
The brand-new super-private Brando on the beach, off a lagoon, is king-size beds, outside tubs, 35 villas and for honeymooners — $2,500 a night.
Damp, dapper
LAST week’s Kips Bay Decorator Show. Mad Ave.’s Palace Hotel lobby rain-soaked. High-heeled attendees waded into Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper’s Giacometti lamp, Rauschenberg painting, twin 1742 Italian black-and-white large marble tables for $2 million. Chubb insured. Shipping extra. Nice. Go great in a co-shared walk-up.
Past Preston Bailey, who did Sean Parker, LeBron James events and Trump’s (last) wedding, were glories from Martyn Lawrence Bullard, who does Schumacher’s exclusive wallpaper. And Juan Montoya showing what “Prince Michael of Greece found in Queens and which now costs double.” And not found at Raymour and Flanigan.
“This is not decorating for anyone. Just what we want to present,” they said. “We’re used to clients who don’t listen.”
There was lots more, but I couldn’t stay. I was damp.
Modern take
A celeb: “Cellphone photos are murder. You once scrawled an illegible autograph in four seconds. Now: ‘Stand here . . . wait till I find my phone . . . ohh, move sideways, you’re in a bad light . . . didn’t come out right . . . do it again . . .’ You’re stuck 15 minutes!”
Tourist from some buffalo-logged westerly cistern: “You people think you’re so special.” Reply: “It’s because we’re New Yorkers. We put the ‘F’ in attitude.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.