Marisa Tomei. Producing the coming film “Loitering With Intent,” she says: “I got into producing out of necessity and curiosity. Reading scripts, looking for ideas got me into subjects that don’t always come across for an actress. Others are doing the heavy lifting, and I’m a neophyte, but it’s exciting.”
Meantime, she’s in the John Lithgow-Alfred Molina new movie “Love Is Strange.” “I play Lithgow’s niece. The homosexual married pair lose their house. No money, no home, seems like a love story but it’s really about New York real estate.”
Sony Pictures Classics co-president Tom Bernard: “To exist, each of the couple moves in with others. We have a great modern family story here. Really touching.” He said all this through a bag of popcorn.
Cinema Society, hosting the screening, usually springs for sodas. This time, alcohol. Either the film’s A-1 or because Grey Goose underwrote the event.
Choosing one’s America
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on America’s cop bashing plague: “It’s a general push against policy. Not just New York or Ferguson. It’s like anti-law and order in the ’90s. With today’s Alphabet City and downtown safety, millennials don’t remember those ’70s and ’80s.
“The pendulum will swing. Congress now talks of supporting the police, who are growing unsupported. It’s become a political issue. We’re a nation of laws. Cops can’t change them. The rule of law being police and public must work together. The question facing our country is, which America do you want?”
A bad big break
More actresses. Parker Posey about her new bracelet. A wrist bandage. “I fell off a ladder during the time I was with Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix in Rhode Island doing Woody Allen’s new movie. I’d sold my city apartment and bought a big house upstate with huge space.
“Having turned myself into a pretzel, I was painting my third room. Alone. By myself. Eager to get the job done, I fell off the ladder and broke my wrist. Big break. Five days later it needed surgery and four therapy sessions.
“I told Woody it was a big break, so everyone sent specialists. What I learned is, you break something and you meet new people.”
Apologies, Judy
Last week some dumbkopf reported Judge Judy’s new book launches at an LA party Sept. 8. But this lummox (the reporter, not the judge) misprinted the info. “What Would Judy Say: Be the Hero of Your Own Story” explains how women must define their worth, stick to it, find courage for risks, ignore fearmongers, create their own destiny, build a backup plan, get what’s deserved, etc.
You’ll hear all about it by Sept. 8 — so leave me alone. If you know how Judy treats a miscreant on her TV show, imagine what she did to the poor soul who screwed up her book. Me!
Odds & ends
Either my TV or Lester (NBC-TV) Holt’s scalp is brightening. His hairs have reddened…
Upcoming Lena Dunham segment takes place in an Iowa school. Nobody in “Girls” loved sniffing Middle America, so the episode filmed in Ditmas Park and Staten Island…
Try upper Second Avenue bistro Vinus and Marc. A bar, but owner/chef Frank Locker does A-1 food…
Thanks to Rita Cosby’s WABC 5 p.m. radio show for plugging me…
Per a Hamptonite: “With the cameras and the posturing, some restaurants now bar the Kardashians. They’re like hemorrhoids. Go away for a quick time but always return. You can’t get rid of them, and they’re painful.”
Only in the Hamptons, kids, only in the Hamptons.