Enjoy An Evening Of Live Jazz & Specialty Cocktails at my personal favorite spot Petite Ermitage Hotel in West Hollywood!!! I told you all about my love affair with the Petite Hotel many months ago here!!!
Featuring: Lisa Zane - In the intimate Masters Lounge of their Private Rooftop Club!
When: Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 7pm
Address: 8822 Cynthia Street West Hollywood, CA 90069
Free to Attend - Seating is limited - rsvp@petitermitage.com
More info at 310.854.1114 www.petitermitage.com
This Sunday, January 10, 2010 7PM-10PM -- Project Butterfly, the Funkmeyers and Royal/T present an intimate evening with our good friend Mikki Willis, award-winning filmmaker and Founder of the Elevate Film Festival.
Hosted by Jenny & Otis Funkmeyer, the evening will focus on new Paradigms for Transformational Media as we embark upon the second decade of the 21st century.
"Our communication systems and media technology have reached a level never achieved before. The technology to assist in planetary and spiritual elevation is here. The question is how are we to harness these communication systems in a new way, with greater respect, responsibility and intention? How can we forge this new path? What are the obstacles? What are the next steps to be taken?"
You are invited to join us to engage more deeply in this discussion. Mikki Willis will be the keynote, where he will be sharing what he's learned through Elevate about the power of film to transform our world....
There is no better time to learn, share and discuss with a true leader in the world's greatest Lovolution! Personally, I wouldn't miss it to see Avatar for the second time!
When?
Sunday, January 10 7pm-10pm
Where?
Royal T Cafe - 8910 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232
Contribution:
$35 - Which includes a delicious dinner and a glass of wine or pot of tea.
If you have not made your reservation we recommend you do so asap, seats are filling up fast. Click here to RSVP now!
For more information about the event please visit: www.projectbutterfly.org
or feel free to email info@projectbutterfly.org
Source: Daily News - "When an actor signs up to play a character named Bad, he knows he's going to have to bring something of his dark side to the table.
"I certainly have insecurities and fears. I think most artists do. So I brought that," says Jeff Bridges about his role as a down-and-out country-western singer in "Crazy Heart," which opened in limited release Wednesday. "And there were times in my life I used blues to numb my feelings a little bit, and I sort of magnified that aspect of the character."
Yet it's those aspects that Bridges says didn't match up with Bad that have helped shape his life.
Starting in the late 1950s when he appeared on TV's "Sea Hunt," which starred his dad, Lloyd Bridges, the actor has had a career that has yielded many memorable performances in what can only can be called a crazy array of movies. Two of his early roles brought Oscar nominations - "The Last Picture Show" (1971) and "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974). Then, he was in two of the oddest big-budget films of the era - "King Kong" (1976) and Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate" (1981), widely considered one of the biggest box-office disasters of all time. In 1982 he starred in cult sci-fi film "Tron," before getting his third nomination as the gentle alien in "Starman" (1984). His fourth nod came in "The Contender" (2000).
Along the way, he's played villains - "Jagged Edge" (1985), "The Vanishing" (1993) and most recently "Iron Man" (2008) - and visionaries, "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" (1988). But Bridges is often remembered for his offbeat, unpredictable characters - "The Last American Hero" (1973) and "Stay Hungry" (1976), "The Fabulous Baker Boys" (1989), "The Fisher King" (1991), "American Heart" (1992), "Fearless" (1993) and the iconic slacker The Dude in the Coen brothers' "The Big Lebowski" (1998).
Sitting in a Beverly Hills hotel restaurant recently, Bridges, 60, looks like a cross between The Dude and Bad Blake. Wearing a rather ordinary-looking brown zip-up jacket and jeans, the actor sports a slightly scruffy goatee and longish combed-back hair.
He's got an easygoing manner, and it's obvious Bridges is enjoying the attention "Crazy Heart" is getting.
The film is being distributed by Fox Searchlight, the company that released the Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" last year.
On Sunday, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association gave Bridges its best-actor award, and he already has Spirit Award and Golden Globe nominations.
"I can't think of another film I've had so much fun on," says Bridges, who along with co-star Robert Duvall is one of the producers on the film. "And then (director) Scott Cooper pasted it together so well, and now we've got Fox Searchlight. If we didn't have that part of the equation, we wouldn't get people to see it, and that would be a shame." Coninue reading here...
Soure: Moviefone - [skip to the trailer here] "When the first trailer for Tim Burton's live-action take on Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' premiered at Comic-Con in July, it seemed like Burton had all the pieces in place for another goth-stained, Burtonesque classic: Mia Wasikowska as a 19-year-old Alice, Helena Bonham Carter as the diminutive, treacherous Red Queen, Anne Hathaway as the rival White Queen, and Johnny Depp's orange-haired Mad Hatter bouncing manically in between them.
But we only caught glimpses of Burton's Wonderland then, snippets of landscapes, hints at the twists and turns Burton made to the famous fairy tale land. In this full-length trailer, we see Wonderland bloom in full: a place that's as dark and fog-ridden as it is vibrant and mysterious.
In the film, hitting theaters March 5, Wonderland has fallen under the Red Queen's grips, and its up to Alice to save the day, but not without first butting heads with the whole, twisted gang: the toothy Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), Tweedledee and Tweedledum (voiced by Matt Lucas), and the excellent Crispin Glover's Knave of Hearts.
The best moments of this new full-length trailer, however, belong to Bonham Carter's Red Queen, a sublime creation of comic menace. "Off with their heads!" seems almost too natural of a line for her, but a few moments later, as we watch the queen rest her boots on an oinking pig and tell Depp's Hatter "I love a warm pig belly for my aching feet," it's clear that the Wonderland Burton's given us here is one we already know by heart, but is still capable of new surprises.
Culture Monster - "What does a renowned, Harvard-educated, Pulitzer Prize-winning classical music composer say just after the standing-ovation world premiere of his new symphony City Noir at Walt Disney Concert Hall, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of its wildly celebrated new music director, Gustavo Dudamel?
“That was rockin’, wasn’t it?” says a beaming John Adams.
Yeah, that’s the way “we old boomers” talk, Los Angeles Philharmonic Assn. President Deborah Borda, 60, jokes of her longtime friend and colleague Adams, 62. It doesn’t seem to surprise her during a conversation at the gala party following the Oct. 8 premiere that Adams would use the phrase when talking about “City Noir,” a work inspired by Hollywood’s classic noir films of the 1940s and ’50s.
Besides — it was rockin’. The buzz at the Latin-themed post-premiere affair seemed to have less to do with the generously distributed “Pasión” cocktail created in honor of Dudamel’s first Disney Hall concert as Philharmonic music director — an alarmingly sweet combo of rum, pineapple, coconut juice and grenadine — than with the afterglow of the music.
The heady sensation made it clear that 28-year-old Dudamel isn’t the only new kid in town at the Phil: The other is Adams, in his inaugural season as the orchestra’s creative chair and curator of the Philharmonic’s first festival of Dudamel’s tenure: West Coast, Left Coast, a three-week event launching Saturday, Nov. 21, that explores California music.
The multidisciplinary festival will feature composers and performers long associated with California’s classical music scene, including San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet, composer-musician Terry Riley and former L.A. Philharmonic Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, now the orchestra’s first conductor laureate; Salonen’s “L.A. Variations” will be on the program with “City Noir,” also conducted by Dudamel.
Also on the eclectic list are former Beach Boy Brian Wilson and “The Yellow Shark,” a contemporary composition by the late Frank Zappa that Adams will conduct and describes as “fiendishly difficult.” “Being the cantankerous person that he was, when he composed classical contemporary music, he made sure it was hard,” Adams says, with obvious relish.
To read much more about Adams and the festival, head to the Los Angeles Times' Arts page for Diane Haithman's story.
Photo Credit: Allen J. Schaben/L.A. Times
Viver Brasil will be performing for the seventh consecutive summer at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood beginning this week.
With new additions, like incorporating digital video technology and abstract imagery into the performances, Viver Brasil seeks to launch itself onto the national stage.
