Britt Plunkett runs his forearm across his head, pushing sweat off his brow. “I actually took a picture of the thermostat,” he says. “I just had to record it: 99 degrees.”For Paul Rudd, the decision to star in Jay Roach’s new comedy, “Dinner for Schmucks,” was an easy one. “I thought the script was really funny,” he says. “That was it. It was kind of a no-brainer.” Of course Rudd, who’s built an impressive resume of smart comedies, was just as enamored of the man behind the camera. Though Lilith Fair returned from an 11-year hiatus to a very different musical landscape, it is one that Sarah McLachlan and Co. helped lay the blueprints for more than a decade ago.Although facts on the famed Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding, which is rumored to happen this weekend, are tighter than Hillary Clinton’s smile, some details have leaked out. Sources report that groom Marc Mezvinsky has “hurt” his father’s family by not inviting them to the wedding (Ed Mezvinsky pleaded guilty in 2002 to swindling investors out of $10 million.He may play the part of a high-end gigolo in “The Extra Man,” but offscreen, Kevin Kline continues to be quite a charmer.
Even if the name Isaiah Zagar is unfamiliar, anyone who’s spent time in Philadelphia would recognize his work.
Zagar’s mosaic murals, which have come to be an essential component of the city’s offbeat cultural identity, cover several buildings in Philly and create a tiny alternate world in his Magic Garden on South Street.
Jeremiah Zagar was a fledgling 19-year-old documentarian when he decided to heed his mother’s urgings and capture his father on film.
“For four months we got nothing,” Jeremiah recalls, after which he decided to take Isaiah out of his usual surroundings and into the more isolated environs of the family’s summer home in West Virginia. “Once I shot that, I realized it had this incredibly intimate, revealing, honest stuff that I wasn’t going to get otherwise and I’d never get again. What was clear was that you were understanding the building blocks of a human being and also understanding that he loved this woman, his wife.”
That began the seven-year process of filming “In a Dream,” which opens Friday. Jeremiah managed to shoot not only his father’s artistic process and a revealing personal history, but the family’s near-breakdown and eventual reconciliation when Isaiah revealed, on camera, that he’d been having an affair with his assistant.
“In the beginning, I certainly thought of my father as a mountain,” Jeremiah says, “as a person who was revered and extolled in the community. I loved him as a human being, but mostly as a father, and someone who could do no terrible wrong. Certainly nothing so utterly human as he did. Through making the movie I went through a series of emotional feelings about him: reverence and excitement and horror and distrust and disappointment.”
In the year since its world premiere at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival, “In a Dream” has won numerous fest awards and was shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination. But more importantly, it continues to have a happy ending. Jeremiah says that he and his father are able to be friends, and his parents’ marriage is as solid as ever. “The movie has very much strengthened our family.”
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