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Liza Minnelli’S Oscar for “Cabaret” and Vincente Minnelli’S for “Gigi” Flank Judy Garland’S Juvenile Oscar for “The Wizard of Oz.”

Liza Minnelli’S Oscar for “Cabaret” and Vincente Minnelli’S for “Gigi” Flank Judy Garland’S Juvenile Oscar for “The Wizard of Oz.”

AT 73, THE OSCAR-WINNING STAR OF ‘CABARET’ AND DAUGHTER OF SAYS HER BIGGEST STRUGGLE WAS ‘GETTING TO BE KNOWN AS MYSELF’ Legendary

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THREE’S COMPANY Liza Minnelli’s Oscar for “Cabaret” and Vincente Minnelli’s for “Gigi” flank Judy Garland’s Juvenile Oscar for “The Wizard of Oz.”

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followed. Silverman convinced the network to drop a slate of hugely successful — “Gomer Pyle, USMC,” “Green Acres” and “Petticoat Junction,” among them — to make way for the earthier and edgier laughs of groundbreaking series including “All in the Family” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Silverman knew CBS would suffer in the long run if it relied too much on shows that appealed largely to older and rural viewers. Norman Lear, the legendary producer of “All in the Family” and other shows, puts it simply in paying tribute to the man who went out on a limb to bring Archie Bunker into America’s living rooms. “There would be no ‘All in the Family’ or ‘Maude’ with- out Fred Silverman,” Lear states. “Bless his every memory.” Silverman was never short on confidence, but he was not a braggart about his achieve- ments. Nor did he live in the past. His eye was always on the next show, or the next network stunt that might make some noise. He was full of ideas for friends and associ- ates at the major networks and studios. “Despite being somebody who had done so much, he’d always talk with you on equal terms as a fan of TV,” Kahl recalls. “He didn’t speak down to you. He was just really happy to share his love of TV with some- body who appreciated TV as much as he did. I always felt refreshed after talking with him. He so clearly loved the business.” REMEMBERED Littlefield called Silverman an “unsung hero” as a producer. “Matlock,” which starred Andy Griffith as a folksy and brilliant defense Fred Silverman Helped attorney, ran for nine seasons, starting on NBC in 1986. The show was bought in the room by then-NBC Entertainment chief Shape Modern Television Brandon Tartikoff, in part because it was hard to say no to Silverman given his enthu- siasm for the concept, Littlefield recalls. 1937-2020 EXEC WHO RAN PROGRAMMING AT EACH BIG THREE Silverman had a rocky tenure at NBC from 1978 to mid-1981. But he made an indelible NETWORK BACKED ‘ALL IN THE FAMILY’ By Cynthia Littleton contribution by taking a chance on Tartikoff, then a young executive out of Chicago, to help FRED SILVERMAN NEVER stopped pitching. months ago, industry executives say. lead the charge in programming at the net- He never stopped thinking about televi- “He very much shaped modern TV,” says work. Silverman also gave the greenlight for sion and analyzing the strengths and weak- CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl, NBC to experiment with a new kind of cop nesses of the networks he once ran, as well who had a long friendship with Silverman. show, “Hill Street Blues,” which indisputably as the dozens of outlets that came to prom- “He was a huge force in that transitional broadened the horizons of television drama. inence after his storied run as a top execu- period when TV changed from what it had He remained invested in the fortunes of tive ended in the early 1980s. been in the 1950s and ’60s.” his network alma maters. He’d been gone Silverman, a seminal figure in TV who Warren Littlefield, who moved into the from NBC for about four years when he died Jan. 30 at 82, knew that the first line of seat Silverman once held at NBC and also came in to pitch Tartikoff and Littlefield the his obituary would identify him as the only made a successful shift into producing, says idea for “Matlock.” When the group entered person — so far — to have served as head of Silverman’s command of the industry was the same conference room where Silverman programming for ABC, CBS and NBC. impressive. “That’s why Fred was so great at had once presided over meetings as NBC But after scaling the heights, he made selling,” Littlefield says. “Nobody had a better president, he made a beeline for the same a successful shift into producing at a time analysis of the reason why you need to buy head-table chair he’d sat in as boss. “He was when that path was not as nearly common this show. He would come in with an analy- back in the room, telling us what he wanted as it is today for former senior executives. sis of our strengths and weaknesses and the us to do,” Littlefield recalls. His success in the 1980s and ’90s as a competition’s strengths and weaknesses. And Kahl would occasionally get an email or producer of such series as “Matlock” FRESH FACE then he’d say, ‘That’s why you need to play in note from Silverman if CBS notched a big and “In the Heat of the Night,” and later Fred Silverman this world.’ Most of the time he was dead on.” ratings win or some other victory. He was “Diagnosis Murder,” was a testament to his in 1963, as the The risky “rural purge” gamble Silver- never mean-spirited about the competition instincts and experience, his drive and his newly installed man took in his first year after being pro- among the major networks, but he kept tabs director of CBS unbridled love of television. He was still daytime television moted to head of programming at CBS in on everything. “He was always happy when

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GUEST COLUMN and was co-directed by another — Kevin Klowden “Captain Marvel.” It was a massive box office success, one of only 46 films in history to earn more than $1 billion worldwide. “Hustlers,” a film by women about women’s empowerment, was one of the year’s most profitable films, grossing Oscars and the almost $160 million globally. Women directed, produced and starred in several other critically acclaimed Calculus of Risk stories that were hugely profitable but failed to win Academy voters’ favor. The Greta Gerwig-written and -directed “Little Women,” which was produced by Denise THE ACADEMY NEEDS TO START TAKING CHANCES Di Novi, Amy Pascal and Robin Swicord, REGARDING NOMINATIONS; REWARDS, INCLUDING deservedly garnered a best picture nomination, but voters neglected Gerwig BETTER RATINGS, WILL FOLLOW in the director category. The women- helmed “Hustlers” (Lorene Scafaria), “Harriet” (Kasi Lemmons) and “The Farewell” (Lulu Wang) combined for a total of two nominations: best actress and song for “Harriet,” which tells the story of the abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Even the good diversity news about the nominations bears a sour note. Although 31% of all nominations went to women, no woman received a director nomination. That’s nothing new. Only five women in Oscar history have been nominated in the category, and none more than once. In addition, Cynthia Erivo’s actress nomination for her portrayal of Tubman highlighted the absence of actors of color among the acting nominees. Academy voters chose not to recognize Awkwafina in “The Farewell,” even after the Asian American actor won a Golden Globe for her widely praised starring role. The Oscars are Hollywood’s way of congratulating itself for work well done. And given the number of outstanding THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY, the Academy that Hollywood decision-makers did not films this year, the industry has a lot to Awards has been subject to intense crit- expand their networks and take chances on feel good about. Filmmakers tackled icism for the issues it embraces — and talented unknowns, most notably women important, engaging subjects with skill ignores. This year’s uproar over the lack of and minorities. This gap doesn’t just affect and passion. diversity among nominations in the high- hiring of directors and lead actors; it also But the awards also reflect larger, less- est-profile awards categories is the lat- touches on choices in subject matter and a favorable truths. The industry continues est example. This failure reflects a chronic broader acknowledgment that a different, to deny people more representative of dearth of opportunity at Hollywood’s top more modern approach is likely to pay off. the changing world in which we live the artistic and financial levels. The milestone Despite Sony Screen Gems’ highly suc- opportunities they deserve. This error is nominations for best picture for “BlacKk- cessful strategy targeting African American hurting Hollywood where it counts most: Klansman” and “Black Panther” last year moviegoers with films like “Stomp the Yard” its bottom line. In this light, taking a few or the victory of “12 Years a Slave” in 2014 and “Think Like a Man” (each of which chances on creative talent outside the seem like aberrations. cost about $13 million to make and earned traditional pipelines may not be such That lack of diversity also means a more than $75 million at the box office) a big risk. missed financial opportunity due to Hol- and the global popularity of “Black Panther” The Motion Picture Academy is not lywood’s unwillingness to take reasonable and the “Fast & Furious” films with their alone, in Hollywood or in the broader risks. This is largely because the studios’ significantly minority casts and crews, entertainment industry, in falling back on frequently white, male decision-makers Hollywood too often worries that minority- what it knows best. But if it wants to boost and prominent public figures represent and women-driven projects are more likely ratings for the Oscars, and resonate more decades-old demographics and thinking. to fail. That thinking is ironic, since film- with the public, it needs to be willing to The audience for theatrical movies is now dom’s biggest flops have almost always OSCAR WORTHY take new risks — because the rewards will Kasi Lemmons dramatically more diverse in the United had white male directors and stars. surely be worth it. directs Zackary States and internationally. The year 2019 should have been a Momoh, Cynthia In the 2017 report on the Hollywood banner one for women in many respects. Erivo and Vanessa Bell Calloway workforce, “New Skills at Work: Keeping , The Co.’s highly Kevin Klowden is executive director of on the set of Los Angeles at the Cutting Edge in an Evolv- successful subsidiary, finally gambled on Focus Features’ the Milken Institute Center for Regional

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Also amazing has been the film’s box BIG DREAMS office performance: “Little Women” is hov- Greta Gerwig and DP Yorick ering at $100 million domestically, and has Le Saux check a shot on made more than $150 million worldwide. the set of “Little Women.” Gerwig is nominated for In 2014, Gerwig overheard her agent her screenplay but not talking about how Amy Pascal, Robin Swi- for directing; the film cord, and Denise Di Novi were going to do a is up for six Oscars, including best picture. new version of “Little Women.” “And I was like, ‘They what?’” Gerwig recalls. “I had just reread it. And I had an idea, and it felt fortuitous.” Gerwig actually had many ideas for a new “Little Women,” among them to merge the lives of Jo March and the book’s author, Louisa May Alcott, to begin the story with the March sisters as adults, and to adjust the emphasis on the book’s ideas. “The very first meeting I had with Amy, I said this book is about women and art and money,” she says. “And it’s very much about money — I felt like it was just sitting there on the sur- face of the whole thing.” She was hired, and wrote three or four drafts of the screenplay before going off to make “Lady Bird.” She would also occa- sionally mention that she’d like to direct: “I got what I call a ‘Hollywood no’ — nobody really says no to you, it just doesn’t go any- where.” But the five Oscar nominations for “Lady Bird” — including best picture and two for Gerwig (original screenplay and director) — got her the “Little Women” Greta Gerwig’s directing job as well. In speaking with Gerwig about the “Little Women” screenplay, she gets swept Long Day’s Journey up talking about the movie’s first scene, quoting Jo (Saoirse Ronan) as the charac- ter sells a story to a publisher: “‘What com- to Oscar Night pensation?’ which just kills me when she says that — the embarrassment of bring- ing up money! The way Saoirse does it is DIRECTOR’S PASSION PROJECT BRINGS WRITING NOD wonderful.” AFTER FILM’S YEARS-LONG PATH TO THE SCREEN After the Oscars, Gerwig will return to New York to begin rehearsals on By Kate Aurthur Sam Gold’s revival of Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” with Oscar Isaac. When BECAUSE OF THE rigid voting rules for the “I think that the directors branch could the play opens, she says, she will begin Oscars, Greta Gerwig was not able to vote probably stand to bolster its lady numbers,” writing her next project, which she for herself for best director for “Little Gerwig says over truffle fries at the London declines to detail. “Hopefully by the end Women.” When Gerwig was asked to be a hotel in West Hollywood. “This will go to the of the play, I’ll have a lot of material that member of the Academy in 2016, she was top of my to-do list!” then I can go away and start shaping more invited as an actor, and therefore that’s Had Gerwig been nominated, as she was properly. But I’m not going to direct some- the sole branch in which she votes — even for 2017’s “Lady Bird,” she would have been thing until 2021.” after a year when she wrote and directed a the first woman ever to be nominated for “Little Women” — Gerwig’s first-ever movie that ended up being nominated for best director twice — an outrageous statistic wide release — opened on Christmas best picture. given the Oscars’ 92-year history. Day, causing her holiday to “become a Gerwig remembers this Academy oddity But “Little Women” did receive six nom- little tense!” she says. She found herself while discussing not being nominated inations, including Gerwig for adapted riveted to watching the box office returns in the director category, an omission screenplay. She’s happiest about the best come in, likening the experience to the that was widely perceived, by everyone picture nod. “It felt like it was for every- old-fashioned “fantasy of being in a from Hillary Clinton to the cast of “Saturday one,” she says. “So there was a lot of “I think that theater production, where you’re waiting Night Live,” to be the single biggest snub ecstatic texting among the ‘Little Women’ the directors for the papers.” of this year’s nominations. Though Gerwig chain.” She had awakened that morning branch could “I guess some people just check out, says she had no expectations of being nom- to feed Harold, her 10-month-old baby, probably and they say, ‘It’ll do what it does, and inated, “there was clearly a chance,” she with her partner, “Marriage Story” writer- stand to bol- I’ll see later,’” Gerwig says. “But I don’t says with a laugh. “There’s probably a director . “Noah’s across ster its lady know. That’s not my way. It also dictates handful of votes that went that way. I mean, the room, and he was like, ‘I got six too!’” whether or not you get another at-bat,” mine did — oh no, I can’t!” Gerwig says. “I don’t know, it was an numbers.” she continues. “And that’s the whole thing —

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“Mamma Mia!” director Phyllida Lloyd helms a timely, empowering story about a battered wife who builds her own house, and the decent folks who come to her aid in that endeavor. The best analogy might be Ken Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake,” with a #MeToo angle to help the film’s touch-a-nerve relevance translate to American shores. — P.D.

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Rebecca Hall stars as newly widowed Beth, who feels unpleasantly un-alone at home in this creepy supernatural thriller. Though the atmospheric tale gets progressively lost in a narrative THE DISSIDENT maze that’s complicated without Distributor: N/A being particularly rewarding, director David Bruckner suffuses the action When it comes to edge-of-your-seat with enough dread and goosings to intrigue, Bryan Fogel’s documentary make this an above-average genre thriller about the murder of Saudi exercise. — D.H. Arabian Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi is a film that has everything. It’s got mystery, conspiracy, a freedom- fighting martyr-hero and a political murder carried out like a mob hit, with all that implies about the regime of Saudi THE FATHER INSTITUTE; ANNA KOORIS/SUNDANCE ZOLA: FEATURES; MERIE WEISMILLER WALLACE/FOCUS WOMAN: YOUNG PROMISING NCE INSTITUTE; Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — and those who would support him, like ZOLA — Owen Gleiberman President Trump. Distributor: A24

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SUPPORTING ACTRESS Where in the world is Jennifer Lopez (“Hustlers”)? Just about everyone in Hol- Battle for Best Picture lywood predicted J.Lo would earn her first Oscar nod for playing a stripper with a twisted business plan to swindle Wall Street THE RACE FOR OSCARS’ TOP PRIZE COMES DOWN TO ‘PARASITE’ AND ‘1917’ suits out of their money. If anyone had a chance of beating Laura Dern (“Marriage THE 92ND ACADEMY AWARDS are just days away. Story”), it was Jenny from the block. With Lopez out of the running and a season full For films like “Joker” and “Marriage Story,” the journey to the Oscars of trophies, Dern will scoop up her long began five months ago with their premieres in Venice. “1917” had the overdue Oscar gold. least amount of time on the campaign trail: The Sam Mendes war movie SUPPORTING ACTOR didn’t start screening until late November. It seems like no one in the category — not In the end, however, it all comes down to one date: Feb. 9, when the movie even Al Pacino (“The Irishman”) — had a industry celebrates its biggest night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. shot at keeping the Oscar out of Brad Pitt’s With that in mind, here are my final predictions for this year’s Oscars. hands. The “Once Upon a Time in Holly- wood” actor sealed his golden fate at the SAG Awards with a surprisingly funny LEAD ACTRESS LEAD ACTOR acceptance speech that not only zinged What is there to say except “Judy” star At the beginning of awards season, Adam Quentin Tarantino’s foot fetish but also Renée Zellweger is the front-runner for Driver (“Marriage Story’) appeared to be poked fun at himself. “Let’s be honest: It her heart-wrenching portrayal of Judy the favorite to sweep. Many argued “Joker” was a difficult part,” Pitt cracked about his Garland during the last months of her was too dark for Academy voters. But then role in “Once Upon a Time.” “A guy who gets life? There had been talk that Charlize came the film’s billion-dollar box office and high, takes his shirt off and doesn’t get on Theron’s transformation into Megyn Kelly a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for Joa- with his wife. It was a big stretch. Big.” And for “Bombshell” could be a serious chal- quin Phoenix’s turn as the clown-faced it will be a big night for Pitt at the Oscars. lenge to Zellweger, but it didn’t take long comic book supervillain. Antonio Banderas DIRECTOR for that chatter to die down. After taking (“Pain and Glory”) was a bit of a surprise METAL WORKERS home prizes from major awards shows, when he landed an Oscar nomination (not Sam Mendes receives Wasn’t it just yesterday that we thought the including the Golden Globes, the SAG because his performance was anything less the Golden Globe race would come down to Martin Scors- Awards and the British Film Independent than stellar but because the category has for directing; Bong ese (“The Irishman”) and Quentin Taran- Joon Ho accepts the Awards, Zellweger will take home her sec- been so crowded), and he could turn out to prize for foreign tino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)? ond Oscar. be the major upset of the evening. But with language film. Turns out, the directing category is a bat- tle between Bong Joon Ho (“Parasite”) and Sam Mendes (“1917”). This is one of the hardest calls to make. But in the end, I think Bong wins, because even if “Parasite” is named best international film — which it likely will be — voters know the award tech- nically goes to South Korea and not Bong. Giving him the director trophy assures that he wins his own piece of metal.

BEST PICTURE Again, it’s between “Parasite” and “1917.” Both deserve the ultimate prize, but expect a repeat of last year, when “Roma” won international (then known as for- eign language) and the film’s helmer, Alfonso Cuarón, took director. Throughout awards season, I never heard a peep of crit- icism about “Parasite.” However, a foreign language film has never won both interna- tional and best picture. Besides, war mov- ies have a strong history of earning the evening’s top honor. The roster includes “Platoon,” “The English Patient,” “The Hurt Locker,” “From Here to Eternity” and “Pat- ton” to name just a few. “1917” will more than likely be added to the list on Feb. 9.

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Adam Scott Costume Designers and Catherine O’Hara Guild Awards The Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, Jan. 28 Charlize While accepting the excellence in contemporary television award on behalf of Theron “Schitt’s Creek” costumer Debra Hanson, show star Catherine O’Hara recalled the Getty Fire. “I had 3 minutes to evacuate,” the actor said. “I grabbed my passport, photos of my two sons and my character’s clothes.” Of her win in the period film cate- gory, “Jojo Rabbit” designer Mayes C. Rubeo — who is also the first Latina nominated for an Oscar in costume design — said, “We are putting Mexico in a different bracket.”

Michael Julia Kaplan and Butters J.J. Abrams

Costume Designers Guild’s Salvador Perez

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Reed Morano, Blake Lively, Jude Law and Rob McElhenney

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Co-creator and star Rob McElhenney explained how the Apple TV Plus series aims Blake Lively stars in the Reed Morano-directed film as an assassin trying to avenge to “get it right” when it comes to portraying the video game industry. “The world of her family’s untimely death. And though the espionage thriller is produced by gaming right now from a cultural perspective is massive,” McElhenney told Variety. Barbara Broccoli, whose family is responsible for the James Bond franchise, the “It really is transcending through so many different cultures globally, and it’s speaking movie — and its protagonist — is not a Bond wannabe. “There’s femininity, humanity to so many millions of different people. Half the [writers’] room was not interested to Stephanie,” Lively told Variety. “You see her emotions in a way that you don’t often in games at all, and that was only because I wanted to make sure this was a show for in movies like this where a man is at the center. I’ve never seen a man in a car chase PEREZ, RUBEO: CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK (2); CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK PEREZ, RUBEO: everybody. The other half of the room: hardcore gamers.” screaming the entire time because he’s terrified. And what’s honest about that?” LAUREN/SHUTTERST CHELSEA KAPLAN/ABRAMS: BROADIMAGE/SHUTTERSTOCK’ THERON: CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; SCOTT/O’HARA:

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Before the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers for the championship, a lot was going on in the days and nights leading up to the big game. And then of course, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira hosted the hottest party on the field with their 14-minute-plus halftime show highlighting some of their greatest hits. J.Lo, along with her 11-year-old daughter, Emme Muñiz, Jonas at Stella sampled “Born in the U.S.A.” while wearing a Artois presents Puerto Rican flag. She also staged what many Shakira Port de Stella interpreted as a protest against the Trump administration’s family separation policies by featuring young girls dancing in cages. Jennifer Lopez with daughter Emme Muñiz

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Rob Gronkowski at the Tyrese Gibson and Swae Lee at his Giuseppe Pure Romance pop-up at AT&T TV Ludacris at the Road Zanotti shoe collection at Gronk Beach Party Super Saturday Night to F9 fan event launch at Saks Fifth Avenue SHAKIRA: CHARLIE RIEDEL/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; CHOPRA: STEPHEN LOVEKIN/SHUTTERSTOCK; LOVATO: DAVID J PHILLIP/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; DOGG: M J PHILLIP/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; DAVID LOVATO: LOVEKIN/SHUTTERSTOCK; STEPHEN CHOPRA: CHARLIE RIEDEL/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; SHAKIRA: GRONKOWSKI, GAGA: JASON

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WGA Awards Diane Keaton and Nancy Meyers in Los Angeles New York and Los Angeles, Feb. 1

WGA West president David A. Goodman addressed the possible writers strike if negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers fail to produce a new deal. “So everyone seems to think a strike is happening,” he said. “In part, it’s an effort by our employers to put us on, to force us to calm everyone down and say we won’t, and thus give up our greatest leverage. Well, I’m not going to say that. It’s dangerous and naive to think that a strike is never necessary.” Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Paula Pell and Amy Poehler in New York

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Sundance Film Festival Awards

Basin Recreation Fieldhouse, Park City, Utah, Feb. 1

The 2020 edition concluded with the announcement of end-of-fest honors, with “Minari” — Lee Isaac Chung’s autobiographical family drama about his Korean American upbringing in rural Arkansas — picking up the U.S. Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic category as well as the Audience Award.

Another big winner was , director of “The 40-Year-Old Version,” who riffed onstage after SOTO,CHUNG,JA MJ PHOTOS/VARIETY/SHUTTERSTOCK; YOUNG: HAN: CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; UCKNER/VARIETY/SHUTTERSTOCK; receiving the dramatic directing award. “Anybody who feels there’s an expiration on a passion, fuck that shit,” Blank said. “If it’s in you to be a rapper, a parent, a director in your 40s, do that shit.”

Angel Manuel Lee Isaac Chung Soto

Radha Blank

Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht

Sundance Institute’s John Cooper and Keri Putnam

Sundance Institute’s Tabitha Jackson FEY/DRATCH/PELL/POEHLER, SEVIGNY/LYONNE: MJ PHOTOS/SHUTTERSTOCK (2); KEATON/MEYERS, PALTROW, GOODMAN, LINDELOF/MAZIN: MICHAEL B GOODMAN, LINDELOF/MAZIN: PALTROW, (2); KEATON/MEYERS, MJ PHOTOS/SHUTTERSTOCK SEVIGNY/LYONNE: FEY/DRATCH/PELL/POEHLER,

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Kodak Film Awards Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino ASC Clubhouse, Hollywood, Jan. 29

Greta Gerwig picked up an Auteur Award at the fourth annual ceremony and detailed her battle to shoot “Little Women” on film, after facing resistance to the idea on her directorial debut, “Lady Bird.” “I was told, ‘It’s too expensive. It’s too hard. It’s a big problem. No one knows how to load it,’” Gerwig recalled. With “Little Women,” “it was a fight every step of the way.” She continued: “As an actor, I remember that feeling of importance [of being shot on film]. The performance felt like it was being written down on some record that mattered.”

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Artios Awards Tony Shalhoub, Rachel in Brosnahan and Luke Kirby Los Angeles in New York New York, Los Angeles and London, Jan. 30

The Casting Society of America celebrated excellence in casting across film, television and theater with three ceremonies around the globe. In Los Angeles, Geena Davis accepted the Lynn Stalmaster Award for Career FF-USA/SHUTTERSTOCK; SHALHOUB/BROSNAHAN/KIRBY, BOUTEAU: TESS MAYER (2); DAVIS, AQUILA/NORTON: RYAN MILLER/SHUTTERSTOCK (2); ROS MILLER/SHUTTERSTOCK RYAN AQUILA/NORTON: (2); DAVIS, MAYER TESS BOUTEAU: SHALHOUB/BROSNAHAN/KIRBY, FF-USA/SHUTTERSTOCK; Achievement, a moment that came full circle for the star, since Stalmaster hired Davis for her film debut in 1982’s “Tootsie.” “After I studied acting, I went to New York. [I] decided I could become a model instead,” Davis told Variety. “That’s how I got cast. [Stalmaster] called modeling agencies to see if they had any models that could act. They said, ‘Yeah, we’ve got one.’ So they sent me over there.”

Michelle Deborah Aquila Buteau in and Edward Norton New York in Los Angeles

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BAFTA Awards Sandy Powell and Bong Joon Ho Royal Albert Hall, London, Feb. 2

“1917” dominated the annual awards gala, taking home best film, outstanding British film and best director for Sam Mendes. “There has been wonderful timing with all these awards that had really alerted people to the movie, and they see it in cinemas,” Mendes said in the winners’ room. Laura Dern scored another supporting actress prize for her work in Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story.” She said, “Noah’s screenplay was truly perfection, every line and stage direction perfectly laid out for the cast, and his direction is magnificent.” Brad Pitt wasn’t on hand to receive his supporting actor Naomie Harris, Laura Dern and trophy, but he got some of the biggest laughs when Richard E. Grant Margot Robbie read his acceptance speech, which referenced Brexit. “Hey Britain, heard you just became single,” Pitt wrote in his remarks. “Welcome FTA/SHUTTERSTOCK; ROBBIE/JOHANSSON: JAMES VEYSEY/BAFTA/SHUTTERSTOCK; VEYSEY/BAFTA/SHUTTERSTOCK; JAMES ROBBIE/JOHANSSON: FTA/SHUTTERSTOCK; to the club.” Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” was another major winner: The thriller won for film not in the English language and original screenplay. George MacKay, Taika Waititi and Dean-Charles Chapman

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Prince William and Kate Middleton Roger Deakins and Sam Mendes

Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith

Renée Hamza Al-Kateab, Waad Zellweger Al-Kateab and daughter Sama with Edward Watts

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The spacious master suite is replete with a fireplace-warmed sitting area, a large terrace and a combination bathroom-dressing area with built-in dressing table, steam shower and free-standing soaking tub. Outside, the lushly planted grounds incorporate a log- gia with outdoor fireplace that overlooks a grassy, informally landscaped backyard with a swimming pool, a spa and a dining deck.

Brie Larson Studio City Home Sells Off-Market

Acclaimed actor Brie Larson, who took home a Golden Globe and an Academy Award in 2016 for the bone-chilling indie drama “Room,” has changed up her prop- erty portfolio over the past year, most $1.7m recently selling an unassuming residence in a prime neighborhood in L.A.’s Studio LOS FELIZ City in an off-market deal for $1.4 million — 1,700 SQ. FT. nicely above its just-shy-of-$1.3 million asking price. 3 BEDROOMS Tax records indicate the 1930s tradi- 2 BATHS tional bungalow, obscured in a tangle of foli- age and mature trees, last changed hands in 2009, when it traded for $885,000. The arranged around a huge work island and hedging, the comprehensively upgraded single-story home measures in at a tetch decked out with iconic Tiffany blue paint- 1950s bungalow measures in at a tad under less than 2,000 square feet with three bed- ed-wood cabinets and different shades of 1,700 square feet with three bedrooms and rooms and two bathrooms. Marketing mate- pixelated blue floor tiles. Outside, there’s a two bathrooms. rials show there are two fireplaces, one in classic kidney-shaped swimming pool sur- A gated and flagstone-paved carport has the living room and the other in the master rounded by red-brick terracing; beyond the been practically if somewhat awkwardly bedroom, and an upgraded country kitchen pool sits a detached two-car garage. attached to the front of the modestly sized The property was jointly listed with Bill residence that features scads of original Barkley at Pinnacle Estate Properties and architectural details, a huge television-sur- Shen Schulz at Sotheby’s Intl. Realty; the mounted stacked-stone fireplace, and buyer was repped by Therese Hyde vaulted and beamed ceilings, punctuated by at Compass. skylights, which fill the combination living and dining room with natural light. One of the guest bedrooms opens to the Lists backyard through original, metal-trimmed French doors, as does the master bedroom, Los Feliz Bungalow which also includes an en suite bathroom Having upgraded late last year to a fami- with a glass-enclosed steam shower. ly-sized home in a celeb-packed pocket of The back of the single-story house the Hollywood Hills, recently married “Glee” embraces a spacious deck that overlooks $1.4m star Darren Criss has his starter home in a slender strip of lawn and a classic, kid- the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles up for sale ney-shaped swimming pool and spa set at not quite $1.7 million. Purchased a bit against a towering wall of bamboo that pro- STUDIO CITY 3 BEDROOMS more than seven years ago for $1.2 million, vides maximum privacy from the neigh- 2,000 SQ. FT. 2 BATHS and hidden behind ornate gates and mature boring homes. The listing is jointly held by

DIGS Finally Sold: Diddy’s to demolition. Finally, they Former Manse-to-Be listed the entire structure, intact, for an at-first-too- Back in 1988, Sean “Diddy” An Upscale Yard Sale? optimistic $39 million before Combs purchased a 12-story recently finding a buyer at Fashion icon Marc Jacobs is building on the Upper East $24 million. Marketing photos partnering with Sotheby’s Homee Side and set up house in one give some insight into the to sell decor from his personal of the suites with hopes of collection, including Japanese turning the structure into luxe improvements — stately vases and cream-colored armchairshairs a colossal 24,000-square- management company, for bronze doors open into a that evidently don’t fit the Frank foot mega-manse. By 2014, $14.3 million. But the building lobby with lavish marble Lloyd Wright-designed house hee the hip-hop mogul had lost wouldn’t sell, and its floors and a snazzy, modern purchased last year for more thanan interest in the project and sold new owners considered aesthetic that looks undeniably

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Konstantine Valissarakos of Nourmand & to accommodate multiple seating areas and Associates and Rick Yohon of Sotheby’s is anchored by an exposed masonry fire- Intl. Realty. place. A room-wide bank of windows disap- pears completely into the walls to foster a seamless transition to the backyard. Just off Sam Worthington Seeks the foyer, the somewhat petite formal din- ing room is wrapped in painted paneling Buyer for Villa on Strip and spills out to the front gardens through “Avatar” star Sam Worthington has hung full-height glass doors, while the high-end a blockbuster $9.25 million price tag on a eat-in kitchen is stylishly outfitted with spi- deluxe contemporary villa just above L.A.’s der-veined white marble countertops on jet- Sunset Strip. The Australian hunk, who has black cabinets. $6.25m scads of projects in various stages of pro- A lofted second-floor lounge leads to sev- duction, including a handful of “Avatar” eral en suite family bedrooms as well as the CARMEL HIGHLANDS 3 BEDROOMS sequels, purchased the family-sized resi- luxurious master suite, where there are two 3,600 SQ. FT. 2 BATHS dence not even two years ago for close to walk-in closets, chunky wood beams across $7.9 million from powerhouse producer the ceiling and a marble-sheathed fireplace Simon Kinberg. between French doors that open to a slen- Will Forte Snags Deal All but hidden behind a towering hedge der balcony. The basement level contains on Carmel Retreat and equipped with a state-of-the-art home a screening room and wine cellar, and the automation system, the just-over-7,700- guesthouse is done up as a fitness room that Actor-comedian Will Forte has splashed out square-foot home is a newfangled take on a overlooks the private, courtyard-style back- $6.25 million for a dynamically sited contem- classic East Coast traditional and offers five yard and swimming pool. Other alfresco lux- porary in the rugged but ritzy and seriously en suite bedrooms and a total of eight bath- uries include an olive-tree-shaded lawn, an expensive Carmel Highlands area, about 10 rooms between the main house and guest- outdoor kitchen and a dining loggia. miles south of Monterey, Calif. As noted by house. A grand, double-height foyer leads The property is listed with Jonathan Ruiz Realtor.com, which first sussed out the clan- to a commodious living room large enough at The Agency. destine late-2019 transaction, the sale price is a significant amount lower than the final asking price of just under $7 million. The res- idence nestles discreetly atop a rocky prom- ontory of more than an acre directly above two sandy coves in a gated enclave. Built in 1980, the radically angled granite-and-red- wood contemporary, with enormous windows that provide cinematic views of the rugged coastline, has three bedrooms and 2.5 bath- rooms in a tad more than 3,600 square feet. Open-plan interior spaces feature lus- trous stone-tile floors, massive stone columns and redwood-clad walls and ceilings. The main-floor master suite offers commanding views over the ocean and includes a spacious, remodeled bathroom with marble vanities, a skylight-topped shower and a free-standing soaking tub tucked into a curved wall of stone. The house opens to large terraces and $9.25m decks that hover over the planted bluff. A pri- vate path and stairway wind down to one of the all-but-private sandy beaches below. The SUNSET STRIP property was listed with Tina Carpenter of 7,700 SQ. FT. Sotheby’s Intl. Realty, Carmel Rancho; Forte 5 BEDROOMS was repped by Mary Hawley of Keller Williams 8 BATHS Bay Area Estates.

Frond Wishes From Desert Hot Springs The Zen-inducing 67-room Two wellness retreat include both Bunch Palms in Desert Hot new and refreshed suites Springs has long been a go-to as well as Twine, an on-site escape for spiritual seekers jewel-box dining destination and boldface names alike (Al serving up curated tea and Capone, ), wine offerings (the Valentine’s with its hot spring grotto, Day menu includes cacio e spa menu and class schedule pepe with lobster and vegan including tarot readings, lasagna) — best enjoyed in healing sound baths and the property’s signature drumming sessions. Latest fluffy white bathrobes. additions to the bohemian LESLEY McKENZIE

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Pirate,’ which her father is directing.” The headline: “In Ma’s Footsteps.” When she was 19, Minnelli became the youngest person to win the leading actress in a musical Tony for her turn in the 1965 Kander and Ebb musical “Flora the Red Menace.” Four years later, she received her first Oscar nomination for her perfor- Liza Minnelli is getting mance in the romantic comedy “The Ster- ile Cuckoo.” ready to be photographed Then came “Cabaret” in 1972. The Bob Fosse-directed big-screen adaptation of Variety the Broadway musical of the same name for the cover of . She’s earned eight Oscars, including one for Min- nelli’s work as American expat Sally Bowles in 1930s Berlin during the rise of Nazism. wearing an off-the-shoulder Joel Grey, Minnelli’s “Cabaret” co-star, who took home an Oscar for his role as black beaded shirtdress the Master of Ceremonies, first met her through Hal Prince when she made her nightclub debut at the Cocoanut Grove in and perched on a director’s Los Angeles. “She was this fresh, burst- ing, bright-eyed talent,” Grey remembers. “You could see that connection to her chair. As she adjusts herself, mother and father. You just knew that she was somebody that was going to happen. trying to find the right She was so tender and frail and fragile and strong at the same time.” Grey and Minnelli ran in the same New position to extend her bare York theater circles. “We used to sort of pile into Joe Allen’s, and she was always like the legs, she screeches, “I’m little sister I never had,” he says. “She was just very vulnerable and looked up to me.” Shooting “Cabaret” wasn’t easy. They getting fucked by a chair!” filmed in and around Berlin and Munich. Fosse was a perfectionist, always wanting another take. “We would go to set every As if on cue, the room goes silent. But before anyone can blink, Minnelli’s morning, and she’d sleep on my shoul- distinctive throaty cackle bounces off the walls. It’s the permission everyone der, and we’d listen to [Cat Stevens’] ‘Morn- in the room needs to howl at what they can’t believe they just heard. ing Has Broken,’” Grey says. “It was long At 73, Minnelli is still the consummate entertainer, taking an days shooting, and it was very intense. The awkward moment and turning it into a bawdy joke about getting intimate material was intense.” with a piece of furniture. Minnelli would go on to work opposite Minnelli isn’t a Hollywood icon — she’s a show business legend. Over the Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s 1977 course of her career, she’s won four Tonys, two Grammys, an Emmy and an “New York, New York,” followed by the 1981 Oscar. But even before she danced her first step, sang a single note or memo- hit comedy “Arthur” with Dudley Moore. rized a line of script, she was famous. She became a fashion icon with her “I was born and they took a picture,” Minnelli says. pixie cut (the unintended result of hav- That’s what happens when your mom is Judy Garland and your dad is ing to chop her locks when playing around Vincente Minnelli. with some friends ended with a wad of A few days before the shoot, Liza is settling in for a rare interview. gum in her hair), red lips and ensembles She’s sitting on the couch in the living room of her modest Los Angeles- that made her a living, breathing runway area apartment. The room is cozy, with a grand piano squeezed into the show. She was a regular at Studio 54 and corner. Her Oscar for “Cabaret” sits on a low table alongside a copy of a 1972 became a muse to Halston after meeting Time magazine with Minnelli on the cover. On a table next to the couch are him at a party. “I looked at Halston a cer- her Tonys, while a collection of additional awards crowd a sideboard near tain way and smiled,” Minnelli recalls. the entryway. “And then he said, ‘I want you to come see Hanging on one wall are reproductions of iconic Warhol paintings of Min- me.’ I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Because I want nelli and her parents. The unending fascination with Garland continued last to make some things for you.’ What he did year with the release of “Judy.” Renée Zellweger is the favorite to win the for me, he didn’t do for anybody else.” Oscar for her transformation into Garland during the last months of her life. Actor Tanya Everett was playing Chava Minnelli has no interest in seeing the film. All she will say right now is “I hope in “Fiddler on the Roof” when Minnelli vis- [Zellweger] had a good time making it.” ited the cast backstage in 1964. “She looked Minnelli is wearing her signature black turtleneck and leggings, a look at me and said, ‘Can we be roommates?’” that originated out of comfort rather than fashion. “It’s what I’d wear to OSCARS Everett says. “We became roommates that dance class because it was easy,” she explains. 2020 night.” Everett recalls one night when there

She is a dancer at heart. She insists that’s all she ever wanted to be, but she EXCLUSIVE was a knock on the door: Tony Bennett had was raised on movie sets and in concert halls. Singing and acting were inevita- INTERVIEW stopped by unannounced. He sat down at ble. In fact, a one-sentence report in Variety on May 7, 1947, reads, “Liza Minnelli, the piano that Minnelli’s dad had given her. 14-month-old daughter of Judy Garland, makes her acting bow in Metro’s ‘The “He said, ‘Can I play?’” Everett says.

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Liza Minnelli YOU TO ME.’” ME.’” TO YOU MAY COMPARE THE WAY THEY BECAUSE OF GET UPSET MAMA SAYING, I don’t know. were Myparents my parents. celebrities, thatthey were famous? When didyou know thatyour parents were you have tothinkthere’s awall. ence isn’t there. Well, there, they’re but concentratereally andpretendtheaudi- Andtodoyourbest. bestyou have to you because want yeah, todoyourOh, onstage? Did you always getnervous before going Minnelli.” I was sonervous. of Roxiepart played willbe by Hart Liza Gwen Verdon The isunable toperform. “Tonight Theywhich heliked said, alot. “Absolutely.”said, itintwo days, Ilearned “Can meandsaid, he called you I fillin?” don got sickin“Chicago” onBroadway, and Right before we did“Cabaret,” Gwen Ver- That wasn’t thefirsttimeyou worked withhim. thought were them. unusualandheused that Ididthat Ithoughtwere awful orhe other. allmy Hetook mistakes orthings noticed that onelegwent higherthanthe liketimes itlooks knee. alittle knock He whenI’mthat because some- standing, IhaveSensational. scoliosis, andhenoticed What was itlike working withFosse? thinkersgreat anddirectors. Isn’t BobFosse itbrilliant? was oneof the I watched “Cabaret” againthisweekend. VARIETY holds hermother’s in 1940for“The A STARWASBORN Juvenile Oscar, Wizard ofOz.” Liza Minnelli which shewon 51

I didn’t know that I had to dodge questions about Mama until people started “Do I look all right?” He said, “You look asking me questions. I asked my father what to do, and he said, “Be as good perfect because you’re not overdressed as you can and as good as you are.” He said something like, “So what? They and you’re not underdressed.” ask me the same questions.” Mama got angry. She was one who got angry at OSCARS 2020 people for asking me questions about her. Did you think you were going to win? EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW The other nominees were When did you first perform onstage? [“Sounder”], Diana Ross [“Lady Sings the I was 3. My mom took me onstage. But when I was older, like 11, she’d sing Blues”], Maggie Smith [“Travels With My “Swanee” [from “A Star Is Born”] and she made me dance to it and I’d say, “I Aunt”] and [“The Emigrants”]. don’t have a choreographer,” which made her laugh. She got such a kick out of I didn’t think I was going to win. I hadn’t it. It was like, “Look what I made.” And I was so happy whenever she was happy. planned [an acceptance speech]. If you plan something and then it doesn’t happen, then What kind of happy was she? you’re disappointed. I asked my dad, “What She was funny, very funny, clear, incredibly intelligent, but more than you should I say if I win?” And he said, “You’ll could even imagine, and in the moment. know what to say.” I said, “OK,” and off we went. When [Gene Hackman, who was pre- But what happened when she was in a bad mood? senting with Raquel Welch] said my name, I’d tickle her when she was really angry or upset about something. I’d take her my father screamed and he gave me tinni- by the hips and put her on the bed or on the couch. This is when I’m like 5. tus. I had tinnitus because of the way my father screamed at the Oscars, honestly. What was the hardest part about being in show business? The hardest part was getting to be known as myself as opposed to somebody’s You’ve been open about your struggles. daughter. I remember Mama saying, “Now don’t get upset because of the way In the ’80s, you talked publicly about they may compare you to me because you’re an entertainer too.” I said, “Oh, I going to Betty Ford. Did you know you won’t.” And then she reads something where they compared me to her. She said, had a problem? “How dare they? You’re your own woman. Dammit! Can’t they see?” And she’d I knew, and I told my father. He said, “Well, throw it down in the trash. She was wonderful and so overprotective. She tried let’s see what can we do about it.” I said, saving us from any of the stuff that other people said, except the great stuff. “Well, all these people talk about the Betty Ford Center,” and he said, “Then you’ll go When did you think, “I want to do what my mom’s doing. I want to be onstage”? there.” Just like that. So he took me there. I always wanted to be a dancer. I remember going to dancing school because I asked my dad. I went all my life. And then, I was always hoping that I’d get Was there ever a time when you thought to be in the yearly show. Twice I didn’t make it. But the third time, I got it. you weren’t going to survive? I used to dance for my father. He loved it when I danced. He’d be sitting on Oh, sure. Everybody has that time. the bed, and Mama loved to say, “Come dance.” What’s your fondest memory of you and You made your stage acting debut in high school when you were the lead in your mom? “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Everything. We had such fun because she I got wonderful reviews. I didn’t know they were going to review that. was so funny. She was funny, and she loved her kids so much. She was protective and Did you sit your mom or your dad down and say, “I want to go into the business”? very strict. She wanted you to do the right No. It was just always there. When they came to see “Anne Frank,” my mother thing, like any mother. It’s that simple. came backstage after the show with tears streaming down her face. I said, “Was I good?” And she said, “Wonderful.” And my father just said, “Yes.” Did she talk about her days when she was a child star? You were 16 then and actually living on your own in New York City. Occasionally. She would teach me all I was at the Barbizon Hotel for women. I went to dance school every day, two the routines she’d learned as a child. We classes a day. I went to see shows. My dad was nice enough to tell the producers would do them together. to let me in. I watched a lot of them from the back, so I could see every detail. I believe in this, but not sure you do: Do you Weren’t your parents nervous about you moving to New York on your own? ever feel your mom’s presence today? A little bit, but they trusted me because I was sophisticated and I had a pur- Definitely. When I call on her, she’s there, pose, and that was Broadway. and I call on her a lot. She’ll say, “Ignore it” a lot. She’ll say, “It’s one opinion. Who You were 19 when you became the youngest person to win a Tony for your cares? Just keep going.” Broadway debut, “Flora the Red Menace.” How did your life change after that? The best part about winning an award is the night you win it. And then you After she passed, were you able to listen have to go back to work. I believe that. to her music right away or was it hard? It took a minute. How did movies come along? I read the book “The Sterile Cuckoo,” and I said to my father, “Daddy, if they ever Did you know about her struggles? make anything out of this, I want to play the girl Pookie Adams.” Then the direc- No. She wouldn’t tell us that. She was tor Alan Pakula announced he was making it. My dad knew him really well. He our mother. would come over to the house all the time. What I remember is Daddy saying to “SHE WAS SO him, “Liza wants to play Pookie Adams.” I said I’ll audition. And I did. TENDER AND FRAIL Do you want to act again? AND FRAGILE AND Oh, sure. Take me back to Oscar night. You’re in a yellow Halston dress. STRONG AT It was like a T-shirt collar to the ground, straight down, and a sweater made THE SAME TIME.” What do you want to do? of crepe, same as the dress. My father’s favorite color was yellow. I wore that Whatever comes up. I’ve always been and jewelry that Halston had picked for me for that night. I said to my dad, Joel Grey on Minnelli like that.

52 VARIETY MINNELLI/GARLAND: SNAP/SHUTTERSTOCK; V. MINNELLI/L. MINNELLI: ANONYMOUS/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; CABARET: ABC/ALLIED ARTISTS/KOBAL/SHUTTERSTOCK; HALSTON/MINNELLI: ADAM SCULL/SHUTTERSTOCK ‘Judy,’ but Renée atribute totheir Zellweger film mom the calls Family Affair By MarcMalkin in NewYorkCity and withHalston “Cabaret” (leftphoto) with JoelGreyin “Money, Money” Minnelli performing SHE’S GOTTHELOOK stars Oscarfront-runner Renée Zellweger. their motherJudyGarland’s finalmonthsand Luft, planstosee“Judy,” afilmthat’s basedon the movie is acelebration ofGarland,even Zellweger andGooldhave maintainedthat we have for herasaperson.” sense…the celebration andthelovethey’ll relationship. Ihopeiftheydo get toseeit, filmmaking butbecauseit’s avery personal says. “NotthatIdon’t love my motherorlove want to seeamovie aboutmy mother,” he understands theirhesitancy. “I’m notsure I’d NEITHER LIZAMINNELLI Ever sincethe filmpremiered atTelluride, The film’s director, Rupert Goold, Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft Minnelliand won’t Lorna Liza bewatching

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61 Untitled-4 1 1/30/20 3:36 PM SKIN IN THE GAME

From facials to exfoliants, beauty treatments are a must when prepping for the Oscars.

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VARIETY 63 64 VREY VARIETY annual Governors plaid jumpsuit flared gingham steps outina Saoirse Ronan Awards gala. CHECK MATE at the11th CONVENTION RED-CARPET BREAKING removable train feathered edo. Porter’s all-whitesuitwith theclassic men’spreted tux- designer Alex Vinash reinter- ity.” For theGlobes, heand masculinity andfeminin- blurthelinebetween aims “to and what’s now.” happening on theevent, theclimatebased tell asmany stories aswe can, Sowe’resomething. to trying he wants to say hiswardrobe and art, political wants tobe ries. He’s always stated that he the clothing;we’re tellingsto- vessel andhe’s actingthrough isyourcarpet stage, heisthe ter’s stylist Sam Ratelle. “The performance,” says BillyPor- tous,pet, it’s atheatrical really tutes formal wear. whatand redefining consti- riskstaking unprecedented capricious times, stars are awardsber attire —inthese the post-election days of som- identity displays. Goneare pushing outfitsandintrepid become astage for envelope- houettes, has carpet thered ume tonontraditionalsil- ensembles toexplosive vol- ity —togreat rewards. self-expression andauthentic- style rules, going for drama, ers arerewritingawards show TODAY’S BIGGEST BUCKING TIREDOLDTRENDS THIS SEASON, CELEBSARE By JasminRosemberg With Porter’s looks, Ratelle “When we get onthat“When car- From gender-bending 2020 OSCARS FASHION fashionplay- particularly inawards season, particularly and carpet, shift onthered erenced his“explosive” acting. stylist MichaelFisher says ref- and chaotic”Berlutijacket that a“silverSam Rockwell sported Forlook. theGothamAwards, andfuchsiaBerlutia loudred at theCritics’ Choice Awards in most un-priest likeappeared “’s” AndrewScott bow. asupersized boasted Jonathan Van Ness’ dress like sleeves, and“Queer Eye’s” Viktor Luna jacket withtrain- ven Canals wore asequined Emmys, Ste- “Pose” co-creator make statements.” bold strong desiretotake risksand that witha heisalsoanartist Porter’s creative directoris Billy thrillof being “The dom. Porter’s 2020themeof free- of toconvey butterflies toos walking,” Ratelle says. tellitisuntilhestarts really excited me, you because can’t thatprised itwas apantsuit sur- being thought of people “I’m allabout areveal andthe punkaesthetic.”androgynous of an theboundaries “pushed at theCritics’ Choice Awards Hogan McLaughlin jumpsuit David Bowie, Porter’s green lace would dojust fine.” Tiffany &Co. diamondneck- a multimillion-dollar, 40-carat source of neckwear. “Ifigured who soughtanalternative at aformal event,” says Ratelle, exemptcan be fromdoingso having anecktie andwhenone new beginnings.” “peace,symbolized and hope “I think there has been this“I thinktherehasbeen Porter isn’t alone. At the They added temporary tat- temporary They added icon byglamrock Inspired “We of theidea discussed

MICHAEL BUCKNER/VARIETY/SHUTTERSTOCK CHALAMET: DAVID FISHER/SHUTTERSTOCK; DE ARMAS: NILS JORGENSEN/SHUTTERSTOCK; ERIVO: MATT BARON/SHUTTERSTOCK; PORTER: MATT BARON/SHUTTERSTOCK a gown suit. andshort two DiorCouture runway looks, fun withseparates, combining Awkwafinachain. similarlyhad andglitzybody high-slit skirt less inablackAltuzarra jacket, WashingtonKerry went shirt mality standards. At theGlobes, ing withtuxedo hybrids andfor- Stella McCartney tux. signT-shirtpeace witharetro Awards, a Chalametpaired the National of Review Board Haider Ackermann andat suit, inasilver-belted King” “The tival. At Venice, hedebuted at theBFILondonFilm Fes- LouisVuittondered hoodie in aSwarovski embroi- crystal went viral—sparkled Globes Vuitton “harness” at last year’s appropriate attire.” or following of any what’s rules notat They’re allcontained pet. appropriate for anawards car- liketuxedo looks andwhat’s of whatpushing boundaries a — theseareguys that arereally from ‘American HorrorStory’ thée ChalametandCody Fern Fisher says. “Ithinkof kindof reinvented,”preted, downdressed andreinter- of black-tie formal being wear look butalsoagown,”look says her and new, whereit’s atuxedo Chalamet —whoseLouis “It’s anice marriage of old Women have play- alsobeen CLOTHES UP Timothée Chalamet sparkles atLondon’s“TheKing”premiere (left),AnadeArmasrocksatux, CynthiaErivooptsforspikesand Timo- - was thrilled Anaworewas it.” thrilled have I suchfluidityindressing. butIthinkwewas ariskthen, and itwas like, ‘Oh!’ Maybe it she wore aStellaMcCartney tux Fordoing it. premiere, theJapan for ‘Tron,’ was anybody before [Wilde] diditnineyears ago her stylist Karla Welch. “Olivia in atuxat somepoint,” says oneof myI’ll putevery clients “There’s ajoke inmy office that Vauthier tuxedo at theBFIfest. anAlexandrebuzz byrocking de Armasgenerated fashion type of person orrole.” of person type is notconformed toonecertain day andage, where[thetuxedo] think that’s of this thebeauty Porter could have worn it!I was anice play onthat. Billy —thisyour look classic pant stylist “It’s EricaCloud. not this season bythehouse.this season Margot Robbie’s awards looks as ease same comfortable-chic conveyedChanel pantsuit the garet Qualley’s blackwool ton dress over pants, andMar- awhiteLouisVuit- yielded look feminine” SAGline butvery Brown’s for request “a mascu- wildfire relief.MillieBobby tioning itoff for Australian suit —even moresoafter auc- in ablacklace Ralph&Russo exuded “cool girl” at theGlobes Phoebe Waller-BridgePhoebe “Knives breakout Ana Out” “WHEN WE

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GUTTER CREDIT ATYPICAL ACCESSORIES

THIS SEASON IS ALL ABOUTABOUT UNIUNIQUE,QUE, MEANINGFUL AND ECCENTRICCENTRIC ADORNMENTSADORNMENTS

By Jasmin Rosemberg

Along with the eye-popping hues, voluminous shapes and expressive outfits on this year’s red carpets, celebrities have been just as audacious with accessories. Awards shows are always prime occasions for glitzy chandelier earrings and mammoth diamonds, but here are some more inventive ways Cynthia Erivo stars have shown personality via accoutrements.

TAKE-NOTE ASYMMETRIC HAIR BLING PLAYFUL FEELING BLUE TEMPORARY

RINGS EARRINGS At the SAG Awards, BROOCHES While emeralds were TATTOOS “Fosse/Verdon’s” pervasive last year, Alongside her Stars with multiple At the Globes, Jason Porter completed Michelle Williams sapphires emerged Chopard diamonds, piercings, such as Momoa livened up his two-toned Hogan wore Forevermark’s on this year’s Globes Globe winner Olivia Charlize Theron and his green velvet Tom McLaughlin Critics’ diamond feather carpet. With her Colman wore a ring Cynthia Erivo, have Ford jacket with a Choice outfit with brooch in her tress- strapless Ralph & supporting ERA5050 consistently rocked Cartier brooch — butterfly tattoos es. “We really want- Russo dress, Ana de — an England-root- ear candy and mis- among other things. — symbolizing ed to focus on her Armas wore a Tiffany matched designs. freedom. “A ed initiative calling “Jason embodies & Co. necklace gorgeous skin and butterfly represents for 50:50 equal Theron accessorized old-school movie comprising 19 pear- coloring,” her stylist a personal representation of her deep-V dress star glamour along shaped sapphires, Kate Young said in a metamorphosis,” actresses across the at the “Bombshell” with a rugged, totaling more than statement. says his stylist stage and screen. premiere with natural mountain 101 carats. Theron’s Theron, whose SAG Anna Bernabe. More than 200 different-length Dior man look,” says his statement Tiffany “Applying multiple high-profile sup- earrings. “She likes look included $4 stylist Jeanne Yang. necklace combined butterflies signifies porters, including this asymmetrical million in Tiffany & “Hence, we married emeralds with sap- the numerous Phoebe Waller- idea with her short Co. diamonds, found these two sides of phires and diamonds transformations and Bridge, Claire Foy hair, so we’ve been a novel place to his personality by — “which you don’t rebirths one goes and Tobias Menzies, playing that up,” display the Victoria doing his own newer really see that often,” through during a have also recently says her stylist Leslie line bracelet: in her native tribal pieces, Fremar notes. lifetime. Balancing sported badges. Fremar. hair parting. like the necklace Zoey Deutch out the placement Margaret Qualley For the Hollywood from Tribal Adorn- Throughout her balanced out her and colors of the wore one earring Film Awards, Erivo ments.” “Judy” tour, Renée bright-yellow Fendi butterflies on Billy’s by Chanel with her and stylist Jason Zellweger wore Ansel Elgort wore jumpsuit with Harry body prior to putting Globes look — the Bolden had planned artful David Webb Tiffany & Co.’s sap- Winston’s 59-carat on the dress and Comete Shooting rings — including a to keep jewelry phire and diamond sapphire cabochon jewelry was key to Star single earring in rubellite that nodded simple and focus on butterfly brooch, pendant necklace, achieving the look.” to ruby slippers. white gold, dia- her Versace dress. while flower earrings and “She likes a beautiful monds and pearls. “She was like, ‘Well, paired its dragon- rings. statement piece, and At the Critics’ I have a surprise for fly brooch with a Erivo’s showstopping rings are what we’ve Choice Awards, you,’” Bolden recalls. 40-carat, $2 million $3 million Bulgari been showcasing,” Anne Hathaway “From the carpet, diamond pendant necklace — featuring says stylist Petra and Olivia Wilde my assistant sent a necklace. “We’ve a 40-carat sapphire Flannery. “David woreMessika. Hatha- photo [showing] she just been able to central stone — was Webb has so many way added character had spikes in her start entering the “literally the first one-of-a-kind pieces, to her gold dress hair, because she accessory space, thing” Bolden saw. “I and in working with with Messika’s Des- wanted to do an ode specifically with fine think colored stones OSCARS 2020 a lot of color, we ert Bloom ear cuff, to her underground jewelry, to allow that are really making a FASHION found things that while Wilde went cool times in visibility for men, great comeback,” really complement for the Solena Maya London. It really too,” his stylist Sam he says. “It’s a bit the looks.” diamond design. spoke to that.” Ratelle says. modern.” ERIVO: SHUTTERSTOCK ERIVO:

VARIETY 67 68 3. 2. 1. gather theiropinionsonwhat were thestandout moments. Thequestions are: critic Peter toanswer threequestions Debruge year about incinemato thispast essence world. of themodern lifeeveryday withprojectsthat were thought-provoking riveting, the andcaptured respects, tothesturm butalsooneinwhichfilmmakers unddrangof responded From Weinstein Harvey toDonaldTrump, 2019was achallengingyear inalotof The Year inReview troubling lows of2019 exhilarating highsand onthe Thoughts How doyou rate the2019slate against previousyears? What was thebiggest scandal ormost talked-about issue of theyear? What of filmthisyear madeyou aspect stand upandcheer? VREY VARIETY Variety asked editors TimGray asked editors andJenelle Riley and “Parasite” isfavored critically hailed PLAYING HOUSE Bong JoonHo’s to winOscars.

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On the film’s director, Jon M. Chu “The lesson I got from Jon is we’re allowed to take up space with our stories. He used his post-’Crazy Rich Asians’ capital to say, ‘No, we get to take a big swing.’ This story, which could very easily have been this indie tiny musical about this neighborhood, [he] was like, ‘This deserves a big swing. And this deserves to be as big as any of the other movies out there.’”

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70 VARIETY “I amaparent inreal life. Ihave adaughter as Ican,tocomeupwithareal person.” in my imagination,andwithasmuchinput specific character. Myjobwas tofigure out the character. …You have tomake itavery film, sothattouchesyou emotionallyto who’s thesameageasmy daughterinthe her daughterrecover On playing hercharacter, amomhelping GLENN CLOSE FOUR GOOD DAYS from substanceabuse

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HILLARY CLINTON HILLARY

On working with director Nanette Burstein on the four-hour docu-series “I wanted to have the best director, and I had a preference for a woman director. I thought: No. 1, we need more women directors. And No. 2, a woman director would have an understanding of some of the issues in a very real way that would translate to the screen.”

72 VARIETY ANNE HATHAWAY DEE REES THE LAST THING HE WANTED

Hathaway on working with director Rees “I woke up in the middle of the night one night and turned on the TV, couldn’t get back to sleep, and ‘Pariah’ was on. I saw it at three o’clock in the morning, and it hit me like a gut punch. And then I saw ‘Mudbound,’ and that was a heart punch. And now I feel like our movie’s a head punch. So I feel like Dee Rees is moving through my chakras.”

GLORIA STEINEM THE GLORIAS

EVAN RACHEL WOOD KAJILLIONAIRE

On collaborating with writer-director Miranda July “Miranda has been on my list of people that I’ve been wanting to work with for a while. When I read it, I had never read that script, and that is such a dream and a luxury these days to be in something new and fresh. It was just such a different character for me — she’s so stifled and heartbreaking.” TALIA RYDER NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS

74 VARIETY STEVEN YEUN MINARI

On the movie, about a Korean family that moves to Arkansas to start a farm “It would be remiss to not mention the fact that the film is in Korean language, but it’s such a deeply American story. Hopefully the language barrier is now broken, the visual barrier is now broken. What we set out to do is make something very human and very relatable to everybody.”

TESSA THOMPSON SYLVIE’S LOVE

“I don’t want people to think this story is just for black people. It’s an irresistible love story that all people can enjoy that has universal themes. I think it’s really fun and sexy to watch two leads fall in love regardless of their race.”

CRISTIN MILIOTI ANDY SAMBERG PALM SPRINGS

COMPILED BY Ramin Setoodeh, Kate Aurthur, Angelique Jackson and Rebecca Rubin JEREMY O. HARRIS ZOLA

KERRY WASHINGTON THE FIGHT

On the ACLU lawyers portrayed in the documentary “This is about a team of super- heroes saving the world. You kind of have to love Clark Kent as much as you love Superman. And that’s what you get with them. You love them at home, with their unruly kids, and you love them when they’re arguing in front of the Supreme Court.”

CAREY MULLIGAN PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

On this year’s Oscar nominations “I wonder if the system works in terms of getting sent 100 screeners. Maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to vote unless you can prove you’ve seen every single one. There should be a test. The films that did get left out are indisputably brilliant. I’m talking about ‘Hustlers,’ ‘Little Women’ [snubbed for best director] and ‘The Farewell.’” TESLA

VARIETY 77 CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE IN CASTING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Thank you to the following creators, producers, and actors for signing our open letter calling on the entertainment industry to increase opportunities for performers with disabilities.

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Son,” “The Jeffersons,” “Good Times” and “All in the Family.” The latter program, which followed the fic- Irish Org Eyes tional 1970s blue-collar Bunker family, fea- tured main character Archie Bunker, a World War II veteran and bigot. In Lear’s Progressive Talent autobiography, he acknowledged receiving suggestions from many to make the charac- ter an Irish Catholic; but, he decided against OSCAR WILDE AWARDS HONORS THOSE WITH ‘IMAGINATION’ the idea saying he refused to assign the big- By BreAnna Bell oted behavior to any single ethnicity or reli- gion. The move was something that stood out to Vargo, especially when looking for honorees this year. “Most groups, ethnic and otherwise, usu-

FIRST LADY ally include a mix of people, some are fantas- Oscar Wilde tic — decent, kind, generous, inclusive — and Awards honoree others who aren’t so admirable,” she says. Tig Notaro “It’s very easy to stereotype but that’s often lazy, overly simplistic and can be dangerous. The fact that Norman Lear recognized that in 1971, and made that choice about Archie, was probably more significant than even realized at the time.” The same progressive sentiments can be felt in fellow honorees Notaro and Murray’s recognition as well. The former is a trail- blazing comedian, who was born in Missis- sippi with Irish roots. Vargo boasts that the U.S.-Ireland Alliance is “all about inclusiv- ity and shedding stereotypes.” Notaro and her wife/writing partner, Stephanie Allynne, sold their screenplay “First Ladies” to Netflix in 2018. The project sets Notaro as the first lady and Jennifer Aniston as the nation’s first female president. Northern Ireland performer Murray’s talents were recently seen in “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.” “In terms of the bigger picture of our U.S.-Ireland Alliance, we’ve just always been about having a bigger tent. What was seen to be ‘Irish America’ had a history, a reputation, of seeking to exclude — if you weren’t male, white, Catholic and straight, you weren’t really welcomed in many Irish-American organizations. It’s fine to be all those things, but not to the exclusion of others,” Vargo says of the ceremony’s inclusiveness. “Demo- THE 15TH ANNUAL Oscar Wilde Awards are imagination. I like to believe that everyone at graphics in this country are changing, Ire- around the corner and with honorees Norman the Oscar Wilde Awards party has the great land has changed as well; we need to reflect Lear, Tig Notaro and Jenn Murray, the event imagination that comes with great creativity the contemporary realities if there is to be a promises to showcase the best of the U.S. — so everyone’s Irish for the night!” future for an historic relationship.” and Ireland’s creative talents. Though unlike The Oscar Wilde Awards will take place Feb. The annual ceremony will include a live other black-tie events, the ceremony func- 6 at J.J. Abram’s Bad Robot in Santa Monica. performance. British band The Rua is sched- tions as a sort of “homecoming” for everyone Abrams will emcee the event, sponsored by uled to take the stage this year. attending — Irish and otherwise. Samsung and Screen Ireland. “It’s more like a house party, if you have a Lear will be recognized as one of those pretty big house,” says Trina Vargo, founder “honorary Irishman” for his contributions to and president of the U.S.-Ireland Alliance. the entertainment industry in his TIPSHEET “It’s always nice to have a mix of people who 70-year career. WHAT: Oscar Wilde Awards are Irish, of Irish ancestry or someone we can The five-time Emmy winner began writing WHEN: Feb. 6 make ‘honorary’ Irish. I once heard some- for television in the 1950s and later became WHERE: Bad Robot Studios, Santa Monica one joke that there are two kinds of peo- the producer of several notable series such as WEB:us-irelandalliance.org ple: those who are Irish, and those who lack “One Day at a Time,” “Maude,” “Sanford and PHOTOGRAPH BY JESSICA CHOU JESSICA BY PHOTOGRAPH

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JOSH ALTMAN AND CINDY AMBUEHL BEN BACAL SANTIAGO ARANA ERNIE CARSWELL MATT ALTMAN The Cindy Ambuehl Group CEO/ Founder of Revel Managing partner, Douglas Elliman The Altman Brothers at at Compass Real Estate The Agency Beverly Hills Douglas Elliman Beverly Sold 694 Walther Way, Brent- Biggest ’19 sale was $94 Ranked No. 7 in the country, Part of Elliman’s Sports & Hills wood (listed at $12 million), rep- million, with Bacal representing Arana has closed over $2 billion Entertainment Division, The brothers opened their new resenting both buyer and seller. the buyer of Bruce Makowsky’s worth of real estate, reps star Carswell in 2019 did $287 Beverly Hills office last year and Client was producer-songwriter 924 Bel-Air Road. New listings clients LeBron James, Lady million-plus in sales volume their 2019 total sales volume Mikkel Eriksen. “Despite all include a $49 million Holmby Gaga and Larry David. He with 97 transaction sides. He was $451 million, adding to the political turmoil and trade Hills mansion, next door to developed a spec home oppo- sold the iconic Brady Bunch their $3.25 billion sales volume uncertainty, not much seems Playboy Mansion; relaunching site the house he developed home in Studio City for a year-to-date. With celeb clients to get in the way of California's 1231 Largo Vista at $32 million, and sold to James, purchased record-breaking price to HGTV; including Kim and Kanye West, immense real estate market. up from previous asking price by Formula One racing heiress/ Katie Perry’s 7310 Mulholland Alicia Keys and Norman Lear, California is moving into the of $30 million; and 1895 Rising socialite Petra Ecclestone. Dr. mansion for $9.4 million; the stars of Bravo’s “Million rank of fourth of the United Glen Road at $13.99 million. Recent sales include 23768 Aaron Eckhart’s 2320 Gloaming Dollar Listing Los Angeles” had States’ largest economies, with He also launched Rila, a free Malibu Road offered at $19.5 Way home in Beverly Hills for notable 2019 sales including Los Angeles home prices rising real estate listing app. “2019 million, a double-ender, and $3 million-plus; handled the the Razor House’s $24.995 mil- 7.4% over the last 12 months. ended on a record-breaking Windsor Smith’s Brentwood purchase of ’s lion record-breaker in La Jolla With millennials buying and high note, setting us up for an house at $36 million. “The lux- Hancock Park mansion at $4.7 (they held the listing and also baby boomers selling in L.A., optimistic 2020. We will see the ury L.A. market is very healthy million; and sold one of Steve repped buyer Keys); the $39 interest rates continue to rise of homes actually being and we have a big influx of very Martin’s Beverly Hills homes for million Norman Lear estate; and remain low. A record 18.7 mil- sold on social media, and large affluent buyers — from London, $2.2 million. “The biggest trend a $19.9 million record-break- lion Californians are employed, land plots being snatched up New York, Silicon Valley, Boston is that developers are divorcing ing sale in Hawaii. “It’s a great wages are rising, and they’re as they become fewer and far — all looking in the $10 million from the boring white stucco time to be a buyer looking for ready to buy homes! Every day between,” he says. “Co-living is and up range, and we have the boxes they’ve built for the past real estate in the L.A. market is a great day to buy and sell in trending for millennials where- supply here,” he says. five years, as no one wants in 2020. Lots of opportunity,” L.A.,” she says. as mega-millennials are the them anymore. New homes they say. driving force of personalized now have much more warmth real estate transactions taking and interesting architecture,” place over social media.” he says.

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Crowned by real estate trade The Malibu native and local real web site Inman as the top estate icon has over $5 billion luxury agent of 2019, he broke in sales and has been the top two big records: the $35 mil- Malibu agent for 17 years. lion sale of the Thousand Oaks Active listings that include a estate of Legendary’s Thomas Guy Dreier-designed beach Tull — a Ventura County record house at 33256 Pacific Coast — and a $22.2 million deal in Highway, Malibu (listed at $65 Hidden Hills. With a deep pool million); 21536 Pacific Coast of sports stars and celeb cli- Highway, Malibu (listed at ents, he currently holds former $23 million), owned by Candy NFL star and current Fox Sports Spelling; 31952 Pacific Coast personality Reggie Bush’s Highway, Malibu (listed at $6.95 Pacific Palisades listing for million), owned by Cindy Craw- $8.49 million and the Hidden ford and Rande Gerber. “2020 Hills home of the L.A. Rams star is already starting off as a Brandin Cooks for $5.8 million. banner year. There are tremen- “As long as interest rates stay dous deals in Malibu and smart low, the market will stay very buyers are taking advantage of steady,” Cohen says. the current market conditions. I expect this to be my best year UNIQUE DIGS yet,” he notes. Chris Cortazzo and Ginger Glass listed this Malibu beach house. ALTMANS: SEAN TWOMEY; BACAL: BENJO ARWAS; CORTAZZO: SERGIO GARCIA CORTAZZO: BENJO ARWAS; BACAL: SEAN TWOMEY; ALTMANS:

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Specializing in significant The real estate veteran sold Fridman sold 1966 Carla Ridge, Clients include Jennifer Lopez The top agent famed for her estates with $4 billion-plus 1091 Laurel Way, Beverly Hills Trousdale Estates, listed at $46 and Alex Rodriguez, Joe Jonas ultra-luxe properties had anoth- in sales, Fenton has sold (listed at $35 million); 1966 million; 9601 Oak Pass Road, and Sophie Turner, and Nick er big year, and current active such iconic properties as the Carla Ridge, Trousdale Estates Beverly Hills, listed at $27.5 mil- Jonas and Priyanka Chopra. listings include: The Walling- Chartwell Estate (repping (listed at $46 million); 1677 N. lion; a Noah Walker designed Recent sales include repping ford Estate, Beverly Hills (listed both buyer and seller), the Doheny Dr. (listed at $25.95 home for $22.5 million that was buyers for an off-market $20 at $110 million); the Max Azria Playboy Mansion, the Brody million), and the highest “bird the highest November 2019 million Encino home (the high- Estate, listed at $78 million; 145 Estate, Rosewood and the streets” sale since 2017. Active sale for L.A.; 800 Stradella est sale in Encino history) and a N. Mapleton Dr., Beverly Hills, Ennis House. Sales total for listings include the Owlwood Road, Beverly Hills ($37.5 mil- $14.1 million Encino home (the listed at $55 million; 33256 the past 12 months hit almost Estate, Holmby Hills (listed at lion), the highest 2019 land sale second-highest sale in Encino Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, $700 million. Current listings $115 million); 521 N. Canon Dr., for Los Angeles; and 1677 North history). He was sole agent for a Guy Dreier architectural gem, include Owlwood in Holmby Beverly Hills (listed at $39.95 Doheny Dr., in the bird streets, an off-market $16.7 million sale listed at $65 million; 81307 Hills, for $115 million; 330 N. million); 1108 Tower Road, listed at $25.95 million and the in Brentwood Park. Current list- Amundsen Ave., La Quinta list- Mapleton, Holmby Hills, for Beverly Hills (listed at $36.5 highest bird streets sale since ings include Eva Chow’s house ed at $24.5 million; and 74470 $70 million; the Bellagio Estate, million); and 916 June St., 2017. Active listings include for $69.97 million, showing as a Quail Lakes Dr., Indian Wells, Bel-Air, for $68 million; 1300 Hancock Park (listed at $15.95 the Beverly House, Beverly pocket listing. He just signed to listed at $11.45 million. “The Beverly Estate Dr., Beverly Hills, million). “Last year, L.A. truly Hills (listed at $135 million). “As sell 14 condos at the Palihouse. 2020 market is set to continue for $37.95 million; 1140 Tower solidified its reputation as a the top market in the nation, “The 2020 high-end market in and even exceed what was Road, Beverly Hills, for $32.5 leading city for real estate with L.A.’s ultra-luxury real estate greater Los Angeles will contin- experienced in the second half million; and 10778 Chalon several record-breaking sales,” has evolved into an interna- ue to be strong not only in core of 2019, with some of the larg- Road, Bel-Air, for $32.5 million. she notes. “I see that trend tional attraction for the world’s areas like the Westside but also est sales in the country taking “Our market of $50 million-plus continuing into 2020 with both biggest players, making 2020 in suburban enclaves such as place throughout Beverly Hills, is the strongest in the nation local and international buyers an exciting year, especially for Encino, Sherman Oaks and the Bel-Air and Malibu,” says Glass. and will continue into 2020,” investing in L.A. properties.” listings such as my $115 million West Valley,” he notes. he notes. Owlwood Estate,” he says.

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KURT RAPPAPORT STEPHEN RESNICK & JOYCE REY BILLY ROSE STEPHEN SHAPIRO Westside Estate Agency JONATHAN NASH The Joyce Rey Team Founder and president, Westside Estate Agency Hilton & Hyland The Agency Repped both buyer and seller, Coldwell Banker The co-founder of uber high- Global Luxury Ron Meyer and Jan Koum, in a The duo repped the buyer of Rose has repped high-net- end luxury brokerage WEA had $100 million Malibu sale; sold mega-mansion 630 Nimes Coldwell Banker worth and celebrity clients for recent top sales including the Residential Brokerage Petra Ecclestone’s Holmby Hills Road, which sold for $56 more than 25 years. Notable Brad Grey estate at $70 million estate for $120 million; repped million; repped the buyer Record-breaking 2019 sales transactions and listings in and the Anderson estate at both Adam Levine (seller) and of 1110 Maytor Place, which include the storied Chartwell the last year include 717 N. Las $25 million. He is currently Ellen DeGeneres (buyer) on went for $15.5 million; and Estate at 875 Nimes Road, Palmas, listed by James Tupper representing Casey and Laura sale of $45 million Beverly Hills repped the seller in the $46.5 Bel- Air, formerly owned by and Anne Heche; 7651 Willow Wasserman for the Foothill estate; repped Harry Styles on million deal for 1155 Angelo Jerry Perenchio. It was report- Glen, sold by Chris Pratt and Estate in Beverly Hills offered sale of his $7 million Hollywood Dr. in Beverly Hills. They also edly snapped up by Lachlan Anna Faris; and 4143 Hay- at $82.5 million. “We all read Hills home; sold Bob Evans’ represented buyer Sebastian Murdoch for $150 million, venhurst, a confidential sale that the luxury market was hard legendary Beverly Hills estate Maniscalco for a $21.65 million the highest price in California for an entertainment legend. hit in 2019, but then during the to Discovery Neworks CEO purchase. Says Resnick: “Any history. Other mega sales “Though the number of sales is last quarter there was a run on David Zaslav; and sold David high-quality, well thought-out included 800 Nimes Road, at down, pricing is actually flat or super-luxury, all the way up to Geffen a $30 million lot in product will sell; the 2020 $21.5 million; 1244 Moraga Dr., somewhat appreciating. Good, $150 million, followed by quite Trousdale Estates. “Demand L.A. market will not only be Bel-Air, at $19.5 million; and 912 well-priced homes/opportu- a few in the $20 million-$30 isn’t for brand-new houses or about ‘location, location, Hillcrest Road, Beverly Hills, for nities sell quickly and/or go million range,” he notes. “The massive square footage. It’s for location,’ but also ‘product, $19 million; “The luxury market in to bidding wars,” he says. flurry of very expensive homes very well-architected homes product, product.’” Adds Nash, is one of the strongest sectors “Reductions are not necessarily means that buyers are com- designed by the likes of Paul “2019 was a record-breaking right now because of the stock a sign of declining market.” fortable spending money. This, Williams, Wallace Neff, John year demonstrating that market strength,” she says. through osmosis, gives others Woolf, James Dolena, John above all, quality sells. 2020 “2019 started poorly, but ended below them confidence to buy Lautner and Richard Neutra is anticipated to be another with record sales, and 2020 has because the ‘smart people’ are that have today’s modern ame- exciting year with demand still begun very strong.” buying.” nities,” he says. at an all-time high.”

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MARC & SARA SHEVIN TRACY TUTOR BRANDEN & RAYNI JONAH WILSON Berkshire Hathaway Douglas Elliman, WILLIAMS Hilton & Hyland Beverly Hills Williams & Williams Estates Wilson grew up in showbiz Averaging $200 million in Group The first woman and star of (father Carl Wilson co-found- yearly sales and specializing Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing With another record-setting ed the Beach Boys) and over in Calabasas and Hidden Hills, Los Angeles” was chosen THE UMANSKY TEAM: year in 2019, they became the the past 30 years he’s forged the powerhouse father and to represent the tony West MAURICIO UMANSKY, country’s top producing team, a highly successful career in daughter team sold every listed Hollywood Edition Hotel and EDUARDO UMANSKY clearing over $700 million in ultra-luxe real estate, repping property in Hidden Hills that Residences, which launched in AND FARRAH BRITTANY sales, including the highest sale celeb clients and deals includ- early 2018. She also beat out of a Frank Lloyd Wright home closed for over $10 million in The Agency ing Pharrell Williams’ purchase 2019. The most notable sale competitors to become the ever —the Ennis House for $18 from Tyler Perry in Beverly The Agency founder/CEO included a new home at 5521 U.S. ambassador for the Royal million. New listings include Hills; Priscilla Presley’s sale of a Atlantis Resort and Residences Mauricio Umansky, father Jason Statham’s mid-century Paradise Valley Road, which family home in Brentwood; and in Dubai — a prestigious role as Eduardo Umansky and Malibu beach house for $19.9 Ted Sarandos and Nicole Avant closed for $22.2 million and she reps the luxury property in daughter Farrah Brittany — million. They’re exclusive listing in a Malibu sale of $21.25 mil- set a new record in Hidden the U.S. In 2019, she handled has sold the most U.S. homes agents for The One in Bel Air, lion. “Demand for true top-tier Hills. Other top sales include sales/marketing of Scott Gillen’s priced above $20 million. the country’s most expensive properties is incredibly strong. 24051 Long Valley Road for $15 Malibu Series Portfolio, 13 archi- Recent notable sales include house, and are launching But only the highest quality million; 24400 Little Valley Rd. tecturally significant residences 822 Sarbonne ($75 million). Williams & Williams Designs. properties are going straight for $14.6 million; and 25220 with a combined asking price of Mauricio also makes appear- “L.A.’s luxury market will break up, while the garbage is being Walker Road for $14.58 million. $500 million. She recently sold ances on “The Real Housewives records in 2020 as we continue weeded out. Ultra-high-net- “We anticipate that 2020 will a home in Brentwood for $19.66 of Beverly Hills” as his wife, Kyle to see foreign investment in worth individuals are benefiting Richards, is one of the stars. L.A. real estate return even be another strong year for million and ended the year with from incredible gains in their a sales volume of $180 million. “We had an amazing 2019 in during an election year. We also investment portfolios,” he says. Calabasas and Hidden Hills. “With a large percentage of Los Angeles with record break- predict more cannabis entre- Our buyers continue to move millennials turning 30 this year ing sales and a strong start to preneurs putting their green here for the relaxed lifestyle, and mortgage rates remaining the year with great closings rush dollars into solid property guard gated developments and low, I expect 2020 to be anoth- in January so we are hopeful assets,” they say. comparative values that drive er big year for first time home that we will keep up the same our market,” they say. buyers,” she says. momentum in 2020,” they say.

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OREN AND TAL CARRIE CHIANG RAPHAEL DE NIRO FREDRIK EKLUND AND ALEXA LAMBERT ALEXANDER Corcoran The De Niro Team at Douglas JOHN GOMES Compass The Alexander Team at Elliman New York The Eklund | Gomes Team at With 36 years experience, the The agent, whose clients Douglas Elliman, New York Douglas Elliman pre-eminent N.Y. broker and In addition to his successful include Bob Iger, Willow Bay, and Miami Corcoran's salesperson of resale business, has overseen The team has more than Katie Couric, Mariska Hargitay Celebrity clients include the the year, which she has won marketing and sales for top $14 billion in sales in the past and Julia Roberts, racked up Weeknd, Kanye West, Timbal- several times, had another new developments in New York decade. Eklund is the star of big sales last year including 80 and and Tommy Hilfiger. They impressive year, with top sales City, including The Pearline Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing Columbus Circle, unit 74AB, at broke more records in 2019, including a deluxe townhouse Soap Factory, 76 Madison, the New York.” The national team the Mandarin Oriental, for $29 including repping billionaire at 134 E. 74th St. for $25.5 TriBeCa Fairchild, 150 Charles is currently overseeing sales million; and the New York City Ken Griffin on a sale of a New million; another townhouse at 3 Street and 27 Wooster, all of for New York City and Miami’s mansion at 807 Park Ave. that York penthouse for $238 East 89th St., for $22.3 million; which have achieved sold-out top new developments, as once belonged to rapper Sean million, the most expensive a condo at 1 Central Park status. The penthouse at 565 well as 8899 Beverly in Los “Diddy” Combs for $24 million U.S. home purchase ever, and South, for $19.6 million; and Broome was the biggest recent Angeles. Highlights of 2019 in December. Lambert currently selling the most expensive a condo at 155 West 11th St., sale for $36.415 million. He is include expanding to the South has listed and put into contract home in Miami at 3 Indian for $18.8 million. Her current currently representing several Florida market. Celebrity clients 15 East 26th St., unit 12E, for Creek Island Road for $50 listings include 12 East 63rd new projects that are active, include Jennifer Lopez, Bruce $4.2 million. “Manhattan is an million. “Miami is booming in St. ($67 million); 2 East 82nd including a $40 million pent- Willis, Gigi Hadid and Daniel especially diverse and magical the luxury market and we’ve St. ($32 million); 10 East 76th house at 111 Murray St., and a Craig. “We are now a strong little island. Because it’s an broken our own records for St. ($29.95 million); 7 Sutton $19.95 million residence at 60 80-member team in four cities island, there is limited availabil- homes and condos in the past Square ($29.5 million); a luxury Bethune St. “The New York City and feel well-positioned for ity and property has increased year,” reports Oren. “New York’s penthouse at 30 East 85th St real estate market has an acute 2020 where we are already in value dramatically over time,” also seeing a lot of transactions ($28.5 million); and 3 East 95th oversupply of new condo- witnessing sellers pricing she says. “There is nothing like at the top of the market, as St., another penthouse ($25 minium inventory,” he says. properties more realistically, New York and if you have an clients see a great opportunity, million). “2020 will be the year of sober making it a great opportunity apartment here you get to be but more than ever they need pricing. As a buyer, the world is for buyers,” they say. a New Yorker and what’s better to trust your judgment.” your oyster!” than that?”

RYAN SERHANT Nest Seekers Intl.

The star of Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing New York” and spin-off “Sell It Like Serhant” and his team closed nearly $800 million in 2019, including the No. 1 sale in the Hamptons for $39.25 million; a home in Sag Harbor for $14 million; and multiple new development projects, including deals for three new towers in Long Island City. “We also sold our first house through YouTube, for $13 million, and now we do a significant number of deals through YouTube and it’s probably our biggest lead generator. It’s pretty crazy but that’s how the world’s changed. I’m very optimistic about DESIGNER 2020. Low interest rates make DELIGHT buying more affordable than Eloy Carmenate ever, depending where you’re and Mick Duchon looking,” says Serhant. rep this Miami Beach mansion. DE NIRO: MICHAEL MCWEENEY; MIAMI BEACH MANSION: CHRISTIAN SANTIAGO MANSION: CHRISTIAN MIAMI BEACH DE NIRO: MICHAEL MCWEENEY;

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CHRISTIAN ANGLE CRISTINA CONDON LAWRENCE MOENS Christian Angle Real Estate Sotheby’s Intl. Realty Lawrence A. Moens Associates Specializing in luxury residenc- The top agent, who began es and commercial properties her real estate career with Established in 1982, the indus- in Palm Beach and South Sotheby’s Intl. Realty in 1982, try leader in luxury real estate Florida, Angle & Co. take a bou- ELOY CARMENATE & has racked up over a billion has since closed transactions totaling several billion. Current tique-style approach to selling, MICK DUCHON dollars of residential sales in buying or leasing, and was Palm Beach over the past 10 high-end listings include 1820 Douglas Elliman Real Estate nationally ranked No. 2 among years. Key luxe sales include 60 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach — in Miami Beach the top 250 real estate pro- Blossom Way, Palm Beach, with a historic landmark Addison fessionals in the Real Trends/ In 2019, the team closed on Mizner compound with a final price of $81 million, in THE JILLS ZEDER GROUP: Wall Street Journal and No. 1 substantial interior renovations $72.6 million specifically in which she represented the sell- JILL EBER in Florida in 2019. In 2018 the now complete, and a private Miami Beach with an additional er; 589 N. County Road, Palm JILL HERTZBERG firm closed over $570 million in underground tunnel to the $18.6 million in pending sales Beach, with a sold price of $50 JUDY ZEDER sales. Top recent sales include million, in which she repre- beach, priced at $52 million. to close after the first of the Coldwell Banker 608 Island Dr., Palm Beach, sented the buyer; and a Palm Other top listings include 640 year. High-profile clientele and Residential Real Estate at $15.48 million; 130 Chilean Beach mansion, last asking $59 S. Ocean Blvd., Lake Worth, a sales include Bruce Eichner, Ave., Palm Beach, at $8 million; million, in which she represent- Last year saw two major players new oceanfront compound, the New York/Miami developer 160 Spyglass Lane, Jupiter, at ed the seller. “The market here in the luxury market, the Jills priced at $41.75 million; 12510 $7.95 million; 100 Royal Palm whose Continuum penthouse is really growing because of all and the Zeder Team, combine Seminole Beach Road, North Way, Palm Beach, at $5.24 mil- was listed for $39.9 million. the tax increases in such states to form a new powerhouse Palm Beach, at $29.5 million; lion; 238 Plantation Rd., Palm “Mick and I are experiencing as New York, Connecticut, Illi- team and rack up mega-sales and 930 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, at $4.2 million; and 330 momentum in the high-end nois and California, and people totaling $665 million-plus Beach, a landmark residence, “Miami’s luxury mark et has S. Ocean Boulevard D-1, Palm $20 million-plus market for are moving here as there’s no meticulously restored, priced always had international flight Beach, at $4.14 million. single family homes with state tax, and most want brand- at $22.95 million. and clients, but now we’re also high-profile hedge fund man- new construction,” she notes. seeing strong domestic flight, agers, entertainers and ath- especially from the high-tax letes. With pricing now meeting high-tech states like New York buyers’ expectations, we feel and California. There’s also an bullish about the Miami market, upwards trend in clients from especially Miami Beach,” says Brazil and other Latin American Carmenate. countries,” says Eber.

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BEN BELACK FARRAH BRITTANY SMITH CHO IKEM CHUKUMERIJE NEYSHIA GO The Agency The Agency Compass Compass Specializes in luxe properties Represented Twitter/Square A key member of the Agency The California native has had for pro athletes and celebs. A co-star of CNBC’s “Listing founder Jack Dorsey on the team, which has sold the most a great year with top deals Recent closings include Impossible,” Go’s notable sales buy of 2660 Skywin (he sold it U.S. homes priced above $20 including 9061 Thrasher repping buyers Dallas Cowboy included 223 Ashdale Place in multiples for over $400,000 million. Clients include enter- Avenue, in the famed “bird Robert Quinn and wife Christi- in Bel-Air for $8.2 million; 126 more a year later); represented tainment industry honchos, streets,” listed at $6.95 million na for 1662 Courtland Dr., Fris- Westgate in Brentwood for $5.6 Serge Azria (brother of BCBG DJs, producers and models. — she represented buyer co, Texas, at $1.8 million; rep- million; 25330 Prado De Ambar founder Max Azria and designer Recent notable sales include Bobby Flay in that transaction. ping buyers of a $4.45 million in Calabasas for $3.8 million; of Joie Equipment and Current/ 822 Sarbonne ($75M), 1627 E. Other deals included 15253 De Encino estate and a $10 million 351 N. La Jolla Ave. in West Hol- Elliott) on the sale of 1816 Valley Road, 11507 Orum, 979 Pauw, Pacific Palisades, which Los Angeles home. Represent- lywood for $3.55 million; and Laurel Canyon to director Len Bel-Air, 1307 Sierra Alta, 837 sold off-market for $7 million. ed buyers for Sherman Oaks 1444 Queens Road in Sunset Wiseman; sold 125 S. Sweetzer Greenway, 8590 Hollywood She represented seller Giada homes sales of $1.52 million, $2 Strip/Hollywood Hills for $2.5 for Lynnewood Bibbens, CEO (the team represented the buy- de Laurentiis in that deal. She million and $1.85 million. “The million. Her top listings for sale and co-founder of ReachTV er) and 634 Pinnacle Crest sold again repped de Laurentiis as San Fernando Valley luxury include 1162 Sunset Hills, in Network. Belack currently rep- with Jane Weintraub in April a buyer for a Pacific Palisades market is at an all-time high the Hollywood Hills, for $6.49 resents Joseph Gordon Levitt 2019. “While the market feels home listed at $5 million. Celeb and continues to break records. million; 7405 Pyramid Place, and Tasha McCauley’s home in more unpredictable these days, clients also include Natasha Encino specifically has been in the Hollywood Hills, for $4.7 Los Feliz. “While many think our we still had some gigantic, Lyonne. “There will be more a huge part of those records. million; and 3321 Bonnie Hill market’s cooling, it’s certainly record-breaking deals go down vertical integration occurring. In 2020, I don’t see any slow- Dr., in the Hollywood Hills, for stabilized. Homes priced well in 2019. The demand to live in And with the power of digital downs. I’m in escrow now with $2.9 million. “As it’s an election are flying, and at all price Los Angeles is at an all-time omnipresence, people will two properties over $9 million year I see the market staying points,” he says. high, and I’m pretty optimistic look to agents even more that are off-market. They will about the same, especially in that momentum will carry into for hyper-focused guidance, close in the first quarter if all the $5 million-$7 million range, 2020,” she notes. knowledge and situational goes well,” he says. but in ’21 we may see a soften- awareness,” she says. ing,” she says.

COOPER MOUNT MICK PARTRIDGE ANGEL SALVADOR The Agency Hilton & Hyland The Agency

Top 2019 sales included Celebrity clients include former It’s been a huge year for the 31504 Victoria Point, for $12.15 NBA great Scottie Pippen, young agent, with highlights million (represented buyer MySpace co-founder Aber from 2019 that include the Anthony Zuiker, creator of Whitcomb, showrunner/exec $21 million sale of Penthouse television franchise “CSI.” Seller producer of “Conan Show,” Beverly West as well as the was NBA star Kevin Durant); Jeff Ross, and French Laundry $25 million recent listing in 38 Malibu Colony Road, for and Per Se chef/owner Thomas ultra-desirable Hidden Hills for $12.32 million (represented Keller and partner Laura client the Weeknd. Other big seller Eric Roth, Oscar-winning Cunningham, who runs Keller’s deals included a $4.5 million writer of “Forrest Gump”); businesses. Notable recently transaction for Lil Pump; a $3.5 and 24051 Long Valley Road, sold listings include new con- million Woodland Hills mansion for $15 million. Mount’s new struction in Serra Retreat, sold for rapper Swae Lee sold by listings include 33014 Pacific for $10 million (he double-end- actors Jonathan Frakes and HIGHLIGHT Coast Highway, at $30 million ed the deal); 232 Avondale Ave. Genie Francis; a $3.3 million Fredrik Eklund (previously owned by Nicolas in Brentwood, sold for $7.75 home for Dooney Battle, Lil and John Gomes rep Cage), off-market; 3250 Serra million; 1273 Stone Canyon Pump’s manager; a $2.45 this Gotham pad Road, at $18.75M (formerly Road in Bel-Air that sold for $7.5 million home for Nick Jarjour, with Central Park owned by Kelsey Grammar); million; 339 18th St. in Santa Starrah’s manager. “The trend views. and 26060 Pacific Coast Monica that sold for $6.23 in 2020 is going up — literally Highway, at $7.19 million. “Los million; and 500 N. Bristol Ave. — as clients are leaving houses Angeles continues to be one in Brentwood, which sold for and moving into high-end of the most desirable places to $5.77 million. “Even though luxury condos, especially in the live, period,” he says. “Special the overall market has cooled Westside corridor and Century properties will continue to slightly, well-developed prop- City,” Salvador says. hold their value and when erties remain in high demand —Profiles by Iain Blair priced right will continue to sell and the luxury market looks to quickly. I’m looking forward to continue breaking records this another incredible year.” year,” he says. CHUKUMERIJE: WILL UTLEY PHOTOGRAPHY; CENTRAL PARK APARTMENT: NICO ARELLANO PHOTOGRAPHY APARTMENT: CENTRAL PARK WILL UTLEY PHOTOGRAPHY; CHUKUMERIJE:

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FASHION FORWARD Carolina Gonzalez worked for designer Carolina Herrera before becoming a makeup artist.

SHOWING FACE CAROLINA GONZALEZ Originally on the fashion track, native New Yorker Gonzalez discovered she THESE CELEBRITY MAKEUP ARTISTS ARE CHANGING could parlay her sketching skills into a THE BEAUTY GAME WITH BOLD LIPS AND SMOKY EYES makeup career while working for Carolina Herrera. Gonzalez loves glowing skin and By Jasmin Rosemberg contoured lips — evident in her naturally sexy looks for clients including Camila Cabello, Hailee Steinfeld and Victoria’s Secret Angels Alessandra Ambrosio and Stella Maxwell. Variety ON FEB. 4 and Armani Beauty will recognize five of Hol- How do you create that really amazing, lywood’s freshest face-makers at the second annual Makeup glowing skin? Artistry Dinner at Sunset Tower Hotel. Whether profession- Prep is everything for me. If it’s red car- pet, I do love a heavy moisturizer, and ally schooled or thrown into the field, Carolina Gonzalez, Mela- after that, one of the things that I’ve nie Inglessis, Kayleen McAdams, Molly R. Stern and Mai Quynh always used across the board is the are red-carpet standouts who’ve helped this season’s big- Armani Luminous Silk Foundation — it’s light but it covers. And sometimes I’ll gest awards contenders shine on the beauty front. Muses such put a highlighter first. I like to use liquid as Olivia Wilde, Maya Rudolph, Rachel McAdams, Alessandra highlighter, but nothing with too many Ambrosio and Lily Aldridge will attend the event. sparkles in it. I put that on first if I want more of a glow. These makeup artists have created contoured lips, art- ful eyes and untraditional looks (think: a made-up eye, sans How did you approach Camila Cabello’s mascara), while also bolstering a more natural, less-is-more look for the American Music Awards? I love working with singers, because you approach to skin. Here, the five artists dish on favorite looks get to have more fun. They’re on stage, and how they’ve cultivated celebrity cult followings. and you can go smoky or more cat eye.

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Camila is 22; I want her to look like look to her for luminous skin and I like Thomasin at the Critics’ Choice she’s 22, but give her an extra kick of “rock ’n’ roll eyes.” Awards, where you did the really great sex appeal. I really just like her skin liner and lashes. to look like her skin, and if I’m going What do you consider to be your With Thomasin, this time we wanted to play anything up, she has gorgeous strengths as a makeup artist? it to be a little more grown-up. She’s a CAMILA lashes. What we did was more of a When I first moved here 15-20 years ago, CABELLO young girl, but I wanted her makeup to smoky liner, rather than so hard of I think I was quite successful because I Carolina be a little more elevated because the a line. With her lips, I just shape had a more European aesthetic, a lighter Gonzalez dress had a Victorian feel to it. So we added “sex them up a little bit. And then we just aesthetic than what Hollywood was really worked on the eyes and on that appeal” to do a light gloss on top or something known for. Now, I think I’m known for the singer’s elongated shape and those lashes and a very skin-toned. I always like working my skin, and I do good rock ’n’ roll eyes, look at the beautiful lip color. with matte lipsticks — they look whether it’s a smoky eye or a pop of color American Music more natural. on the lid. I also loved at the Awards. Golden Globes. Do you have a favorite Oscar look What are some of the ways you play It was Ana’s first Golden Globes and she with Alessandra Ambrosio? with color on the eyes? was nominated, and we really wanted to She’s one of my favorite canvases and I do a lot of smoky eyes. With Olivia, do a classic Hollywood look. I know that oldest friends. I just love her face; she’s we’ve created colored smoky eyes for 11 sounds cliché, but I wanted her to look like a young Cindy Crawford. One of my years — metallic and purple and green the most gorgeous. I didn’t want the favorites was an all-monochromatic and burgundy and gold — so I do feel makeup to take over; I wanted there THOMASIN look. She had on this dress that was that Olivia and I kind of really pioneered to be a balance. MCKENZIE nude with sparkle. I always contour her smoky eyes because of her face and her “The Jojo lips. It just makes the lips look fuller features. I like to play with colorful Rabbit” star What been popular as far as without being lined, and it’s my answer smoky eyes, or, like Thomasin [at TIFF], opted for red-carpet makeup? “grown up” to lip fillers for people who want that do two tones that are not expected You see a lot of skin — skin breathing, makeup look for special occasions. I made her together, like a coral and a cobalt. It at the Critics’ skin shiny. Skin is becoming its own fea- really bronzed and golden, like a was a sparkly coral on the top, and then Choice ture. You can have gorgeous skin and not Brazilian dream. blue on the bottom lashes, coupled with a Awards. much more. It has to be well-hydrated blue mascara. I use a lot of cream- skin, so water drinking and a good skin And she looks great with a red lip, like and shimmer-based eye shadows, allow- routine, are musts. I like working with what you did in Cannes. ing me to get those pops of color, which products that are luminous. I just want to I love doing Cannes because that is the would be difficult with a matte. see skin again. best red carpet — everyone looks amaz- ing on that carpet. They really light it so

well, and it’s so chic and so much fun. PARISIAN CHIC In 2018, I did Lais [Ribeiro], Alessan- Makeup artist dra and Sara [Sampaio]. I like for those Melanie Inglessis girls to look very classy, old Hollywood favors dewy, luminous skin, at Cannes. smoky eyes and pops of bright colors. What sorts of looks do you think we’ll see at this year’s Oscars? I think for Oscars, people want it as classic and timeless as possible, because those images live forever. I think you’ll see a lot of healthy, glow- ing skin, beautiful lashy-lashes, more matte but full lips. I do think that skin is back, and not so covered or heavily con- toured; I think we’re moving away from that. And still a lot of sparkle; people want to sparkle and shine.

MELANIE INGLESSIS

While studying makeup at London College of Fashion, Montreal-born, Paris-raised Inglessis toiled at MAC and Shu Uemura counters and assisted U.K. artists Pat McGrath and Val Garland. Hollywood instantly embraced her European aesthetic, and clients including Olivia Wilde,

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KAYLEEN MCADAMS NATURAL WOMAN Kayleen McAdams, After attending university for psychology, whose clients include sister Canada native McAdams opted to turn Rachel McAdams, her passion into a vocation by moving prefers pairing to Toronto for makeup school. Over the simple makeup with a fun lip. past 12 years in Los Angeles, she’s applied fresh color, fun lips and her natural approach to clients including her sister Rachel McAdams, Elisabeth Moss and Sadie Sink.

What do you consider to be your strengths as a makeup artist? My approach has always been a much more natural look. I love a pop of color, I love doing a fun lip. I kind of ease somebody into different looks, while still maintaining the anchors of great skin and pretty lashes, but nothing too extravagant.

What are some of your favorite looks you’ve done recently? One person I always love working with is Elisabeth Moss, because I feel like she really embodies that [natural look]. She’s on a television show now, wildly suc- cessful, where she doesn’t wear a lot of makeup, and I think it’s really helped her to realize, “Oh, I don’t need to wear a lot to look really beautiful.” We’re always doing a fun lip, and for the MTV Awards we did this super-sparkly gray eyeshadow and a more natural lip. I would say we mostly keep certain things the same, and then change one thing to try some- thing different.

I love the look you did with Sadie Sink for the “Stranger Things” premiere, with the pink tones. With a young girl like that, it’s such a blank slate. One of the first times I ever worked with her was for her first season What would you like to see more such as Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kid- and we did a sparkly silver eyeshadow and people doing with makeup? man and Cara Delevingne embrace their that was a big change for her. Then we did I love seeing people really just letting inner and outer beauty — establishing the a really bold red lip for the Emmys, and their skin show through and then doing MRS clothing line and scoring an Emmy really sparkly pink. some fun elements to it. There isn’t a rule nomination along the way. “I’ve been anymore where it’s like, it has to be no told, and it’s the greatest compliment I How do you approach doing someone makeup or all makeup. OK, but how about could receive, that I make people look or the red carpet? no foundation, but a big, bold, red lip? In like the best version of themselves,” says I really try and be a team player. I think the past when I’ve worked with Jessica Stern. “I’m not into covering up, I’m into about this a lot, when my sister was nom- Biel, we’ve done no mascara. The idea that enhancing.” inated for “Spotlight” and she wore the you could do a fun lip and then actually green dress. Mark Townsend is the most not put any mascara on your eyes feels How do you approach someone’s amazing hairdresser, but I think he real- crazy, but it’s executed beautifully. makeup for the red carpet? ized, “OK, today’s going to be more of a I’m definitely interested in approaching face moment.” I really focused on the skin it from a holistic place and making sure and we did a little pop of green on the eye MOLLY R. STERN they feel really seen and understood in to subtly bring out the dress. I think that’s whatever they’re trying to put out there, one of the most important parts for me, Introduced to makeup by her mother, and making them the most confident they coming in that day and being prepared to L.A. native Stern scored a job at the Cen- can possibly be. Technically speaking, I’m know your place and to step up and carry tury City Shu Uemura store at age 16. For really into a lot of skin prep. I think a lot

the baton when you need to. more than 25 years, she’s helped women of that glow comes from prepping, mois- HARGRAVE AUSTIN

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turizing, massaging the skin, so that I Chloë Grace Moretz, Alison Brie and more subtle and age-appropriate things. don’t have to overdo it when it comes to Saoirse Ronan. And then as they got older, they got really makeup. I feel like being able to see skin into fashion and were able to hold their through the foundation is kind of what What are some of your favorite looks own. She can wear a bright lip, and every-

separates my style of makeup. SADIE you’ve done recently? thing looks great on her. SINK The Met Gala was really fun with Chloë. What tips do you have for the red carpet? Kayleen The theme was camp last year, and her What tips do you have for the red carpet? Choosing products that wear really well is McAdams dress was short with a halter kind of I’m always about layering. The more you did Sink’s a good tip for a party night. I’m really into makeup for front and we just wanted her to look layer, the longer your makeup stays on. layering the cheek. I think keeping the the “Strang- really elevated and cute. I thought cheek looking really flushed and fresh for er Things” “dolly,” so that’s why I went with the hot What would you like to see more people premiere. the whole evening is a big plus, because pink lip and the lashes and the silver; I doing with makeup? then they always look youthful and glowy. played off the silver and black from her I’m a huge fan of people being individual I’ll contour a little bit, and then layer in a dress. We just wanted her to stand out and unique, and just playing off their fea- little bit of color [and repeat]. … I definitely and look cool. tures. You don’t have to have a highlight, tiramisu it. cut crease and winged eyeliner! If that’s Where are you getting inspiration how you feel beautiful, then by all means, What are some of your favorite looks from now? do it — but you don’t have to. you’ve done recently? KRISTEN I always look at the clothes, and then if I had a really good time with Critics’ STEWART it reminds me of something either ’90s McAdam’s Choice Awards with Anne Hathaway. She client favors or ’80s, or even ’50s or ’60s, I go to ref- had a 6-week-old baby and so I think she a smoky eye. erences. I have a lot of books, movies, was really in touch with her natural abili- music. I look back at different archives ties and beauty. We wanted to just go off and see what we can do with that look. of that, and the dress was so glamorous I love Alison Brie’s ’60s look at the that we liked the contrast of a neutrally, 2018 MTV Awards, and everything you gorgeous, fresh, easy, beauty look. … I do with her eyes. I have a lot of fun with loved [Natasha Lyonne’s Globes] look her face because her features are so

also, kind of more classically glamor- ELIZA prominent — I’ve done neon green on ous, and it’s another level of fun when I’m SCANLEN her eyes. She went to a premiere for working with these girls that I’ve known The “Little [“The Lego Movie 2”] and she wore this for 20-30 years. Women” star pink dress and it had little blue accents, is a client of Mai Quynh. and I was like, “Let’s do blue eyeliner all Which Oscar beauty moments stand out? around, but leave everything else Reese Witherspoon winning her Oscar super clean.” was a definite Oscar highlight for me. She has such an amazingly inspiring, quiet Does someone like Saoirse Ronan confidence. I grew up doing her makeup want more of a subtle look? in the industry, so that whole idea of She’s pretty young and it was the same ERSPOON: DAVID FISHER/SHUTTERSTOCK; QUYNH: TREVOR M SMITH QUYNH: TREVOR FISHER/SHUTTERSTOCK; DAVID ERSPOON: enhancing what someone’s naturally got thing with Chloë; we would try to do REESE that has become my mantra was built on WITHER- growing and learning with her. SPOON Stern “grew SKIN DEEP You also worked with Reese on “Big Lit- up” doing the actor-produc- Molly R. Stern (above) loves to tle Lies.” What’s the big difference with er’s makeup. doing makeup for television? make clients feel confident; Mai With show makeup, consistency is king. Quynh relies on It’s more about just pulling out the very subtle but pretty real qualities of the character and making hues. sure that we can re-create it day after day. Whereas red carpet is much more adven- turous and creative in and of itself, that it exists for that one day.

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After makeup school, Los Angeles native Quynh began at MAC before moving on to music videos and the celeb- rity work that afforded a more favorable lifestyle. She learned the ropes from art- ists Stephane Marais and Paul Starr, and now creates inventive and boldly col-

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VARIETY 111 ‘ DECADES, GENRES FIDELITY’HIGH SONGS SPANSONGS three veteran musicsupervisors, Tom Wolfe andAlison Rosenfeld. The delicate process was ManishRaval, broughtintooverseeteam that very Andthefect moment. songfor every that can—unironicallyplay theper of show isthetype sic “HighFidelity” helmed, NickHornby-authored clas helmed, John Cusack-led, StephenFrears- 112 HULU’S UPDATED VERSION FOCUS CHALLENGE TO SOUNDTRACK HULU’S HIPSTER CLASSIC MUSIC SUPERVISING TEAMAT APERTURE RELISHEDTHE

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RECOGNIZING THE BEST IN MUSIC

THE GUILD OF MUSIC SUPERVISORS CELEBRATES 10TH YEAR OF AWARDS SHOW By James Patrick Herman

THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GUILD example of what our community is — we have of Music Supervisors will be celebrated a part so many points of view,” says former GMS presi- of its annual awards show Feb. 6 at the Wil- dent Thomas Golubi. Adds Joel C. High, his suc- tern. Presenters include actors Daniel Ezra, cessor: “Our guild is close to gender parity and Dash Mihok, Jay Roach and Kristin Chenoweth our current board is made up of six women and along with singer Michael Bolton and come- five men. Even though the balance in our very Tipsheet dian Reggie Watts. Set to perform is Regina active membership base is something we can WHAT: Guild of Music Supervisors awards Spektor, whose “One Little Soldier,” used in be proud of, we need to do more.” As for the WHEN: Feb. 6 “Bombshell,” is up for best song written and/ awards ceremony, it too has hit a major bench- WHERE: The Wiltern or recorded for a film. mark. “In a decade, we went from four awards WEB gmsawards.com Among the other songs nominated are: given out at a brunch on Grammy morning to 16 “Spirit” from “The Lion King,” “Into the trophies at the Wiltern. This year marks a mile- Unknown” from “Frozen 2,” “Don’t Call Me stone in many ways for the guild.” Angel” from “Charlie’s Angels,” “Invisible Ink” from “This Is Us,” “Jenny of Oldstrones” from “Game of Thrones” and “On a Roll” from “Black Mirror.” Films up for awards include “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “Frozen 2,” “Aladdin,” “Ford v Ferrari,” “The Irishman,” “Hustlers” and “Wild Rose.” Television shows nominated include “Euphoria” (alongside Jen Malone, newcomer Adam Leber, Maverick partner and manager of Miley Cyrus, Lil Nas X and Labrinth, shares a music supervision credit); “Pose,” super- vised by the dynamo trio of Amanda Krieg Thomas, Alexis Martin Woodall and Ryan Mur- phy; and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” an Emmy winner in the music supervision cate- gory, although the GMS lists only Robin Urdang, due to bylaws indicating that names shown on the screen be considered, where the Television Academy also recognized showrunners Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino at the Emmys. Additional categories span trailers, video games, advertising, documentaries and GOOD SOLDIERS reality television. Above: Regina Also set to be honored with the Icon Award Spektor (right) is Academy Award-winning veteran composer will perform and lyricist Burt Bacharach; Bob Hunka, sea- her nominated “Bombshell” song. soned music producer and former Sony Tele- vision executive whose credits include the soundtracks for Barbra Streisand’s “A Star Is Born,” “Dawson’s Creek” and “Party of Five,” will receive the Legacy Award. “The diversity [of the nominees] is a perfect

“This year marks a milestone in many ways for the guild.”

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INTIMATE TABLEAU Documentary “” focuses on the personal moments between Hatidze Muratova and her mother, Nazife.

through the colors: blue, yellow, orange, all the way up to white bright light. It was on a Setting the Scene for dolly and a jib so it would also move,” Sob- ociński says. “As the lady passes away, the sun rises, and when they hold hands and their eyes meet, that’s the moment when the Oscar-Nommed Int’l Pics night turns into day.” CINEMATOGRAPHERS REVEAL HOW KEY MOMENTS WERE CONSTRUCTED HONEYLAND (North Macedonia) TO PACK THE BIGGEST PUNCH By Carlos Aguilar To capture the breathtaking opening scene in Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefan- THE VISUAL LANGUAGE of film is universal. director Jan Komasa to remove unnecessary ov’s sumptuous documentary, directors of In “Parasite,” low, flickering light shows the dialogue and rearrange the chronology of photography Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma distraught look on the face of the patriarch certain scenes in the drama about an ex-con put it all on the line. Daut follows beekeeper of the Kim family as the basement floods pretending to be a priest. Static shots and Hatidze Muratova as she approaches a hive and his meager possessions are washed the use of anamorphic lenses made for an on the edge of a treacherous cliff. Ljuma away. In “Corpus Christi,” natural light is aesthetic of modesty. simultaneously filmed her from above as he used as a metaphor to symbolize life. Cine- Sunlight is scarce throughout the film clung to a rock without any protective gear. matographers of four of the Oscar nominees until Daniel (Bartosz Bielenia) is called Ljuma notes that the intimate moments for international feature film recount the upon to give last rites to a drying woman. between Muratova and her mother, Nazife, key moment that communicates the movie’s Sobociński wanted to contrast this solemn presented their own challenging condi- message in a truly cinematic manner. moment, a real test for the protagonist, tions. “For me, this symbolizes the bee- with the coming sunrise to reflect the cycles hive. Hatidze is the worker bee attending CORPUS CHRISTI (Poland) of life. “I had an LED light that was con- to her mother, the queen bee, feeding and Piotr Sobociński worked closely with trolled digitally and would go from dim light grooming her. Shooting these scenes was NEON

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very challenging not only because of the lack of light but also all the smoke from Costumes for ‘Shrill’ the stove was in the room,” he explains, because there was no chimney. “Luckily, we were two cinematographers, and we could Make Fashion Statement replace each other when the smoke made us start to feel dizzy.” Amanda Needham worked with star Aidy Bryant to create a wardrobe that’s stylish and intimate

By Valentina Valentini

IN ONE OF THE FINAL EPISODES of the sec- on “Portlandia,” had to start from scratch. ond season of Hulu’s “Shrill,” Annie, played “Aidy has such great style,” she says. “The by Aidy Bryant, says, “It’s such a hunt to challenge for me was that there wasn’t a find cool clothes for fat women.” lot of off-the-rack support. I leaned on my After two seasons, the messaging in skills as a designer to create a look that rep- “Shrill” is that there is a story to tell about resents that body type.” women (and people) who have been seem- Needham’s job often became more than ingly invisible throughout fashion his- just that of costume designer. “We built tory. Costume designer Amanda Needham pieces that help with intimacy,” she says, feels that message may be getting across, referencing the scene in which Luka Jones’

MARGINALIZED NEIGHBORHOOD finally. More than a few designers reached Ryan is giving her oral sex in the woods. Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti and Djebril out to her after seeing Season 1 of the show. “We built a patch for a barrier between Zonga star in the intense “Les Misérables.” Nooworks — a bold-look company that them. When you design and develop some- designs for all shapes and sizes — ended thing like that, it’s intimate.” The show’s LES MISÉRABLES (France) up on Bryant in Season 2, along with her second season has continued in that direc- Shot in a narrow staircase with a large own line, Pauline. tion — so much so that producers hired an number of young performers, the final “The fact that we have the resources to official “intimacy coordinator.” scene of Ladj Ly’s debut feature about create Annie’s wardrobe makes the show Clearly, intimacy and all its nuances police brutality in a marginalized Pari- really rich,” says executive producer and aren’t limited to body type. But as a plus- sian neighborhood is a chaotic confronta- writer Lindy West, whose 2016 “Shrill: Notes size woman, West grew up not being able tion that required cinematographer Julien From a Loud Woman” was a New York Times to express herself through fashion. “I had Poupard to immerse himself in the action best-seller. “It’s not real life. It’s a television to take what I could get,” she says of her to reflect the intense atmosphere. The show, but it’s given this character an angle clothing options. “I never had this feeling striking conclusion was filmed without of humanity; she can dress and present her that I could really experiment with fashion permits in less than two days. body to the world in a way that truly reflects or say anything about myself through my “We begin with a very slow Steadicam exactly who she wants to project [instead of] clothes because there was one store where shot as we follow the cops going upstairs,” hiding her body and covering herself up.” I could shop, and it was targeted toward Poupard explains. “We then use mostly When it came to designing Annie’s look, 50-year-old women. To work with Amanda handheld cameras as it becomes shakier, Needham, who helped Louie Anderson and Aidy to create this very intentional, with slight crash zooms to create tension. become Mrs. Baskets on FX’s “Baskets” beautiful, unique wardrobe for Annie was When the kids’ leader goes upstairs to get and won a pair of Emmys for her costumes really fun to watch.” revenge, we use Steadicam again to create contrast. He walks slowly in this mess, like a metaphor of Gavroche, the character from the novel ‘Les Misérables.’”

PARASITE (South Korea) Cinematographer Hong Kyung Pyo, a fre- quent collaborator of director Bong Joon Ho, says that water and light were meticu- lously calculated for every shot as the strug- gling family’s semi-basement home floods and Ki-taek (Song Kang Ho) tries to salvage his belongings while neck-deep in water. “We focused especially on lighting in order to convey the feeling of tragedy and the dark fate that lies ahead for Ki-taek’s family after being deprived of their only place to stay,” says Hong. “We made sure that as the water rises in Ki-taek’s home, light gradually disappears. If you look closely at the last scene that captures Ki-taek’s face, you can feel the rhythm of the light. As Ki-taek slowly wades out, look- DESIGN FOR LIVING ing around the house for the last time and Aidy Bryant’s wardrobe crying, the light also flickers, and once in “Shrill” earned its Ki-taek is a distance away, the light on his own fashion line.

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Rican, Dominican and Cuban influences. “So,” the designer continues, “helping delin- eate those cultures and also making them germane to what you see in Washington Heights was very important to the story.” Exploration was key. Coates combed every street of the Heights, examining Bronx architecture. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the stage musical and grew up in the neighborhood, pointed out that Broadway ran through the area. Jewish, Russian and Irish immigrants were on the West Side, and Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban immigrants resided on the East Side. With that in mind, Coates looked for differences and commonalities — and what distinguished a midtown deli from a local one — while trying not to do anything

STREET SCENE too stereotypical. Miranda’s tale of immigration and gen- Anthony Ramos and Melissa Berrera star in the film trification, first performed in 2005, arrived adaptation of “In the on Broadway in 2008, and was nominated Heights,” extensively for 13 Tony Awards, winning four, including shot in the story’s actual neighborhood. best musical. The story, adapted for the film by Quiara Alegría Hudes and Marc Klein, is just as relevant in 2020 if not more IN SERVICE TO THE DIRECTOR’S VISION on so, given the political climate and consider- Cultural Accuracy a project, production designer Nelson ing that gentrification is forcing people out Coates is an artistic pied piper. “You want of the area. to [construct] a visual arc and take people Locations encompassed Post, Nagle Informs the Look on that journey,” he says. and Sherman avenues as well as Dyck- Having scoured locations in Singapore, man Street. But Coates and his team found Malaysia and Thailand for Jon M. Chu’s some of the actual buildings referenced of ‘In the Heights’ “Crazy Rich Asians,” the two reunite for “In in the script were too small to accommo- the Heights.” This time the job was to find date a shoot. Instead, they created facades Production designer Nelson areas in Washington Heights that repre- and built the interiors at Marcy Armory in sented the area’s diversity. “You’re trying to Brooklyn. “The salon was a big build-on; it Coates scouted locations for the do a deep dive into a specific culture, food, only had about 10 feet of the inside,” Coates film adaptation of Lin-Manuel furniture, art — the things that are held so says. “It’s about getting the details correct Miranda’s Tony-winning play dear [locally] that they’re just as import- — the color, the flavors and making it feel ant to the storytelling process,” Coates says. authentic to whatever constituency you’re By Carla Renata The neighborhood includes a mix of Puerto working with. If I can make it better until the camera rolls, I want to make it better.”

CK; JUSTICE: ANDY KROPA/INVISION/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; DAVIS: JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK JORDAN DAVIS: KROPA/INVISION/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; ANDY JUSTICE: CK; Representation and diversity are important to Coates, who’s also president 1 234 of the Art Directors Guild. He takes pride in his record leading the union in those IN PRODUCTION areas. “I started the first women’s and first diversity committee for our guild before the Oscars started turning its head to that,” Family Reunion Push Silent Night Reno 911! he says. “That was one of the things that I (SEASON 7) QUIBI (SEASON 2) NETFLIX really wanted to push.” As a production designer, he has worked with film directors including Mimi Leder GENRE Comedy Comedy Drama Comedy (“On the Basis of Sex”), Denise Di Novi PRODUCTION Prods., Netflix DeCubellis Films, Untravelled Marv Studios, Maven (“Unforgettable”), Anne Fletcher (“The Guilt Jersey Television, Artists Worlds Pictures Trip”) and Anjelica Huston (“Bastard out of First Carolina”). “I like to work with teams that are balanced culturally, ethnically and in DIRECTOR/ N/A Meg DeLoatch (showrunner) Brian DeCubellis (director) Camille Griffin (director) gender,” he explains. “To me, that’s a better SHOWRUNNER worldview and makes for a stronger story.” Coates adds that a film like “Crazy Rich CAST Thomas Lennon [1], Loretta Devine [2], Victoria Justice [3], Matthew Roman Griffin Davis [4], Asians” has resonance that exceeds the Robert Ben Garant Tia Mowry-Hardrict Daddario, Lucien Laviscount Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Annabelle Wallis boundaries of entertainment: “Seeing what [that film] does for an entire community SHOOT START 2/7 2/7 2/10 2/17 and beyond with representation makes you realize how people are presented LOCATION Los Angeles Los AngelesNew York U.K. in media really does affect how they’re

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MAKING TRACKS gives one of four portrayals of Gloria Steinem in “The Glorias.”

FILM REVIEW in her activist and celebrity-spokeswom- perception she absorbed, were Glorias. “The BY OWEN GLEIBERMAN an-of-the-movement 1970s heyday and Glorias,” at heart, is an almost startlingly beyond. Nine-year-old Ryan Kiera Arm- conventional movie, told with the sprawl — The Glorias strong is Gloria growing up in 1940s Ohio, and, at times, the paint-by-numbers psy- and Lulu Wilson portrays her as a teenager. chology — of a sidewinding cradle-to-grave Every so often, a couple of the Glorias biopic. The film is acted with great flair and will converse or give each other a shoul- emotional precision, and it’s been staged by der to lean on during a Greyhound bus Taymor with vividly detailed historical fla- ride, usually shot in black and white (the vor, yet it tells Steinem’s story in a way that’s DIRECTOR: Julie Taymor STARRING: Julianne Moore, , fact that Steinem is perpetually on the road wider than it is deep. We come away moved Lulu Wilson, Ryan Kiera Armstrong is one of the film’s themes), and there’s a by her journey, and with an enhanced funny moment when two of them face each appreciation for what she did, how she did other on a talk show. The movie also jumps it, and what it took. But the richer ques- around in time a lot. And since Taymor, as tions a biographical drama can ask, apart IN “THE GLORIAS,” Julie Taymor’s pin- a director of film and theater, has an estab- from the accomplishments and the pub- point-timely yet rousingly old-fashioned lished pedigree of playfully adventurous lic image (Who is this person? What’s the inner biopic about the life and times of Gloria storytelling, you may suspect, early on, that mystery that makes her tick?) never get fully Steinem, the legendary feminist leader is in “The Glorias” she’s crafting some clever answered. The movie is as much a biogra- portrayed by four different actors at four postmodern game of how to stage a big- phy of second-wave feminism as it is of Stei- different stages of her life. Alicia Vikander screen biography, the way did nem, and so its effect is to touch and inspire plays her as a young woman wearing a sari with Bob Dylan in “I’m Not There.” us in a solid but slightly neutral way. as she travels through India, planting her But “The Glorias” it turns out, isn’t some That said, the traditional approach taken flag as a writer in the insanely male-cen- heady deconstruction of Gloria Steinem’s by Taymor, who co-wrote the script with tric world of 1960s New York journalism, image or mythology. Despite the teasing Sarah Ruhl (it’s based on Steinem’s 2015 and in her formative days as an orga- title, it’s not about several competing Glo- memoir “My Life on the Road”), works fine nizer and rising star of the women’s liber- rias; it’s about how all the women Gloria and dandy on its own middlebrow terms, ation movement. Julianne Moore plays her Steinem met or knew, and whose pain and because the spirit of radical invention is DANIEL MCFADDEN/SUNDANCE INSTITUTE MCFADDEN/SUNDANCE DANIEL

VARIETY 119 REVIEWS right there in Gloria Steinem’s story — in ‘The Glorias’ tells Steinem’s renegade-cowgirl wardrobe and shoot- how she became a crusader by deciding, in from-the-hip oratory become a benchmark each encounter, to stand up against a cul- story in a way that’s wider of the movement. Bette Midler plays Bella ture so dominated by the male perspective than it is deep. Abzug (of course!), and does it with full that the movement couldn’t just be about Abzugian yenta-from-hell life force. Gloria changing the rules. It needed to be about absorbs the lesson of these women, which revealing to men that, having ruled the Bunny and writing what would become a isn’t just one of style. It’s the lesson that world for so long, they literally didn’t know very famous story about it. Taymor stages women’s rights, civil rights and economic what they didn’t know. these scenes with a socially acute “Mad rights are indivisible crusades. “The Glorias” is two hours and 19 minutes Men” verve. “The Glorias” gets into the nitty-gritty of long, and a little too much of that running The liveliness of the film’s tone comes the backroom politics of the feminist move- time gets taken up by the story of Steinem’s from the way that Gloria, as enraged as she ment, and on that level it’s a richly gratifying youth. Yet the relationship between young is at the sexist mountain she has to climb, movie. We see the strategizing on abortion Gloria and her warm, rumpled, irresponsi- doesn’t have an ax-grinding bone in her and the ERA, and the founding (and running) ble dreamer of an antiques-salesman father, body. Vikander, a terrific actor, marvelously of Ms., a magazine that was daring and finely played with subliminal heartbreak by Timo- mimics Steinem’s brainy sensuality and executed enough to prove that the revolu- thy Hutton, is touching and vital to the nar- slightly clenched epigrammatic wit. With tion may not be televised, but it will be put rative; it gives her a foundation of kinship her long straight now-blond hair parted in between perfect-bound covers. with men, even as she’s going to spend her the middle, set off by what would become And Taymor, one is glad to see, does find life fighting them. The Steinem home might her signature tinted aviator frames (sales- a bit of space to play around. She stages a be described as a lovingly managed disaster. woman in the glasses store: “Those are too fantastic surreal satirical sequence of Glo- Gloria and her older sister are taken care big! They hide your beautiful face!” Gloria: ria on a talk show, being asked by the smug of, but their mother, Ruth (Enid Graham), “They’re perfect!”), she has the look that, as leering host about her “sex object” looks and suffers from depression, feeling trapped so many have noted, made her the perfect — the inevitable question — why she isn’t and bedraggled in a home with no stability. “presentable” media face of the modern married. Yet because that theme is such a When Gloria learns that Ruth once wrote feminist movement. delicate one, you may feel that Taymor, as a for newspapers, but had to do it under a Yet what also makes the Steinem we see filmmaker, is also shying away from it. She pen name, only to quit, it’s as empowering a star spokeswoman is that she’s such a wit- doesn’t dramatize one minute from any of a scene as the publishing-office encounters tily rational person. She simply can’t fathom Steinem’s relationships with men, and lest in “Little Women.” why she’d be the one in the office who has in making that complaint I sound just like Gloria isn’t presented as any sort of rebel to make a pot of coffee, or why her editor at that talk-show host, I cling to the idea that a (as a teenager, the most adventurous thing New York magazine goes apoplectic when biopic is exactly where you want to see that, she does is to tap-dance with a black friend she pitches the notion of covering the civil where you want to soak up the flavor of how in her father’s barbershop), and the roots rights March on Washington. Through her a figure like Steinem, as she was fighting of her feminism are diverse. They’re there calm, close-to-the-vest nature, she’s pio- male culture, negotiated male culture in her in the saddened empathy she has for Ruth, neering a kind of I don’t get it! feminism. As private life. The movie lacks that dimension. and in the tales of rape and oppression she in: I don’t get why the world works this way, Julianne Moore, make no mistake, could hears during her two-year student fellow- so why wouldn’t we change it? have taken that dimension and run with it. ship in India during the ’50s. All that forms But if that’s the right attitude, it doesn’t CREDITS: A Page Fifty-Four Pic- Her performance is etched with a twinkle tures production. Producers: the soil in which her consciousness will mean that evolving past age-old sex roles Alex Saks, Julie Taymor, Lynn of hard-won knowingness, especially when Hendee. Executive producers: flower once she leaps into the world of New requires anything less than heavy artil- David Kern, Marcei A. Brown, she’s delivering vintage Steinem-isms like Amy Richards, Jenny Warburg, York journalism, which turns out to be a lery. Gloria starts to speak at engagements, Sara Johnson, Regina Scully. “The truth will set you free. But first it will Director: Taymor. Screenplay: giant man cave. and bonds with a number of the other lead- Taymor, Sarah Ruhl, based on piss you off.” And she expresses what may be the book “My Life on the Road” She’s an intuitive and funny enough ers of the feminist movement, all clasp- by Gloria Steinem. Camera: the ultimate truth of Gloria Steinem, which Rodrigo Prieto. Editor: Sabine writer to land a job with The New York ing hands across lines of race and class Hoffman. Music: Elliot Gold- is that she decided to devote her life to fight- enthal. Reviewed at Sundance Times, but her editor keeps insisting she — notably Dorothy Pittman Hughes (Janelle Film Festival, Jan. 26, 2020. ing a war — but it was a special war, because Running time: 139 MIN. Cast: stay on the ladies’ beat. He then invites her Monáe), who teaches her how to speak in Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, it was waged almost entirely out of love. Love Lulu Wilson, Ryan Kiera Arm- to join him in a hotel room; she quits on public, and the great intrepid Florynce strong, Janelle Monáe, Timothy for her sisters, love for America, even love Hutton, Bette Midler, Lorraine the spot. But at Show magazine, she gets Kennedy (brilliantly played by Lorraine Toussaint, Kimberly Guerrero, for the men she was fighting. That’s why Leah Renee-K, David Shae, traction by going undercover as a Playboy Toussaint), the lawyer and activist whose Margo Moorer she’d do whatever it took to wake them up. REVIEWS

widely recognized as both a charitable leader and a sort of guru of physical and mental discipline — his fall seems all the more pronounced. That Armstrong cannot allow himself to recognize this comes to be a master- ful depiction of a person for whom lying is more natural than truth. The film bears similarities to the character study “O.J.: Made in America” (another expansive portrait from ESPN Films about some- one much more than an athlete) but tends to keep its aperture focused more tightly on Armstrong’s own behavior rather than what it tells us about his world. There’s certainly enough there: Armstrong might be, today, a beloved figure about whom drug use was still only suspected by some, had he not pushed the lie further with a preposterous comeback attempt. His removal from the pantheon of his sport and of American celebrity seems not to have readjusted his sense of right or wrong — he muses about how it would have been great had he not been caught, and has no meaningful perspective on WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS how he felt living a lie for so many years, “Lance” depicts Armstrong so boldly in public. Indeed, he seems not as a person more comfortable with lying really to understand the question, in a than telling the truth. moment Zenovich doesn’t hold onto or overplay a beat more than necessary. It’s in instances like those, or like his flashing, bitter anger at the whis- FILM REVIEW explains the somewhat punishing three- tleblower who brought his world down — BY DANIEL D’ADDARIO hour-plus running time but, ultimately, far more rancorous than it might be had justifies it too. It’s a work with a precise Armstrong accepted his fate as much as Lance moral compass about a person who comes he’d like us to think — that the human to seem as though he lacks one entirely emerges. This is, perhaps, Zenovich’s — and a work that seeks to understand most valuable excavation. rather than condemn him. The cycling star was uniquely effec- The Armstrong of the present, a fellow tive as a spokesperson for a personal who speaks at length to Zenovich’s camera brand with a lot of associations (goodness, DIRECTOR: Marina Zenovich WITH: Lance Armstrong and at times evades her prompts, is squir- ambition, effort) but no real meaning; relly and somewhat lost. He has only just his period of mega-fame required little settled a lawsuit with the U.S. government humanity. Indeed, it seemed categorically (to the tune of $5 million he must pay), and to exclude it: The point of Armstrong the LATE IN “LANCE,” a documentary that his need for money forms a steady, subtle superstar was that he was something more depicts the ascent and the crash of dis- backbeat to the story. than human and, absent doubt or sec- graced cyclist Lance Armstrong, the sub- Counterpoint is never used cruelly ond-guessing or frailty in his post-cancer ject recalls the disappearance of his or gratuitously here, but connections life, something less too. lucrative sponsorships. These deals — announce themselves. As a former cancer In “Lance,” we see him even if he some- with a massive market value and a per- patient who ended up winning seven Tour how, still, cannot see himself. The movie’s haps more important intangible value de France titles, Armstrong was seen as a point is made most poignantly by the mere of keeping him in the public eye as a fig- national avatar of resilience, grit and opti- fact of Armstrong speaking to camera, ure of rectitude and hard work — were in mism. That his success was based in part and the degree of intimacy he shares with some sense his life’s work, and they van- on illegal drugs is somehow more jarring Zenovich even as she is working at entirely ished after his 2013 admission that he had a betrayal than similar crimes by his cross-purposes to the image maintenance used illegal doping throughout his cycling peers. Having achieved at the highest he’s still trying to achieve. For Armstrong, career. “All gone in 48 hours,” Armstrong levels — a man who met presidents, who being seen by the camera is of paramount recalls. “I wouldn’t change a thing. I work attained media celebrity and who was importance. It’s one more lie he tells him- for myself now.” It’s a testament to the self, and one that — as it generated a doc- methodical, damning assembly of “Lance” umentary of such moving texture and that you don’t believe him at all. precision — the audience should feel Director Marina Zenovich moves unhur- ‘Lance’ seeks to fortunate that he did. riedly through the Armstrong story, shift- ing from his present-day pariahdom to his understand CREDITS: An ESPN Films release and presentation of a DLP Media Group production. Producers: P.G. Morgan, Marina Zenovich. Executive pro- past rise as a cyclist. Her film refuses to ducers: Michael Hughes, Greg C. Lake. Chad Mountain, Douglas Banker. Armstrong rather Co-producer: Caitlyn Hynes. Director: Zenovich. Camera: Nick Higgins. blink, or to summarize neatly when com- Editor: Allan Duso. Music: H. Scott Salinas. Reviewed at CAA, New York, Jan. 21, 2020. (In Sundance Film Festival.) Running time: 201 MIN.

NICK HIGGINS/SUNDANCE INSTITUTE NICK HIGGINS/SUNDANCE plication will do. This prolix curiosity than condemn him. Cast: Lance Armstrong

VARIETY 121 FACETIME Lana Condor ‘I Get: “Are You

Team Peter or WHEN THE high school romantic toward John. But comedy “To All the Boys I’ve I think that Peter is a guy that you Loved Before” debuted on Net- date and John is the guy Team John?” ’ flix in 2018, the adaptation of that you marry, for sure. Jenny Han’s YA best-seller was a groundbreaking benchmark That must be such a fun thing, for representation, casting Asian to experience a Netflix movie By Adam B. Vary American actor Lana Condor in a theater with an audience. (“X-Men: Apocalypse”) as Lara Totally! Yes, yes! They were so Jean, who wins the heart of class incredibly vocal, and it was so heartthrob Peter (Noah Centineo). cool. You know what was the best The film was such part, though? Hearing the way a sensation that Condor shot that they gasped and awwwed at the sequels back to back. The Lara Jean. To hear them vocally first of them — “To All the Boys: care about her, it’s just one of the P.S. I Still Love You,” debuting greatest experiences of my life. Feb. 12 — finds Lara Jean Because, you know, with Netflix, plunged into a love triangle you get the pleasure of watching between Peter and an old crush, it whenever you want at home or John (Jordan Fisher). It’s a wherever, but you don’t get to see dilemma that Condor herself has an audience’s reaction. So that had difficulty resolving. was really, really cool.

When did you really Noah Centineo has become understand how much of Netflix’s go-to romantic- a phenomenon “To All the comedy leading man. What Boys” had become? Maybe kind of parts have you been like, gosh, two weeks after the seeing? Yeah, listen, I did the movie came out. I had mothers first [“To All the Boys”], and then coming up to me and telling me I shot a television show [“Deadly how much they loved watching Class”], which took up a huge part the movie with their daughters of my time, and then I went right and how they could see what they into two and three. So my actual were like when they were availability hasn’t been good. But in high school. now that I’m available, ironically, I’m seeing a lot of more dramatic, What are the most common serious, intense roles come my things that people say to you way, which is funny because about it? A lot of people have they’re so opposite to Lara Jean. said it was one of the first times they felt seen or represented in a Are there any kind of roles movie. I get a lot of people saying that you’ve been dying to play? that they want to be Lara Jean’s I would love to play ’s best friend. I mean, I agree. I daughter. I’ve been trying would love to be her best friend to manifest this for a while now. too. I think she’s really sweet. For the sequel, I get: Have you had a chance to “Are you Team Peter or Team meet her? Oh man, I have John?” Always get that question. not, but I’m going to believe it will happen! So how do you answer? I typically say I hate that question because it’s such a difficult one! [Laughs] Last night, there was THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT an advanced screening, and I LANA CONDOR watched the movie because I AGE: BIRTHPLACE: wanted to hear the audience’s 22 Can Tho, Vietnam FAMILY TIME: Adopted by an American couple reactions in the theater. Typically, CHARITABLE CAUSE: Founded a scholarship when one of the boys was on with The Asia Foundation in 2018 to put girls from her birth city through screen, it was just shrieks and four years of high school

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