(Photo courtesy of Arthur B.)
OMG! Are you feelin’ absolutely fabulous? I know I am, and it’s not just because Sheepshead Bay has played host to the stars twice in as many weeks. If you don’t remember, Drew Barrymore visited the first week of August to film a new rom-com at Russian mob hangout, Rasputin. Well, yesterday, a new Al Pacino film titled You Don’t Know Jack, was seen shooting around Avenue U and Nostrand Avenue.
The HBO biopic centers around the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian. Pacino plays Dr. K, while Susan Sarandon plays Janet Good, one of his most prominent patients. John Goodman – curiously – plays Kevorkian’s assistant, Neal Nicol, who is perhaps the only person in the history of humankind without a Wikipedia page. While we don’t know if any of these stars were actually present for the shoot, we’re going to say they were – because what’s celebrity reporting without a little bit of uncomfirmed rumors!
But of course, their potential presence isn’t what’s making me feel ab-fab (absolutely fabulous, for you geezers). It’s that I’ve got a direct line to Al Pacino’s crotch (what-what?!). You see, in the movie Pacino rides an old 60s bike that was rented from my girfriend’s old roommate. The bike was kept in the dark, near the entrance to the apartment, and every time I walked in – BAM! – nailed in the nuts by the handle bar, then in the shin by the pedal. Every time. And now Pacino is riding that bike. My nuts and Pacino’s nuts are a mere two degrees of separation! AB-FAB!
(Photos – and tip – courtesy of Arthur B.)
We’re a little late to this story, but apparently last Thursday our ‘hood played host to Drew Barrymore for a scene in her upcoming movie Going the Distance. Reader Arthur Borko snapped these shots as he was driving by Rasputin, the monolithic Russian restaurant over on Coney Island Avenue and Avenue X.
A small crowd thronged around Rasputin’s entrance, while others poked around the equipment trucks. As far as we know, there was no sighting of The Drew, but if anyone out there saw anything worth mentioning, fill us in!
Going the Distance is an observational comedy about a young couple navigating their way through the perils of a long distance relationship who quickly discover that “going the distance” might cost them everything they have, including one another. In addition to Barrymore, it stars Justin Long, Christina Applegate, Jim Gaffigan and Rob Riggle.
There’s a new film with a special appearance by Rip Torn and made by Angelica Torn and Tony Torn.
The film is screening tonight, March 14, 2009 at 7:15 p.m. The filmmakers will be there to present their new film, which is described as dealing with the main character’s decision over “whether to abandon everything she’s ever known to the wolf-pack of developers buying up and tearing down the Coney Island boardwalk, or to sacrifice herself to the world that’s been created for her.”
Here is the information for the Sneak Preview:
LUCKY DAYS
by Angelica Torn & Tony Torn
2008, 103 minutes, video. With Angelica Torn, Federico Castelluccio, Luke Zarzecki, Will Patton and Tony Torn.
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10003
212) 505-5181
Thanks to Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn for posting this one.
(Photo courtesy of The Celebrity Spot)
Two Lovers, is another movie that features Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach, but is not available for viewing here. The film was not showing at UA Sheepshead Bay, so I had to go to the one theater in Brooklyn where it was — in Cobble Hill.
In a Daily News article, Denis Hamill writes that the owner of the theater, Harvey Elgart, personally chooses the films that play in his theaters. Elgart grew up in Sheepshead Bay, so that might be the reason why he decided to run this film. Although the Cobble Hill Cinema was small, the “big screen” was just wide enough to contain the Ocean Avenue Bridge as it appeared in the opening scene.
Last week the film’s main star, Joaquin Phoenix, or Wah-Keen — as fan, Ally, refers to him on her dedicated website — acted a little “wacky” on David Letterman’s Late Show. Many have speculated that his new bearded look and announcement that he is leaving acting for a career as Rapping Phoenix, is just a publicity stunt to get people out to see Two Lovers, but we have reason to doubt that — especially, because the film is barely even in the theaters.
Read more about the movie after the jump.
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