The New York Observer » Claire Danes http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:55:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some Golden Globe Winners, Ranked By How Likely Their Win Would Have Seemed in 2002 The most likely, of last night's awards, to an awards-show junkie in 2002 imagining the hazy future: 1. Meryl Streep. Sure! Bet the speech was great. 2. Christopher Plummer. Glad he's still around! 3. Martin Scorsese. He deserves some recognition! 4. George Clooney. Did he win for playing Cary Grant? Middling likelihood--not impossible to imagine, Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2012/01/some-golden-globe-winners-ranked-by-how-likely-their-win-would-have-seemed-in-2002/ The Cinema Society Hosts Premiere of “Homeland” Last Saturday, the Cinema Society headed to the Hamptons to host the premiere of "Homeland," a new Showtime series starring Claire Danes. The event attracted celebrities and socialites including Rachel Zoe, Russell Simmons, Debbie Bancroft, Minnie Mortimer, and Kiefer Sutherland. In addition to Ms. Danes, "Homeland" co-stars Damian Lewis and Mandy Patinkin were also in Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/08/the-cinema-society-hosts-premiere-of-homeland/ Best of the Met It’s that time of year again when we get to marvel at the many things worn at Anna Wintour’s party the Costume Institute gala at the Met. This year's theme, "The American Woman," was perhaps a little bit easier for sartorially challenged celebrities to understand and therefore please their red carpet audiences.

After all, the themes Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/met-costume-institute-ball-fashion Who Knew Zac Efron Could Act? Me and Orson WellesRunning time 114 minutes Written by Holly Gent Palmo Directed by Richard LinklaterStarring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Claire Danes

Crowded into the cinematic sardine can of year-end releases, Me and Orson Welles is a modest but gigantically charming jewel that deserves rapt attention. Witty, wise, warm and unfailingly entertaining, it’s one of Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/culture/who-knew-zac-efron-could-act Items! Quinn Rails, Merger Fails?

Council Speaker Christine Quinn is not impressed with the nation's laws.

"What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy”: Jezebel compiles Karl Lagerfeld’s greatest hits.

The Brooklyn Paper does Mad Libs.

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]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/items-quinn-rails-merger-fails ‘It’s a Family Affair,’ Says DVF of Celeb-Clogged CFDAs Outside Alice Tully Hall on the evening of Tuesday, June 16, a large group of models was standing immobilized on a block of stairs. Inside, the Council of Fashion Designers of America were holding their annual awards.

The organizer’s president, designer Diane von Furstenberg, stood near the entrance in a white knee-length dress, snapping photos Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/daily-transom/its-family-affair-says-dvf-celeb-clogged-cfdas Burberry Gets Lit! Blake Lively, Justin Long Share Misty Views from Palace Roof Blake Lively isn't really a resident of the ritzy New York Palace Hotel. She just plays one on TV!

“I don’t know if I could live in a hotel,” said Ms. Lively, whose character on the popular CW series Gossip Girl, Serena van der Woodsen, occupies the posh Palace's penthouse. “I need a Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/daily-transom/burberry-gets-lit-blake-lively-justin-long-share-misty-views-palace-roof Great Danes! Claire Joins Zac Efron in Me and Orson Welles Claire Danes, whose "gamely impersonation" of Eliza Doolittle on the recent Broadway Pygmalion revival tanked among the critics, will join the cast of Me and Orson Welles, an adaptation of the period coming-of-age novel set in the late 1930s by Robert Kaplow. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Zac Efron (High School Musical's hearthrob Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/claire-danes-joins-zac-efron-me-and-orson-welles We’ve Grown Accustomed to the Musical: Pygmalion, With the Shaw a Little Out of Whack Pygmalion, it seems to me that the genius of the play itself has been forgotten. Blame the musical.

Everyone of a certain theatergoing age is too familiar with Lerner and Loewe’s lovely, hummable score from My Fair Lady. It’s second Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/we-ve-grown-accustomed-musical-pygmalion-shaw-little-out-whack Brantley on Pygmalion: A ‘Misfired Revival’ The New York Times' Ben Brantley shares his thoughts on Claire Danes' "game, conscientious" portrayal of Eliza Doolittle and Jefferson Mays' version of Henry Higgins as a "squalling, solipsistic infant trapped inside a worldly man's body" in the Roundabout Theater Company's Pygmalion.

Perhaps the kindest way to think about David Grindley's misfired revival Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/brantley-pygmalion-misfired-revival Liza and Higgins Reunite “There was a thought before we went into rehearsals, I was thinking, ‘Hmm, I wonder how she’s going to be in front of 750 people, eight nights a week,’” said Tony-award-winning stage actor Jefferson Mays, who was discussing working with doe-eyed My So-Called Life alum Claire Danes in her Broadway debut in Pygmalion, the Roundabout Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/liza-and-higgins-reunite Hot Tickets: Pygmalion, Nada Surf, Neil Young THEATER:

PYGMALION

Who: Claire Danes, Jefferson Mays

When: Oct. 18 – Dec. 16

Where: American Airlines Theatre

How: Check for tickets here.

Pygmalion, starring Claire Danes as the street urchin who will become a society lady thanks to the help of a professor, played by Jefferson Mays, will open at Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/hot-tickets-pygmalion-nada-surf-neil-young Danes, Garner and Pullman Bring Hollywood to Broadway It’s a good time to be a theater queen—plenty of camp this fall! The Ritz, a Roundabout revival of Terrence McNally’s 1975 comedic romp set in a gay bathhouse, promises to wring every last drop of squeaky sass from actress Rosie Perez, who performs alongside the smooth-pated Kevin Chamerlin in this Joe Mantello-directed play. (Does Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/danes-garner-and-pullman-bring-hollywood-broadway Stars Come Out in Evening, But Minot’s Novel Fades in Dark EVENING Running time 113 minutes Written by Michael Cunningham and Susan Minot Directed by Lajos KoltaiStarring Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Claire Danes, Hugh Dancy

Red-faced, I’m feeling contrite this week. I rant against mediocrity and plead so ardently for intelligent movies about real people saying coherent things to each other that I ought to Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/stars-come-out-evening-minot-s-novel-fades-dark Meet the Wuz Girls It’s the light, a kind of fire in the eyes, sometimes flaming, sometimes smoldering. It’s a gravitational force, sucking the attention of anyone around. It makes a decent actress seem great. It’s elusive, and not for sale. It’s natural, organic, innocent yet vaguely dangerous. And, like the best things in life, it’s fleeting.

It’s It: Read More

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