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Wild Thing, I Wish I Loved You

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:16:54 -0400

Where the Wild Things Are
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze
Directed by Spike Jonze
Starring Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Paul Dano, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Chris Cooper

I’m the first to admit that I went into Where the Wild Things Are with perhaps too high expectations. I blame part of this on the most excellent trailer—remember that teaser, released back in March,...

Stay for the Curtain! Eustis Quotes Bergman in Pedestrian Hamlet

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:38:40 -0400

Let me begin at the end.

Place: Central Park. Time: almost 11:45 p.m. Play: Hamlet. Spirits: low.

Fortinbras and his army have entered Denmark at last, signaling the end. Hamlet has just died—poisoned in the duel scene—and is probably glad to be out of it. The king, the queen, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern—all now dead. Only decent Horatio survives—someone, according to...

Lauren Ambrose Returns to Shakespeare In the Park

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:36:57 -0400

Lauren Ambrose will return to the Delacorte this summer as Ophelia in the Public Theater's production of Hamlet. The fiery redhead was the leading lady in last year's Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare in the Park and will replace Crimes of the Heart's Lily Rabe, who had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. Playbill reports that Tony nominee Michael Stuhlbarg (whoM we caught up with at the Coversations in Tusculum opening night party...

Lawyers, Editors … and Strippers: Spring TV Teems With Career Gals

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:25:07 -0500

The writers’ strike might be over, but we can still feel the afttershocks—just look at what’s gonna be on the tube this spring (i.e., not much). Sure, Lost (ABC, Thursday, 9 p.m.) returned a few weeks back, but it’s still a truncated season (13 episodes instead of 16, boo!). And How I Met Your Mother, the best underwatched sitcom on television (don’t you need more Neil Patrick Harris in your life?), returns on Monday,...

Ian McKellen’s Member and Other Broadway Monuments of 2007

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:40:59 -0500

A year without a new play by Sir David Hare can’t be all bad—and so it happily proved.

Top of my list is the stunning, imaginative achievement of Gregory Burke’s Black Watch—the first docudrama about war I’ve seen to successfully turn reportage into art, and the first play about the Iraq war to tell its story from the point of view of the soldiers. It was a political play that—praise be!—didn’t...

Lauren Ambrose, Byron Jennings Honored With Callaway Award

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:27:44 -0500

Lauren Ambrose was recognized by the Actors' Equity Foundation for her superb performance in the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Romeo and Juliet this summer. She, along with Is He Dead?'s Byron Jennings, have been selected to receive the 2007 Joe A. Callaway Award. The award — which includes an engraved plaque and a $1,000 check — honors "the best performances in a professional production of a classic play (one...

Sotto Voce: Ambrose to Replace Williams on Wild Things

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:43:46 -0500

It's hasn't been a good couple of months for Michelle Williams. First, she breaks up with Heath Ledger. Now, Spike Jonze is kicking her off of Where the Wild Things Are for Lauren Ambrose, the redhead who recently received rave reviews for her turn as Juliet in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Romeo and Juliet.

Reuters reports:

Ambrose is replacing the previously cast Michelle Williams. According to a production source, the filmmakers...

Ambrose Pierces the Heart

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:32:30 -0500

STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
Running Time 111 minutes
Written and directed by Andrew Wagner
Starring Lauren Ambrose, Frank Langella, Lili Taylor

Excellent, deeply introspective performances by Frank Langella and the phenomenal Lauren Ambrose inform and enhance Starting Out in the Evening, a moody film by Andrew Wagner. Mr. Langella embodies the essence of the tweedy, pipe-smoking, leather-chair literary stratum of New York’s Upper West Side: a once-celebrated author...

The (Reduced) Return of Jezebel James

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:38:18 -0400

Bad news for folks desperately awaiting the arrival of The Return of Jezebel James, the midseason Fox comedy from Gilmore Girls creator (and genius) Amy Sherman-Palladino starring Wuz Girl Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose. Late last week, the network reduced the order from 13 episodes to just 7, according to Variety.

Fox claims an overstuffed midseason lineup, with 24 and American Idol returning. But it’s hard not to...

That Six Feet Under Girl

Sun, 02 Jun 2002 20:00:00 -0400

Lauren Ambrose is that redhead from HBO's Six Feet Under-some kind of redhead, clearly, as evidenced by the eyeballs that locked on her tangerine mane as she slinked into the Bryant Park Hotel on a recent afternoon, decked in a pink blouse and white slacks.

Ms. Ambrose, who is 23, plays Claire Fisher, the sardonic, pouty-lipped youngest child of the Fishers, Six Feet Under's funeral-home clan. Like Claire (My So-Called Life) Danes and Sarah Jessica...