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Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’, inspired by her travails within the famous halls of Anna Wintour’s ‘Vogue’, is being adapted into a musical by producer Kevin McCollum. Production remains in the very early stages without a cast in place. ‘People’ comments that McCollum just may be hoping to help Meryl Streep snag her first Tony playing the role of editorial priestess Miranda Priestly.
Anne Wintour on the Future of Print, Hillary, and How She Feels About Her ReputationNew York Magazine
Photo: Annie LeibovitzThe Cutcaught up with Anna Wintour for an in-depth interview around the opening of China: Through the Looking Glass’ at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The infamous editor-in-chief of Vogue US became the artistic director of Condé Nast in 2013 and is famous, not only for her success, but for her ‘performative silence’. Amy Larocca writes about Wintour:
She is spectacularly controlled, extremely focused, comfortable with power, and preternaturally disinclined to misstep or misspeak. Perhaps this is precisely because she is not, and has never been, hugely giving on the topic of herself. She is happier to talk about designers she admires, the charities she supports, what makes a dress perfect, or anything having to do with theater or film.
Anna Wintour is going to Broadway. The New York Post writes that Wintour was appalled by the red carpet dresses she say at the 2014 Tony, telling fashion critic Suzy Menkes that ‘it was a disaster.’ Wintour asked: ‘How many mermaid fishtail strapless sequin gowns can we see?’
In short order, costume designer William Ivey Long, who is also chairman of the American Theater Wing, asked Wintour to sign on to the Tony Awards team as a fashion consultant.
Wintour accepted with a resounding ‘yes’ and now all the Tony nominees are being summoned to Wintour’s Vogue offices for their fashion consultation. At least for the ladies, Vogue is picking up the tab for all gowns and accessories. Love it!
Natalie Portman Upstages Herself in Cannes Take 2
Prior to her directorial debut of ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’ in Cannes, Natalie Portman made news on two biopic fronts this week. The actor will star as Jackie Kennedy in ‘Jackie’, the story of the first four days in the former First Lady’s life after the assassination of her husband, President John R. Kennedy. The film goes into production at the end of 2015.
Deadline reports thatNatalie Portman is set to play Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in ‘On The Basis Of Sex’, a story that follows the travails of ‘Ginsburg as she faced numerous obstacles to her fight for equal rights throughout her career.’
The project is coming together quickly, with hopes of going into production by the end of 2015. RBG is hot, hot, hot, being labeled an ‘Icon’ in the TIME 100 and having an enormous following in social media where she is known as the ‘Notorious RBG’.
The Notorious Supreme Court Justice RGB
Heavyweight: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg has moved the Supreme Court New Yorker
As a Justice, Ginsburg enjoyed less fortunate timing. This year will mark the twentieth anniversary of her appointment to the Supreme Court, by President Bill Clinton. During that time, the Court has been dominated by conservatives, a situation that has left her as a dissenter in many of the most important cases. Since the departure of John Paul Stevens, in 2010, Ginsburg has become the senior member of the Court’s liberal quartet, which now includes Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. To a greater extent even than Stevens, Ginsburg has united the four Justices so that they speak with a single voice, especially when they are in dissent. Last year, Ginsburg wrote what was probably the most powerful opinion of her career, in the Court’s epic decision regarding the Affordable Care Act. Her endorsement of the bill’s constitutionality as a valid exercise of Congress’s power under the Constitution’s commerce clause gave a ringing, modern defense of the government’s authority to enact social-welfare legislation.
‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’
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‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’: Cannes ReviewHollywood Reporter
A Tale of Love and Darkness review - Natalie Portman’s love letter to IsraelThe Guardian
For her feature directing debut, Black Swan actor Natalie Portman has shepherded through a sombrely reverential adaptation of Amos Oz’s 2002 memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, a study of the founding of the state of Israel refracted through Oz’s troubled family life. Portman, who was born in Israel and who lived there until she was three, before her family moved to the US, has taken a brave decision to take on such potentially contentious material – and while the resulting film is perhaps a tad on the conventional-looking side, it has an unusual, and possibly unique, perspective on Israeli psychology, and Portman demonstrates she possesses a confident grasp of film-making fundamentals.
