Here is a leaked video of Jason Biggs auditioning for the role of Dallas for the movie Magic Mike. Matthew McConaughey ultimately landed the role, which might be for the best if you check out Biggs’ moves at the 3:00minute mark when he starts his dancing.
Note that the clip has profanity and isn’t safe to view at work. Not sure how long this will remain so enjoy while it lasts.
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Back in mid-June I wrote about the Summer in the City Entertainment Series down at the Boston Harbor Hotel along the waterfront. One of my favorite movies was the Rob Reiner Film, The Princess Bride.
One of my all-time favorite lines from the movie: “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
Later this week, Friday to be specific, The Princess Bride will be playing for free outside on the waterfront. I’d suggest seeing if you can finagle a table at the hotel’s Sea Grille to watch the fun unfold and sit in relative comfort while sipping a cocktail of your choosing. Sadly, while the movie is free the food at the Sea Grille is not.
Andrew Lewicki’s Louis Vuitton waffle maker is actually part of an art installation and not intended for mass distribution. Thank God.
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The Boston Summer Arts Weekend starts this Friday. The weekend celebration will showcase and blend both the Boston art community as well as nationally recognized musicians, actors and artists.
Most of the three-day festival can be enjoyed in Copley Square, but additional locations will also host artists and events open to the public. Suzanne Vega (show above) will be one of many performing Saturday, July 28th. For more information about The Boston Summer Arts Weekend, visit the event’s website.
I recently had the opportunity to meet the exceptionally talented Provincetown artist, Lee Castoro. He conceived and created the powerful fine art photography exhibit RAW Fine Art, which premiered in August 2010 and toured the United States. The subject matter addressed in the collection is powerful and Lee’s vision, brought to life through his photography is moving and relatable.
If you visit Ptown, you can see some of Lee’s work on display at the prestigious Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown at 2 Gosnold Street. Definitely a gallery worth seeking out on the Friday night gallery stroll or as an alternative to the beach if you need a break from the sun.
If a visit in Provincetown isn’t likely this year you may see more by visiting the RAW Fine Art website, or you can visit and “like” the Facebook page.
The Summer in the City Entertainment Series by the Boston Harbor Hotel at Rowes Wharf begins again this year starting on Monday, June 18th. The popular summer series will run through the summer months concluding on Friday, August 31st. With the exception of “Music and Movie Fridays”, the free entertainment is from 6:00 – 10:00PM nightly.
Beach Party Monday theme with tropical island bands performing. Soul Tuesday with R&B bands playing soulful music from icons including Marvin Gaye, Al Green, and others. Timeless Tunes Wednesday hosts musicians playing popular music from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Blues Barge Thursdays will have blues bands performing on a floating stage anchored behind the Boston Harbor Hotel
Music & Movie Friday begins a bit earlier and runs from 4:30 – 10:00PM. This summer all the movies shown will be from 1987 and include: Princess Bride, Moonstruck and Dirty Dancing among others.
Pick a night, go down early with friends (or for a date) and grab a seat at Rowes Wharf Sea Grille and enjoy an evening down on the water. Check out their facebook page, or visit the event’s website here.
Years ago when I was in high school and college I read the Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum and I loved the books. Despite my squeamish nature that shies away from violence, I love the suspense and story lines of a good espionage novel.
It looks like Hollywood is not ready to say good bye to this series which has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars and in August a new Bourne movie called The Bourne Legacy will open in theaters.
The strange part of this story line is that Jason Bourne will not be in the movie – well at least not the “Jason Bourne”. Apparently we learn that Operation Treadstone had other, maybe many “Jason Bournes”. I loved the books and I thought Matt Damon played the lead character superbly, but this one has me wondering if it is worth seeing. Check out the Bourne Legacy trailer and decide for yourself.
According to Variety Sandra Bullock may be back in Boston filming a new movie with Melissa McCarthy. Back in 2008, Bullock filmed the movie The Proposal with co-star, Ryan Reynolds, on the North Shore.
In this new movie, Bullock would play a high strung FBI agent. Hmm… sounds like Ms. Congeniality all over again. The article didn’t mention when filming might begin.
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Daniel Craig returns as James Bond 007 in Skyfall. In the forthcoming film, Bond’s loyalty to M played by Dame Judi Dench is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, Bond must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
It has been a great week for two Boston area museums. On Monday, May 21st The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) announced that one of the museum’s trustees, Saundra Lane, would bequeath 6,000 photographs, including works from Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams in addition to 100 works on paper and 25 paintings.
The donation is estimated to be in excess of $100,000,000
Lane’s generous donation is one of the “largest and most significant gifts in it’s history” according to the press release. The gift significantly increases the number of objects in the MFA’s photography collection from 9,000 to 15,000.
Iris Apfel, the 90 year old fashion icon best known for her signature owl eye glasses and chunky jewelry will give more than 600 pieces of clothing and accessories to the Peabody Essex Museum (P.E.M.) in Salem, MA. Why is this New Yorker looking to the P.E.M. and not the MOMA which premiered her exhibition Rare Bird in 2005? Apparently that tour which also stopped at the P.E.M. impressed her so much that she decided this is where she’d like her collection to reside. In addition to her donation, her husband will also bequeath an undisclosed sum to help build the museum’s new fashion gallery.
Fashionistas take note
The P.E.M. is best known for their maritime art collection. Apfel’s collection which also include articles from world famous designers including Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Dior, and Alexander McQueen will be included in the museum’s new fashion gallery and is expected to hopefully spur other fashion donations for the museum.
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Ptown’s Restaurant Week and Gallery Stroll: May 18-24, 2012
Provincetown’s Spring 2012 Restaurant Week(end) & Gallery Stroll starts later this week on Friday, May 18th. This year’s restaurant week runs from May 18th through May 24th and will include 19 local restaurants and 30 Galleries.
Participating restaurants will offer three-course prix-fixe menus for either $25 or $35. A special Friday Night Gallery Stroll is scheduled for Friday, May 18, 2012.
A complete list of participating restaurants and galleries can be found here. Be sure to call today to make your reservations.
Starting today, the SoWa Market returns. This year the market which runs from 10am – 4pm each Sunday, will include more than 60 local farmers and specialty food vendors, 100+ local artists and designers, more than a dozen food trucks and the SoWa Vintage market.
SoWa Open Market will run through the end of October and can be located at 460 Harrison Avenue. There is more information about the SoWa open market online at, www.sowaopenmarket.com.
Coinciding with the return of the SoWa Market is the SoWa Art Walk. The Art work allows people to meet and view artwork in participating South End galleries as well as private artist studios.
Participating studio buildings are located at: Thayer Street – 49 Waltham Street – 450, 460, 486, and 524 Harrison Avenue – 35, 49 and 59 Wareham Street and Laconia Lofts.
More information about participating artists and galleries is available online at, www.sowaartwalk.com.
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Line Posters is an interesting collaboration between a graphic designer and an engineer. The designs are described as “modern graphic interpretations of popular city transit systems.” Are you new to a city, missing your home or want something to remind you of a favorite destination? Check out their designs. I thought the concept and execution was pretty cool.
Tonight I’ve been invited by a friend to attend the Alvin Ailey dance theater performance in Boston. Sadly, my friend confused her dates 😦 and Alvin Ailey is coming to Boston next week when she is in Vegas. Let’s see if I can nab some tickets to see this amazing dance troupe.
Ailey’s dance troupe comes to Boston each year to perform classics like Revelations and Sinner Man as well as newer dances all of which are beautifully choreographed and breathtaking to watch. Over the years I’ve enjoyed watching these performances and consider myself lucky to get such great tickets. If you’ve never been you can try to get tickets online here.
If you don’t learn to write your own life story,
someone else will write it for you.
As I mentioned previously, April is National Poetry Month so when I happened to see To be heard on PBS I was glued to my television. This documentary tracks three teenagers from the South Bronx as they tell their stories of friendship, love and struggle, and show how a radical poetry class inspires them to change. The documentary also shows how language and in particular poetry brings people together.
Check out the trailer To Be Heard
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