GET READY FOR ABC'S RE-VAMPED SHOW 'THE VIEW'
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THE GLORIOUS CORNER
Story By: G. H. HARDING
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VIEW DEBUT --- Get ready folks; today, the re-vamped and re-booted View debuts on ABC. With two Rosie's; a Nicole and our Whoopi … anything can happen. While there’s a new studio, new executive producer; and a new logo, inside sources report that so far (especially during their try-out shows) things have essentially been the same! While Whoopi and O’Donnell will surely give us more of the same, Perez and Wallace are definitely the wild card choices. I'd look for Wallace defending her tenure with George W. Bush and Perez tub thumping her movie career and upcoming stint with Larry David on Broadway. Fireworks? Perhaps … but, I'll definitely miss Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie (who will be there on the sidelines) for their mastery of experiences. With Goldberg as the old warhorse, she’s great, but no Ba Ba. Good luck ladies!
THE BRIDGE PROJECT --- One of the highlights of the San Francisco area's fall music season every year is Neil and Pegi Young's Bridge School Benefit to raise funds for their nonprofit organization that helps children with severe speech and physical ailments.
The benefit has been held every year since 1986, except for 1987 (29 years raising 45 million) and normally draws a high-caliber list of rock, soul and pop artists. While the full list of performers is yet to be announced (there are always surprises), this year's benefit already has a first-class lineup:
Neil Young
Pearl Jam
Soundgarden
Tom Jones
Florence + the Machine
Norah Jones (and her group Puss 'n Boots)
Band of Horses
Pegi Young and the Survivors
One of the most pleasant parts of the announcement was that both Neil and Pegi would appear and continue to support the organization. Neil recently filed for divorce, with the first hearing in December, and has been reportedly dating actress Daryl Hannah (!).
The 28th Annual Bridge School Benefit will be held October 25 and 26 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA. Tickets go on sale this Friday (September 19). www.farmaid.org
LEFTOVERS --- HBO’s brilliant The Leftovers (Damon Lindelof) ended their first season last week with the episode The Prodigal Son Returns. I just loved this show where nothing seemingly happened, but overall, the resonance of this show was at times complex and overwhelming. Justin Theroux was mesmerizing brilliant throughout; especially in this last show where his character read selections from the Bible and just totally sold the scene. I don't remember a show creating so much dialogue …pro and con, well, since Lindelof's Lost and in the end, that’s what this show reminded me so much of.
It wasn't so much what happened on screen, as the major questions it posed. In this last episode, many questions were finally answered and some characters even discharged. I'm thinking the second season will be a lot of tighter and even more focused. This HBO show may not have generated the ratings of The Sopranos or Boardwalk Empire, but it wore its heart on its sleeve every episode. I loved it.
GALLIANO RETURNS --- Vogue’s Anna Wintour is determined to reform John Galliano’s reputation and reboot his career.
The Condé Nast commander failed at getting Galliano a job at Oscar de la Renta after his 2011 anti-Semitic tirade in a Paris bar.
Now Wintour’s using a photo of his Dior work to announce Chinese Whispers, the next blockbuster show at her Costume Institute, and exhibiting the Dior gowns he designed in 2003, inspired by Chinese opera star Mei Lanfang.
Does Galliano deserve a second chance? A designer whose work is certainly on the Alexander McQueen-scale … most definitely!
CLOSING NOTES --- WOR’s Tom Cuddy sent us this link to a trailer of a forthcoming documentary on 4 of the most successful and influential radio programmers in the country. I don't have any more information on when the film will come out, but this looks great:...
Check our Jade Starling’s Pretty Poison Jade Lasagna on the Mark Bego Cooks site:...
SIGHTINGS --- PR-pasha David Salidor at Il Mulino; writer Brad Balfour at 54 Below watching Alexa Green and The Cutting Room's Steve Walter hustling in downtown Manhattan.
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