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Christine Baranski Lorraine Bracco Glenn Close
Griffin Dunne Anthony Edwards Milos Forman
Deborra-Lee Furness Hugh Jackman Alan Cumming
Parker Posey Vera Wang
cordially invite you to join
Andy Garcia Julianna Margulies
at the premiere of
CITY ISLAND
written and directed by Raymond De Felitta
starring
Andy Garcia Julianna Margulies
Alan Arkin Emily Mortimer
Steven Strait Dominik Garcia-Lorido
*** Audience Award Winner, Tribeca Film Festival***
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
7:30pm Sharp – Screening
Directors Guild of America
110 West 57th Street
(Btw. 6th & 7th Avenues)
9:15pm Dinner Party – Rouge Tomate
10 East 60 St.
(Btw. 5th & Madison)
[email protected] Or 212-935-6700
When prison guard and aspiring actor, Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia) is asked to reveal his biggest
secret during his drama class, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that turns his mundane suburban life into
total chaos. Vince takes great pains covering up his half-truths from his family, but soon it becomes clear that
everyone—his hot-tempered wife (Julianna Margulies), college student daughter (Dominik Garcia-Lorido), long-lost
ex-con son (Steven Strait), charismatic acting partner (Emily Mortimer) and even his drama coach (Alan Arkin)—all
have secrets of their own. Everyone’s furtive deceptions collide with hilarious results. Set on City Island, a quaint
fishing community on the outskirts of the Bronx, this smart and charming comedy explores the absurd secrets and
vices people choose to keep from their loved ones…and the realization that the truth is easier to cope with than wellintentioned white lies.
City Island is a funny and touching family tale about the secrets of the past catching up with the lies of the
present, and accepting that nobody’s perfect – least of all your loved ones.
Hugh Jackman on His Oscar Party, His Role in Lee
Daniels’s Selma, and Getting Naked in Acting Class
Bennett Marcus/ 3/11/10
Just because Hugh Jackman wasn't hosting this
year's Oscars, and the film he was once
supposed to be shooting this week got canceled,
doesn't mean he sat at home on Sunday night
feeling sorry for himself: "I sat at home wearing
my track pants, a T-shirt, and the bow-tie I wore
last year, so I kind of felt like I was sort of
there," he told us at last night's premiere of City
Island at the DGA Theater. "I'm a goofball,
yeah." And despite what you thought, Jackman
thinks this year's emcees, Steve Martin and Alec
Baldwin, did just fine: "Oh, mate, they were
great. They were hilarious, very funny."
The awards-giving didn't quite go exactly the
way Jackman would've liked, however: "I loved
[Precious]," he said. "To me, that was the best
movie of the year." In May, Jackman will begin
shooting Precious director Lee Daniels's Selma
— about the 1965 marches from Selma to
Montgomery, Alabama — in which he says he'll
play Jim Clark, the short-tempered Alabama sheriff whose violent arrests of civil-rights
protesters got international attention. "You‟re the first person I‟ve told, so I‟m not even
sure if I was meant to say that. So there you go, that‟s enough trouble for one night," he
told us.
He had time for a little more trouble, though! In City Island, Andy Garcia plays a prison
guard who sneaks away to take acting classes. So we asked Jackman if he had any funny
stories from his own days as an acting student. "I remember getting naked one day," he
volunteered. "They said, 'We want you to get up there and do the thing that someone
would least expect you to do,' because the guy was talking about unpredictability. And I
said, 'What do you mean?' And he said, 'Just like, what‟s the last thing you would do in
front of the group?' And I just dropped my pants and took off my shirt, and I said, 'Kind
of like that?' And he goes, 'Yeah. That‟s kind of it. Now put your clothes on, Jackman,
and get out of here.'"
Emily Mortimer Dangerously
Unqualified for Current Job
Bennett Marcus/ 3/11/10
In the new film City Island, Andy Garcia plays a
correctional officer who sneaks off to acting
classes and studies with Emily Mortimer's
character. When we caught up with Mortimer at
the New York premiere of the movie last night,
we wondered if she channeled any of her past
acting-school experiences for her role. "I never
went to acting school, so I had nothing to draw on
whatsoever," she told us. "I‟m a total charlatan. I
shouldn‟t be standing here at all. I don‟t deserve to
be working in this industry. I was never trained,
and I never had an acting class in my whole life."
See more in our Party Lines slideshow.
Premiere of ‘City Island’ Hosted by Anchor Bay Films
Bennett Marcus/ 3/11/10
You play an acting partner in this movie. Did you ever go to acting school
yourself? “I never went to acting school, so I had nothing to draw on
whatsoever. I‟m a total charlatan. I shouldn‟t be standing here at all. I don‟t
deserve to be working in this industry. I was never trained, and I never had
an acting class in my whole life.” —Emily Mortimer
What‟s the weirdest moment you ever had in acting school?
“I remember getting naked one day. On a whim, they said, „We
want you to get up there and do the thing that someone would
least expect you to do,‟ because the guy was talking about
unpredictability. And I just dropped my pants and took off my
shirt, and I said, „Kind of like that?‟ And he goes, „Yeah. That‟s
kind of it. Now put your clothes on, Jackman, and get out of
here.‟” —Hugh Jackman
How did you prepare to play a corrections officer in this
film? “We went to the prison we were shooting in and spoke
to a lot of the guards. And that‟s, you know, a normal process
of doing some homework.” Do you think you could do that
job in real life? “Could I do it? Possibly. But would I be
interested in doing it? No.” —Andy Garcia
Was it hard to get into acting school? “I was wait-listed at
Julliard because of a space between my teeth, like Lauren
Hutton. So I had my teeth capped and I took speech therapy in
Buffalo all summer, and then I re-auditioned, and I actually got
into Julliard. So I always say it was by the skin of my teeth.” —
Christine Baranski (Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic)
What was the weirdest thing you ever had to do in acting
school? “I had to be a starfish, and a motorboat. The sound effects
were pretty embarrassing. I‟m not sure I did very well with the
motorboat.” How about the starfish? “That, I did pretty good.” —
Steven Strait
You designed the costume Evan Lysacek wore when he won the figureskating gold medal. Will you design more for him in the future? “I think that,
you know, I‟m sure at some point we‟ll do something together. Definitely.” —
Vera Wang
What was the weirdest experience you had in acting school? “I was put
in situations where I had an older guy hitting on me and weird things like
that. You know, they‟re all awkward experiences. You could write a book on
acting classes and acting teachers.” —Dominik Garcia-Lorido
Did you go on any boats around City Island when you were
shooting? “I didn‟t go out on any boats! And every day, I would look
from the set, you could see these guys, our neighbors, had boats and
kayaks and shit. And every day I was like [to the boats], „I want to get in
you and row you around, just paddle you gently into the bay.‟ But I
didn‟t. No time.” —Ezra Miller
Julianna Margulies
Raymond DeFelitta
Sandra Bernhardt
Parker Posey
Reshma Shetty
Richard Kind
Cynthia Rowley
Tovah Feldshuh
Tarina Tarantino
„City Island‟ Premiere, or How To Annoy Julianna Margulies Without Trying
Julie Steinberg/3/11/2010
At last night‟s premiere of Andy Garcia
and Julianna Margulies‟ new film “City
Island,” the theme of the evening revolved
around secrets. The movie follows a
family that won‟t tell each other the truth,
but Speakeasy struggled with the more
Sisyphean task of getting Margulies to talk
to us.
We tried to ask her if Tiger and Elin‟s
apparent reconciliation might inspire the same between the actresses‟ “Good
Wife” character and her philandering politician husband (played by Chris Noth).
But after hearing the word “Tiger,” Margulies said “No, sorry!” and fled into the
theater, refusing to answer further questions from reporters.
Ezra Miller, who plays her son in the movie, was more forthcoming. His character
is drawn to a certain type of pornography in which voluptuous women bake
cupcakes, so we asked him about his experience on Chatroulette, a site that lets
Webcam users talk to strangers around the world (and which has becoming
increasingly known for X-rated activity in user sessions).
“I‟ve done it once and it‟s amazing and bizarre,” he said.
Does he have any no-nudity clauses in his contract? “Not at all! I will get naked
for a movie. If Lars von Trier asked me to do unsimulated sex scenes and it
wasn‟t gratuitous, I would do it.”
Dominik Garcia-Lorido, who plays Garcia‟s daughter in the film and also happens
to be his real-life offspring, was also willing to dish a little on growing up with the
indomitable actor. “He was overprotective with me because I was the first child.
One time, I was sleeping and my door happened to be locked, and when I didn‟t
answer his pounding on the door he punched a hole through it.”
Somehow, that doesn‟t surprise us. “City Island” opens March 19.
City Island Hop
Bee-Shyuan Chang/ 3/11/2010
Despite being surrounded by water,
Manhattan doesn‟t make for your usual
island living. But if an escape is what
locals are after, try a jaunt to City
Island, the cozy fishing village in the
Bronx that happens to give a setting
(and a title) to a new indie flick starring
Julianna Margulies and Andy Garcia.
City Island is a hilarious take on family
dysfunction, and Garcia had a double
dose of blood-runs-thicker-than-water:
The actor‟s real-life daughter Dominik
Garcia-Lorido plays his daughter onscreen. “She‟s been wanting to do this
since she was five years old,” Garcia
said at the film‟s premiere last night. “I
read the script and saw a part in it for
her, so I told her about it. She wanted to
audition for it. But as for the rest of the
decisions? I stayed out of it,” the actor
added with a laugh.
Garcia-Lorido marveled at the quaint
fishing village. “I never heard of it, but I
grew up in California,” the fledgling
actress explained. “But I have friends in New York who don‟t even know about it!” That
would exclude native New Yorker Vera Wang, who knows her hometown trivia. “Sure,
I‟ve been there,” the designer said. “I‟ve gone out and had lobster.” She may soon be
called upon to lead an expedition. “Well, we better all go and head out there now,”
Narciso Rodriguez suggested at the after-party, where he mingled with Emily Mortimer,
Parker Posey, Cynthia Rowley, and Sandra Bernhard. “I‟m sure there‟ll be a mad rush
after the movie comes out!”
TMI ON THE SCENE! Andy Garcia & His Daughter
Loved Starring In ‘City Island’ Together!!
Chloe Melas/ 3/11/2010
Check this out! Andy Garcia and his daughter told me what it was like
to star in the same film!
The new film City Island is a family affair! I spoke to Andy Garcia and his
daughter Dominik at the NYC premiere of their new film City Island Mar. 10 and
they tell me acting together is a memory they will always cherish. The doting
father admits his daughter is a natural when it comes to acting so he doesn‟t give
her too many tips. This film is a definite must see especially since Andy is known
for his more serious roles in films like The Godfather Part III, When a Man Loves
a Woman, and Oceans 11, 12, and 13 among many more. Watch the video and
tell us what you think!
Move Over, Alec! Andy Garcia Was Door-Punching Dad,
Daughter Says
Deena Sami/ 3/11/2010
City Island, a comedy set in the quaint, Bronx fishing village is about a family who
can‟t seem to tell each other the truth. Vince Rizzo (Andy García) is a corrections
officer and a father of two (three, if you count his long-lost, ex-con son, played by
Steven Strait) who secretly runs off to acting class and tells his wife (Julianna
Margulies) he‟s playing poker. She thinks he‟s having an affair. Oh, and their
daughter's a stripper. Whee!
"Coming from my own dysfunctional family it‟s kind of great to see another one,"
designer Vera Wang, wearing a black feather skirt and a plunging-necklined top
of her own design, told the Transom duromg the film's premiere last night at the
Director's Guild of America on 57th Street.
Mr. García said that when it comes to his own family, he‟s “always had a
philosophy with being straightforward.” His daughter Dominik García-Lorido, who
also plays his daughter in the movie, did not contradict this: She said that she
didn‟t own keys to the house as a teenager because her parents had to see what
she looked like when she came home. Wearing an Erin Fetherston navy
jumpsuit, she laughed about the time her father punched a hole through her door
because she fell asleep with it locked and couldn‟t hear him banging on it.
(Sounds like some good times in the Garcia household....)
Meanwhile, actor Hugh Jackman, there as a guest, admitted that City Island had
hitherto been a mystery to him. “Finally, today I saw it on a map!” he told the
Transom.
And after the screening, during a party at Rouge Tomate, Christine Baranksi let
the Transom in on a little trade secret: "We‟re always telling our secrets through
our acting," she said.
Andy Garcia's 'City Island'
March 11th 2010
For years, City Island, an islet in Long Island
Sound near the Bronx, has been one of New
York City‟s best-kept secrets. Not anymore —
at least for those who attended the premiere of
“City Island,” held at the Director‟s Guild of
America Theatre on Wednesday night.
“Before shooting the movie I only went there
once for dinner,” said Andy Garcia, who stars
as a corrections officer and a lifelong resident
of City Island. (His daughter offscreen,
Dominik García-Lorido, plays his daughter onscreen.)
“It‟s like a New England fishing village that
somehow ended up in the wrong port,” said
writer-director Raymond De Felitta of the
“Island.”
Julianna Margulies and Emily Mortimer also
appear in the film, a family tale about how
secrets from the past catch up with the present, to which some guests could relate. As
Vera Wang put it: “Coming from my own dysfunctional family, it‟s really fun to see how
another one deals with those kind of things.”
Get Julianna Margulies’ Dramatic Red Lips For Your
Friday Night Out!
Marta Topran/3/12/2010
Here‟s your Friday night look,
gorgeous, deep red lips, lush lashes
and flawless skin.
Just copy Julianna Margulies‟ look at the NYC
premiere of her new film, City Island on Mar. 10.
“It‟s a nod to classic Hollywood,” says makeup
artist Kristofer Buckle who created this attention
getting look.
For her lips, Kristofer used a “well sharpened Mac
lip liner in beet to create a sharp, defined shape.
This keeps the lipstick under control and helps it
stay within the borders.”
Kristofer kept the attention on Julianna‟s mouth by
avoiding obvious eyeliner. He used a strip of false
lashes to define her eyes instead.
“It‟s important to keep the skin pristine and cover any redness.” Kristofer says. “Some
shimmery powder on cheek bones and a blush with a sheen help keep the look modern
and fresh,” Kristofer adds. “Over use of blush can make the look muddy, so just use a
fresh pink on cheeks to echo the undertones of the lip color.”
City Island: Close to Home
Regina Weinreich/ 3/13/2010
As it prepares its ninth season, it is noteworthy that several movies opening theatrically in
the next few weeks premiered at last year's Tribeca Film Festival, among them Conor
McPherson's The Eclipse and Bette Gordon's Handsome Harry. Another is a sweethearted gem named for its primary location, City Island.
City Island is set in the small fishing community, a part of the Bronx that feels remote
from New York City, providing a backdrop for a family story where each member has
something to hide. Andy Garcia leads a cast that includes Alan Arkin, Julianna
Margulies, and Emily Mortimer. His own daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido plays his film
daughter, a college student who has a secret vocation as a stripper in a Bada Bing type
bar.
Dominik said she refused to have her father on set for some of her scenes. Yes, there's
one that any parent would find difficult: clad in a sequined bikini, the shapely Dominik
pole dances upside down.
As written and directed by Raymond De Felitta, transgressions big and small are neatly
and humorously confessed and forgiven. Screened this week at the Directors Guild
Theater, the film exuded a good nature that spilled over into the party at Rouge Tomate
where Griffin Dunne, Christine Baranski, Tovah Feldshuh, Sandra Bernhardt, Michael
Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Ruben Blades, Narcisco Rodriguez, Vera Wang, and Hugh
Jackman joined the cast for supper. Parker Posey and her friend Emma Tapley wore cute
dresses, coincidentally designed by Cynthia Rowley who dined at a table nearby.
Julianna Margulies, this year's Golden Globe winner for her work in the CBS series, The
Good Wife was having a good year indeed. Accolade after accolade, the actress perched
on sky-high heels said, she promised her husband, "It won't always be this exciting. Let
me enjoy this now." You could say that City Island provides her a comic variation on the
wronged spouse she plays on television, when she thinks her husband is cheating on her
with a "Holly Golightly-" esque character played by Emily Mortimer.
New York may be the place to reinvent oneself, but on City Island, people stay close to
their roots. At the party, Andy Garcia shook hands vigorously with fellow Cuban
American Narcisco Rodriguez and said, "I am so proud of you."
Hugh Jackman: I Was Texting Lee Daniels During the Oscars
Mawuse Ziegbe/ 3/11/2010
Hollywood A-lister Hugh Jackman is an
awards show vet who‟s hosted both the
Oscars and the Tonys. But even the
strapping Aussie can‟t withstand four
consecutive hours of musical numbers
and video montages by engaging in a
popular pastime: texting his pal.
In Jackman's case, he was texting Oscarnominated director of "Precious" Lee
Daniels during the Academy Awards.
“I was texting him during the Oscars, „You‟re looking good, man!‟ He goes, „Thanks,
buddy, I‟m having a good time,‟” Jackman told Niteside at the premiere of "City Island"
at the Director‟s Guild Theater last night where stars like Andy Garcia, Vera Wang and
Julianna Margulies also hit the red carpet.
Jackman, who is working with Daniels on the upcoming civil rights flick "Selma," said
they may have gotten busted for their texting antics on live TV.
“They cut to him at one point, he‟s [texting] and I‟m like, 'Oops, I think that was me!'" he
said.
Jackman did enjoy one part of the Oscars: Neil Patrick Harris‟ cheeky musical intro.
“That guy‟s awesome. He‟s like the Roger Federer of awards shows; He can do anything.
Emmys, he‟ll be doing the Grammys next,” the star joked. “He‟s unbelievable.”
On Playing A Plus-Sized Love Interest
Irin Carmon/ 3/11/2010
What's it like to play a woman loved for your
large size? At the premiere of City Island last
night, two of its co-stars, Carrie Baker Reynolds
(right) and Hope Glendon-Ross, talked candidly
about body image in the entertainment industry.
City Island is a lively, ultimately sweet family
comedy starring Andy Garcia, Julianna
Margulies, and Emily Mortimer. It won the
audience award at the Tribeca Film Festival last
year and will open to broader distribution on
March 19.
In one of the film's subplots, the protagonist's
smart-ass teenage son (Ezra Miller) realizes that
he has a fetish for feeding large women, which
he satisfies first by signing up for a kitchenfocused webcam site run by his neighbor Denise
(played by Reynolds) and then eventually by
pursuing his crush on a classmate (played by
Glendon-Ross). In a film about keeping secrets
from your family, the cheerful character of Denise is the only one who is comfortable in
her own skin. Reynolds says director-writer Raymond de Felitta told her, "Out of
everyone in this film, she's the only one that's honest."
The movie is a comedy and affectionate towards its characters, but I cringed a little
listening to that theater full of industry insiders and Manhattanites laugh uproariously in
the scenes with Reynolds and Glendon-Ross. Was I being oversensitive? I caught up with
them at the afterparty to get their takes on the experience.
Glendon-Ross, who is only 18, said she identified strongly with her character. "My whole
life, I have been going on these diets to get me to where all of my friends were. But it
never really worked."
She found the film to be a transformative experience. "Being in this film has been great
because it's really helping me to become more self-confident with my body type," she
said. "It's really changed my vision of what people like and what the true body image
should be. Not just a size zero, but being true to yourself and just being self-confident.
And that's really what it's all about, not what size dress or shirt you wear, but who you
are."
Like Glendon-Ross, the 31-year-old Reynolds is a theater regular who made her film
debut with City Island. "By no means did I ever think I would be playing a part where I
had my own fetish website," she said. "However, it was such a fun role because it was not
like me at all, and as an actor I got to branch out. On the very first day, we shot the Web
site scene, and I was in a red negligee. And I don't ever go sleeveless. And I just felt,
well, this is definitely what this lady would do, and I am this lady for now."
How did she feel about the comedic element of her scenes? "It's not that they're laughing
at Denise or they're laughing at me," she said. "They're laughing at the situation. It didn't
offend me at all because again, I'm not like her, so to find that in a movie it's like, wow,
that's really different."
She said that while it isn't always easy to be a larger-sized actress, particularly in
Manhattan, she has a strong sense of self, in part from having grown up in a tight-knit
family. "When you have a sense of who you are and everybody relates to your
personality and not your size, I think that that's what's important. Initially people are
taken aback when they look at me. And I feel like in a way that's a blessing because I've
seen the world in a really different way than most people have seen it. I've had a lot of
experiences that probably most people have not had because of my size. And it's made
me who I am because I know what's real to me and I know who is real to me."
City Island: Close to Home
Regina Weinreich/ 3/13/2010
As it prepares its ninth season, it is noteworthy that several movies opening theatrically in
the next few weeks premiered at last year's Tribeca Film Festival, among them Conor
McPherson's “The Eclipse' and Bette Gordon's “Handsome Harry.” Another is a sweethearted gem named for its primary location, City Island.
“City Island” is set in the small fishing community, a part of the Bronx that feels remote
from New York City, providing a backdrop for a family story where each member has
something to hide. Andy Garcia leads a cast that includes Alan Arkin, Julianna
Margulies, Emily Mortimer. His own daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido plays his film
daughter, a college student who has a secret vocation as a stripper in a Bada Bing type
bar.
Dominik said she refused to have her father on set for some of her scenes. Yes, there's
one that any parent would find difficult: clad in a sequined bikini, the shapely Dominik
pole dances upside down.
As written and directed by Raymond De Felitta, transgressions big and small are neatly
and humorously confessed and forgiven. Screened this week at the Directors Guild
Theater, the film exuded a good nature that spilled over into the party at Rouge Tomate
where Griffin Dunne, Christine Baranski, Tovah Feldshuh, Sandra Bernhard, Michael
Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Ruben Blades, Rodriguez Narciso, Vera Wang, and Hugh
Jackman joined the cast for supper. Parker Posey and her friend Emma Tapley wore cute
dresses, coincidentally designed by Cynthia Rowley who dined at a table nearby.
Julianna Margulies, this year's Golden Globe winner for her work in the CBS series, “The
Good Wife” was having a good year indeed. Accolade after accolade, the actress perched
on sky-high heels said, she promised her husband, it won't always be this exciting. Let
me enjoy this now. You could say that “City Island” provides her a comic variation on
the wronged spouse she plays on television, when she thinks her husband is cheating on
her with a “Holly Golightly-” esque character played by Emily Mortimer.
New York may be the place to reinvent oneself, but on City Island people stay close to
their roots. At the party, Andy Garcia shook hands vigorously with fellow Cuban
American Narcisco Rodriguez and said, “I am so proud of you.”