Celebrity Gossip
Tomlin’s characters live
Edith Ann and Ernestine are two characters that Americans feel belong totally to them. So Lily Tomlin is bringing them back to play casinos and venues all over the country. “This is new ground for me,” says Lily.
I always think of my Lily as a more serious person—one who has acted in “Nashville” and other important films, as well as playing the character Deborah Fiderer, Josiah Bartlet’s eccentric presidential secretary in “The West Wing.”
Lily has already taken her many characters to Aurora, Ill., St. Louis, Mo., and Santa Barbara, Calif.
And that’s only the beginning. Lily has dates through March 2010; you can look them up on www.lilytomlin.com . •••
If you go to Rome before February 2010, don’t fail to drop by the Palazzo Ruspoli and see actress Grace Kelly’s wedding dress, her jewelry and intimate family photos. These are on loan from the Palace of Monaco, where Princess Grace is still much revered. (The beautiful blond Grace was killed in a 1982 auto accident on the Riviera.)
Grace was a Hollywood star who won the Oscar and made a number of unforgettable films— “Rear Window,” “Mogambo,” “To Catch a Thief,” “The Country Girl” and “High Society.” Amazing to recall that she retired from movie-making at age 26!
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Ridley Scott, the man who produced that immortal sci-fimovie with Harrison Ford called “Blade Runner,” is set to do a horror film based on some really horrible facts.
He will give us a story about the British serial murderer Peter Sutcliffe, who killed at least 13 women in the ’70s and was caught and put in prison in 1981.
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Halloween approaches, so it seems like a good time to note another big Hollywood merger. The legendary Western Costume Co. (co-owned by Eddie Marks and Bill Haber) has acquired the Dykeman- Young collection.
You can see their collaboration in the eye-popping period suits and dresses on the Emmy-winning smash hit “Mad Men.” Fifty thousand items from the Jamestownbased D-Y are being shipped to California.
These include costume designer Colleen Atwood’s award-winning duds from “Chicago,” the gifted Ann Roth’s clerical garb for “Doubt,” Mary Zophres’ zippy-trippy threads for “Taking Woodstock” and Oscar-winning clothes from “The Aviator,” “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Bugsy.”
The designer Albert Wolsky, who won Oscars for “Bugsy” and “All That Jazz,” says he wouldn’t think of doing a period piece without the Dykeman-Young collection. “It’s a sure ‘go-to’ resource, and all in mint condition.”
Western Costume has acquired also Dorothy Weaver’s SourceIII, Helen Larson and Patricia Norris’ Private Collection, plus, recently, an outstanding group of costumes from the Napoleonic era. (Would that Marlon Brando, Charles Boyer and Rod Steiger were living now to do Napoleon once again!)
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