In the television series 'Jett', released on Friday, Carla Gugino plays a badass. I don't know what that part of her looks like, but the rest of her is great. Her waist the size of a swollen kneecap. Eyelashes thicker than the wall of someday in Mexico. Wonderful.
Carla: 'In this, I play a thief who doesn't care what people think of her. I am someone who has skills. My character is practical. Do you have to do anything to get a job done? She ruins it. She goes to prison for five years. She leaves. Figures that she has to live a straight life.
'She has no maternal instincts. She thinks of a tough young woman like Clint Eastwood.
'Then she gets hired, but this leads to connecting with more ruthless criminals, and she ends up with an old flame. In bed. And there's a long love scene.'
I don't think there's any reason to brush it off so quickly, so I ask him what it's like to be n-ked.
'First, there is good lighting. Without side light. Body makeup. I've been lucky because you have to trust the director. You talk about the shots they're taking. Sure, you feel vulnerable. But you know that the other person is also compromising. too nervous
'In a scene in Havana, my character pays homage to movie star Ava Gardner.'
And what about Carla's off-screen life?
I just visited my dad in Florida. He is 90 years old. And right outside the hospital, he brought her healing crystals. He is my inspiration. Father's day on Sunday, but tomorrow I'm going to Berlin. It's a full action movie with Angela Bassett and Michelle Yeoh called 'Gunpowder Shake'.
Full action movie? N-de love scenes? She's the one who needs healing crystals.
She makes a whole life...
Creating jewelry for Cartier and writing the then president Sukarno's autobio told me in Indonesia, I spent years living in Hong Kong.
Peninsula Hotel on the Kowloon side, the Mandarin on the Hong Kong side. She was then the kept woman of Asia. Magical. What you want you have. Crowded, noisy, good food, A-1 shopping, everyone rushed. Asian New York. I loved.
In '97, Big Brother Beijing co-opted the colony, and not all tea in China was the same. Restricted freedoms. Laws instituted. Chopped freedoms. Closed places. Mainland Rules. The expats moved. The air became heavy.
Now its citizens are fighting for the shattered remnants of what was their democracy. Their lives. Her future. Their children. In the United States, the greatest nation on Earth, we are in an election that points to the faces you can't pick from a lineup.
Everyone, be careful. Ideological militants live among us.
SOHO Photo Store. Aziz Ansari. One fan, who dropped down on him, yelled, 'Allora!', an Italian word meaning 'Well...' that Ansari uses in his stunt on his Netflix show 'Master of None'... The Stallion ABC's 'The Bachelorette' Tyler C. was surrounded by strictures walking out of his offices... At the Garrett East, at something called taco night half-heartedly, Adrian Grenier. Obviously saving a buck... Jeff Lewis Jeff Bravo's 'Branding Out' is very gracious to LAX passengers who turn around for a delayed flight to JFK.
Jodie Foster dumped her Beverly Hills home for less than $15 million... Rupert Holmes, whose first mystery novel 'Where the Truth Lies' was made into a Colin Firth/Kevin Bacon movie, is now writing an Andy musical Warhol ... Lincoln Center honors Stephen Sondheim next Wednesday. It will be upper class types like Kate Baldwin, Petula Clark, Donna Murphy and Diane von Furstenberg.
Father's day. This father remembered when his daughter was leaving, and he said to the young man: 'Understand, the lights go out in this house at 11,' and the boyfriend replied: 'Okay. Works for me'.
