Left, Guests enjoy dinner; right, Tamsin Lonsdale and Jill Donenfeld, along with the Dish Dish's chefs. Last night, on an unseasonably chilly evening in Los Angeles, Daily Candy founder Dany Levy hosted a Bachelor’s Kitchen party at her Spanish-style home in the Hollywood Hills, celebrating the L.A. launch of home-chef service the Dish’s Dish. The event was put on by the Supper Club. Forty guests, including actress Izabella Miko, British TV personalities Louise Roe and June Sarpong, VeeV açai liquor co-founder Carter Reum, and Izo Cleanse C.E.O. Tim Martin milled around the pool and warmed themselves by the fireplace in Dany’s kitchen, sipping Charles Smith wine and nibbling canapés and gourmet dishes prepared by the Dish's Dish and ingredients sourced from Cube Marketplace. With classic songs such as “I Can’t Help Myself” and “Somebody to Love” playing and fragrant candles at every turn,...
- 1/8/2010
- Vanity Fair
In his opening remarks before the screening of his new film, Leslie, My Name is Evil, writer-director Reginald Harkema suggested to the audience, "think of this movie as a trip."
Boy is it ever.
Steeped in hallucinogenic imagery and walking the fine line of absurdity, Lesliel is an outrageous and not very subtle commentary on American society. And it's winking from the very first scene.
It's the fourth film from Vancouver's Harkema, who is now living in Toronto. As with the previous three, this one also is about the messy connections between boys and girls. But this one is both a romantic comedy and courtroom drama, set during the trial of Charles Manson and three women from his "family".
That I watched this film while California attempts to extradite Roman Polanski — whose wife Sharon Tate was one of the Manson family victims — was not lost on me.
Told in two parts,...
Boy is it ever.
Steeped in hallucinogenic imagery and walking the fine line of absurdity, Lesliel is an outrageous and not very subtle commentary on American society. And it's winking from the very first scene.
It's the fourth film from Vancouver's Harkema, who is now living in Toronto. As with the previous three, this one also is about the messy connections between boys and girls. But this one is both a romantic comedy and courtroom drama, set during the trial of Charles Manson and three women from his "family".
That I watched this film while California attempts to extradite Roman Polanski — whose wife Sharon Tate was one of the Manson family victims — was not lost on me.
Told in two parts,...
- 10/8/2009
- CinemaSpy
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