According to the Hollywood Reporter, a couple of the producers of “Little Miss Sunshine” are working on a film named after the Simon & Garfunkel song that was featured in the recent film “Garden State.” Seth Gordon is set to direct “The Only Living Boy In New York“:
Helmer Seth Gordon is teaming with “Little Miss Sunshine” producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa to direct “Only Living Boy in New York” for Columbia Pictures. The “Sunshine” pair will produce the coming-of-age drama through their Bona Fide Prods. shingle.
Penned by Allan Loeb (”Things We Lost in the Fire”), the story centers on a recent college graduate who is seduced by his father’s mistress.
John Fogel will serve as an executive producer.
Sony’s Doug Belgrad and Jonathan Krauss are shepherding the project for the studio.
Berger and Yerxa’s sleeper hit “Sunshine” became a critical and boxoffice success, nabbing two Academy Awards. The pair’s recent credits include Todd Field’s “Little Children” for New Line Cinema.
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Gordon’s credits include this year’s Slamdance hit documentary “The King of Kong,” which followed diehard video game fans competing to break world records playing classic arcade games. Picturehouse will distribute the film, and New Line Cinema acquired the feature remake rights, which Gordon also will direct.
Gordon is repped by Endeavor, Brillstein-Grey and attorneys at Archer Norris.
From a post to the Google group “YOUNGANDWEALTHY”:
Date Apr 23, 2007 6:00PM
Location New York, NY USA
Cost 1,250.00
Dress business formal (jacket & tie)
Address Manhattan Center’s Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, New York City.
Details We Are Family Fifth Annual Celebration Monday, April 23rd 2007
We Are Family Foundation Celebration will honor music legends Dionne Warwick, Paul Simon and New York Mercantile Exchange Chairman Richard Schaeffer. Tommy Hilfiger will host and co-chair the gala with Gibson Guitar Corporation Chairman & CEO Henry Juskiewicz. Guests will be presented with an unforgettable evening kicking off with a VIP reception hosted by the Gibson Foundation and Keys for a Cause™ presented by Tiffany & Co. The evening will continue with cocktails, dinner, award presentations, a live auction hosted by actor/comedian Orlando Jones and musical performances by Paul Simon, Dionne Warwick, Nile Rodgers & CHIC - plus others to be announced. The We Are Family Foundation was founded by music legend Nile Rodgers as a result of the tragic events of September 11th and is dedicated to promoting a universal message of hope through cultural education. Individual tickets available: $1,250. Tables available: $10,000 – $50,000. Dress: Chic attire. The evening will begin with a VIP reception at 6:00pm, cocktails at 6:45pm and the awards ceremony and dinner begin at 7:30pm. Ticket Inquiries: Devin Cox at We Are Family Foundation, 212.397.4333 ex. 304. PR Contact: Erin Ryder at 5W Public Relations, 212.584.4291.
On the heels of their successful outings in North America and Europe in 2003 and 2004, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel announced today their studio reunion. The pair will draw on South African influences, which Simon first explored (apparently, it was revealed, on Garfunkel’s advice) in the mid-1980s. Additionally, the duo plan to split the songwriting duties.
“Now that our friendship has been repaired,” said Simon, “the next logical step was heading to the studio. We found that with Citizen [of the Planet], that worked, so we decided to try an album together. Artie has been giving me some great tips with the lyrics.”
The pair will head to South Africa to record later this month.
Eno’s biggest gift to Surprise is standing well in the background of it; his work here involves beat-amending and the judicious employment of rhythm, which is more or less the sort of thing Simon got into with Graceland and The Rhythm of the Saints and hasn’t really ever given up. No question that Eno has the innate ability to telegraph where Simon is going with things—he lovingly turns up the six-strings and lets them gently fade on pretty breezes of tracks like “I Don’t Believe” and “Another Galaxy”, and adds tasteful synthetics to make wonderful things of songs like “Everything About It Is a Love Song”. But his role is to fill in the blanks in Simon’s playbook of songs—and they’re some of his strongest ones in years.
The music’s alright but the video is odd. Really odd. What about “Mother and Child Reunion” would cause a man to take a bath? What about a bath would cause a man to sing “Mother and Child Reunion”?
Paul Simon and the band doing the blues staple “Baby What You Want Me To Do,” with the great Toots Thielemans on harmonica. Recorded in Cesaria, Israel, on May 7, 1978.
Over the years, Paul Simon has shared the stage and the studio with dozens of exceptional musicians. Steve Gadd and Richard Tee. Ray Phiri, Vincent Nguini and Bakhithi Khumalo. Toots Thielemans and Philip Glass. Few, however, match the virtuosity of Michael Brecker, who died of leukemia in January.
If “Still Crazy After All These Years” is one of those Paul Simon theme songs - specific and universal in the same instant - the sax solo that Brecker innovated is its heart and soul. The New York Times attended a Manhattan memorial concert in Brecker’s honour, where the photo of Paul and Herbie Hancock below was taken (you can read more about it here). Our own tribute is musical - Brecker and Simon together in one of their last of many performances, on “Still Crazy” in 1992.
