A lost Holiday Classic

[jeffreyab]

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The trailer for Metropolitan (1990)by Whit Stillman. The movie is great for getting a view of holiday life in Manhattan for the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie. The movie shows lost NYC landmarks like the Automat and Scribners book store and Checker cabs!

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[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

One of the actresses in the movie was a law school classmate of mine.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I know Allison Rutledge-Parisi is a lawyer but she went to Columbia and I thought you went to U of M?

Did you know that Taylor Nichols is from Michigan?

[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

Don't know Taylor Nichols.

Allison did her 1L year at UM, and then transferred to Columbia to be with her boyfriend (who she'd met here -- I think he was a resident, as in, a physician doing post-graduate training). She was fun. We were sad to see her go.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Is she much like her character?

She married in 1995 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7D61631F932A25755C0A963958260

Its interesting to see what happened to the actors after what was their first movie.

[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

I don't remember what the character's like.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Sort of the mom, looking out for the others in the group.

She is seen winning the strip poker game.

So also has a sort of lisp.

Here are some clips with her in them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8IQ4ZGZsbg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8IQ4ZGZsbg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3plmkRy_k5o&feature=related

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

Ah, good film. I really liked Barcelona as well.

Looks like Stillman has been pretty quiet since Last Days of Disco. Shame.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

According to what I could find he is working on multiple scripts but has not pulled the trigger on any.

He also directed an episode of "Homicide: Life on the Streets."

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

Was that the episode where a bunch of twenty-something academics sit around and talk about Fourier until someone eventually gets murdered?

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Yes to the first part and no to the second.

Someone is assaulted and the date rape of an off screen person is referred to but no deaths.

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

Weird... I had no idea. I was just trying to be funny!