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a71 Betsey Johnson munching on a71 One final Oscars controversy
rice-cracker tuna with her sister to dispense with: Academy execs
on the rooftop terrace of the W said they’re
Hotel on Monday night, wearing sorry about
one of her own tutu skirts and bad feelings
The
arm warmers — but since the over leaving
warmers weren’t doing the trick, Farrah
snuggling under one of the Fawcett out
hotel’s blankets as well. The of their “in
great
designer was in town for the memoriam”
American Association of People segment, but
With Disabilities gala. they stand by
a71 Sean Penn dining at his their
no-show?
regular D.C. spot, Bistro Bis, decision.
Tuesday night — this time with Executive Farrah Fawcett
Rep. Dennis Kucinich and wife Director
Elizabeth. One of the biggest Bruce Davis told the Associated
names in this week’s D.C. celeb Press that the former Charlie’s
T
he feud between Kenny and Karen Feld —
they’ve been suing each other for 25 years —
has taken yet another twist, this time
invasion is here for a benefit at Angel — despite starring in
involving a former Washington Hebrew
the Haitian Embassy. well-regarded movies such as
Congregation rabbi.
“Extremities” and “The Apostle”
Kenny Feld, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &
— was better known for her
Bailey Circus heir, wants Rabbi Joshua Burrows to
“remarkable television work.”
testify about what happened on a night in 2007
that caused Feld’s sister to file a $110 million
“He would
lawsuit against him. Burrows, now living in New
York, doesn’t want any part of the ugly family fight
never have
and has filed a motion to quash the subpoena.
Burrows’s attorney, Jennifer Bougher, told us
affairs. And
Wednesday that the rabbi, as a religious figure,
feels he must hold what happened in confidence:
have you
“Above and beyond that, there were a number of
other witnesses there at the same time who aren’t
ever seen a
clergy.”
The warring siblings had reconciled for the first
time in years in September that year to sit shiva for
picture of
their 92-year-old aunt, Shirley Feld, who helped
JUSTIN MEIN
raise them after their mother’s death. Things
him having
John Kerry and company carried
began peacefully enough, but when Burrows asked
big sticks but came up short.
mourners to share “Shirley stories,” things fell
an affair?
apart: Karen alleges that her brother’s bodyguards
threw her and her toy poodle out of the penthouse,
Ah, so.”
It’s a goal mine
causing a concussion and broken ribs. Kenny
for the lobbyists
denies her claim and said his sister had to be
removed because she was behaving irrationally
— Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, dismissing
and cursing at the rabbi.
speculation that husband Nicolas
What a difference a year
Despite Burrows’s resistance, first reported by
Sarkozy had ever been unfaithful, in
makes! At the first “Lawmakers
the New York Post, Kenny Feld thinks the rabbi’s
an interview with Britain’s Sky News.
vs. Lobbyists” hockey game last
testimony is crucial because Karen Feld directed
As for once saying monogamy bored
year, the Hill team slapped down ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
some of her profanities “specifically at Rabbi
her, Bruni-Sarkozy noted that was
the K Street boys 6-4. But
Burrows, including Plaintiff yelling ‘[Frack] the
before she wed the French prez.
Tuesday’s charity match was a
Rabbi!’ multiple times” and forced the religious
different story: The lobbyists
service to stop.
embarrassed the Capitol crowd
Attorneys for neither Felds returned calls for
7-2, with lawmakers eking out
comment. Wednesday night, Karen Feld told us
their goals at the end (both by
she never met Burrows, much less peppered him
staffer-ringers; neither John
with obscenities. “I never laid eyes on the rabbi or
Kerry nor the three other elected
spoke to him. It’s just not true.” She declined to
reps on the ice scored). “Since the
discuss any other specifics of the lawsuit: “I want
congressional agenda seems to be JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS CHRIS O’MEARA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
this case to be tried in the court of law, not the
on ice, we decided to make it
A former D.C. rabbi has no desire to throw his hat into the court of public opinion.”
official,” said Jonathan Grella,
three-ring circus of a feud between Karen Feld (left, with Kevin Burrows’s request is pending with a New York
CHRISTIAN HARTMANN/REUTERS
the lobbyists’ coach. The game
Spacey) and Ringling Bros. heir Kenny Feld, right. judge.
Infidelity isn’t in the picture,
raised $52,000 for the Fort
says Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Dupont Ice Hockey Club.
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Tribeca Festival lineup includes
documentary about Spitzer downfall
47 short films.
Reuters Earlier this month, organizers said
DreamWorks Animation’s new “Shrek
new york — The Tribeca Film Festi- Forever After in 3-D” will open the fes-
val on Wednesday unveiled its first tival, and they unveiled two new initia-
group of films for April’s event, includ- tives: one to distribute movies online
ing one documentary about the prosti- and eventually in theaters, and a sec-
tution scandal that brought down for- ond that will allow Web surfers to
mer New York governor Eliot Spitzer. watch festival films on their com-
The still-untitled nonfiction film by puters.
director Alex Gibney — whose “Taxi to But at the core of any film festival
the Dark Side” won an Oscar for its ex- are the competitions; at the 2010 Tri-
ploration of U.S. tactics in dealing with beca festival, 12 narratives and 12 doc-
terror suspects — will be shown as a umentaries will compete for $100,000
work in progress. in cash prizes.
When he was the New York state at- Among the narrative features in
torney general, Spitzer was dubbed the competition unveiled Wednesday is a
SARAH L. VOISIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
“Sheriff of Wall Street” because of his biopic by French cartoonist Joann Sfar
DRUMMING UP BUSINESS: Jauvon Gilliam makes his premiere as National Symphony Orchestra timpanist tonight. crusades against greed and corruption about singer-songwriter Serge Gains-
in financial markets. His popularity bourg; the Irish psychological drama
NSO’s new timpanist loves his beat
vaulted him to the governorship in “Snap”; and James Franco starring in
2007. “William Vincent,” about a peculiar
But in March of 2008, he was forced criminal.
to resign in disgrace after media re- The documentary competition fea-
ports said he was a client of a prostitu- tures the premiere of “The Two Esco-
much larger orchestra, playing with a he’s plunging right in. Next week, as part tion service. bars,” which tells the connecting sto-
by Anne Midgette world-renowned conductor. He’s got a of the orchestra’s Young People’s Concerts, The festival, which this year runs ries of Colombian footballer Andres
teaching position lined up at the Univer- Gilliam will play an excerpt from Jennifer from April 21 to May 2, was created by Escobar and drug kingpin Pablo Esco-
Jauvon Gilliam, for seven years a timpa- sity of Maryland, starting in the fall. And Higdon’s Concerto for Orchestra; its per- Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro, bar, who were not related but who
nist with the Winnipeg Symphony Or- he’s flying. “You can’t wipe the smile off cussion part was one of the excerpts he his producing partner Jane Rosenthal were born in the same Colombian city,
chestra, really, really wanted to win the va- my face,” he says. “If you’re ever at con- played on his audition. “It’s a piece that’s and Craig Hatkoff in 2001, to celebrate shared soccer passions and who were
cant timpani position with the National certs, you’re going to see the grin from really hard, but playable,” he says. It does, the city after the Sept. 11 attacks. both slain.
Symphony Orchestra when the opening afar.” though, involve a lot of hand- and foot- Since then, it has become one of the “Budrus” — about a Palestinian fam-
was announced last year. So he rented a Timpanists — the players who stand work, including a choreographed flip of major stops on the global film-festival ily man who attempts to unite rival
minivan, packed up his drums and drove fenced in by huge, taut, tuned drum heads the drumstick to allow the player to circuit along with gatherings in parties Fatah and Hamas, activists and
26 hours across the country to audition. at the back of the stage — are certainly not switch from a wooden to a padded strik- Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and the Sun- groups of progressive Israelis in a cru-
He got called back and made the drive a the showiest members of the orchestra. ing surface. Gilliam will play this eye- dance festival in Utah. sade to save his village — will also be
second time. But they’re essential, providing a pulse catching excerpt for the students. For 2010, Tribeca organizers hired shown, along with “The Arbor,” about
To make sure he was mentally pre- that the rest of the orchestra is attuned to, Before starting rehearsals this week, former Sundance director Geoffrey troubled British playwright Andrea
pared, he called up timpanists in major or adding a rousing emphasis to powerful Gilliam, a self-professed “drum dork,” fin- Gilmore to help build on its past suc- Dunbar.
American orchestras along the way and moments (as Gilliam surely will get to do ished the last stage of settling in by hang- cess. On Wednesday, they announced Most of the remaining feature-film
asked if he could play for them. He wanted in Thursday night’s Verdi Requiem). ing pictures in his new Washington apart- 33 films that will screen, including 24 lineup will be announced Monday, ex-
to get used to playing nervous, in unfamil- “I feel like he’s the pitcher, I’m the ment. “Of course,” he said, “they’re all of in its documentary and narrative fea- cept gala screenings.
iar situations. The first two attempts went catcher,” Gilliam says of his relationship to drums.” ture competitions. Ultimately, Tribeca For a full festival list, go to www.
terribly. The next two went much better. the conductor. “He throws it, I have to midgettea@washpost.com will show 85 feature-length movies and tribecafilm.com.
And by the time he got to Washington, he catch it.”
was in great form. He was the orchestra’s “If I play what I’m supposed to play, no-
unanimous choice for the position. body notices,” Gilliam said. “And that’s the
DOONESBURY by Garry Trudeau
If you want to win a job of this caliber, way it should be. But if I mess up, every-
Gilliam says, this is what you have to do. body notices.”
Seven hours a day of practicing in the “Technically, he is supreme,” Eschen-
months leading up to the audition. No so- bach says, caught in a brief moment back-
cial life, no free time. And, “You really stage between appointments in his new
have to bring your own instruments,” he artistic home. “It is fantastic what he can
says. “It’s an expense, and it’s a pain, but if do with the timpani. Already behind the
you want to win, you really have to.” curtain” — the first round of auditions is
Gilliam, 30, is playing his first concert played behind a curtain, to prevent listen-
with his new orchestra Thursday night, ers forming preconceptions based on ap-
when Christoph Eschenbach, the orches- pearance — “one heard so many colors.”
tra’s new music director, makes his first Furthermore, Eschenbach says, “he lis-
and only appearance with them before tens to the orchestra. The orchestra was
taking over this fall. very impressed with that. Me, too.
Gilliam is walking on air. He’s back in “I think it’s a big, big plus for the or-
his own country (he was raised, an only chestra to have this man,” he adds.
child, in Gary, Ind.). He’s landed a job at a Now that Gilliam is finally beginning,
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