However, her old boss and occasional sex partner, crime lord Charlie Baudelaire ( Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito), calls her in for the proverbial last job. Jett is a career criminal, recently sprung from prison and looking to get back on the straight and narrow now that she has a daughter for which to care. It’s legitimately artful and done in more of an admiring way because part of Daisy “Jett” Kowalski’s power resides in her sexuality, and she has a reservoir of it, which she exploits from time to time to serve her needs (and that of the audience). Writer/director/creator and Gugino’s spouse, Sebastian Gutierrez, spends a lot of time focusing his camera on Gugino’s naked body, but not in a leering way. Not that any of it feels particularly gratuitous, just very genre-specific. It’s a fitting series for Gugino, who never looked more at home than in the all-too-brief Karen Sisco, but outside the confines of network television, she can push the noir to its extremes, often uncomfortably so: Why cut off the hand of a fully-clothed cop with a chainsaw in a deadly game of Hangman when on Cinemax, you can cut off the hand of a cop in only her panties? It’s a smart, stylized crime thriller that never forgets it’s on a premium network best known for its late-night offerings, which is to say that the violence (often of a sexual nature) and nudity play directly to the subscriber base. Only in New York, kids, only in New York.Carla Gugino’s Jett is Quentin Tarantino and Elmore Leonard by way of Cinemax. This father remembered when his daughter was dating, and he told the young man: “Understand, lights out in this house at 11,” and the boyfriend replied: “OK. It’ll be high-class types like Kate Baldwin, Petula Clark, Donna Murphy and Diane von Furstenberg.įather’s Day. Lincoln Center honors Stephen Sondheim next Wednesday. Rupert Holmes, whose first mystery novel “ Where the Truth Lies” was made into a Colin Firth/Kevin Bacon film, is now writing an Andy Warhol musical. Jodie Foster unloaded her Beverly Hills house for a farthing under $15 mil. Bravo’s “Flipping Out” Jeff Lewis quite polite to LAX passengers flipping out over a delayed flight to JFK. At the Garret East, at something called half-off taco night, Adrian Grenier. got surrounded by stenos pouring out of their offices. ” that Ansari uses in his shtick on his Netflix show “Master of None”. A fan, flopping all over him, shouted, “Allora!,” an Italian word meaning “Well. We in the United States, greatest nation on Earth, we’re into an election that pinpoints faces you can’t pick out of a lineup.Įveryone, be careful. Now its citizens are fighting for shredded remnants of what was their democracy. In ’97, Big Brother Beijing co-opted the colony, and not for all the tea in China was it the same. Crowded, noisy, great food, A-1 shopping, everyone hustling. Peninsula Hotel on Kowloon side, the Mandarin on Hong Kong side. A lifetime ago…Ĭreating jewelry for Cartier plus writing then-President Sukarno of Indonesia’s as-told-to me autobio, I spent years living in Hong Kong. It’s a full-out action movie with Angela Bassett and Michelle Yeoh called ‘Gunpowder Milkshake.’ ”įull-out action movie? Nude love scenes? She’s the one who needs healing crystals. Sunday’s Father’s Day, but I leave tomorrow for Berlin. And right out of the hospital, so I brought him healing crystals. “In one scene in Havana, my character plays homage to the movie star Ava Gardner.” But you know the other person is also compromising. You talk about what shots they’re taking. I’ve been lucky because you have to trust the director. I figure no reason to gloss over that quickly, so I ask what’s it like going nude. “She then gets hired, but it leads to connecting with more ruthless criminals, and she ends up with an old flame. Think sort of a young tough female Clint Eastwood. Does whatever’s got to be done to get a job done. Gorgeous.Ĭarla: “In this, I play a thief who doesn’t care what people think of her. Eyelashes thicker than Mexico’s someday wall. What that part of her looks like I don’t know - but the rest of her’s great. In TV series “Jett,” out Friday, Carla Gugino plays a badass.
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