What's Happening!! - 10/5/08
Lindsay Davis - New York Times
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This Week's Gossip
We were up early last Sunday, packed up in Diego's limo with Furio driving and heading to New Jersey to pick up Tony and Carmela Soprano. Tony shares the same luxury suite at the Meadowlands. Tony gets the Jets games and Diego gets the Giants games, so this week we were Tony's guests for the Jets game against the Arizona Cardinals. The game was exiting as Brett Favre set a personal record of six passing touchdowns and Tony's Jets won 56 to 35 in a barn burner.
After the game Tony hosted us at Artie Bucco's Nuovo Vesuvio Restaurant where the Italian food is second only to Diego's own Four Seasons Supper Club. Tony kept ordering more wine and I was pretty drunk by the time we piled back in the limo for the ride home. Diego wanted to play but that ended abruptly when I threw up in his lap. Instead of dropping me off at home, Diego took me back to his place where I slept it off.
Next Sunday will be the Giants game in the Meadowlands hosting the Seattle Seahawks and I promised myself to ease up on the drinking.
On Saturday night I finally got a good look at a couple scenes from that upcoming movie, "The French Lady and the Hood". The stars, Yvette as Genevieve DePaul and Scott as Michael Gambino, weren't there, but Amy Bilson, as Amy Mancini was delightful opposite Jeremy Piven as Sonny Gambino. Even Samantha Emeris showed up to watch.
The story line for the movie, as I understand it, is that Sonny, the older brother, is engaged to Amy Mancini, the perfect Italian wife. She's supposedly a virgin, waiting for marriage before producing the male grandsons that Vito Gambino so desperately desires.
The first scene was them dancing at a party in the Gambino mansion. Amy looked very pretty in a pale blue cocktail dress, perfect make up provided by Dami, the make up artist hired by Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. Sonny looked a bit dark and moody in a leather jacket that director, Allen Short, wasn't real pleased with, but it did suit Sonny's character as a Mafia family capo.
Sonny kept dancing Amy over to the staircase that leads up to the second floor bedrooms. It's obvious that he wants to get Amy alone up there and get in her pants. Amy did a great job of looking tense, probably more so because I know that Amy Bilson is very nervous about appearing naked in a sex scene.
They took a short break between scenes while Allen Short kept yelling at the union labors about getting the bedroom movie set ready and Dami prepped Amy for the sex scene. Piven was fitted with a small g-string to cover his "privates', when he would eventually be naked. I thought Amy would get one also, but it just didn't happen.
The bedroom scene was quite seductive as Amy undressed Sonny, although Dami had a few clever comments about a pimple on Sonny's ass. The tension on Amy's face as Sonny removed her dress was perfect. She looked like a real virgin. Sonny walked her backwards to the bed and with one little push he had her naked body sprawled out there, ready and waiting to be deflowered. She did raise one knee to try and block the camera views of her secret garden. Allen cut the scene short just as Sonny began pumping her.
Poor Amy was blushing beet red as she jumped up, a hand barely covering her privates as she ran for the dressing room. The camera man did manage to get a shot of her wiggling bare bottom on her way out that might be used in the actual movie. Although they will no doubt edit a few slips, I'm sure the audiences will get a nice look at her beautiful, young breasts.
Good job, Amy. This movie might get your acting career rolling.
I just can not wait to see the scenes between Yvette and Scott, which might be done next week. If you think Amy was nervous, wait until we see Yvette under similar conditions. Stay tuned!
Entertainment
This Tuesday night, October 7th at 10:00 pm ET, the Off-Broadway Creative Arts Theatre will be dark as Rachel continues to run her plays sporadically. She plans to stay closed until we're sure we can finish a ninety minute play uninterrupted.
