Mardi Evening, an exclusive celebration of family and literary passions, reunites with the Château de Marmont to celebrate the West Coast lancement. Didion and Babitz Lily AnolikAnolik’s new book about the complex relationship of writers Joan Didion and Eva Babitz inspired Anolik’s 2022 long film on the topic VF.
Evening animators, comedians Emma Roberts et sa cofondrice of the reading club “Belletrist” Kara Preiss, The full bouclé événement has qualified and they are all friends of Anolik and Babitz fans.
“Le livre est novembre (lecture),” Preuss said. “And when Lily nous a dit qu’il y aurait des lettres inédites (dans le livre) qu’Eve avait écrites et jamais envoyées, nous nous sommes dit: “Et si nous demands à un groupe d’acteurs de lire les lettres au Chateau Marmont? »
“This is a chimera becoming reality,” Roberts added. “Nous sommes Tellement excites. Eva Babitz tells Los Angeles and Hollywood, but anti-Hollywood, and now I thought that in her unpublished letters she would be the three lovers of her homage and evening. Lily said she found letters after they were released, letters that were written to express her feelings and that were never sent. And I hope to think that with high voices they adore our voice in their true thoughts in Château un soir de novembre.
screenwriter-Oscar Dustin Lance Noir and admit that it’s normal, but what he can’t cope with the most is this event after he died in Anolik’s book. “Emma, I submitted the book this week… I finally finished this morning and finished three hours ago,” I stated. “Je cherchais quelque chose qui aborde ce moment dans lequel nous nous trouvons, et nous sommes dans ce moment depuis environ une semaine, et avoir ce livre atterrir sur mes genoux et dans mon cœur maintenant, c’est juste un cadeau. »
Les Lectures de l’événement comprenaient environ 10 letters and entries from the journal of people of color and non-messengers Babitz, books with enthusiasm and verve – y compris et surtout plusieurs bombs F bien placées – par Da’Vine Joy Randolph Nicole Richie Roberts, director Alexi Wasser, Anolik, Elizabeth Olsen etc. Beverly D’Angelo. Un postscriptum de choix, in a letter to Babitz’s former love, Grover Lewis, then Roberts: “PS, je ne suis pas ivre. This is 8 o’clock in the morning and the morning mardi, and it seems to me that you, these new disgusting people, and the merits of exposure.
D’Angelo, who opened the room as the last reader of Babitz’s most enthusiastic magazine articles, began to speak at the top of his voice about Babitz, “available to be written only for him, and d’embodied in the lisant ce moi interieur, which is to tell in conflict. avec le Concept Public de qui elle était”, announced by the actor. “Et c’est plutôt excitant pour moi. C’est merveilleux de penser in terms of: He, present for a minute: il y avait une femme ici qui était responsible à une époque or le point de vue d’un étranger n’était pas valorisé en raison de son comportement Social. Again on the voice.
Although D’Angelo never met Babitz in person, he became a fan of écrivain after a long time. “It is, j’étais un peu trop jeune (pour l’avoir rencontrée), but most of all I know the people who lie on the sofa with her. Est-ce que ça compte? dit-elle avec un sourire. “This is a girl, my soul. »
Lectures onté complétées from two musical performances. Nominated for a Grammy Award Leslie Mendelsohn I started the selection with repetition Joni Mitchell“Folk Holidays” Lily Kershaw ending the evening with “California Dreams.” Attendees enjoyed appetizers and a choice of two Didion and Babitz-themed Casamigos cocktails: tequila, soda, and epic margarita.
Parmi los nombreux VIP enthusiasts presents se trouvait la sœur de Babitz, Miranda, which found the evening “très touchante, émouvante et joliment realisée”. And emeute,” noted at-elle, adding that his sister aurait is “the three satisfactions” of the whole experience.
For Anolik, the foray into the book is a true tourbillon that operates in the present, after a journey that begins surrounded by 14 years and then decides to open and interview Babitz. In the fall for three years to convince Babitsa de-participant, but Anolik’s persistence remained to lie on one of the most memorable things in his life. dressing tableHollywood Special 2014.
“Cela ne mesemble pas réel,” declared the author. “It all started simply on the street of coins (d’ici). My brother is in an apartment in Crescent Heights. Il était en école de commerce. J’étais avec lui en 2010, et je me souviens d’avoir Marché dans Sunset, d’avoir attaqué Gardner et Romaine et d’avoir laissez une lettre chez Eve – une lettre qu’elle n’a pas revoyée, d’ailleurs . And serve our somms. This is ugh.