Jenny Lewis knows she’s not a real Southerner. “Let’s be honest,” the 47-year-old indie-rock icon says on a Zoom call. “I’m a Jewish girl from the Valley, transplanted in East Nashville. I’m not an outlaw at all.” It’s true: In Tennessee, where Lewis has been splitting her time with L.A. since 2017, the only law she breaks is smoking weed. She’s also allergic to horses. And bonfires. “I’m the nerdiest, wimpiest Nashvillian,” she confirms.
Even so, Lewis’ new album, Joy’All, is her Nashville Skyline moment,...
Even so, Lewis’ new album, Joy’All, is her Nashville Skyline moment,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
If Damian Gandia had to rank his three favorite installments of the Now That’s What I Call Music! franchise, it’d go: Now 10, Now 64, Now 57.
Probably.
With Now 10, it’s mainly a nostalgia thing. Even though the 14-year-old from New Jersey wasn’t born yet when it was released in 2002, the tenth installment of the long-running pop hits compilation — which starts with Britney Spears’ “Overprotected” and ends with Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” — still brings back memories of music he heard as a kid. With Now 64, which featured...
Probably.
With Now 10, it’s mainly a nostalgia thing. Even though the 14-year-old from New Jersey wasn’t born yet when it was released in 2002, the tenth installment of the long-running pop hits compilation — which starts with Britney Spears’ “Overprotected” and ends with Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” — still brings back memories of music he heard as a kid. With Now 64, which featured...
- 3/30/2021
- by Emily Blake
- Rollingstone.com
Bay Street Theater presents the World Premiere of My Life Is A Musical now through August 31. This musical comedy with book, music and lyrics by Adam Overett, is directed and choreographed by Marlo Hunter. Presented in association with Martin Platt, David Elliott, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Joan Raffeamp Jhett Tolentino, and Patrick Blake, with additional support from the Joseph Stein Fund for new musicals and Adriane and Jerry Cohen. BroadwayWorld has new production photos below...
- 7/30/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Bay Street Theater presents the World Premiere of My Life Is A Musical July 29-August 31. This musical comedy book, music and lyrics by Adam Overett, is directed and choreographed by Marlo Hunter. Presented in association with Martin Platt, David Elliott, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Joan Raffe amp Jhett Tolentino, and Patrick Blake, with additional support from the Joseph Stein Fund for new musicals and Adriane and Jerry Cohen. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...
- 7/24/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Bay Street Theater presents the World Premiere of My Life Is A Musical July 29-August 31.This musical comedy book, music and lyrics by Adam Overett, will be directed and choreographed by Marlo Hunter. Presented in association with Martin Platt, David Elliott, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Joan Raffe amp Jhett Tolentino, and Patrick Blake, with additional support from the Joseph Stein Fund for new musicals and Adriane and Jerry Cohen. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast in rehearsal...
- 7/8/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
In "Cesar Chavez," its titular, historic character has many opportunities to show what it took to make a team. The civil rights and labor leader Chavez had few financial resources to hire aide in his strife to get the United Farm Workers union started in the 1960s. Enter attorney Jerry Cohen. And enter here, in this HitFix exclusive clip, Michael Peña and Wes Bentley, who play Chavez and Cohen respectively in the biopic. Despite hinting at a "complicated" past with his legal work, Cohen gets hired on the spot of the interview for General Counsel of the Ufw -- over a pool game and a beer. You may be stunned what his starting salary was, to help farm workers to earn their own decent wage. "Cesar Chavez" also stars Rosario Dawson, America Ferrera and John Malkovich. It hits theaters tomorrow (March 28). Watch our interview with "Cesar Chavez" director Diego Luna here.
- 3/27/2014
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
There's pretty much nothing Hollywood loves more than a comeback, which is why it's no surprise that Hollywood is loving Wes Bentley right now. (And, we gotta say, we're loving him too.)
The "American Beauty" star, who nearly fell off the Tinseltown grid due to a drug addiction only to resurface as the all-powerful Seneca Crane in "The Hunger Games," has landed yet another stellar role — this time in "Chavez."
The Diego Luna-directed biopic tells the story of labor-activist Cesar E. Chavez as he organizes the largest non-violent protest in U.S. history to accomplish his goal of obtaining basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California. Michael Pena is set to star as the titular lead, with America Ferrera and Rosario Dawson as Chavez's wife Helen and political aide Dolores Huerta, respectively, Indie Wire reports.
Bentley, meanwhile, will take on the part of fearless attorney Jerry Cohen,...
The "American Beauty" star, who nearly fell off the Tinseltown grid due to a drug addiction only to resurface as the all-powerful Seneca Crane in "The Hunger Games," has landed yet another stellar role — this time in "Chavez."
The Diego Luna-directed biopic tells the story of labor-activist Cesar E. Chavez as he organizes the largest non-violent protest in U.S. history to accomplish his goal of obtaining basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California. Michael Pena is set to star as the titular lead, with America Ferrera and Rosario Dawson as Chavez's wife Helen and political aide Dolores Huerta, respectively, Indie Wire reports.
Bentley, meanwhile, will take on the part of fearless attorney Jerry Cohen,...
- 5/3/2012
- by Elizabeth Durand
- NextMovie
The Wes Bentley comeback train keeps on going! The "American Beauty" star whose life was nearly ruined by his own overnight success/drug addiction is building on the momentum of "The Hunger Games" and has joined Diego Luna's next directorial effort with Mark Moses ("Mad Men"), Michael Cudlitz ("Southland"), Jacob Vargas ("Traffic") and Yancey Arias ("Legion") also on board for the story of labor-activist Cesar E. Chavez.
"Chavez" will see Michael Peña star as Chavez in the Keir Pearson-scripted tale that will follow the man as he organizes the largest non-violent protest in U.S. history to accomplish his goal of obtaining basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California. American Ferrerra and Rosario Dawson co-star as Chavez's wife Helen and political aide Dolores Huerta, respectively.
Bentley, meanwhile, joins as fearless attorney Jerry Cohen, who became the backbone of the United Farm Workers' legal efforts with...
"Chavez" will see Michael Peña star as Chavez in the Keir Pearson-scripted tale that will follow the man as he organizes the largest non-violent protest in U.S. history to accomplish his goal of obtaining basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California. American Ferrerra and Rosario Dawson co-star as Chavez's wife Helen and political aide Dolores Huerta, respectively.
Bentley, meanwhile, joins as fearless attorney Jerry Cohen, who became the backbone of the United Farm Workers' legal efforts with...
- 5/3/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
Wes Bentley ("The Hunger Games"), Michael Cudlitz ("Southland"), Jacob Vargas ("Traffic"), Yancey Arias ("Legion") and Mark Moses ("The Killing") have all joined the cast of Diego Luna's indie drama biopic "Chavez" reports Variety.
Keir Pearson's script follows Cesar E. Chavez (Michael Pena) who organised the largest nonviolent protest in U.S. history to obtain basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California.
Bentley will play fearless attorney Jerry Cohen, Cudlitz will play a sheriff who lets his personal opinions cloud his judgment, Vargas will play Cesar's older brother, Arias will play the United Farm Workers Union secretary-treasurer Gilbert Padilla, Moses will play seasoned organizer Fred Ross who mentors Chavez.
America Ferrera and Rosario Dawson also star as Chavez's wife and top aide respectively. Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Pablo Cruz, John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon, Russell Smith and Larry Meli will produce. Shooting began this week in Mexico.
Keir Pearson's script follows Cesar E. Chavez (Michael Pena) who organised the largest nonviolent protest in U.S. history to obtain basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California.
Bentley will play fearless attorney Jerry Cohen, Cudlitz will play a sheriff who lets his personal opinions cloud his judgment, Vargas will play Cesar's older brother, Arias will play the United Farm Workers Union secretary-treasurer Gilbert Padilla, Moses will play seasoned organizer Fred Ross who mentors Chavez.
America Ferrera and Rosario Dawson also star as Chavez's wife and top aide respectively. Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Pablo Cruz, John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon, Russell Smith and Larry Meli will produce. Shooting began this week in Mexico.
- 5/3/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
If it were up to us, Wes Bentley would sport that stylish Hunger Games facial hair in every project moving forward. Alas, it probably won.t be used for Chavez, a biopic about famed labor organizer Cesar E. Chavez that will be directed by Diego Luna from a screenplay by Keir Pearson. According to Variety, the independent film will focus on Chavez.s efforts to organize a sizeable protest in hopes of obtaining improved rights for thousands of farm laborers in California. And Luna already has an impressive cast on the books. Michael Pena, supporting player in memorable films like The Lincoln Lawyer and Observe & Report, has a chance to establish himself as a leading man with his turn as Chavez. America Ferrera has been cast as Chavez.s wife, while Rosario Dawson will play his trusted aide, Dolores Huerta. Bentley has been hired to play attorney Jerry Cohen, who...
- 5/2/2012
- cinemablend.com
The Hunger Games and Terrence Malick‘s new film have solidified Wes Bentley‘s comeback trail, but Variety says he has yet another promising effort in the waits. (And I don’t mean Catching Fire, though that should do him a lot of good, too.) It would happen to be Chavez, the Michael Peña-led, Diego Luna-directed biopic of labor rights activist Cesar Chavez, which also stars Rosario Dawson and America Ferrera; shooting on the film began this week.
Written by Luna and Keir Pearson (Hotel Rwanda), it focuses on the period in which Chavez led “the largest nonviolent protest in U.S. history to accomplish his ultimate goal of obtaining basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California.” He’s one of several new faces in the project’s fray; Jacob Vargas (Jarhead, Traffic), Mark Moses (Mad Men‘s Duck Phillips), Michael Cudlitz (Southland), and Yancey Arias (Legion,...
Written by Luna and Keir Pearson (Hotel Rwanda), it focuses on the period in which Chavez led “the largest nonviolent protest in U.S. history to accomplish his ultimate goal of obtaining basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California.” He’s one of several new faces in the project’s fray; Jacob Vargas (Jarhead, Traffic), Mark Moses (Mad Men‘s Duck Phillips), Michael Cudlitz (Southland), and Yancey Arias (Legion,...
- 5/2/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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