Tim Robbins isn’t about to let Richard Gere show him up on the celebrity screening circuit
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Not to be outdone by fellow Pound Ridger Richard Gere, actor-director Tim Robbins has booked his own local screening for later in the month. He’ll be showing “Cradle Will Rock,” a 1999 film he directed about the theater world during the communist scares of the 1930s, at Stamford’s Avon Theatre Film Center on March 19.
After the 7:30 p.m. screening, Robbins will do a Q&A with John Farr, a theater board member who invited Robbins to speak. According to the Stamford Advocate, Farr met Robbins at a Little League game in Bedford, N.Y., last year. Although the movie never got quite as much recognition as his other directorial efforts—“Bob Roberts,” “Dead Man Walking”—it has a stellar cast, including Hank Azaria, Bill Murray, the Cusack siblings, and of course Susan Sarandon. Tickets went on sale to nonmembers yesterday for $25 (or $15 for members). The 350-seat theater will probably sell out, so be sure to get yours by calling 661-0321.
Also exciting: next Tuesday, March 13, the Avon is going to have a screening of “The Namesake,” the adaptation of Jumpa Lahiri’s novel, and Q&A with the film’s director Mira Nair (who did “Monsoon Wedding” and “Vanity Fair”). A huge chunk of the movie was filmed in Eastchester, in a house we profiled in the October issue of InTown Westchester.
“Tim Robbins to ‘rock’ Avon Theatre this month” [The Advocate]
“Almost Famous” [InTown Westchester]
(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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