Celebrating Juno

If you were going to celebrate the movie Juno's multi-Oscar nominations, what would you serve? Duh, hamburger, of course. And for an A-plus burger, served with gravy boats of French fries and ketchup, dolled up and elegant as if they were truffle encrusted foie gras, where would you go? Well, try 21, the classic eatery of old New York that made Holly Golightly swoon. There on Friday, “A Diamond is Forever” sponsored a luncheon for well-wishers. Five signature hamburger phones were raffled. One winner, Sigourney Weaver, whose new movie “Vantage Point” opens next week, quipped, Peggy Siegal had the whole thing rigged, “knowing I have a teenager.” Among the happy diners, disappointed only in that they too had not been so lucky to walk away with this plastic souvenir rumored to be worth thousands on Ebay, was Halley Feiffer, so smart in Noah Baumbach's films, accompanied by her father Jules. You could say with Ivan Reitman introducing his son, the director Jason, the event had a familial theme: Jason publicly gave the teary-eyed old man a bear hug. Ivan Reitman, of “Ghostbuster” glory, famously has never been nominated for an Oscar and, as he did on CBS Sunday Morning's show yesterday, he loves to recount the story of how his young son asked him, would he attend the ceremony if Jason were nominated? “I should have known then,” said Ivan without a hint of Freudian angst. So now, teary-eyed and shepping nachas, he'll go. Ivan Reitman also introduced the movie's star Ellen Page to the luncheon crowd, saying he thought she was 13 when they met on the set. Turning 21 on February 21, Page has a precocious look that makes “Juno” what it is. Now, in a dreamy doze, she graces the cover of “The New York Times Magazine.” Page's demur demeanor has many facets: her standout performance in “Hard Candy” as a seductive girl who, wielding a knife, turns the tables on a pedophile, had people talking at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Speaking about the award attention she's getting as Juno, she repeated the word “Surreal” several times. She may know more about that word than meets the eye, as a fan of the book "2012" The Return of Quetzalcoatl,” Daniel Pinchbeck's account of the transformation of global consciousness. When I asked about her literary bent she said she was also into Pinchbeck's previous “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism,” suggesting there's a whole lot more going on inside that pretty head than the mere contemplation of herself as “Best Actress.”

Regina Weinreich             

Graphic Design: Salpeter Ventura

Comments

[Cojo]

Regina,
I would have loved to have been at this party. I have no need for a hamburger phone though. If I won one I would have JUNOED it to a more deserving couple who couldn't have a plastic sculpted fast food phone of their own.
This movie has given the word JUNO a new definition, as in: "You can't raise a child, JUNO that baby!" or "You got extra seats to that Mets game? JUNO me those seats!"

-Cojo "Art Juggernaut"
http://www.Artsucks.com

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