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From: Sent: To: Subject: Peggy Siegal Blue Jasmin/Moma/Thursday night, June 13 Soon-Yi Please show this to Woody. I went to MoMa last night to see the film for the second time...and see how=it plays on a full room. Of course the audience was filled with friends and film makers that have wo=ked with you....so the reaction to every nuance of every performance was i=mediate and vocal. They all were appropriately emphatic, judgmental, somew=at horrified and hysterical in all the right places. Cate's performance is riveting as her character pathetically wallows in her=self pity. The audience loved her descent into madness. Everyone was buzzing about Cate and the entire cast in the lobby after....A=ec was there and told me he thought Cate was amazing and was very modest a=out his own terrific supporting role. During the film I sat with Barbara Walters and Lorinda. We went to the crow=ed Cipriani's at the Sherry Netherland after for dinner and discussion. Lorinda immediately thought Cate was Blanche Dubois. Barbara immediately th=ught Cate was Lorinda. Lorinda was unglued about the status of her post divorce/just dumped the bo=friend of three years/frightening single life. She asked me to please find her a guy. Eventually the conversation came aro=nd to candidate Bob Weinstein, brother of Harvey, who is "on the market an= looking." It got more bazaar. Barbara yelled at Lorinda to understand how lucky and privileged her life i=, stop complaining and get a grip on reality. Charlie Rose came up to the table because he lives in the building and has =inner there every night with a different young woman. Barbara then yelled=at Charlie to go upstairs to bed because he has a early show. Lorinda then told Barbara that Barbara didn't really understand the depth o= her misery because she is blessed with being "Barbara Walters". Barbara then laced into Lorinda again yelling, "You have no idea who I am! =1 have a retarded sister. I financially supported my entire family; sister= mother, father and daughter my entire life." Then I also yelled a Lorinda that my mother treated me like shit...as did v=rious past boyfriends and I threw myself into my career to find life fulfi=lment. We could have been in the sequel to "Blue lasmin" live from Cipriani's. Obviously, Cate's character will entice many others to shout and argue. EFTA_R1_01656363 EFTA02519918 Although it's too early to accurately predict, Cate should be a shoe-in for=an Oscar nomination. Once again the writing is so right on and is the heart and sole of the whol= film. By the time dessert was served, three screaming ladies in an now empty Cipr=ani's on a miserable rainy night were so thankful for your brilliant insig=t...into someone else's nightmare. I will be around Europe...and the south of France a lot of the summer....ex=ept for being in NYC to organize your Monday, July 22 MoMa premiere. I wi=l stay in touch and try to come visit. Woody, thank you again for letting me work on your wonderfully entertaining=provocative film. xoxo Peggy=?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/Propertylist-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-idgkey> <integer>138020</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1371208663</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>311197</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01656364 EFTA02519919