“[Jennifer Lawrence] deigns to throw you a quote but makes it clear she’s doing you the grandest favor a higher being can bestow.”
— Sara Hammel, who recently quit after 10 years as a People magazine celebrity news reporter. The Oscar-winning Louisville native appeared on the cover of the magazine’s December 2013 issue.
Boulevard reviews the latest media coverage of the Oscar-winning Louisville native in our exclusive Jennifer Lawrence Diary™. Today’s news, rated on a scale of 1-5 stars:
An Illinois man accused of breaking into the Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities to steal their private photos and videos has agreed to plead guilty to a felony computer hacking charge, prosecutors said Friday.
Edward Majerczyk, 28, facing up to five years in prison in the September 2014 crime, is the second man charged in a federal investigation into the leaks of nude photos of several Hollywood actresses, according to The Himalayan Times.
In an interview with Vanity Fair at the time, Lawrence called the incident a “sex crime.”
“Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this,” she told the magazine. “It does not mean that it comes with the territory. It’s my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I can’t believe that we even live in that kind of world. ”
In a blow to everyone who loves society news and photos, the monthly NFocus magazine’s Louisville edition is now kaput. The July issue, on newsstands July 6, will be the last.
Yesterday, Editor Tonya Abeln said the luxury, philanthropy, art and fashion magazine had been well-received, but “the challenges that are affecting all of print media were a factor in this decision.”
NFocus is owned by Nashville-based SouthComm; the Nashville edition will continue.
The magazine’s demise leaves much of the city’s ongoing society coverage to the weekly Voice-Tribune — and to Boulevard, of course.
Big smiles, big personalities and big business networking — yes, it’s everyone’s favorite feature in the society shiny sheets: party photos! Boulevard picks through the pics, choosing our favorite coverage.
With NFocus Louisville’s sudden demise, Boulevard is more dependent than ever on The Voice-Tribune for our window on the ladies who lunch and the men who punch.
Tangoing straight to the chase, here’s today’s party pics pick: Let’s Dance Louisville, where Cathedral of the Assumption hosted a “Dancing with the Stars”-esque fundraiser last Saturday, featuring local “celebrities” (to use the editor’s choice of punctuation).
Of the 73 (!) photos by workhouse paparazzo Tim Valentino, our favorite is No. 19: WAVE news anchor and silver-sequin pailletted Shannon Cogan, sandwiched between weatherman Brian Goode and Robert Curran, the Louisville Ballet’s Australian executive director.
TTFN!
Photo, top: That’s Nyle DiMarco and his partner Peta Murgatroyd, crowned Season 22 champions of “Dancing with the Stars” on May 24.
Boulevard reviews the latest media coverage of the Oscar-winning Louisville native in our exclusive Jennifer Lawrence Diary™. Today’s news, rated on a scale of 1-5 stars:
Too bad we can’t award zero stars! The real news here? She didn’t rank No. 1 — instead of a lowly No. 23 — in The Hollywood Reporter’s new list of Tinsel Town’s 100 most powerful players.
“At only 25,” the editors say, “she’s the highest-earning, most-sought-after actress in Hollywood, with four Oscar nominations and one win, for ‘Silver Linings Playbook.’ Her essay in Lena Dunham‘s newsletter in October put a megaphone to the gender pay inequity discussion (‘When the Sony hack happened and I found out how much less I was being paid than the lucky people with dicks, I didn’t get angry,’ it begins).”
Her big win, according to the Reporter: adding $653 million to the “Hunger Games” haul with the final installment. And her big bet: that $20 million “Passengers” paycheck gobbling up around 20% of the film’s budget.
Who was No. 1 on the list? Disney CEO Bob Iger. Z-z-z . . .
Clearly, Lawrence would have landed on the list’s tippy-top if editors had factored in this summer’s de rigueur tonsorial treatment: her ice-blond hair. And here’s how to get it, courtesy of Glamour:
Ian Derrer, artistic administrator at Dallas Opera for the past two years, started his career at New York City Opera in 2004, after receiving his masters degrees in opera production, voice and performing arts management from Northwestern University and Brooklyn College, and a bachelor’s of music in voice performance from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University.
Kentucky Opera announced his appointment yesterday, effective Sept. 1. Derrer, 41, will oversee a 64-year-old organization with a $2.4 million budget. He succeeds David Roth, who died unexpectedly last July.
In 2006, Derrer moved to Chicago’s Lyric Opera, starting as rehearsal administrator and moving up to production director and head of the rehearsal department. In all, Derrer spent eight seasons there, with one summer as rehearsal director at Santa Fe Opera.
As artistic administrator at Dallas, Derrer oversees budgets for the orchestra, chorus, and principal artists as well as members of the artistic staff, orchestra librarian, orchestra manager, chorus secretary, and scheduling department. The company was founded in 1957, five years after Louisville’s. Its budget is considerably larger, however: $14.2 million for the year ended in June 2014, according to its most recent annual IRS tax return.
Dallas Opera CEO Keith Cerny praised Derrer’s work, telling The Courier-Journal that he “guided important artistic and patron relationships, in addition to serving as advisor to both the music director and me.”
Louisville’s 2016-17 season of three productions starts Sept. 23 at the Brown Theatre with Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Dallas Opera’s upcoming five-production season also includes Butterfly.
Derrer’s is at least the second appointment this year Continue reading “Kentucky Opera names Dallas’ Derrer as new general director, in 2nd recent hire among big local cultural groups”
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