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In pictures: 'Arrivals at the 2009 Joyful Heart Foundation Gala'

9 May 2009 1:09 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news

Jill Hennessy and Mariska Hargitay attending the 2009 Joyful Heart Foundation Gala at Terminal 5 in New York City. Photo copyright by Kent Miller / PR Photos. Debra Messing attending the 2009 Joyful Heart Foundation Gala at Terminal 5 in New York City. Photo copyright by Kent Miller / PR Photos. Mariska Hargitay and Lupe Fiasco attending the 2009 Joyful Heart Foundation Gala at Terminal 5 in New York City. Photo copyright by Kent Miller / PR Photos. Jill Hennessy attending the 2009 Joyful Heart Foundation Gala at Terminal 5 in New York City. Photo copyright by Kent Miller / PR Photos. Hilary Swank and Mariska Hargitay attending the 2009 Joyful Heart Foundation Gala at Terminal

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Interview: Writer/Director Derick Martini Turns Past Into Present in ‘Lymelife’

7 May 2009 11:28 AM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Chicago – Derick Martini’s “Lymelife,” starring Rory Culkin, Kieran Culkin, Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Emma Roberts, Timothy Hutton, and Cynthia Nixon is a dramatic slice of nostalgia for its co-writer/director. The film brings the wounds of his parent’s divorce to the surface in this acclaimed comedy/drama.

Just last week, Martini’s wife gave birth to their first child, but Derick wanted to talk about his other baby, his new film, a drama based on his own childhood as a product of divorce. The production notes for the film quote Martini - “It’s about change: how people change, and how when faced with change how they initially resist but ultimately have to embrace change because that’s life.”

Lymelife

Photo credit: Screen Media Group Martini expounded on the idea, noting that the baby last week was “the mother of all changes.”

“When you’re a product of divorce…

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Lymelife

1 May 2009 8:20 AM, PDT | From Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news

Release Date: April 8 (limited)

Director: Derick Martini

Writer: Derick and Steven Martini

Cinematographer: Frank Godwin

Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kieran Culkin, Rory Culkin, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon

Studio/Run Time: Screen Media Films, 95 mins.

Good cast and familiar themes for first-time director

Think of it as The Ice Storm lite—there’s less sex, drugs and angst, but the themes are the same. Living on Long Island in the late ’70s, Scott (Rory Culkin) is an awkward 15-year-old boy with a bully problem and a long-standing crush on his best friend, Adrianna. Scott’s successful father (Baldwin) is sleeping with his secretary (Nixon), who also happens to be Adrianna’s mother; Scott’s own mother (Hennessy) is reaching the end of her rope; and Scott’s brother (Kieran Culkin) is on a brief leave from the military. Meanwhile, the deer-tick epidemic has left Adrianna’s father (Hutton) suffering from Lyme disease,

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Lymelife

1 May 2009 1:01 AM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news

Lymelife Directed by: Derick Martini Cast: Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Jill Hennessy, Emma Roberts Time: 1 hr, 49 minutes Rating: PG-13 Release Date: May 1, 2009 (limited) Plot: In late-1970’s Long Island, 15-year-old Scott Bartlett (Culkin) finds that he’s growing up amidst a much fishier situation than his well-to-do father (Baldwin) would insist. In hopes to shield her son from a recent outbreak of Lyme disease, Scott’s mother doesn’t allow Scott to leave the house without applying the necessary amount of masking tape to his clothing. This is a hilarious sight, but our first encounter with next-door-neighbor Charlie [Timothy Hutton] that we find out the disease’s wrath (amongst a slew of other situations in this film) may have more crippling effects than it seems. Who’s It For?: Fans of films that systematically bash the American dream to

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"17 Again" vs. "State of Play" - The box office weekend ahead.

17 April 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

“17 Again” from Warner Bros. Pictures contends for the top spot at this weekend’s box office and is Zac Efron frontlines the film with Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Sterling Knight and Michelle Trachtenberg also thrown in the mix. The comedy opens in 3,255 venues and is helmed by Burr Steers (“Igby Goes Down”).  The film review scored an average 2.5/5 from Movie Jungle. Universal sends out their Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman and Jeff Daniels-powered drama/thriller “State of Play” which Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”) helms. Film hits 2,803 venues.  We highly recommend this release with an almost perfect 4.5/5 review score. Jason Statham returns in the wacky “Crank: High Voltage.” The Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor-directed high-octane actioner unspools in 2,223 locations. The first film opened on September 1st, 2006 and grossed over $27.8 million domestically and $16.9 million overseas. Indie-wise, there’s a

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Indie Film Focus - "Lymelife" - New images and the trailer in Quicktime.

15 April 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

We have new images in as well as the trailer in Quicktime for Screen Media Films' "Lymelife" drama starring Alec Baldwin, Kieran Culkin, Rory Culkin, Jill Hennessy and Timothy Hutton. Derek Martini directs as well as writing with Steven Martini. The film opens on April 17th in limited areas.See all the images in the gallery and check out the trailer here. About "Lymelife" It’s 1979 on Long Island, New York. Change is in the air—the promise of a better life luring a new immigration from the city to the suburbs. In this world, real estate development is like winning the lottery, and money means success. The rest of the world may sit on a precipice—the Falkland War looms and before long American hostages will be taken in Iran—but on Long Island the future is bright, vulnerable only to that which sucks ones soul, much like the

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Indie Film Focus - "Lymelife" - New images and the trailer in Quicktime.

15 April 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

We have new images in as well as the trailer in Quicktime for Screen Media Films' "Lymelife" drama starring Alec Baldwin, Kieran Culkin, Rory Culkin, Jill Hennessy and Timothy Hutton. Derek Martini directs as well as writing with Steven Martini. The film opens on April 17th in limited areas. It’s 1979 on Long Island, New York. Change is in the air—the promise of a better life luring a new immigration from the city to the suburbs. In this world, real estate development is like winning the lottery, and money means success. The rest of the world may sit on a precipice—the Falkland War looms and before long American hostages will be taken in Iran...

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Indie Film Focus - "Lymelife" - New images and the trailer in Quicktime.

15 April 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

We have new images in as well as the trailer in Quicktime for Screen Media Films' "Lymelife" drama starring Alec Baldwin, Kieran Culkin, Rory Culkin, Jill Hennessy and Timothy Hutton. Derek Martini directs as well as writing with Steven Martini. The film opens on April 17th in limited areas. It’s 1979 on Long Island, New York. Change is in the air—the promise of a better life luring a new immigration from the city to the suburbs. In this world, real estate development is like winning the lottery, and money means success. The rest of the world may sit on a precipice—the Falkland War looms and before long American hostages will be taken in Iran...

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Hennessy Upset About Twin's Mistaken Identity

12 April 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Jill Hennessy feels sorry for her twin sister Jacqueline - because she's always getting mistaken for the former Law & Order star.

And to make matters worse, her sister is a deeply private person.

Hennessy explains, "I would never want to subject her to my life because she’s inadvertently been the subject of such insanity solely by looking like me. She gets stalked by people who don’t believe she’s my twin.

"She’ll very kindly say, 'I’m Jack, her sister,' and they’ll think she’s lying. They think it’s really Jill Hennessy just being really bitchy! People have yelled at her and just stormed away and I think it’s my fault.

"She’s a brilliant writer and television journalist in Toronto and is well known in Canada in her own right. I do feel bad when I hear the occasional story of somebody who got a little irrational and maybe didn’t have the best grip on reality, getting upset with her. It’s hard not to take it personally and feel somehow responsible."

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Hennessy Keen To Get Back To Busking

11 April 2009 7:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Former Law & Order star Jill Hennessy has developed a career as a New York street busker if her acting career ever ends - because she already knows where the best places to play Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell hits are.

The star performed on the city's subway and at Big Apple landmarks as she struggled to become an actress - and she made a good living doing it.

Hennessy still performs - she recently played a concert at her son's pre-school - and now she's hungry to hit the streets again and play her favourite places.

She tells WENN, "When I was playing the subways I would stay in the station and the acoustics were really good on the 1-and-9 line by 79th and Broadway. You’d always get someone coming up and saying, 'Can you play Joni Mitchell's Circle Game because last time I heard that my wife and I were still together?' and they would tell me their whole life story.

"I would play Circle Game and somebody would cry or I would do Dylan or Springsteen covers and Patti Griffin, Green Day, Katy Perry’s I Kissed A Girl. I would also play in Washington Square Park and Central Park around the John Lennon memorial.

"If you averaged it to salary, by the hour I took home around 15 bucks. And near a holiday I made well over 20 dollars an hour.

"My dream is to play at Grand Central Station because the acoustics are amazing."

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Laughs, Loathing and Lyme Disease

9 April 2009 4:40 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

This week finds a couple of small screen favorites treated to big screen outings, comedies both black and blacker, as well as the ballad of the real-life Spinal Tap.

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"Anvil! The Story of Anvil"

With its singer's proclivity to play the guitar with a dildo, a disastrous tour managed by a churlish Swiss-Italian fan with little professional experience, and a drummer really named Robb Reiner), comparisons to the 1984 mother of all music mockumentaries are inevitable. But ladies and gentlemen, this really is Spinal Tap, and so much more. First-time director Sacha Gervasi, who served as Anvil's roadie for a time in the '80s, follows the legendary underground Canadian rockers throughout their ill-fated European tour in preparation for their 13th studio album. Still chasing the dream and that ever-elusive break, they subsist on a strained friendship, bad food and blind

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Derick Martini, “Lymelife”: Artistic Honesty, Perfection, and Success

8 April 2009 8:19 AM, PDT | From indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news

Editors Note: This interview was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Derick Martini’s “Lymelife” is the story of Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin), a teenage boy growing up in late-1970s Long Island. He fends off bullies at high school, has a problematic crush on his neighbor/best friend Adrianna Bragg (Emma Roberts), and is challenged by the rocky marriage of his parents (Jill Hennessy and Alec …

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Li Back And Enjoy It

8 April 2009 1:23 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Frustrated teens, the roar of the railroad, killer ticks and Alec Baldwin: pretty much the way I've always seen Long Island.

A native, Derick Martini, sees it that way too, directing and co-writing (with his brother, Steve) a movie that gathers up a mass of their homeland and shapes it into something like art. "Lymelife," set amid marital decay and teen frustration, isn't quite the "American Beauty" of the 516 area code, but it'll do.

That's when Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin), a shaggy 15-year-old,

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Lymelife Interview: Rory Culkin -- Playing the lead in Derick Martini's indie dramedy

4 April 2009 | From Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news

Written by Jenni Miller Lymelife's story is told through the big blue eyes of Rory Culkin, who struggles with his love/lust for the girl literally next door (Emma Roberts), his mother's smothering love and growing anger with her philandering husband (Jill Hennessy), and the truth about his parents' unhappy marriage. His character Scott Bartlett's constant air of discomfort and frustration belies the youngest Culkin's real-life charm and dry wit, which he unleashed on journalists in NYC as part of a press junket for his new movie. Your brother Kieran said, "That guy is a bullshit detector. You know you can't get away with bullshit when you're acting against him." And I wondered if you felt like that or what it was like acting with your older brother, if you felt like you had to sort of step up your game. Rory Culkin: I ...

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Gen Art Fest Opens with 'Lymelife' and Baldwins

3 April 2009 3:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

If you're currently living (or crashing) in and around the New York City area (and you like movies), then there's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be checking out the Gen Art Film Festival, which kicked things off Wednesday night with the premiere of Lymelife, followed by last night's premiere of the quirky-but-huggable Gigantic, and continues through to Tuesday, April 7. This weekend features a rather fantastic line-up of Peter and Vandy, My Suicide and Punching the Clown -- three films I whole-heartedly vouch for -- so get your ass over to Gen Art's website and snag yourself a ticket. Not only do you get to watch a feature and a short, but you also gain access to a hip-hoppin' after party with a three-hour open bar. Yes, I did just say three ... hour ... open ... bar!

I was fortunate enough to be on hand for the opening night premiere of Lymelife

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Kieran Culkin

24 March 2009 4:38 AM, PDT | From Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news

The thing that’s striking about Kieran Culkin in person is his indistinctiveness: He’s smaller, more diffuse, and more everyguy than the sharp and damaged characters on which he’s made his name. In blue jeans and jacket he’s unrecognizable on an East Village street; in conversation he’s as funny and loquacious as a corner bartender. Turns out that’s by design, and probably therapeutic: As ascion of one of Hollywood’s largest and most controversial stage families, he started film acting at the age of 7, and ever since has endured tabloid noise about his father’s mismanagement of his older brother Macaulay’s runaway stardom from the Home Alone films—a pop-culture juggernaut that threatened to typecast the entire family by default.

But Kieran definitively overcame his surname’s baggage with 2002’s Igby Goes Down, where he held his own against Susan Sarandon as a morose

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'Knowing' Gets Red Carpet Treatment in New York

10 March 2009 12:25 AM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

New York City has become a host for the premiere of "Knowing". On Monday night, March 9, the city that never sleeps saw red carpet being rolled out outside the AMC Loews Lincoln Square and Hollywood actors and filmmakers coming to the venue for the special screening event of the forthcoming thriller.

Among the cast ensemble, Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Lara Robinson and Rose Byrne were out to attend the premiere, giving their time to pose individually and collectively with director Alex Proyas for the press line. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, TV actresses Bernadette Peters and Jill Hennessy, and "Madea Goes to Jail" actress Keke Palmer were also present.

To open in theaters across the U.S. on March 20, "Knowing" follows John Koestler as he comes across a startling discovery when he unravels an encoded message written 50 years back and pinpointed on every major disaster happening in the past. Going deeper into his investigation,

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'Lymelife' to Open 2009 Gen Art Film Festival

4 February 2009 6:02 PM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Tucked safely between the hectic hustle and bustle of the South by Southwest Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival is one of my personal favorites (and I'm not just saying that because I'm on the programming committee this year): The Gen Art Film Festival. Gen Art makes it easy for us tired and hungry fest hoppers since their annual event (in its 14th year) features only seven films, seven shorts and seven hip-hoppin' after parties. That's it! No giant screening schedules to sort through; the decisions are all made for you. Just how my lazy ass likes it.

That said, a nifty press release just landed in my inbox announcing that the much buzzed-about Sundance/Toronto hit Lymelife has been chosen to open Gen Art's fest this year. Starring Alec Baldwin, Cynthia Nixon, Jill Hennessy, Emma Roberts, Kieran Culkin, Rory Culkin, and Timothy Hutton, Lymelife (which we premiered

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Sundance In Photos: Culkins On Parade

18 January 2009 11:28 AM, PST | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

The director and some of the cast of Lymelife took a few minutes out of their day prior to the premiere screening of the movie to pose for pictures. In addition to Lymelife stars Rory Culkin, Kieran Culkin, Jill Hennessy and Emma Roberts, director Derick Martini was there to escort his family down the red carpet as they made their way to the screening. See it all in the image gallery below:

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Sundance '09 Interview | American Spectrum: "Lymelife" Director Derick Martini

7 January 2009 11:20 AM, PST | From indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news

by indieWIRE (January 7, 2009) Editors Note: This is part of a series of interviews, conducted via email, profiling dramatic and documentary competition and American Spectrum directors who have films screening at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Derick Martini's "Lymelife" is described by the Sundance catalog as "the story of Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin), a typical 15-year-old boy growing up in late-1970s Long Island. His suburban existence is primarily marked by a nerdy interest in Star Wars, fending off bullies at high school, his longtime crush on neighbor/best friend Adrianna Bragg (Emma Roberts), and navigating the dysfunctional terrain of his parents' rocky marriage--all against the paranoid backdrop of a Lyme disease outbreak, which has freaked out Scott's high-strung mother, Brenda (Jill Hennessy), and has already claimed Adrianna's father, Charlie (Timothy Hutton), as a victim. With Charlie out of work due to his illness, Adrianna's mother, Melissa (Cynthia Nixon), takes a job working for Scott's father,

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