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‘I Recognize That Monkey!’: Marcel Makes Her FX Debut

While FX CEO John Landgraf was reviewing dailies of the adaptation

of Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man, he instantly knew one of the

actors from his days as an NBC exec during the Friends era. “I rec-

ognize that monkey!” he recalled at the FX summer TCA press tour

party, referring to the capuchin monkey known as Marcel, sidekick to

David Schwimmer’s Ross Geller. Turns out, Landgraf was right: Katie

the Monkey worked on both series (changing her gender for each role)

and is in her mid-to-late 20s, with plenty of career left (a capuchin’s

life span is 35 to 40 years). But there’s a hitch. Since Katie filmed the

pilot, Y showrunners Aida Croal and Michael Green were replaced by

Eliza Clark, and it’s unclear if Katie will continue or if she’ll be replaced

by CGI by the time the show debuts in 2020. Still, Landgraf had high

praise for her work: “[She’s] still as good!”— LESLEY GOLDBERG

Power

Dining

Calabra

The Quick Pitch

SaMo’s Proper Hotel

debuts with a breezy

rooftop helmed by

executive chef Kaleo

Adams (Polo Lounge)

and chef de cuisine

Justin Abram (Girasol).

Order Mediterranean-

inspired farmers

market fare — labneh

with pistachios, ras

el hanout-seasoned

scallops — that tie

in with the hotel’s

Kelly Wearstler-

designed Spanish and

Moorish interiors.

The Inside Dish

Snag a seat around the

circular bar Sundays at

sunset for live music

by acoustic duo Paris

Venice. 700 Wilshire

Blvd. — RAMONA SAVISS

Katie the Monkey, aka Marcel on Friends, plays opposite Barry Keoghan on Y: The Last Man.

Dawn Hudson was

at AOC. ... Tom Ford

checked out Mr

Chow Beverly Hills.

On a different day,

Zoe Saldana was in.

Producer Eric Newman

sat nearby. ... Henry

Winkler had break-

fast at Jon & Vinny’s

Brentwood. ... Millie

Bobby Brown and

Noah Schnapp were

at TAO Los Angeles. ...

Hilary Duff popped by

Malibu Farm Pier Cafe.

... Sugar Ray Leonard

and Ted Danson

shared the room at

Porta Via Palisades. ...

LeBron James was at

Katsuya Brentwood. ...

Camilla Belle popped

by Summer of Ludo

& Gilles at Montage

Beverly Hills. ... In NYC,

Jennifer Lopez had

dinner at Bagatelle.

Rambling Reporter

By Chris Gardner

Sandcastle hosted the Trump luncheon.

Unusual Move by Caterer for

Trump Hamptons Fundraisers

In the highly competitive world of

Hamptons catering, one com-

pany, Elegant Affairs, landed

three top functions this week-

end. Two were controversial

Donald Trump fundraisers — the

breakfast at the Southampton

home of billionaire Steve Ross

and a lunch at Sandcastle, the

palatial Bridgehampton home of

builder Joe Farrell — while the

other was a dinner for cosmetic

surgeon Andrew Jacono held at

the East Hampton waterfront

home of Hollywood hairdresser

Sally Hershberger. The catering

move to New York as a morning

program. Now THR has con-

firmed that Access has axed six

to 10 editors. It’s unclear why the

editor team was decimated, but

changes have rippled in the wake

of exec producer Rob Silverstein’s

departure after 20 years (he’ll be

replaced by Maureen FitzPatrick).

A rep for the show declined to

comment. As for Lopez, he’s

expected to start Sept. 9 despite

a recent spate of controversy for

transphobic comments he made

on The Candace Owens Show.

Busy Philipps on What She

Would Have Done Differently

Busy Philipps saw her Busy

Tonight series, which debuted

Oct. 28, killed by E! after just six

months. “We were incredibly cre-

ative and culturally successful,

even though we were canceled,”

she says. “Many canceled shows

are those things. I wish I would’ve

known that I only had basically

six weeks to get the ratings to

where they wanted them [or]

more information from the

network in terms of what they

needed [with] milestones and

ratings.” And while streaming

platforms may be the talk of the

town, Philipps isn’t convinced

pay walls are right for her audi-

ence. “People are going to get

fatigued by all the subscriptions.

That’s a consideration in think-

ing how I would want people to

see my show.” — LINDSAY WEINBERG

service made the unusual move of

contacting the waiters in advance

of the fundraisers to ask if they

had any moral issue with work-

ing the Trump functions. “Many

of the other waiters chose not to

work, but even though I’m liberal,

I thought it would be interesting,”

said one young waitress-actress

at the Hershberger event who

served guests at the fundraisers.

“I didn’t like the fact that there

were MAGA hats, but I was sur-

prised at how nice everyone was.’’

An Elegant Affairs spokesperson

denied the conversations took

place. — BETH LANDMAN

Wave of Editor Layoffs at E!

Entertainment news shows

have found themselves in the

headlines of late. ET just bid

adieu to anchor Nancy O’Dell;

Extra’s Mario Lopez decamped

for Access Hollywood, which lost

Natalie Morales; and E! News laid

off 20 staffers and announced a

Saldana

Hudson

Busy

Philipps

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