2020-03-26_The_Hollywood_Reporter

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 21 MARCH 26, 2020

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Emma

Stone

and Dave

McCary

were

supposed

to get

married in

mid-March.

Lupita

Nyong’o

David Dinerstein’s virtual cocktail party.

to July, while Kelly Kovacs, direc-

tor of development for Jessica

Biel’s Iron Ocean Films, is post-

poning her March 28 wedding to

musician John Schroeder. “Since

our priority was having our fam-

ily together, we really couldn’t live

with ourselves if we asked people

to put themselves at risk,” Kovacs

says. “Every couple needs to

decide what the right thing is to

do for themselves.” One pair who

decided to go ahead with tying

the knot: SNL’s Chloe Fineman

and actor Casey Thomas Brown,

who held an Instagram wedding

March 23. — TARA BITRAN

Wanna Meet for Drinks?

Here’s the Zoom Link

Just because California is on lock-

down doesn’t mean Hollywood

isn’t hobnobbing. Virtual happy

hours are popping up all over

town, with industry professionals

logging on to Zoom for the fes-

tivities. Longtime film exec David

Dinerstein has hosted several, with

attendees including former CBS

exec John Wentworth (and his res-

taurateur husband, Jamie Gluck),

filmmakers and partners Barry

Jenkins and Lulu Wang, advertis-

ing exec Chris Gibbin and veteran

communications specialist Chris

Day. “It was no different than get-

ting together at any other time,”

Dinerstein tells THR. “We talked

about issues we faced in business,

recipes, movies and books we

were catching up on.” CAA’s talent

department also has been holding

virtual parties — “Quarantine &

Chill,” they’re calling them — as

have stylist Warren Alfie Baker and

WME ’s Jordan Cerf.

How to Get Movie Stars

to Read to Your Kid

Want Amy Adams to tell your kid

a story? Thanks to a new Save

the Children Instagram series

organized by Adams and Jennifer

Garner, all you have to do is click

on “Save With Stories” (and, if you

feel like it, donate $10) and a slew

of stars — Reese Witherspoon,

Jeff Bridges, Natalie Portman,

Jimmy Fallon, Lupita Nyong’o and

Jamie Lee Curtis, among others

— will entertain your stir-crazed

little ones with videos of them

reading children’s books. So far,

the program has 50,000 follow-

ers, the videos have drawn nearly

27 million views, and thousands

of dollars have been raised to help

feed and educate kids during the

coronavirus crisis. “I don’t have

any children, but I’ve been watch-

ing the videos,” says Betsy Zorio,

head of Save the Children’s U.S.

programs and advocacy. “They’ve

become a nice little way to take a

break during the day and get your

mind off the shortage of toilet

paper.” — KIRSTEN CHUBA

How to Get Movie Stars

to Read to You

Meanwhile, Busy Philipps and

Mandy Moore, among other enter-

tainers, are over at the Cameo app

— an online platform that stars

like Caitlyn Jenner and I c e -T nor-

mally use to charge as much as

$2,500 for sending personalized

videos to individual fans — rais-

ing money for No Kid Hungry and

World Central Kitchen. “A lot of

people are asking for videos for

their friends and family to cheer

them up,” says Philipps, who

collects $100 for the charities for

each of her personalized mes-

sages. “It’s a very strange time,

so [it’s nice] to be able to send a

friend a pick-me-up — ‘I know

you love some White Chicks,’ or

whatever.” — K.C.

Larry David Takes a Swing

for Riviera’s Golf Caddies

The caddies at Riviera Country

Club have a (curmudgeonly)

guardian angel — Larry David. The

creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm

(which has shot multiple scenes

at the Pacific Palisades venue)

has teamed with Endeavor’s Lloyd

Braun (after whom David named

a character on Seinfeld) to set up

a GoFundMe account to help the

bag carriers who’ve been put out of

work because of the lockdown. As

of March 25, the page had raised

$95,420 thanks to donations from

To m B r a d y ($2,000), Ari Emanuel

($1,000), Sony’s Josh Greenstein

($500), producer David Friendly

($500), Centerview Partners’ Skip

Paul ($2,500), UTA’s Peter Benedek

($1,000) and Jay Sures ($500),

and, of course, David himself

($5,000).

Amazon Holds a Premiere

— in Living Rooms

Amazon had been planning a

blowout March 18 premiere in

New York for Blow the Man Down,

a noir thriller about a murder in

a New England fishing village

Power

Takeout

and Maude restaurants

have transformed

into marketplaces

for items including

vacuum-sealed meats,

cheeses and produce.

Birdie G’s, Te r r o n i,

Te s s e and others also

have turned into provi-

sions markets. ... Places

like Katsuya and

Nerano are providing

discounts for takeout

orders, while other

incentives such as

free toilet paper with

each delivery order

are on offer at Blue

Plate Oysterette and

Zinc Cafe & Market. ...

Crustacean Beverly

Hills is featuring black-

glove service to ensure

the cleanliness of each

takeout order.

Chef Adam Perry

Lang’s APL Restaurant

is offering curbside

pickup and no-contact

delivery for the first

time. Comfort classics

such as matzo ball

soup, chicken-fried

pork chops and stews,

among other dishes,

are on offer. ... Apple

Pan also is jumping

on the delivery train,

a first for the diner,

featuring its entire

menu of burgers, fries

and pies. ... Craig’s

and Dan Tana’s also

are offering delivery

for the first time. ... n/

naka and Chateau

Hanare are prepping

their versions of to-go

bento boxes for their

takeout debuts. ... Tal

Ronnen’s Crossroads

Kitchen has vegan

meal kits for patrons

who are looking for

easy-to-make home

dinners like fresh pasta

with Bolognese sauce

and chickpea marsala. ...

Curtis Stone’s Gwen

Ronnen

Stone

Crustacean Beverly Hills staff

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