2019-10-16 The Hollywood Reporter

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 38 OCTOBER 16, 2019

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How Star Wars Co-Stars Found a Lost Dog (in Brussels)
Adam Driver deserves a big lick across his face. The Star Wars actor was
in Belgium shooting a musical with Marion Cotillard — Annette, about a
stand-up comic and his opera singer wife — when director Leos Carax’s
9-year-old black-and-white dog, Javelot, went missing. “Everyone was
distraught,” Driver, 35, says. So he snapped into action, shooting a video
in Brussels’ Parc Royal next to a lost dog poster, begging the public to
search for the pooch. “We will put you in the movie,” Driver promised
on the clip. “We’ll give you chocolate. We’ll christen your child. We’ll
do anything.” Then he sent it to his more social-media-sav v y Star Wars
co-star Mark Hamill and asked him to tweet it to his 3 million followers.
The happy ending: After the video was viewed some 800,000 times,
Javelot was spotted at a train station and reunited with Carax. Notes
Driver, “Mark is a powerful, powerful guy.” — REBECCA FORD

Power

Dining

Mason

The Quick Pitch

The celebrity-oriented

hospitality firm h.wood

Group (The Nice Guy,

Delilah) has opened

a study in throwback

expense-account

industry dining steps

from its sister spot,

Shorebar, in Santa

Monica. Expect

American classics —

Dover sole, shrimp

cocktail, chili, twice-

baked potatoes and

pigs in a blanket.

The Inside Dish

There are only 14 tables,

and the booking policy

favors regulars who

pay to make standing

reservations. Walk-ins

make do at the bar.

108 W. Channel Road

— GARY BAUM

The Force is strong with these two; Mark Hamill and Adam Driver team up to find a lost canine.

Sen. Kamala Harris

stopped by the Abbey

Food & Bar with

Shangela. ... Michael

Barker lunched at Café

Boulud in New York.

... Jon Feltheimer,

John Burnham and

Bryan Lourd shared

the room at Toscana

for lunch. ... Andy

Cohen, Bruce Bozzi,

Simon Halls, John

Mayer and Facebook’s

Ricky Van Veen

enjoyed dinner at San

Vicente Bungalows.

Édgar Ramírez sat

nearby. ... Jennifer

Stallone checked

out Polo Lounge. ...

Conan O’Brien had

dinner at Sugarfish

in Brentwood. ...

Shark Tank’s Robert

Herjavec was at the

Cabana Restaurant at

Four Seasons L.A.

Rambling Reporter

By Chris Gardner

Jared Leto as the Joker in Suicide Squad.

Why So Serious? Jared Leto
Fumes Over New Joker
Just how angry is Jared Leto over
Joker? Last week THR reported
that the 47-year-old actor, who
played the grinning crime lord in
2016’s Suicide Squad, felt “alien-
ated and upset” and thought
Warner Bros. had strung him
along with promises of his own
Joker stand-alone film, only to
greenlight Todd Phillips’ version
with Joaquin Phoenix instead.
Sources say it’s one reason Leto
left CAA for WME over the

husband, Mickey Deans, snuck a

microphone under his seat one

night, and the tapes he made

ended up in the hands of Judy

producer David Livingstone. “I’ve

got it and it’s reel-to-reel,” he tells

Rambling Reporter. Livingstone

says he discovered the tapes

during preproduction after

contacting Garland’s London

handler, Rosalyn Wilder (played in

the movie by Jessie Buckley). “She

had the truth [about Judy] and all

the details,” he says. “She intro-

duced us to people who hadn’t

spoken about Judy in 40 years.”

Sadly, Livingstone does not have

plans to share the audio. “It is not

public,” he says.

Succession Theme Music

‘Takes On a Life of Its Own’

Nicholas Britell won an Emmy for

his piano-tinkling main title tune

for HBO’s Succession, but the true

measure of the composition’s suc-

cess is the number of memes and

GIFs it’s generating. “Honestly,

when you’re writing music, the

dream is just that people feel what

you’re feeling, but this has taken

on a life of its own,” the 38-year-

old composer tells Rambling of

the explosion of clips on social

media, like the one of Kermit

the Frog dancing to it in perfect

synchronicity (1 million views).

Britell even collaborated with

Pusha T for a single in which the

rapper sings over the melody

(500,000 views). Others involved

with Succession, though, are find-

ing the social churn hard to keep

up with. “It’s overwhelming,” says

Nicholas Braun, who plays Cousin

Greg. “You can create something

and every seven seconds everyone

is talking about it. I have to step

away from it.” — NATALIE JAMIESON

summer — “You’ve got to stop

this,” a source claims he fumed

to the agents about Phillips’ Joker,

adding that, as an Oscar winner,

he should be a bigger priority. At

one point, Leto asked his then-

music manager Irving Azoff to

call then-Time Warner CEO Jeff

Bewkes and convince him to

kill the Phillips film. A source

close to Leto claims this is not

true and notes that he’s cur-

rently doing a movie for Warners.

Says another source close to the

drama: “Jared’s not a nasty guy,

but he’s self-absorbed.”

Secret Judy Garland

Recordings Uncovered

Judy Garland’s p er for ma nces

months before her death at the

Talk of the Town nightclub in

London in 1969 — the focus

of a new biopic starring Renée

Zellweger — were never recorded.

Or so it was long believed. But

it turns out Garland’s fifth

Barker

Harris

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