Street Talk
The Entertainment Industry Development Corp. (EIDC)–a private nonprofit that facilitates on-location film, TV and commercial production in Los Angeles and surrounding areas–has elected Steve Dayan, a business agent with Teamsters, Local 399 (Studio Drivers and Location Managers), to chair its 2005 board of directors. The EIDC also oversees the joint Los Angeles City/County Film Office. The EIDC board consists of members from the industry, labor, the business/civic sector, and residential representatives. Among the industry players on the board are Randy Winograd of SBE Entertainment Group, Culver City, Calif., and Steve Caplan, executive VP of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers…. Director Brandon Dickerson, formerly of bicoastal X-Ray Productions, has returned to kaboom productions, San Francisco, for representation in commercials. He continues to be handled for music videos by X-Ray sister shop, Merge@Crossroads….Cheri Anderson has been named executive producer of the New York office of bicoastal/international Believe Media., a company founded by executive producers Liz Silver and Luke Thornton. Anderson most recently served as a freelance producer. Prior to that, she was director of project development at bicoastal Tool of North America, and a senior producer at TBWA/Chiat/Day….Media Distributors has named former Sony executive Tom Evans as senior VP/managing partner-Eastern operations. He will head the company’s recently launched New York office. A distributor of professional media products for the entertainment industry, including videotape, film stock, recording media and storage and data media products, Media Distributors also maintains operations in Studio City, Calif., Seattle and Las Vegas…..Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More