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WITH A NEW ALBUM
OOD VAMPIRES ARE BACK ®
DISCUSSES HER CHARACTER • THE HOLLYW
GAME OF THRONES STAR
MAY 10-16, 2019
VOL. 41 / NO. 25
LAWEEKLY.COM
MBROT
BY SHANA NYS DA
T h e leg en da ry a rt ist stag es
his first solo show in L.A.
since 1974
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May 10-16, 2019 // Vol. 41 // No. 25 // laweekly.com
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GO LA...7 FILM...19
A Japanese artist who becomes the painting NATHANIEL BELL explores the movies opening
itself, a powerful play for the #MeToo era, a this week, including the live-action Pokémon
free rye whisky tasting, and more to do and Detective Pikachu.
see in L.A. this week.
MUSIC...21
FEATURE...11 Supergroup Hollywood Vampires reflect on
David Hammons, an artist who’s always done the history of rock & roll — and theirs. BY
HEAL THE HURT
it on his own terms, returns to L.A. for his BRETT CALLWOOD.
first solo show in 45 years. BY SHANA NYS
DAMBROT.
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EAT & DRINK...17 David Hammons
David Burtka discusses his journey from “Orange is the new black”
struggling theater actor to Cordon Bleu– © David Hammons
trained chef. BY MICHELE STUEVEN. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
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mon 5/13
FILM
LA
Reveling in the Details
Julie Murray sees things that most of us miss.
The native Irish filmmaker turns her attention
to relatively mundane places and objects, such as
a rural gas station (in the short film Radius), the
sky (Shored Against a Ruin) and wind turbines
PHOTO © IBUKI KURAMOCHI
(Wind Wire Wound). But the way she focuses
on these images, and frames them from unusual
perspectives, turns them into mesmerizing pat-
sat 5/11
THEATER/POLITICS
Picnic in the Park
For the mother who is more Lillian Tomlin’s
“Frankie” than Jane Fonda’s “Grace,” head to
terns and austere landscapes that raise numerous
questions about our relationship to the world
around us. In her first REDCAT program in nine
Topanga Canyon’s Theatricum Botanicum for years, Murray screens recent digital and film work.
Surviving and Thriving MOMentum, a Boho afternoon of dance, ac- REDCAT, 631 W. Second St., downtown; Mon.,
Despite its provocative name, the focus of The robats, circus acts and other miscellaneous and May 13, 8:30 p.m.; $12. (213) 237-2800, redcat.
Pussy Grabber Plays is not graphic accounts of mischievous performers curated by Lexi Pearl. org. —FALLING JAMES
sexual assault by our current president as claimed For those who require Mother’s Day brunch, there
by nearly two dozen women, but more about how
the women who have come forward made the
decision to do so and what they’ve experienced
is a lovely al fresco option at noon available for
$30. For those who prefer to bring their own, the
theatricum gardens are open for picnicking before
tue 5/14
A R T/ H I S T O R Y
fri 5/10
FILM
since. Each piece has a different woman-iden-
tifying director, and Tasha Dixon (actress and
former Miss Arizona who has spoken out about
the show. No extra charge for the chance to enjoy
a spring day in Topanga Canyon among the oak
trees. Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N.
Medieval Menagerie
Long before Animal Planet, there was the bestiary.
Trump’s harassment) will play herself. Though Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga; Sun., May 12, A favorite form of illustrated encyclopedia in the
Timeless Themes speaking out has caused these women personal 2 p.m.; $35 in advance, $40 at door, $15 students, Middle Ages, these fanciful zoological compendi-
It has taken four decades for director Franco Ros- and professional strife, this collection of stories $10 children 12 & under. 310-455-2322, app.arts- ums depicted real and mythic creatures, from bun-
so’s 1980 film Babylon to get an official release in suggests they’ve also found catharsis — if not people.com/index.php?performance=428490. — nies, unicorns, griffins and dragons to whales and
this country. The drama portrays the travails of closure — as these plays provide a powerful plat- ANN HASKINS wolves. The Getty Center’s new exhibition Book
Blue (Aswad’s Brinsley Forde), a car mechanic form for support and truth. All proceeds go to of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World
who tries to make his way as a DJ in South Lon- We the Women Collective and Time’s Up Legal MUSIC is an epic survey of some 100 works representing
don’s reggae scene but has to battle against corrupt Defense Fund. Thymele Arts, 5481 Santa Mon- a third of the world’s institutional holdings of this
policemen, criminals and members of Britain’s ica Blvd., East Hollywood; Sat., May 11, 8-11 Youth Showcase genre. Besides a panoply of magical parchments,
neo-Nazi National Front. With a script co-written p.m.; suggested donation $20. eventbrite.com/e/ Members of two orchestras — L.A. Philharmonic there are sculptures, tapestries, design objects and
by Rosso and Martin Stellman (Quadrophenia) the-pussy-grabber-plays-pop-up-hollywood-tick- and Youth Orchestra L.A. — band together for a paintings, as well as modern and contemporary
and pumped up with music by Johnny Clarke, ets-60842239777. —LINA LECARO Neighborhood Concert, part of L.A. Phil’s series interpretations. The show was curated by Eliz-
Dennis Bovell and Aswad, Babylon is a violent, of free performances that take part in various parts abeth Morrison and takes its inspiration from
kinetically compelling reggae film on par with ART of the local community. The musicians will be the Getty’s priceless Northumberland Bestiary
Rockers and The Harder They Come. Downtown grouped into smaller ensembles for the first half (c. 1250). The Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center
Independent, 251 S. Main St., downtown; Fri., The Human Medium of the program, which spotlights the brass section Drive, Bel-Air; Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sat.,
May 10, 7:30 p.m.; $12. (213) 617-1033, down- Ibuki Kuramochi doesn’t just make paintings. (pumping up selections by Tielman Susato), the 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; May 14 through August 18; free.
townindependent.com. —FALLING JAMES The Japanese artist becomes the painting itself, woodwinds (performing Mozart’s Serenade No. (310) 440-7300, getty.edu. —SHANA NYS DAMBROT
using her body as a canvas and a paintbrush as she 12 for Winds in C minor, K. 388) and strings (with
MUSIC surrounds and adorns herself with bold, swirling L.A. Phil violinist Mitchell Newman conducting DRINK
patterns and dramatic slashes of black paint. At works by Bach and Mendelssohn). Then every-
Take Your Ears Around the World this solo performance, titled Spirit, Kuramochi body joins in as Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mex- Tasting Tuesday
Nico Muhly bridges the seemingly separate transmutes the formal discipline of butoh to create ican composer José Pablo Moncayo’s Huapango. Round the decay of that colossal wreck known as
worlds of contemporary, classical and pop mu- a darkly beautiful and strangely hypnotic new Congregational Church of L.A.; 540 S. Common- the Maryland rye whisky industry, master distiller
sic. He has composed music for films, collabo- ritual in which she employs the motion and mo- wealth Ave., Westlake; Sun., May 12, 7 p.m.; free. Brian Treacy resurrects its former glory — and
rated with choreographer Benjamin Millepied, mentum of dance to propel her movements as a (213) 385-1341, laphil.com. —FALLING JAMES the poetic results of this undertaking are unveiled
and worked as an arranger and musical partner live painter. As she unwinds and unfolds her limbs at tonight’s Spirit of Sagamore: Maryland Rye
with Björk, Teitur, Antony & the Johnsons, and with saturnine grace, Kuramochi invokes and FOOD&DRINK Whiskies event. Hosted by The Museum of the
Glen Hansard. The New York composer reveals reconnects with the spirits of the natural world American Cocktail and Sagamore Spirit Distillery,
several sides of his various personae at this three- in a hybrid of dance, art and music that is moving Make It Memorable it’s a moment of pride that lasts all night as Treacy
part CAP UCLA presentation. Muhly proffers his and lulling. The Terasaki Nibei Foundation, 11570 Mother’s Day Brunch can go one of two ways. pours four different ryes for you, the discerning
two-piano transcriptions of gamelan music with W. Olympic Blvd., Sawtelle; Sat., May 11, 6 p.m.; Either you go into it feeling convivial and af- drinker, who naturally wants to hear all about the
composer Thomas Bartlett, pays homage to Philip free. (310) 479-6101. —FALLING JAMES fectionate, celebrating mom’s special day with trials and travails involved in firing up his stills at
Glass, and concludes with his own drone-infused The Ebell’s legendary delicious food, live music the disused Baltimore railroad terminal known
pieces that he describes as “both severe and lyri-
cal.” The Theatre at Ace Hotel, 929 S. Broadway,
downtown; Fri., May 10, 8 p.m.; $26-$56. (213)
sun 5/12
FOOD/DANCE
and endless champagne — or you can let that
bottomless champagne fuel the outpouring of
a frightening torrent of seething resentment as
as Port Covington. Lost Property Bar & Kitchen,
1704 Vine St., Hollywood; Tue., May 14, 7 p.m.;
free with RSVP. (323) 987-4445, facebook.com/
623-3233, theatre.acehotel.com. —FALLING JAMES you tell mom a thing or two and give everyone events/1264902003658608/. —DAVID COTNER
8 wed 5/15
THEATER
cartoonish gestures of a certain president and
other world leaders. Under the banner Art, Ar-
tifacts and Jazz, this somewhat informal event
will include a performance, a live jazz band and
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Ahead of Its Time displays of notebooks and research material that
It may have come out during in the early ’90s, has fueled Sefton’s dancemaking over the past
but Falsettos’ themes and family dynamics still decade. Mimoda Studio Theatre, 5774 W. Pico
resonate today, especially for the LGBTQ commu- Blvd., Mid-City; Thu., May 16, 7 p.m.; $35. clai-
nity. With a book written by Tony award-winner robscurdance.org/events. —ANN HASKINS
William Finn and Tony/Pulitzer Prize-winner
James Lapine, Falsettos is the story of Marvin, a P H O T O G R A P H Y/ B O O K S
man who leaves his wife for another man, and its
repercussions. The revival includes Broadway leg- Mother Road
end Eden Espinosa, Nick Blaemire and Bryonha Route 66 is one of the most famous roads in
Marie Parham. Falsettos has some slower scenes, America, constructed in 1926 and stretching 2,448
but it remains important for its relevance today, its miles. Terrence Moore has been taking pictures
emotional journey and reflecting a truly modern of the Mother Road for nearly 50 years, and his
family. The Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand 2018 book, 66 on 66: A Photographer’s Journey,
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Ave., downtown; Tue.-Fri., 8 p.m., Sat., 2 p.m. & which he signs tonight, is a photographic look
8 p.m. and Sun., 1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m., through May at the iconic highway’s history. With a foreword
19. centertheatregroup.org. —MICHAEL COOPER by Michael Wallis, who wrote 1990’s Route 66:
The Mother Road, Moore’s collection focuses on
thu 5/16
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California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, with
color images of both weathered and restored mo-
tel signs, cafes, bars, trading posts, cowboy and
Native American art and bygone curio shops,
Unveiling the Creative Process like the Regal Reptile Ranch in Texas. Of course
Led by choreographer Laurie Sefton, the con- there’s also photographs of the route’s famous
temporary dance company Clairobscur Dance stops, whether it’s the half-buried Cadillac instal-
has distinguished itself among local troupes by lation Cadillac Ranch or the Santa Monica Pier.
unabashedly tackling tough cultural and politi- The Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring St., downtown;
cal issues, including bullying, dementia, climate Thu., May 16, 7:30 p.m.; $27.95. (213) 488-0599,
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DAVID
Hammons show opens
at Hauser Wirth Los An-
geles on May 18 it will be,
L A W E E K LY
we are told, the largest
HAMMONS:
solo gallery presentation of the artist’s career
— and saliently, the first solo presentation
in Los Angeles in 45 years. This is not that
strange, perhaps, given that he hasn’t lived or
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worked here in about that long — yet some-
EVERYTHING
how it feels remarkable considering that de-
spite this long physical absence, the power of
Hammons’ legacy dating back to his work in
L.A. during the late 1960s and early 1970s is
everywhere with us to this day.
ALONG THE
Hammons remains ensconced in our con-
temporary art history, a luminary whose pres-
ence has never faded, across decades, who L.A.
artists routinely claim among forebears and
local institutions see as de rigueur in serious
WAY
historical surveys. An A-list contrarian and
a vocal skeptic of the patriarchal for-profit
gallery system, it is also intriguing that the
Hauser & Wirth show includes new works
and a site-specific installation alongside cer-
tain salient historical selections, such that the
The legendary artist stages his first solo artist’s involvement in the exhibition is direct
show in L.A. since 1974 and presumably commercial. But that’s only a
mild distraction; the point is L.A. finally gets
BY SHANA NYS DAMBROT a massive, new show from one of its favorite
hometown heroes, and we are all blessed to
be here for it.
The exhibition will encompass two of the
gallery’s main exhibition spaces and its cen-
tral courtyard. There will be individual works
along the lines of his more recent sculptures,
the head and mask totems, which reference
and subvert conventions of commemorative
and anthropological portraiture and ritual.
There will be works that refer to his epic tarp
paintings; though the unconventional me-
diums may well transfer into dimensionally
evolved structural formats, the visual and
material idiom of using repurposed indus-
trial and construction materials to reference
abstract expressionism and create the elusive
promise of the veiled masterpiece still hold
his, and our, interest.
And finally, most especially, there will be a
new, site-specific installation — aka the big
reveal.
While the opening date is less than a fort-
night away, details on this element of the ex-
hibition remain, so to speak, under wraps.
But again, this is not all that strange, at least
not for Hammons. Over the years he has re-
mained robustly resistant to the art world
game, eschewing almost all media contact
and most commercial representation. Though
an engaged and accessible member of the artist
community, a frequent subject of institutional
display, and a dedicated civic activist, his art
David Hammons
Black First, American Second work and independent career path have been
1970 assertively self-determined and anti-com-
Body print and modity, achieving stratospheric critical and
screenprint on paper financial success on his own terms.
104.8 x 79.4 inches Even the press release for the L.A. show is
Courtesy of the artist
really just a drawing, a schematic ( 12 »12 David Hammons
Untitled
2018
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Mixed media
Dimensions
variable
© David
Hammons
Courtesy the
artist and Hauser
& Wirth
W W W. L A W E E K L Y. C O M
PHOTO BY GENEVIEVE HANSON
» 11 ) nesting tempest of lines that reads David Park. Brockman Gallery was opened The script-flipping materiality and walk-
only “The exhibition is dedicated to Ornette Hammons by brothers Dale Brockman Davis and about materials-gathering sessions are as ar-
Coleman, Harmolodic Thinker” below a viv- Untitled Alonzo Davis in 1967 with the goal of cheological and site-responsive to the town he
idly gestural mothership of a doodle which 2017 supporting artists of color. Many ac- peruses as they are to the spaces in which they
Mixed media
screams improvisation. And indeed, impro- claimed and important artists exhibited are then constructed. These are the artist’s
© David
visation grounded in historical knowledge Hammons there, including Hammons as well as most archetypal practices, and those which
and material mastery is not only the basis of Courtesy the Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, John Out- promise to inform whatever he’s up to over
the kind of free jazz pioneered by Coleman, artist and terbridge, Elizabeth Catlett and Noah in the Arts District this week. But equally,
but of Hammons’ own aesthetic and processes Hauser & Purifoy. All were fundamental in the his earlier experiences back at the Brockman
as well. Hammons is renowned for his gift Wirth fertile Leimert Park art scene that the Gallery left their mark on Hammons in other
of expressing art historical tropes in a fresh gallery anchored — and not coinci- more esoteric ways that are still manifesting
and subversive language of found objects and dentally, anchors again, as the building themselves to this day. Yes, the assemblage
overlooked materials, infused with personal enjoys its new life as Art + Practice, the movement was born there during those years,
and cultural artifacts that speak to a specific nonprofit exhibition space co-founded and Hammons was steeped in those influ-
perspective on society — that is, being black by Mark Bradford, Allan DiCastro and ences. But just as key is that, for example, in its
in America. In some cases it’s as fundamen- Eileen Harris Norton. adjacent buildings, Brockman Gallery offered
tal as walking around the block and making Hammons had his first solo exhibi- artists both housing and studio space, and
art out of whatever he finds along the way. tion in 1971 at the Brockman Gallery, hosted free concerts and community events
In others it’s a complex meditation on the quickly followed by his inclusion in as well.
literal embodiment of social empowerment. “Three Graphic Artists: Charles White, This deep, granular engagement in building
Always, it engages with the forefront of formal David Hammons, Timothy Washing- an arts community was no doubt an inspira-
discourse in modern art. ton” at LACMA in 1971, a show also tion for Hammons’ own recent real estate ven-
PHOTO BY GENEVIEVE HANSON
In 1963 Hammons moved from Illinois to heavily referenced in “Soul of a Nation.” ture. He bought a building in South Yonkers,
Los Angeles, where he would study at Otis and flocked the residue with graphite and Also at LACMA in 1972, he was part of “Los to open a gallery and residency setup in a one-
Art Institute under the great artist Charles powdered pigments to create the image. Both Angeles, 1972: A Panorama of Black Artists.” story brick building with high ceilings, sitting
White — himself currently the subject of a trio constrained and sensual, compressed and cra- He had a big solo show (his last in Los Angeles on about 30,000 square feet. He bought it
of exhibitions across Los Angeles, and whose dled, the images would often then be used as until now) at Cal State L.A. Fine Arts Gallery under the name Duchamp Realty LLC in 2014
son Chris has been working with Hammons. the foundations for narrative compositions in 1974, and then promptly moved to New for about $2 million. It seems that not only the
He also attended Chouinard Art Institute, about topics like identity, patriotism, social York. It was at that point that Hammons ear- studio camaraderie and intellectual exchange
now called CalArts, meeting a cadre of some injustice and cultural violence. Several ex- nestly developed his lifelong practice of mak- in the Brockman Gallery ethos never left him,
who would become their generation’s most amples are currently on view at the Broad ing sculptures from the incidental byproducts as his work has gone on to honor and encom-
important artists. By the time Hammons was in “Soul of a Nation” along with other key of African American city life, including hair pass not only the stuff of existing places, but
out of school in 1968, he was working on what works from Hammons, who appears in more from barber shops, bottles and caps, chicken the energy of place-making itself. It’s in the
would be seen as one of his most revered and than one gallery in the show, including one bones, used food wrappers, and vinyl records. spirit and context of all of this, the past and
influential series, the “body prints.” Ham- room entirely dedicated to his work from One such work, the paper, grease stain, and the present and everything that’s happened in
mons used his own body as an element of this period. hair-embellished “Bag Lady In Flight” is a between, that the new on-site work at Hauser
printmaking, an allegorical and metaphysical In fact, one such early body-print ap- highlight of the current Broad show. It was & Wirth is unfolding in real time, behind the
literalism achieved by a process in which he peared as the invitation piece for a show in first iteration exhibited in 1975 at Just Above tarp, in the process of becoming his latest
covered himself, both naked and clothed, in 1969 — a two-person exhibition with Noah Midtown in New York, but this one is the unconventional masterpiece, created in and
greasy adhesive, pressed himself to paper, Purifoy at the Brockman Gallery in Leimert version that was remade in 1990. for a place that Hammons once called home.13
4OTH ANNIVERSARY
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LAURA
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OWENS
NOON – 6PM
GOOGLE LOS ANGELES
340 MAIN STREET, VENICE, CA
OUR 40TH ANNUAL AUCTION FEATURES SIGNIFICANT PIECES
FROM EMERGING, MIDCAREER, AND ESTABLISHED ARTISTS.
PETER ALEXANDER LADDIE JOHN DILL VANESSA PRAGER
CHARLES ARNOLDI JEAN EDELSTEIN ASTRID PRESTON
DON BACHARDY KIM FISHER RY ROCKLEN
JOHN BALDESSARI JOE GOODE ED RUSCHA
GARY BASEMAN D.J. HALL ALISON SAAR
BILLY AL BENGSTON THE HAAS BROTHERS ANALIA SABAN
ANDREA BOWERS DASH MANLEY JUDY STABILE
ROSSON CROW JENNIFER MOON ANN THORNYCROFT
GUY DILL ANDY MOSES AND MANY OTHERS
Starting May 1st, view the works of all participating artists at
https://paddle8.com/auction/venice-family-clinic/
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THE “EARLY
character on HBO’s Game that she was not. And so even though she loved
of Thrones. Most people are him, she kind of wanted to be him in a way or
shocked to hear that since she wanted the power that he has naturally
L A W E E K LY
she’s pretty universally viewed from being a guy. It’s very early feminism, it’s
as one of the biggest villains on the show, not perfect. She’s got a very deep longing to
FEMINIST”
especially now that the Night King is dead. be recognized.
Sure, she’s not a poster child for purity and What do you think is the worst thing she’s
goodness. I’m in no way arguing that she’s a done on the show so far?
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hero — she’s no Jon Snow. However, I don’t I think the worst thing is Cersei’s sort of
think she’s a villain either. lack of consequence until it’s too late. I think
First and foremost, she just wants a seat at it’s her constant downfall, and because she
the table with all the men, but as a woman in doesn’t trust very many people [she has this]
this world she’s relegated to being either a sex Lena Headey discusses Cersei Lannister’s refusal to inability to make allies and you can’t do that in
object or a child bearer. Had Cersei been given play by the rules of a man’s world life. I don’t even think she thinks she deserves
an equal chance to vie for the iron throne just that support. I think deep down she’s a really
like all the men, she may not have had to be BY MICHAEL COOPER scared woman. But there’s a lack of therapy in
as conniving. Two things from her childhood Westeros for her to go, “I’m really scared and
colored her behavior, the first being the way I’m alone and I need a bit of help.” Instead of
her father Tywin raised her. She looked up to doing that she locks all that feeling up, pushes
him and longed for his acceptance but was Lena Headey as it down and she’s like, “Fuck this, I’m going
never able to quite get it. A brutal and unfor- Cersei Lannister to survive.”
giving man himself, Tywin drilled into Cersei The other biggest female in power on the
that she can’t trust anyone but her family and show is Daenerys Targaryen. Why do you
that the betterment of the Lannisters was the think people view Daenerys as more of a hero
most important thing to fight for. Coupled and Cersei as more of a villain?
with that, it was revealed in season five that she There’s a heroic visual with Daenerys. I mean
received a prophecy as a girl from a witch who Daenerys has done things for the right rea-
told her, she would watch all her children die. sons. I feel like Daenerys has a handle on her
It’s important to note that my defense of this desire for power and we’re so far down the
character is only based on the television show, line with Cersei in her losses and her grief
not on the books. And, perhaps, the way Cer- that she doesn’t anymore. It’s impulse with
sei comes across in the show is largely because Cersei, manipulation and strategy. And also
of the brilliant performance from actress Lena Daenerys has people around her who are kind
Headey. Known for roles in 300 and Termi- of restrained and sane and they advise her well,
nator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles prior to [while] Cersei has cut everyone off. The only
her career-defining turn on Thrones, Headey person she’s left with now is Euron and he’s
brings wit, sophistication and emotional com- not exactly stable.
plexity to the character. So I decided to take my So had the world (and her father) not given
theory straight to the source and see if Lena Cersei the cold shoulder, in these early years
Headey herself sees Cersei as a villain or not, of the show...
and also get into what her mindset is while HBO/BSKYB/KOBAL/SHUTTERSTOCK I think she could have been a great leader. I
playing the role. think her, Jamie and Tyrion could have made
LA Weekly: Thank you so much for taking a great team.
the time to talk to us. I guess my first question more terrible things over the years? orgasm of Cersei’s life, that moment, because One more question — without revealing
is do you see Cersei as a villain? I think there’s a quiet madness in her and a she took out all the people who fucked her over anything about the rest of the season, how do
Lena Headey: No, I’ve never played her massive amount of grief ... What she comforts and didn’t want her around, in one fell swoop. you want people to remember Cersei’s char-
with that intention ... my intention with Cer- herself with is wine and power. And she’s been So was she justified in blowing everyone acter when the show is over?
sei was to play just a very honest portrayal holding on to this prophecy. She’s lived with up or do you think she should’ve or could’ve I hope they enjoyed her!
of this woman who, granted we see her in that her whole life and had these three children found another way? Well I certainly did. What you bring to the
this fantasy scenario — but she’s a real human and then lived in some sort of fear of losing I kind of admire her for it. character is amazing and I’m very happy
being. She’s a survivalist, she’s a kind of early them. And that’s where the madness comes Same! Does that make us terrible people? you’ve survived until the final season! Thank
feminist in the fact that she wants recognition from with her; she feels like she’s cursed, and I think so, but we can form a club. you for giving us a behind the scenes look at
for being clever in this world and having the I do believe she feels like she’s cursed because Cersei says to Sansa in the season two epi- how you view her.
balls to play the game her way. she’s [in love with] her brother. sode during the Battle of the Blackwater, “I With only two episodes left of the entire
I totally agree about her being an “early To go back a couple of years ago, of course should have been born a man. I’d rather face series and the White Walkers defeated, Cersei
feminist.” Can you go into that a little more? the biggest example people give of Cersei being a thousand swords than be shut up inside is now officially public enemy number one.
As [is the case with] all the women on the evil is how she blew up the Great Sept with with this flock of frightened hens…When we The next couple weeks will definitely see many
show in a world sort of driven by men, what I wildfire. In my opinion Cersei was backed into were young…Jamie was taught to fight with people crying for Cersei’s head on a pike, espe-
love about it is that she’s sort of hung in there a corner. Do you agree that she really didn’t sword ... I was taught to smile and sing and cially after she had Missandei beheaded and
… Cersei doesn’t play in black and white. All have any other options? please. He was heir to Casterly Rock and I was her man Euron killed another one of Dany’s
she wanted was recognition from her father. I thought it was kind of brilliant that she sold to some stranger like a horse to be ridden dragons, but keep in mind that she didn’t start
I think that would have calmed her if he had manipulated that whole scenario, but also as whenever he desired.” What are your thoughts out as the ultimate villain. As Cersei said to
looked her in the eye and said, “I love you and typical Cersei she didn’t really think of the con- on this scene and how much did what Cersei Sansa all the way back in season two, “The
I admire you” or “You’re just as worthy as your sequences, which was going to be losing her said here impact the way you played the part? more people you love, the weaker you are…
brothers.” But she was raised knowing that he last child. We spoke about that a lot, [director I think it speaks for itself in that I always Love no one but your children.”
didn’t think that. Miguel Sapochnik] and I, when we were doing thought there was an innate jealousy from
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Actor turned Cordon Bleu-trained chef David Burtka
| may 10 - 16, 2019 | W W W. L A W E E K L Y. C O M
discusses his culinary journey
BY MICHELE STUEVEN
A
ctor turned Cordon Bleu- PHOTO BY
MICHELE
trained chef David Burtka was STUEVEN
surrounded by friends and
family, including husband
Neil Patrick Harris, Christina
Hendricks, Turner Classic Movies host
Dave Karger and Willam Belli for a splashy
soiree last week hosted by Nancy Silverton
at Osteria Mozza, celebrating his new
cookbook, Life is a Party.
The handsome hardcover is a collection Christina
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all four seasons. Burtka wanted to see snow was in the hospital starting chemo because DINNER S
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on the ground, the leaves changing in the fall she had leukemia. I immediately flew back to
and the fresh produce of spring. There are tips Detroit, where I’m from, and 20 days later she
and recipes to celebrate everything from snow was gone. Boom. Just like that. In situations
days and summer picnics to pumpkin-carving like that life takes a turn. I starting thinking
brunches. about things and really didn’t want to go back to
11
“What’s fun is you can see our kids grow the acting world. I asked myself, well what else
within the book — my son has four different do I love to do? I love to cook, it’s so therapeutic
haircuts,” Burtka tells L.A.Weekly in a corner
table of Silverton’s West Hollywood Osteria.
for me. To de-stress I’d make chicken stock.”
“So I jumped into culinary school, Cordon
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Cooking is a family affair for Burtka, Harris Bleu in Pasadena. My mom had left me some 10433 National Blvd, Culver City
and their eight-year-old twins Harper and money that my dad didn’t know about. The
Gideon, and all those memories come to life money she left me was, to the exact cent, what
in the pages of the book. cooking school cost.”
“My son came up with the chicken tot pie, His very first job right out of culinary school
which is a chicken pot pie with tater tots instead was for good friend Christina Hendricks, who
of pastry crust on top,” says Burtka in between reunited with Burtka at the party last week,
bites of antipasti. which was sponsored by Capital One’s new
“My daughter created the sweet meringue Savor card, his latest obsession. He catered
popcorn. One day she was experimenting her Christmas party for 200 people and the
with making meringues and piped all these whole Mad Men cast and did it all with just
little dots out and after we dried them out in one partner.
the oven, they were the size of popped corn. “We had no staff,” he says. “For three days
Then Neil had the idea ‘Wouldn’t it be great leading up we just worked and worked and
to take popcorn and meringues together for a didn’t sleep and that was the start of my catering
sweet and salty combination.’ We love cooking company in Los Angeles called Gourmet MD.”
together as a family. My daughter makes us The rest is culinary history. And as any good
pancakes for breakfast and my son is a genius chef will admit, some of the best things in life
at making slow scrambled eggs.” and cookery stem from disasters, trial and error.
After working on Broadway for years, “There’s a chapter in the book on charity BOARDWALK11.COM
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including dancing with Sam Mendes and dinners and how to cook for a multitude of
Bernadette Peters, Harris landed the How I people,” says the lifestyle guru. “So I wanted
Met Your Mother gig and the couple moved to to do a fish dish. I tried my hardest to take ON TAP
L.A. Burtka soon realized what a tricky place four pounds of fish and cook it all at once and
the city was for a theater actor as he started it was a disaster. I tried it three or four times
auditioning for a lot of roles he didn’t want to
go in for and experienced a period of rejection.
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elcome to L.A. Weekly’s
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Roses), Brad Whitford (Aerosmith), Matt and a full 13 new songs.
Sorum (Gn’R, The Cult) and Robert DeLeo Mind you, the choice of covers reveals that
L A W E E K LY
(Stone Temple Pilots). they’re still wallowing in the same morbid
So the theme, one of rock & roll’s elite get- glamor. Jim Carroll’s “People Who Died,” sung
ting together to have a great time in a dark with a knowing croon by Depp, feels perfectly
RISE AGAIN
room, is one that the Hollywood Vampires in keeping, as does Johnny Thunder’s near
band shares with the Hollywood Vampires perfect “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A
club. The difference is the stimulant because, Memory,” given a raw, deadpan vocal treat-
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this time, the music is enough. That’s what is ment by Perry, and Bowie’s “Heroes,” again
floating their collective boat. Still, it’s a link sung by Depp.
not lost on Cooper. “Johnny Chose ‘People Who Died’ by Jim
“Most of those guys were on the first album, Carroll because he knew him, so I said he
Supergroup Hollywood Vampires salute rock & roll although not Micky,” Cooper says, over the should sing it and he does a great job,” says
and friends departed on new album phone. “I asked him. Mind you, Micky, Bernie Cooper. “He said to me, ‘I don’t sing,’ but I
Taupin, Ringo and myself are the only ones said, ‘What do you mean — you did Sweeney
BY BRETT CALLWOOD still alive. Ringo is difficult to nail down — he Todd.’ That’s basically an opera, and he did a
tours as much as I do. I’d love to have gotten great job. That song has a cool punk vibe that
Johnny can do well. Johnny Thunders’ ‘Can’t
Joe Perry, Johnny
Put Your Arm Around A Memory’ needs a
Depp and Alice Cooper deadpan kind of approach, and Joe does that
well.”
As for the original tracks, Cooper says
that the influences of the other guys played a
greater part, as opposed to trying to make the
songs “Alice-like.” That shows, from opening
song “I Want My Now” (which clocks in at a
whopping 7:13), with it’s croaky swing. Else-
where, “The Boogieman Surprise” sounds pre-
cisely like Cooper fronting Aerosmith, while
“Who’s Laughing Now” is classic Coop. Mean-
while, there’s a guest appearance by Jeff Beck
as well as “king of sleaze” movie director John
Waters on “Welcome To Bushwackers.”
In fact, the more you listen to the album
the more it becomes clear that, weirdly, Depp
and Perry are bringing out the best in their
frontman. Gone is the ’80s and ’90s polish — a
lot of this is reminiscent of old school Alice
Cooper Band.
“Johnny and Joe wrote together, while I
was out with Glen Sobel who also plays in
my band,” Cooper says. “Then we’d bring it
together. It really feels like a real band now.
Everyone is busy doing their own thing but
then we come together and it’s very natural. It
PHOTO BY ROSS HALFIN was fun to sing somebody else’s angst. Johnny’s
A
had a rough year, so a lot of his lyrics have been
about that. Jeff Beck is a hero of mine so having
h, the Hollywood Vampires. to be in that room, just to observe? Micky on it though.” him on is a treat for me.”
That most notorious of drink- It’s likely that the reality was less impressive The self-titled debut album came out in 2015 Still, Cooper has a solo career, Perry is still
ing gangs that lurked in the though. The “haze” was that they had to out- and featured guest appearances from (no less busy with Aerosmith, and Depp is doing what
dark corners of the Rainbow drink each other, and anybody who’s ever been than) Sir Paul McCartney, Robby Krieger, he does. How does Cooper make the balance
loft on Sunset, as well as in in a room with similar games taking place Dave Grohl, Christopher Lee, Slash, Brian work?
various London holes, in the 1970s. Alice knows that it rarely ends well, dignity in place. Johnson (AC/DC), Joe Walsh, Perry Farrell “You know, it’s very easy because it’s very
Cooper, still in his days of wild abandon, The Hollywood Vampires, the drinking club, and, somehow appropriately, Zac Starkey. different,” he says. “With the Alice Cooper
was the president, ruling over a court of are a relic of a bygone age. Moon and Nilsson, That the current Who drummer and son of show, I play a role, a character. That’s what I’ve
jesters that included Monkee Micky Dolenz, as well as some of the guest players, are sadly Ringo has guested with this Hollywood Vam- always done. Here, it’s a band and I’m one of
Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon and Ringo Starr, gone, in many cases because of that excess. pires following in the footsteps, albeit in a them. We call ourselves a bar band — that’s
with regular cameos by the likes of Marc Some, but not all. The president himself healthier way, of both his dad and Moon, feels what it is and it’s the same for all of us. Our
Bolan, Keith Emerson, John Belushi, John cleaned up his act a long time ago and, in 2015, all kinds of right. guitarist is Johnny Depp, but we don’t think
Lennon and Bernie Taupin. formed a band called the Hollywood Vampires That first album included 11 covers and of him as Johnny Depp the actor. Music was
It was quite the scene and, with the benefit with friends Joe Perry of Aerosmith and actor three original tracks. Those new songs pointed his first love, so to us he’s just our guitarist. It’s
of rose-tinted nostalgia goggles, it’s all part of Johnny Depp. As with the drinking club, it has to the dark themes explored by the group nice to be back in a band again.”
the historical rock & roll glamor of the Sunset its core members and then a number of rotat- while also paying tribute to fallen comrades
Strip. The biggest musicians in the world, get- ing guest stars. The current drummer is Glen — if “The Last Vampire” wasn’t clear enough, Hollywood Vampires plays at 8 p.m. on Sat-
ting together to drink to excess and regale each Sobel from Cooper’s band while journeyman “My Dead Drunk Friends” certainly was. The urday, May 11 at the Greek Theatre. The Rise
other with tales of excess. Who wouldn’t want Chris Wyse is playing bass, but former play- new album is called Rise, and the balance has album is out now via earMUSIC.You can also read
