USA: WOODY ALLEN MAKES A RARE MUSICAL APPEARANCE COINCIDING WITH THE FILM PREMIERE OF "THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION"

Record ID: 391738

  • Title: USA: WOODY ALLEN MAKES A RARE MUSICAL APPEARANCE COINCIDING WITH THE FILM PREMIERE OF "THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION"
  • Date: 8th August 2001
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 8, 2001) (REUTERS) MV THE JAZZ BAKERY, VENUE FOR WOODY ALLEN'S JAZZ PERFORMANCE CU MOVIE POSTER FOR ALLEN'S "THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION"; PAN TO PRESS ZOOM IN DAVID OGDEN STIERS, CO-STAR OF "JADE SCORPION," ARRIVING TO ALLEN'S PERFORMANCE MV ELIZABETH BERKELEY, CO-STAR OF THE FILM, ARRIVING TO ALLEN'S PERFORMANCE HAS WOOD
  • Embargoed: 23rd August 2001 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA8UKFP36C6A2YJBM3X29MK1X6S
  • Story Text: Woody Allen, who once complained that the only cultural advantage to Los Angeles was that you could make a right turn on a red light, made the city the venue for a rare musical appearance on Wednesday (August 8), coinciding with the premiere of his latest film, "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion."
    The filmmaker, on the road to promote his new film, "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion,'' brought his jazz band, Eddy Davis & His New Orleans Jazz Band, for their first-ever Los Angeles concert.
    Fronted by Allen on clarinet, the band took its show to the Jazz Bakery in the Los Angeles suburb of Culver City before some 200 eager fans, including Elizabeth Berkeley and David Ogden Stiers, who appear in Allen's latest film.
    Allen, who mopped his brow throughout the set, played a breathy clarinet for some 50 minutes of Dixieland style, toe-tapping jazz tunes like ``After You've Gone'' and ``In Good Old New York.'' Allen, dressed in a loose-fitting brown shirt, beige pants and shiny brown patent leather shoes, followed the short concert with an equally brief encore with Davis onstage.
    Allen spoke only briefly to introduce the band and thank the crowd for coming.
    Allen's new film opens Aug. 24 in North America and is from DreamWorks. It stars Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt, Charlize Theron, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers and Elizabeth Berkley.
    The film, Allen's 35th as director or writer, is about an insurance investigator in New York in 1940 who is given access to the minds of criminals through the hypnotic power of the Jade Scorpion.
    Since teaming with DreamWorks on his films, Allen has taken a more public part in promotions. Though he rarely leaves New York, Allen has been traveling over the last month on an unprecedented press tour.
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