News
'Sybil'
to air on CBS
The Futon Critic
5/5/08
'SYBIL', a new television
movie starring Academy Award winner Jessica Lange ("Tootsie"),
Emmy Award nominee Tammy Blanchard ("Life with Judy
Garland: Me and My Shadows") and Emmy and Golden Globe
Award nominee JoBeth Williams ("The Big Chill")
to be broadcast Saturday, June 7 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT)
on the CBS Television Network.
SYBIL is based on the best-selling book of
the same name by Flora Rheta Schreiber. It is the true story
of a young woman who suffers from dissociative identity
disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder),
a psychological condition where two or more distinct personalities
exist within the same person as the result of severe trauma
and abuse inflicted during childhood.
In the movie, Sybil (Blanchard) is introduced
to Dr. Cornelia Wilbur (Lange), a psychiatrist who begins
treatment after Sybil attempts suicide. During their sessions,
Sybil confides to Dr. Wilbur that she frequently loses her
memory and cannot account for large blocks of time. With
the help of her doctor, Sybil slowly remembers the physical,
emotional and sexual abuse inflicted on her as a child by
Hattie (Williams), her mentally disturbed mother. As Sybil
starts to recall her troubled past, she reveals 16 separate
and distinct personalities, each varying in age and personal
appearance, which she created in order to cope with the
cruelty she suffered as a child. Throughout the course of
Sybil's treatment, Dr. Wilbur becomes committed to helping
Sybil face the memories which haunt her so that her fractured
personality can be healed.
SYBIL was produced by The Wolper Organization
and Norman Stephens Productions, distributed by Warner Bros.
Television. Emmy Award-winning producer Norman Stephens
("Bang, Bang, You're Dead") and Mark Wolper ("Alex
Haley's Queen") are the executive producers. Multi-
Emmy Award-winning director Joseph Sargent ("Miss Rose
White") directed from a script written by John Pielmeier
("Hitler: The Rise of Evil"
Jessica Lange bashes
Iraq war in graduation speech
Associated Press
5/27/2008
BRONXVILLE, N.Y. — Oscar-winner and
Minnesota native Jessica Lange bashed the Bush administration
and denounced the war in Iraq during a commencement address
at Sarah Lawrence College.
The star of "Tootsie" and "Blue
Sky" was applauded by students Friday at the small
liberal arts college after comparing the conflict with the
Vietnam War. She said the graduates have "a heavy burden"
to chart a new path for the country.
"We are living in an America that, in
the last 7 1/2 years, has waged an unnecessary war, established
prison camps, condoned torture, employed corporate armies,
eliminated the right of habeas corpus, practiced extraordinary
rendition, and believe me, this is only a partial list,"
Lange said.
Lange asked the graduates, including her 22-year-old
daughter, Hannah Shepard, to commit themselves to the "pursuit
of peace." Lange, who was born and raised in Cloquet,
also lived with her family in Stillwater for many years.
Some gossip from Gawker
Stalker:
Drew Barrymore & Jessica Lange
110 Waverly Pl
Apr 9th, 2008 @ 9pm
Saw Drew Barrymore chatting up a blonde
over dinner and wine at Babbo. Was wondering how the Firestarter
keeps her itsy-bitsy bod as she happily ate Italian. But
we were floored when her dinner companion got up —
it was a radiant Jessica Lange. Drew picked up the tab.
Bonneville will
be released on DVD on
June 24th! |
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THREE WOMEN COME OF AGE AGAIN INBONNEVILLE
LAKESHORE RECORDS RELEASES THE SOUNDTRACK
FOR BONNEVILLE, COMPOSED BY JEFF
CARDONI
(February 26, 2008- Los Angeles, CA) - Lakeshore
Records will release the
original motion picture soundtrack for BONNEVILLE on March
4th. The album
features original music by Jeff Cardoni (JUST FRIENDS, FINDING
tATu) and
songs by Donovan, Pete Droge, and King Floyd.
Composer Jeff Cardoni is a classically trained
pianist. But it was rock and
roll that would lead him to Los Angeles in 1997. After a
brief stint as lead
guitarist for the Warner Bros. band Alien Crime Syndicate,
Jeff left to
pursue film scoring full time. He worked under several Hollywood
composers
including John Murphy (SNATCH, 28 DAYS LATER) and Christopher
Tyng
(FUTURAMA, THE O.C.) while studying conducting and orchestration
at UCLA.
Over the next several years, Jeff scored several
independent films including
WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS with Dave Matthews and Ned Beatty
and LOVE FOR RENT with Nora Dunn and Jim Piddock. His film
credits also include JUST FRIENDS,
AMERICAN PIE PRESENTS: BETA HOUSE He also worked in television,
scoring
CRIMES OF PASSION, the theme for PIMP MY RIDE on MTV, and
is the composer for CSI: MIAMI.
Jessica Lange, Joan Allen and Kathy Bates
hit the road in BONNEVILLE, a
story about three friends who ''come of age'' for a second
time on a trip
across the great American West. Faced with the decision
of a lifetime,
Arvilla Holden (Lange) loads up her 1966 Bonneville convertible
and, with
her friends (Allen, Bates) in tow, sets out from Pocatello,
Idaho en route
to Santa Barbara.
As they detour to spots like Bryce Canyon
and Las Vegas, it doesn't take
long for the women to realize Arvilla has something unexpected
in store.
But what none of them realize is that what began as a simple
trip will end
up becoming a chance to rediscover themselves, their friendship,
the
importance of promises - and of letting go. Also starring
Tom Skerritt and
Christine Baranski, BONNEVILLE unites three of the most
acclaimed actresses
of our time in a story that celebrates fun, adventure and
living life to the
fullest.
Track listing:
01. Catch The Wind - Donovan
02. I Feel Like Dynamite - King Floyd
03. Mama Told Me (Not To Come) - Lazlo Bane
04. Supply and Demand - Amos Lee
05. Cha Cha - Chelo
06. Under The Waves - Pete Droge
07. Shining From Heaven - Bob Sinclar
08. Wounded - Nik Kershaw
09. Opening - Jeff Cardoni
10. Scrapbook - Jeff Cardoni
11. Bo Leaves - Jeff Cardoni
12. Driving to Bryce - Jeff Cardoni
13. Bryce Ashes - Jeff Cardoni
14. One More Stop - Jeff Cardoni
15. Finale - Jeff Cardoni |
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Jan. 18, 2008
Bonneville is scheduled
to be released on Feb. 29th. Visit the official
website for more details.
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HBO cultivates 'Gardens' film
By Kimberly Nordyke
Sept 18, 2007
HBO Films has greenlighted "Grey Gardens,"
a movie starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange that's
based on the 1975 documentary about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'
eccentric cousin and aunt.
The movie is based on the documentary by Albert
and David Maysles. It follows the relationship between the
mother-daughter duo of "Big Edie" (Lange) and
"Little Edie" Beale (Barrymore), who spent most
of their lives in a decaying mansion on New York's Long
Island.
The project was originally announced as a
feature film in early 2006, though HBO Films was not involved
at the time.
Along with Barrymore and Lange, other original
auspices on board are commercials helmer Michael Sucsy,
who is directing and wrote the script with Patricia Rozema
("This Might Be Good"), and executive producers
Rachael Horovitz ("Little Black Book") and Lucy
Barzun Donnelly ("The Go-Getter"). David Coatsworth
(HBO's "John Adams") is producing.
It's yet to be determined if the movie will
be released theatrically before it airs on HBO.
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter
Edith Bouvier Beale made national headlines in 1971 when
the Suffolk County Health Department raided their dilapidated
East Hampton, N.Y., mansion -- named Grey Gardens -- and
found more than 50 cats, raccoons, fleas, piles of garbage,
human and cat excrement and no heat or running water. The
department threatened to kick the pair out of the 28-room
mansion before Kennedy Onassis stepped in and paid to help
clean it up.
Big Edie died in 1977, and Little Edie sold
the house to Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn two years later.
Little Edie went on to become a nightclub singer before
eventually moving to Florida. She died in 2002.
It's not the first time the documentary has
been adapted. In spring 2006, "Grey Gardens" opened
as a musical at Playwright Horizons before moving to Broadway
in November at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The show, starring
Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson -- both of whom
won Tony Awards for their roles -- ended its Broadway run
in July. Ebersole will reprise her role when the show opens
this season in London.
Barrymore's upcoming credits include the films
"He's Just Not That Into You" and "South
of the Border." She is repped by CAA and attorney Steve
Warren.
Lange's recent credits include CBS' "Sybil"
and the film "Bonneville." She is repped by CAA,
Untitled Entertainment and attorney Diane Golden.
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(Dec. 14, 2006) - Jessica Lange is set to
return to The Glass Menagerie. The actress will
star as Amanda Wingfield in a new West End production of
the Tennesse Williams' play. She last appeared in the play
on Broadway in 2005. That production co-starred Sarah Paulson,
Christian Slater, and Josh Lucas.
This West End production will begin previews at the Apollo
Theatre on January 31, 2007 and officially open on February
13th for a limited run through May 19th. Rupert Goold will
direct.
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Tom Skerritt, Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange and Joan Allen
arrive for the world premiere screening of their film 'Bonneville'
during the 31st Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto
September 11, 2006.
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Jessica Returns to the London Stage
Variety, July 24, 2006
Jessica Lange is no stranger to the London
stage, having played both Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar
Named Desire" and Mary Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey
into Night," Subject to signing, she will return to
London in October to play Madame Ranyevskaya, the woman
surrounded by her family and its (mis)fortunes who is forced
to sell the family estate in Chekhov's "The Cherry
Orchard." Produced by Howard Panter at the Ambassadors
Theater Group, the show is then scheduled to cross over
to Broadway.
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Goodwill Ambassador Jessica Lange
visits a clinic for children living with HIV in Russia
Watch
the YouTube clip
May 18, 2006
By Elena Kharitonova and Sabine Dolan
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
Jessica Lange is visiting the Russian Federation to help
draw attention to the needs of vulnerable children, including
those living with HIV and AIDS.
Like its neighbours in Eastern Europe and
Central Asia, Russia today is facing the world’s most
rapidly expanding AIDS epidemic. Although there are about
334,000 officially registered cases of HIV infection, more
than a million people in Russia may be living with the disease.
The number of children born to mothers with HIV is reportedly
rising dramatically.
Earlier this week, Ms. Lange visited a specialized
HIV clinic for children in the small town of Ust-Izhora,
near St. Petersburg. Upon her arrival, the two-time Academy
Award-winning actress was treated to a performance by the
clinic’s eager five-year-old patients.
UNICEF Image
© UNICEF video
Jessica Lange with Dr. Evgeny Voronin, head of the Centre
for Prevention and Treatment of HIV Infection in Pregnant
Women and Children, St. Petersburg, Russia.
“Contemporary methods of paediatric
treatment can make the children forget about their disease,”
said Dr. Evgeny Voronin, head of the Centre for Prevention
and Treatment of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women and Children.
“I could not even dream about such methods just several
years ago.”
Today, 40 orphans ranging from one to seven
years of age live at the Ust-Izhora HIV centre.
The hospital that houses the centre opened
in 1879. Since 1991, it has been operating as a research
facility specializing in HIV/AIDS treatment. Perhaps symbolic
of the persistent stigma attached to HIV and AIDS in Russia,
the clinic’s new orientation drew strong opposition
from the local population when it was announced.
In fact, the problem of stigma is one of the
issues Ms. Lange is highlighting and trying to help address
during her visit as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
“HIV is not a thing that can be fought
by ignoring it,” she said during an interview on Russian
television. “On the contrary, if you pretend that
such a problem does not exist, it spreads very quickly.”
Upon her arrival at the HIV clinic, Goodwill Ambassador
Jessica Lange was treated to a performance by the clinic’s
eager five-year-old patients.
The majority of children born to mothers living
with HIV in Russia are essentially orphaned, even if their
parents are still alive.
Because up to a year and a half is required
to diagnose possible HIV infection in a newborn baby, the
children of mothers with HIV are not admitted to child care
centres before the end of that period. Most of them live
in specialized hospital wards, isolated from the rest of
the world.
Later on, if HIV is not detected, they are
moved to a Children’s Home, where they have very dim
hopes of future adoption. Those who are found to be HIV-positive
remain in the hospital or in an isolated unit at a Children’s
Home.
On her continuing stay in Russia, Ms. Lange
is visiting orphanages, schools and children’s hospitals
where many children with HIV are languishing. On Sunday,
she will take part in Russia’s ‘Golden Heart’
award ceremony recognizing individual efforts to serve humanity.
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Stars Sophia Loren and Jessica Lange
in plea for Russian orphans
MOSCOW (AFP) - 5/20/2006
"Nationwide,
tremendous work has to be done for children, specifically
for HIV positive children," said Hollywood star Lange,
a goodwill ambassador for the United Nation's children's
agency
UNICEF.
"They are stigmatized," she told
a press conference. "They have no possibility of being
adopted, or to have equal education."
She and veteran Italian star Loren are here
for a ceremony Sunday to award the Heart of Gold prize for
charity works.
"If I can do something for those in need,
I'm always ready to do so," Loren told journalists.
Money raised at the Heart of Gold ceremony
and at a reception for Moscow's new money elite will go
to help children in need of heart and brain operations.
Lange, who spent the last week visiting orphanages
and centres for handicapped and HIV-positive children, said
she was impressed by staff caring for orphans and sick children
in centres supported by UNICEF.
The two stars, together with Hollywood actor
Steven Seagal, were also scheduled Sunday to visit Moscow's
Bakulev cardiac surgery unit, and distribute toys among
sick children.
A 30-strong demonstration was held in the
centre of Moscow on Friday in protest against the feared
closure of an orphanage set up with funds provided by the
jailed Russian multi-millionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose
assets have been seized.
Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man as
head of the country's former leading oil producer Yukos,
is serving eight years for embezzlement, massive fraud and
tax evasion.
"The war by the state against Khodorkovsky
is smashing the lives of orphaned children," one protest
banner read.
Others denounced the alleged role of President
Vladimir Putin in the prosecution of Khodorkovsky, saying:
"Putin, you're fighting children, not an oligarch."
Oligarch was the term used to describe members
of the new business class who surfaced after the collapse
of the Soviet Union and made quick fortunes from dubious
privatizations in the 1990s.
Critics said the Khodorkovsky prosecution
was a Krmelin-inspired move to regain state control over
Yukos and curb its owner's political ambitions.
This month the Moscow prosecutor seized property
at Koralovo near Moscow where Khodorkovsky set up a school
in 1994. The seizure raised fears of the establishment being
closed.
Currently it is home to 150 Russian youngsters,
including orphans whose parents were killed in a bombing
by political extremists in a Moscow theatre in 2002, and
another in a school at Beslan in southern Russia in 2004.
Actress Jessica Lange, third
from right, poses with Christine Baranski, Kathy Bates,
Joan Allen, Ann Roth and Amy Madigan, left to right, at
the Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute to Jessica
Lange, Monday, April 17, 2006, in New York. The annual Gala
Tribute honors the career accomplishments of major figures
in the film world, and this year Jessica Lange was celebrated
for her career which includes two Oscars, for Best Actress
in "Blue Sky" and Best Supporting Actress in "Tootsie,"
and four Golden Globes. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)
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Thesps Tend to 'Gardens' (Variety,
2/22/06)
Drew Barrymore and Jessica
Lange will star in "Grey Gardens," a fact-based
drama about two eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy
who made headlines when the health department threatened
to raid their flea- and raccoon-infested East Hampton, N.Y.,
estate.
Commercials director Michael
Sucsy wrote the script and will make his feature directing
debut on the project this summer. He'll produce with Lucy
Barzun and Rachael Horovitz.
Barrymore will play Little
Edie, and Lange will play her mother, Big Edie Bouvier Beale,
the socialite cousin and aunt, respectively, of Kennedy
Onassis. The Edies made headlines around the world when
Jackie O herself materialized to rescue her family from
public disgrace. The Edies were then the subjects of "Grey
Gardens," a 1976 docu by David and Albert Maysles,
whose rights will be part of the movie package.
Docu, which showed the women
living in squalor, made a cult figure of Little Edie. She
got a nightclub singing job as a result. Years after their
deaths, the Edies have Web sites devoted to them as well
as an Off Broadway play.
Sucsy, who summered in nearby
Quogue, grew up with the legend of the women and hunted
down rights to personal correspondence and journals that
chronicle Little Edie's struggle to break free of her mother
after they retreated from Park Avenue for the Hamptons.
The film will cover 40 years. Kennedy Onassis will be a
character in the film, as will Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn,
who bought the crumbling mansion from Little Edie after
her mother's death. "You couldn't capture the eccentric
nature of those women better than the documentary did, but
it left me with so many questions of what led them there,"
Sucsy said.
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Lange's Garden Featured in Architectural
Digest
The
new Architectural Digest "Hollywood
Issue" (April 2006) features Jessica Lange's gorgeous
two-acre garden in Stillwater, Minnesota. Lange has since
put the residence on the market and moved to New York. Her
former garden features individual gardens that she created
in honor of her three children as well as water features
and stone terraces.
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Lincoln Center to Honor Lange
The Film Society is pleased
to announce that Jessica Lange will be the 2006 Gala Tribute
Honoree. The event will take place on April 17, 2006 at
Avery Fisher Hall.
Launched in 1972 with Charlie
Chaplin as the first honoree, the Film Society of Lincoln
Center Gala Tribute honors the career accomplishments of
a performer, filmmaker or other major figure in the film
world. The black-tie evening begins with a cocktail buffet
on the Grand Promenade of Avery Fisher Hall, with honoree
and celebrities in attendance. Following the reception,
guests join other audience members in Avery Fisher Hall
for a program of career highlight clips and onstage appearances
by a roster of stars, directors and other luminaries who
speak in tribute to the honoree. The evening concludes with
an elegant dinner dance across the Lincoln Center Plaza
on the Promenade of the New York State Theater, where some
800 guests dine, dance and people watch, with the honoree
and celebrity guests in attendance. Past honorees have included
Clint Eastwood, Susan Sarandon, Al Pacino, Francis Ford
Coppola, Mike Nichols, Audrey Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Gregory
Peck and Martin Scorsese, among others. The April 18, 2005
honoree was Dustin Hoffman. Speakers included Robert DeNiro,
Mike Nichols, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Beals, David O. Russell
and Justin Henry.
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Jessica Lange reviving 'Sybil' for
CBS
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) January 18,
2006
"Sybil" is based
on Flora Rheta Schreiber's best-selling book chronicling
the real-life treatment from 1954-65 of a young woman who
suffered from dissociative identity disorder, better known
as multiple personality disorder.
Blanchard will play the title
character. After a suicide attempt, she is introduced to
psychiatrist Dr. Corneila Wilbur (Lange). During their sessions,
Sybil, who confides that she frequently loses her memory
and can't account for large blocks of time, slowly remembers
the physical, emotional and sexual abuse to which she was
subjected as a child by her mentally disturbed mother. During
11 years of treatments, 16 distinct personalities -- which
Sybil had created to cope with the abuse -- emerge, each
varying in age and personal appearance.
Production is set to begin
Monday in Nova Scotia,
Field won an Emmy for playing
Sybil in the NBC version, while Joanne Woodward secured
an Emmy nomination for playing Dr. Wilbur.
Lange has earned six Oscar
nominations, winning in 1983 for "Tootsie" and
in 1995 for "Blue Sky."
Blanchard won an Emmy for her
breakthrough role as young Judy Garland in ABC's "Life
With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows." She recently
wrapped
Robert De Niro's feature "The Good Shepherd."
The movie will be directed
by Joseph Sargent, who has been Emmy-nominated in the longform
category 11 times, most recently last year for HBO's "Warm
Springs." He has won four times.
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Lange joins Allen & Bates for
"Bonneville"
September 14 2005
Joan Allen, Kathy Bates and
Jessica Lange have signed up to independent picture Bonneville
reports Production Weekly.
Written by Daniel D. Davis
and Christopher N. Rowley and directed by the latter, the
movie will tell the story of recently widowed Arvilla (Lange)
who takes her husband's Bonneville with friends Margene
(Spacek) and Carol (Bates) and heads off to give her husband's
ashes to his daughter. However, their unexpectedly eventful
road trip teaches them lessons about life.
Production is due to begin
next month in Utah and Las Vegas.
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| Actress Jessica Lange speaks during the 'From the
Big Apple to the Big Easy' benefit concert Tuesday,
Sept. 20, 2005 in New York's Madison Square Garden.
Proceeds from the concert will be donated to hurricane
Katrina relief. |
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Jessica Lange arrives for the
71st annual Drama League luncheon and awards ceremony,
in New York, Friday May 13, 2005. (AP Photo/Richard
Drew) |
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Kathleen Turner, left, and Jessica
Lange arrive at the American Theatre Wing benefit
to honor CBS and Leslie Moonves, Co-President of CBS,
Monday, April 11, 2005, in New York. American Theatre
Wing is the founder of the Tony Awards and they honored
CBS for their commitment to the Tony telecast and
live theater. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff) |
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New Home Off Broadway
By WILLIAM NEUMAN (The New
York Times) May 29, 2005
The actress Jessica Lange
and the actor and playwright Sam Shepard are settling into
an apartment they bought last month in a co-op building
on lower Fifth Avenue, near Washington Square Park. The
couple, who closed on the deal on April 7, got a corner
apartment that was combined from two original units, a one-bedroom
and a two-bedroom, with a total of three bathrooms. It was
on the market for $3.495 million.
Ms. Lange and Mr. Shepard,
who have had homes together in New Mexico, Minnesota and
Virginia, moved to New York last summer and had been living
in a smaller apartment in the Village, according to Ms.
Lange's publicist, Leslee Dart.
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Actress Jessica
Lange poses at the Barrymore Theater in New York,
where she was rehearsing for her role in a revival
of Tenneessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie,"
Feb. 17, 2005. Lange portrays Amanda Wingfield, the
domineering mother who propels the heartbreaking family
drama that 60 years ago brought Williams his first
New York success. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper) |
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Going, going,
gone …
Actress Jessica
Lange sells items at auction
BY MOLLY MILLETT
Pioneer Press
Movie
star Jessica Lange might be moving to New York, but at least
we'll still have her 18th century commode stand to remember
her by.
The Stillwater actress put
about 40 of her antiques and paintings on the auction block
at a Roseville auction house. Watching them sell Wednesday
evening — for about $27,000 — was the hottest ticket in
town.
About 300 people attended the
sold-out, standing-room-only event at Rose Galleries, and
still more put in bids over the telephone. Lange's items
were interspersed throughout the general arts auction and
generated a buzz when they were offered.
"She has really beautiful
things — not that I can afford them," said Gina Munter,
an auction regular. "I'm waiting to bid on some paperweights."
Lange's collection included
hand-colored French lithographs, a metal birdcage, Oriental
rugs, that 18th century English mahogany commode stand (which
sold for $1,000), and several paintings. "Cows
and sheep are a big theme for her," Sonia Vacinek,
one of the auction house owners, said of Lange's Victorian-era
paintings. The most expensive piece
sold was a Daum Nancy cameo glass lamp for $9,500; the least,
a pair of matching Oriental vases mounted as lamps, for
$90 each.
The crowd consisted of antiques
and art dealers, looky-loos and lots of gray-haired types
with reading glasses. No one started
fierce bidding wars over Lange's items. Then again, sniffed
some of the regulars, it's not exactly like Lange is Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis, who's estate auction was held at Sotheby's.
"Now, I can see if it
was Charlie Chaplin's hat or something … ," said Bob
Hewblein of Arden Hills before the auction began. "But
just because it belonged to Jessica Lange — I think celebrities
are overrated. But you know what I'd like? That soccer ball
that Tom Hanks talked to in the movie 'Cast Away.' "
Yet, Pat Arscott of Minneapolis
said she understood the appeal of celebrity. "You
know, when they auctioned off Marilyn Monroe's things, I
read they even sold her old, chipped dishes from her kitchen
for lots of money," Arscott said. "I mean, forever
after you could say, 'I'm serving these cheese and crackers
on Marilyn Monroe's dishes.' It's the cachet."
Auctioneer Jerry Kaufhold told
the crowd he was sure Lange's items were authentic. She
only purchased from reputable dealers, he noted. He also
joked around, saying that Lange had dropped her Waterbury
walnut clock onto her ankle when she brought it to the auction
house. "There's probably some
Jessica Lange DNA on it," he said. It
sold for $225.
However, no one who purchased
anything of Lange's will receive any paperwork stating that
it really, truly, honestly belonged to the Oscar-winning
actress. "We're not offering
any certificates of authenticity," Vacinek said.
That didn't matter to Don Wahlberg
of Arden Hills, who purchased one of Lange's Oriental rugs
for $199. He blushed when admitting he showed up because
he's a fan of the actress. The rug,
he said, "will make a nice addition to my home."
But Wahlberg wasn't as giddy
as Stacy Schuna of St. Paul, who bid $160 on Lange's mahogany
chair with needlepoint upholstery. "This
is going in my bedroom, where I can admire it. No one will
be allowed to sit on it but me," Schuna said.
For those who missed out on
this auction, you can still buy Lange's house (providing
you win the lottery first). The Stillwater estate includes
a library, a pool and some lovely gardens. Asking price:
$3.3 million.
Lange, 55, a Minnesota native,
told More magazine last year that she and her partner, actor
and playwright Sam Shepard, moved their family to Minnesota
in the 1990s to be closer to her mother, who died in 1997.
The couple's 18-year-old daughter recently graduated from
Stillwater Area High School; their 17-year-old son reportedly
will finish high school in New York. The
actress told the magazine: "I'm ready to move back
to New York. This is a nice place to raise children. But
there's no reason for me to be here anymore."
At least the movie star's art
nouveau newel post lamp, which sold for $850, will still
be among us (it was a prop in one of her movies).
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Jessica Lange,
Sam Shepard to sell Victorian mansion
THE CANADIAN PRESS
June 26, 2004
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) - Oscar
winner Jessica Lange and her companion, the playwright Sam
Shepard, are selling the estate where they have lived for
nine years.
The 12-room Victorian mansion, which sits on a one-hectare
site overlooking the St. Croix River, has been on the market
since mid-May with an asking price of $3.3 million US.
"It's a remarkable property
in every respect," said real estate agent Sharon O'Flannigan,
who is handling the sale.
In 1995, Lange and Shepard
paid $415,000 for the house - a former bed-and-breakfast
built in 1892 atop one of Stillwater's highest points -
and $125,000 for adjoining property.
Shepard also has land across
the St. Croix near River Falls, Wis. Lange was born and
grew up in northern Minnesota.
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Jessica
Lange Learns About Cancun Shelter 
