A Museum in Search of a Home
The Dahesh Museum of Art is looking for a new home, it confirmed yesterday, and hopes to find one in Manhattan. “The rent is high; it’s been more difficult than we thought to be in this expensive location,” said Pamela M. Dunn, a spokeswoman for the museum, which occupies the first three floors of the IBM Building on Madison Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets. The museum’s lease runs until 2013, but it is negotiating to sublet its space while simultaneously seeking temporary offices. The Dahesh board, which looked into 2 Columbus Circle before the Museum of Arts and Design bought that building from the city, has also considered sites in upstate New York and in Connecticut, Ms. Dunn said, but would like to stay in Manhattan if possible. “A lot of our visitors are tourists, scholars and artists,” she said. The museum focuses on European artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ROBIN POGREBIN
Injuries in Cruise Film
Eleven extras were injured in Berlin on Sunday when they fell out of a truck during the filming of a movie starring Tom Cruise, The Associated Press reported yesterday. The injured were taken to a hospital as filming stopped on the movie, provisionally titled “Valkyrie,” which stars Mr. Cruise as Germany’s most famous anti-Hitler plotter, Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg. All but one of the 11 were released after treatment. The German newspaper Bild reported that Mr. Cruise had not been involved in the weekend filming. The police said that a bolt on a side panel of the truck apparently came loose as the vehicle turned. The accident happened during filming around the Finance Ministry building in Berlin, which was once the Nazis’ aviation ministry. Mr. Cruise’s participation in the film has attracted controversy in Germany because he is an adherent of Scientology, which the German government frowns on.
Seacrest at the Emmys
The busiest man in show business keeps getting busier. Ryan Seacrest, below, the host of “American Idol,” successor to Casey Kasem on “American Top 40,” co-host of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” and ubiquitous red-carpet reporter, will be master of ceremonies at the 59th primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 16, the Fox network announced yesterday. Mr. Seacrest, 32, will also act as host of the entertainment portion of Fox’s Super Bowl broadcast early next year. He was chosen for both roles to attract younger viewers to the tradition-bound broadcasts. Dick Askin, the chairman and chief executive of the Academy of Telvision Arts and Sciences, said Mr. Seacrest “should serve as a magnet” for viewers, including the “highly desirable young-adult demographic.” EDWARD WYATT
The Nose Knows
Kevin Kline will return to Broadway this fall to feed some of the greatest sweet talk to be found in the theater to Daniel Sunjata (“Take Me Out”), who will then use it to seduce Jennifer Garner, making her Broadway debut as Roxane in Edmond Rostand’s “Cyrano de Bergerac.” The 10-week engagement, to be be directed by David Leveaux (the 2004 “Fiddler on the Roof”), will begin previews on Oct 12 at the Richard Rodgers Theater, with opening night set for Nov. 1. ... Elsewhere on Broadway, since Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp returned to the cast of “Rent” in roles they first played in 1996, ticket sales have nearly doubled. So the two have extended their comeback by a month, to Oct 7. CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Doherty Arrested Again
Police arrested Pete Doherty, the lead singer of Babyshambles, on Monday on suspicion of drug possession, The Associated Press reported yesterday. The troubled singer had been performing with his band at the V Festival in Staffordshire, England, on the weekend. He was stopped, along with another man and a woman, in a car in Tower Hamlets in East London. Earlier this month, a judge warned Mr. Doherty that he must prove his desire to quit drugs or face a jail sentence for other drug offenses. He has been undergoing drug treatment under court order because of previous convictions.
Jet Li Attacks Censors
Jet Li, the martial-arts movie star, has voiced frustration that his Hollywood films do not get shown in his home country, China, The Associated Press reported yesterday. Writing in his blog, alivenotdead.com/26, Mr. Li, above, said his 2000 film “Romeo Must Die” had been banned by censors for featuring gangsters. In 2001, “Kiss of the Dragon” was banned because Mr. Li’s character, a Chinese policeman, killed people overseas. Mr. Li argued that China’s film industry was suffering as a result of the restrictions. “If gangsters aren’t appropriate and police officers aren’t appropriate, then what type of character can there be that wouldn’t start an argument?” Mr. Li wrote. “It leaves only the ancient Chinese stories to be produced." China officially allows only about 20 foreign movies to be shown each year.
Brother vs. Father
CBS’s “Big Brother” edged out Fox’s reruns of “Family Guy” on Sunday to draw the night’s highest ratings among adults 18 to 49. The CBS reality show garnered 7.6 million viewers to lead the 8 p.m. hour, according to Nielsen’s estimates, and the two “Family Guy” episodes, at 9 and 9:30, delivered 5.4 million and 5.8 million viewers respectively. For the night, CBS and Fox shared the lead with the 18-to-49 set, though Fox finished fourth in total viewers. CBS had a sizable advantage in total viewers, thanks in part to “60 Minutes” at 7, the most-watched program of the night with 9.6 million viewers. NBC ranked a close second over all among 18- to 49-year-olds, as its preseason football game between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Ravens averaged 6.9 million viewers from 8:30 to 11. ABC finished last among adults 18 to 49 and third in total viewers, ahead of Fox. BENJAMIN TOFF Footnotes
Luciano Pavarotti will remain hospitalized in Modena, Italy, for several more days for further tests related to his pancreatic cancer, The Associated Press reported yesterday. Mr. Pavarotti, 71, was admitted to the hospital on Aug. 8 because of a high fever. ... Peter Gabriel is to be honored as an Icon by Broadcast Music Inc., Bloomberg News reported. Mr. Gabriel, 57, who founded the rock band Genesis in 1967, is to receive the BMI award on Oct. 16 in London. Previous honorees include Ray Davies, Van Morrison, Isaac Hayes, Dolly Parton, Paul Simon, the Bee Gees and James Brown. ... Lincoln Center Theater will present the New York premiere of “The Glorious Ones,” a new musical, based on a novel by Francine Prose, about a commedia dell’arte troupe in Italy during the Renaissance. Book and lyrics are by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty and choreography and direction by Graciela Daniele. Performances begin on Oct. 11; the opening is Nov. 5 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. ... Bob Yesselman, the director of Dance/NYC, is retiring on Sept. 30 from dance administration, after a 36-year career in which he helped manage the American Ballet Theater’s Ballet Repertory Company, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Joffrey Ballet, the Dallas Theater Center and the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.
