Meg Ryan wins at the Nantucket Film Festival
A week of star spotting on Nantucket Island culminates this weekend with the 13th Nantucket Film Festival. Unlucky perhaps for anyone attempting to nip into town WITHOUT spotting a celeb…
Guests of honor included actress Meg Ryan dropping in to receive the first Compass Rose Acting Tribute and scriptwriter, producer and director of ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin’ and ‘Knocked Up’ Judd Apatow receiving the NBC Universal Screenwriters Tribute.
The festival culminates tonight over at The Starlight with ‘The Wackness’, the offbeat tale of a New York drug dealer starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley and Famke Janssen.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
“Meg Ryan wins…”
Is it really considered a “win” if the actor in question receives a tribute award? We all know those are usually well orchestrated — but often deserving accolades — pending which performers can make it to town.
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
yeah, kind of like those recently given out at the maui film festival?
July 4th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Have you heard of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor who wrote the current bestseller “My Stroke of Insight”? Taylor was a Harvard trained brain scientist who suffered a massive stroke. I don’t think we’ll ever hear a story like this - Taylor understands how the brain functions and she was able to observe her mind deteriorating. She writes about the euphoric nirvana and a sense of complete peace and well-being she discovered in her stroke and she talks about this in her incredible (don’t miss it) talk on TED.com. In the book, Taylor explains how to ’step to the right of their left brain’ to uncover a deep internal peace. Meg Ryan was in the audience when Dr. Taylor gave her speech at TED… hey, maybe she’ll do the movie and we’ll all be able to “have what she’s having” to reprise that line from When Harry Met Sally : ) Sign me up!