SF ShowBiz News: Looking, Blue Jasmine, Need for Speed, Google Globes

Movies/TV - 'Looking,' new HBO show shot in S.F. - Peter Hartlaub

Q&A: HBO’s “Looking” creators Michael Lannan and Andrew Haigh

Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin in San Francisco: Making of Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine'

Hollywood Studios Facing Upheaval at Highest Levels
The New Need for Speed Trailer is Here
Film Society's foray into the new club scene

I found pictures of the 16th St. Oakland Train Station posted in 2013 which show some of our work on Hemingway and Gellhorn is still there. They are at this blog: http://virtuallynonexistent.blogspot.com Here's a letter from Hemingway, rediscovered in 2010, describing his rooms in the hotel: “In the fall of 1937 when I took up playwrighting, there weren’t any top floors to the hotel anymore. Nobody that was not crazy would go up there in a bombardment. But the two rooms where we lived were in what is called by artillerymen a dead angle. Any place else in the hotel could be hit and was. But unless the position of the batteries on Garabitas hill were changed; or unless they substituted howitzers for guns; rooms 112 and 113 could not be hit because of the position of three different houses across the street and across the square…"
Some more H&G links:
DTC Lighting and Grip Blog
Style in Film
Architectural Digest
Movie Insider
Tease
Trailer

Theater - A Conversation with Lucas Meachem -- San Francisco Opera's Barber of Seville
“Porgy and Bess” Adapts to Life Outside the Opera House
THE BOOK OF MORMON National Tour Announces Lottery Policy for San Francisco Run
The BEAUTIFUL Set: 3 Weeks in 2 Minutes

Art - Michael Goldman has his work "San Francisco Pictograms -sign prototypes" in the juried exhibition THIS WILL NEVER WORK at Southern Exposure 3030 20th St, San Francisco.

Tech - Giant Snow Globes by 32Ten

Check out the #winterwonderlab by @Android at Bryant Park #NYC @asallal @ojsallal @Smafa_1 pic.twitter.com/AbAGHI26x3
— MJ Al-Sallal ★ (@MjSallal) November 19, 2013