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Can a Star of Walk Be a Star
Who Talks? It's not quite right to say that Carolyn Murphy's face is
unfamiliar to filmgoers. She is widely seen on popcorn bags sold in movie theaters,
advertising Calvin Klein khakis and other clothes. * * * * * * * * * * * * Back to Top*
* * * * * * * * * * * NEW YORK ONLINE / By ANTHONY RAMIREZThe Making of ‘Cherry’The movie "Cherry," filmed in Manhattan and Hoboken, N.J., doesn't have a chance of winning an Oscar tomorrow night (it's not finished, let alone nominated). But film buffs can learn a lot about the current state of independent film making by visiting the Making Cherry Home Page.
The film, which its makers hope theaters will release next year, stars Shalom Harlow, a fashion model who won good notices for a brief role (as a fashion model) in last year's comedy "In and Out." She plays Leila, a young woman who wants to become a single mother. David McCallum, perhaps best known for his starring role in the 1960's spy series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," also stars, playing one of Leila's two gay uncles. The Web site, which went up in December, is the brainchild of Peter Kreutzer, a freelance writer and friend of the film's co-directors and producers, Jim [sic] Glascoe and Joseph Pierson (all three studied film at New York University [not true!!!]). "The filmmakers wanted to create a buzz about the movie and I wanted to get a book out of it," Kreutzer said. WHAT YOU SEE The journal begins with Kreutzer's noting that he was inspired by and hopes to emulate Lillian Ross's classic book, "Picture," about the filming of the 1951 movie "The Red Badge of Courage," directed by John Huston. He says he hopes God doesn't strike him dead. As the crew prepares to shoot, Kreutzer is amused that the directors plan shots by playing with dolls in a doll house. He also discovers that for the makers of a low-budget picture, every day is a battle against cost. The photography unit saves $500 a week by renting the oldest Panavision cameras possible. The casting unit arranges crowd scenes on Screen Actors Guild "waiver" days, when less restrictive union rules apply, so more extras can be hired for the same money. Outdoor location shooting is a struggle. A scene at the "Alice in Wonderland" statue in Central Park is constantly interrupted. "Another plane can be heard now," Kreutzer writes on March 3. "Everybody, after their feverish half-hour of work, waits, as planes pass overhead and then a siren passes on the park transverse and children nearby kick a soccer ball exuberantly. Just as their voices fade, a helicopter can be heard approaching. You can feel more than hear the crew's collective sigh." One unexpected complication of casting a fashion model as the star: Harlow needs space heaters. As one crew member says, anonymously: "She has no body fat. She gets cold very quickly." OUTSIDE LINKS One, to David McCallum's fan club, the McCallum Observer. WHAT YOU GET A buff's look at moviemaking that can occasionally veer into inside baseball. * * * * * * * * * * * * Back
to Top* * * * * * * * * * * * NEW This week, March 13, 1998 WEBSITE//MAKING CHERRY There are 8 million stories in New York City; half are being made into low-budget movies, and at least one is on the Web. Ragged but right, the site lets you follow the day-to-day progress of Cherry, an indie romantic comedy starring model Shalom Harlow and ex-Man From U.N.C.L.E David McCallum. While only a handful of the cast and crew pages feature photos or credits, and the entire script would have been nice, the daily journal really does convey the pretensions, pitfalls, and stop-and-go aggravations of your average shoot. All that's missing is the on-set gossip. C'mon, guys, who's been sleeping with whom? --Ty Burr * * * * * * * * * * * * Back to Top* * * * * * * * * * * *
February 23, 1998 As the Camera Turns Got the hots for indie movies? Before buying a light meter and applying to NYU film school, surf over to "Making Cherry". Cherry is a comedy starring model Shalom Harlow and Jake Weber, and its producers are posting a shooting diary with script excerpts and snapshots. The log is most entertaining, though, when it wanders to more, shall we say, tangential, terrain. A riff on James Joyce reveals that he "invested some of his slight capital in the first moviehouse to open in Dublin;" another entry notes that "if you're a real celebrity, maybe you'll end up with a picture of your belly button online." * * * * * * * * * * * * Back to Top* * * * * * * * * * * * W LIKE A VIRGIN: In her second film, Shalom Harlow When Shalom Harlow, supermodel, made her big screen acting debut (in last year's In and Out) she played... a supermodel. But in her second movie, Cherry, she plays a frumpy, Harvard-educated muffin shop proprietress--who's also a virgin. So much for typecasting. "There are no stilettos on this set," says Shalom during a break in filming. Her character, Leila Sweet, is a woman who was left standing at the altar when she was 18. Still single a decade later, she decides it's time to have a baby--the natural way. Cherry follows Leila through those tricky shoals. "She's just a regular gal with her Hush Puppies," says Shalom, who's wearing Leila's typical scruffy costume of jeans, sweater and suede shoes. "The movie is about a woman who has turned her back on romantic love and, through the course of trying to become pregnant, opens her heart again. It's a kind of coming-of-age story." Although Shalom may still be a relative novice on a movie set, she's obviously no stranger to the camera. "I'm used to being around this sort of environment--the set and the lights and all--it's just bigger on a film set," she says. But the irony is, Shalom took up acting as a break from all that. "In August, everyone in fashion takes holidays," she explains. "Instead, I took an acting workshop. Each day, the other students would come in and say 'I went out for this audition or that casting,' and I had nothing to share. So I did the audition [for In and Out] more for the sake of practice than anything." Her effort nonetheless made an impression on the movie's screenwriter, Paul Rudnick. "We'd seen many dazzling beauties," he recalls. "Then Shalom appeared, looking like a goddess." And she was not prissy about throwing herself into the role. Reading for one scene opposite Matt Dillon, she leapt on top of him "with sheer physical abandon," he says. Isaac Mizrahi, who has cast Shalom as the face of his collection for three years, isn't surprised that she has made the jump to movies. "I predicted the whole thing!" he shouts. "This first time she ever came for a go-see, I was with Manolo Blahnik and my mother, who were dying for her. I said, 'You're not even a model, you're an actress.' What I love about Shalom is if you say to her, "Fall in a puddle,' she knows how to do it." If being a real supermodel gave her a leg up for In and Out, she had no such advantage at the auditions for Cherry (which will hit the festival circuit this fall). "The casting director snuck her in among the usual suspects," says co-director Jon Glascoe. "I didn't know the fashion world, so I didn't know who she was. In glasses, her hair a mess, she looked absolutely plain." When Glascoe was preparing for the final callbacks, he asked his staff for a briefing on Shalom's background. "Go home and ask your wife," replied the casting director. "As soon as I found out she was a model, red flags went up in my head," he says. "But if there is a stereotype of models, she doesn't fit it." Shalom, in fact, has grown surprisingly fond of mousy, unglamorous Leila. "I feel like I have a new best friend," she says. "I wish she really existed." --Kevin West * * * * * * * * * * * * Back to Top* * * * * * * * * * * * THE INTERNET'S INDIE FEST "Making Cherry" (as the site is named) gives an insider's view on making an independent movie. Visitors can read daily dispatches covering the first three months of production, or turn to reports on the post-production phase. A romantic comedy starring Shalom Harlow, Cherry is set to hit theaters next spring. * * * * * * * * * * * *Back to Top * * * * * * * * * * * * THE ONGOING SAGA The seventies brought us magazine cover girl Cybill Shepherd in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show. In the eighties, Revlon spokesmodel Andie MacDowell charmed us with her performance in Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies and videotape. And now in the nineties, no less than a former Breck girl, Kim Basinger, is the proud owner of an Oscar for her turn in L.A. Confidential. With all these role models blazing the trail, what is cover girl Shalom Harlow to do? Get off that runway and on to an indie film set, of course. After easing into acting as, yes, a supermodel in last year's comdedy, In & Out (which spurred screenwriter Paul Rudnick to praise her ability to combine "couture sophistication with gawky high spirits"), Harlow landed a starring role--and surely a more substantial acting challenge--in Cypress Films' romantic comedy, Cherry. Casting the bratty, bulimic tendencies of her In & Out character aside, the new actress plays an idealistic young woman jilted at the altar at 19, still a virgin at 29, and hoping to have a baby by the time she's 30. Eventually, she decides to forgo the burdens of love and marriage and have a child the new-fashioned way--by finding some quality, no-strings-attached sperm. "Shooting Cherry was pretty grueling," says Jon
Glascoe, co-director with Joseph Pierson. "Shalom was in virtually every scene. She
showed incredible stamina, professionalism and great comic instints." Who knows,
maybe Indie will write about her when she steps up to the podium some Oscar night in the
21st century. * * * * * * * * * * * * Back to Top* * * * * * * * * * * * What indieWIRE said on December 17, 1997: + PRODUCTION BEGINS ON CYPRESS' CHERRY CHERRY is a romantic comedy about a woman, model SHALOM HARLOW, who swears off men after being left at the altar. Until she decides she want to have a child, the "natural way." CHERRY begins principal photography in New York in January 1998. * * * * * * * * * * * * Back to Top* * * * * * * * * * * * What Daily Variety said on December 15, 1997: HARLOW PICKS 'CHERRY' ROLE Shalom Harlow, the model hailed for her comic turn in her feature debut as Matt Dillon's girlfriend in the fall's comedy "In and Out," has come down the catwalk for her first leading role in Cypress Films' independent production "Cherry." In the romantic comedy, set to start shooting in New York in January, Harlow will play a woman who has shunned love and romance after being abandoned at the altar when she was 19. Ten years later, and still uninterested in love, she decides to have a child, and places a classified ad to find a man who will provide paternal services, but no emotional commitment. Producers Jon Glascoe and Joseph Pierson are making their directorial debut with the low-budgetter, from a script by frosh scribe Terry Reed. --Paul Karon * * * * * * * * * * * *Back to Top * * * * * * * * * * * * What the New York Post Said on December 11, 1997: Shalom: Hello Hollywood CHALK up another supermodel for the United Talent Agency. The Hollywood powerhouse is cornering the market on theatrically-minded mannequins. Having first signed Christy Turlington, last week the agency took on Claudia Schiffer, and now Shalom Harlow is following suit. Harlow, who made her big screen debut in "In and Out" and is set to star in the independent romantic comedy "Cherry," felt she needed more of a Tinseltown presence. She will continue to be represented by Elite for print work." |
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