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The Sopranos star JAMIE LYNN
AL PACINO is set to poke fun at
was dining out with friends in
SIGLER
on
stage
in
New
ADOLF HITLER
Long Island when she was invited to a
York and he's invited a handful of his
real meeting of the Mafia.
star friends to join him.
Sigler, who plays Tony Soprano's
The actor will play the lead in a new
daughter Meadow in the hit show,
adaptation of BERTOLT BRECHT's
recalls, "It was 11:30 and almost every-
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in which
one had left the restaurant and the man-
a Hitler-like character is transported
from 1930s Germany to Chicago's gang- ager calls me over and he says, 'There's
someone who would like to meet you.'
ster underworld.
"There were two guys who didn't look
Brecht fan Pacino was so keen to stage
like the guys on my show and they said,
the show at the National Actors Theater,
`We really like the show and we just
he invited pals like STEVE BUSCEMI,
wanted to let you know that dinner is
BILLY CRUDUP, CHAZZ
taken care of.'
PALMINTERI and JOHN
"I said, 'I appreciate that
GOODMAN to join him.
but
I can't take that offer —
Also appearing will be
there's a lot of us, like 15 and
NAT director Tony Randall.
there's a lot of food and a lot
Born Leopold Rosenberg in
of wine,' and' they said, 'No,
Tulsa, Okla., in 1923,
no, your dinner is taken care
Randall founded the not-for-
of.'
profit theater to bring the
"The manager started
great classical repertoire of the
nudging
me. I was walking
world to the stage.
away and I said, 'Who was
The Resistible Rise of Arturo
.
that?' Apparently the head
Ui begins its limited engage-
n
Sigler
Jamie
Lyn
guy was a prominent mob
ment on Oct. 3.
with fianc e A.J.
figure and he was supposed
Discala
to go to jail the next day."
Legendary Hollywood direc-
Sigler, 21, is set to wed her
widow
tor BILLY WILDER's
manager/boyfriend A.J. Discala, 31, next
has returned the filmmaker's six Oscar
summer.
statuettes to the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences.
Playright ARTHUR MILLER accepted
AUDREY WILDER presented the
the international Praemium Imperiale
awards to Academy President FRANK
prize earlier this month after two previ-
PIERSON before an L.A. screening of
ously failed attempts.
the director's 1945 alcoholism drama,
The writer of Death of a Salesman and
The Lost Weekend, for which Wilder gar-
Crucible received notice of the cov-
nered awards for best picture and best
eted honor last year, but the terrorist-
director.
attacks on America and his wife's health
She also returned her husband's IRV-
kept him away from two planned
ING G. THALBERG honorary award,
awards ceremonies in Tokyo, Japan.
which the academy gave him in 1988
Miller missed a reorganized October
for lifetime achievement.
award ceremony because of the sudden
Wilder died in March at the age of 95
illness of his wife, photographer INGE
after months of failing health. His other
MORATH, who later died.
Oscars were for co-writing 1950's Sunset
He accepted the prize at a special
Boulevard and co-writing, producing
luncheon in Manhattan.
and directing 1960's The Apartment.
The Praemium Imperiale is given each
Academy spokeswoman LESLIE
year
to five artists — one each in paint-
says,
"[Mrs.
Wilder]
indicated
UNGER
ing, sculpture, architecture, music and
that she wanted [the Oscars] kept
theater/film.
together and that she didn't want them
Past honorees have included JASPER
someday being sold or otherwise inap-
JOHNS, LEONARD BERNSTEIN
propriately distributed.
and FEDERICO FELLINI.
"Not a lot give them back. Most are
left to estates. But we're always happy
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