On August 11th Breakfast at Tiffany’s is scheduled to screen at Brooklyn Bridge Park—the classic Audrey Hepburn film screens pretty much every summer, somewhere in the city. Since the film was released in 1961, Mickey Rooney's role as Mr. Yunioshi has drawn attention. In the 1993 film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Lee gets upset at Rooney's stereotypical depiction of an Asian man, which has been called everything from "broadly exotic," to "comedic," to "overtly racist" and a "cringe-inducing stereotype" by critics over the years.
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Brooklyn's Breakfast At Tiffany's Screening Protested By Asian-American Group
Director Blake Edwards Dies At 88
Blake Edwards, the writer and director whose films included "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "The Pink Panther," "10," and "Victor/Victoria," died last night at age 88 from complications of pneumonia. The NY Times calls him a "master of screwball farces and rude comedies" in its obituary, which also mentions that was he was a lifelong depressive and mentions a humorous anecdote about why he thought Julie Andrews, before he met and eventually married her, was so successful ("She has lilacs for pubic hair").
Breakfast at Tiffany's Turns 50
Breakfast at Tiffany's, the novel by Truman Capote, is turning 50 (in just 3 years, the film will do the same). USA Today takes a look at the classic, which The New Yorker called "empty nostalgia" at the time (Capote wrote a letter to the publication saying he was "hurt and dismayed" by the criticism). The story however, whether on paper or celluloid, has stood the test of time and remains a favorite amongst many...in fact, just a couple of years ago the iconic Givenchy black dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in the movie sold for $807,000 (how much will Carrie Bradshaw garb go for in 50 years?).
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