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Time of India
06-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Director Francis Ford Coppola doing 'fine' after medical procedure in Rome, says 'I am well'
Francis Ford Coppola didn't go to hospital in an ambulance. He walked in. Or rather, he arrived in a car for a scheduled medical procedure with a doctor he's trusted for over three decades. 'Mr. Coppola went in for a scheduled update procedure with acclaimed Dr. Andrea Natale , his doctor of over 30 years, and is resting nicely,' said his US-based representative. 'All is well.' That calm message came as Italian news outlets buzzed with reports that the 86-year-old director had been hospitalised. 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No drama, just a check-up In fact, Coppola himself took to Instagram to reassure fans, posting a smiling photo and writing: 'Da Dada (what my kids call me) is fine, taking an opportunity while in Rome to do the update of my 30-year-old afib procedure with its inventor, a great Italian doctor – Dr. Andrea Natale.' Live Events When the Italian site claimed he'd suffered atrial fibrillation, his team flatly denied it. 'Not true,' said his rep. There was no medical emergency, no panic, no last-minute decision. Just a scheduled update, handled with the kind of calm that only someone who's lived through far worse can really summon. Francis Ford Coppola: A life marked by loss and legacy Earlier this year, Coppola lost his wife Eleanor. She died in April 2024 at the age of 87. The two had been married since 1963. Over sixty years of partnership, art, family, and loss. They had three children. Their eldest son, Gian-Carlo, died in a boating accident in 1986 when he was just 22. Their daughter Sofia, now 54, is an Oscar-winning filmmaker herself. Roman, 60, has also worked behind the camera. Creativity runs deep in the Coppola family. In a recent talk at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, Coppola spoke about death with clear-eyed grace: 'I lost my wife a year ago, around this time. But my attitude for death is that I always lived my life so that when I was at the moment approaching death, I wouldn't say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this and I wish I had done that.' Instead I say to myself, 'I got to do this.' I got to see my daughter win an Oscar. I got to see my father win an Oscar.' Then he added something quietly unforgettable: 'I'm going to be so busy saying all the things I got to do that when I die, I'm not going to notice it. You know how your electric toothbrush just shuts off when you least expect it? That's what death is like.' Megalopolis: A gamble and a statement Coppola has never been one to play it safe. His most recent film, Megalopolis, cost $120 million and he paid for it himself. It's a heady, ambitious sci-fi vision about a futuristic version of New York called New Rome. A visionary architect tries to turn the crumbling city into a utopia. The film had been a dream of his since the late 1980s. After decades of false starts and abandoned attempts, it finally premiered at Cannes in 2024. Reactions were mixed. The box office numbers were brutal—just $14.3 million in returns, meaning Coppola lost over $75 million. Still, it hasn't stopped him from taking the film on the road. In recent months, he's shown Megalopolis at screenings across the US, from New York to Oregon. In July, he even presented it at the Magna Graecia Film Festival in southern Italy. 'Many thanks to the San Francisco @palaceoffinearts for allowing MEGALOPOLIS to serve as a forum concerning the future of humanity,' he wrote on Instagram. He's not done. Not even close. In an August 2024 interview with Rolling Stone, Coppola shared that he's already developing two new films. 'One is a regular sort of movie that I'd like someone to finance and make in England, because I don't have a big history with my wife in England. Everywhere else I go, I'm reminded of her all the time.' The second is more personal. 'It's called Distant Vision, which is the story of three generations of an Italian American family like mine, but fictionalised, during which the phenomenon of television was invented. I would finance it with whatever Megalopolis does. I'll want to do another roll of the dice with that one.' Five Oscars. Three for The Godfather Part II alone. A childhood polio survivor. The father of an Oscar-winning director. The uncle of Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman. The grandfather of Romy Mars, who's now making waves in music and online. At 86, Coppola is still dreaming, still writing, still making films. He's in pain, clearly—his wife of over six decades is gone. But instead of retreating, he's doubling down. Looking ahead. Starting over. And for now, resting. Quietly, in Rome.
San Francisco Chronicle
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Margaret Cho to bring ‘most blistering and brutally honest show yet' to S.F.
Margaret Cho is fed up with the U.S. government, and plans to air her grievances during her next stand-up comedy tour. The San Francisco native is returning to her political comedy roots for Choligarchy, her upcoming run of shows scheduled to begin Aug. 1-2 in Provincetown, Mass. She'll then go on to hit nearly two dozen other cities — from Burlington, Vt. and Madison, Wis. to Philadelphia and Washington D.C. — throughout the fall and winter, before concluding with a one-night performance in her hometown on May 29, at the Palace of Fine Arts. 'I'm so frustrated with the state of the union and I know the only weapon I have is humor,' Cho said in a statement. 'I want to fight fascism with everything I have. This will be my most blistering and brutally honest show yet! Let's tear down racism, homophobia and sexism with all that we have.' Ticket presales begin at 8 a.m. Wednesday, July 16, with general sales starting at 8 a.m. Monday, July 21. Cho broke through in the comedy scene of the early 1980s around the same time as Primetime Emmy Award winner Ellen DeGeneres. Though she recalls opening for DeGeneres at various comedy clubs before the disgraced talk show host reached widespread fame, Cho said the two never developed a friendship. 'Ellen was really weird and not nice to me for most of my career,' Cho revealed during an appearance on ' The Kelly Mantle Show ' podcast in June. 'She was like a mean girl.' Cho's claims confirm allegations DeGeneres faced in 2022 of fostering a toxic workplace and mistreating staff on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show.' Her employees' accusations ultimately prompted the show's cancellation. Despite her strained relationship with DeGeneres, Cho has gone on to have a successful career of her own that includes acting in TV and film. Most recently, the five-time Grammy- and Emmy-nominated star has been cast in the second season of the Disney+ original series 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians" and Gregg Araki's upcoming erotic thriller 'I Want Your Sex.' She even competed in the third season of 'Celebrity Jeopardy!' During her debut on the TV quiz show in January, she earned $54,100 for the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Friendly House, which aids women in recovery from substance abuse. Though the win secured her a spot in the subsequent semifinal game, Cho lost to East Bay comic W. Kamau Bell, who donated part of his $1 million winnings to Oakland schools via education nonprofit DonorsChoose.
San Francisco Chronicle
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Francis Ford Coppola to host S.F. screening of ‘Megalopolis,' the way it was ‘meant to be seen'
Francis Ford Coppola is headed to San Francisco to present his film ' Megalopolis ' and to discuss the future of cinema. Billed as 'An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola and 'Megalopolis' Screening,' the Aug. 1 event at the Palace of Fine Arts is the final stop on a tour organized by Live Nation. Tickets are on sale at 'Megalopolis,' released theatrically in September, was the 'Godfather' filmmaker's dream project for decades. The Napa Valley resident famously footed the $120 million budget himself in part by selling a portion of his Sonoma County wine empire. The film, beset by controversy, pulled in only $14 million globally. Later, Coppola suggested he was near bankruptcy. The film has divided critics, including here at the Chronicle. Undeterred, the 86-year-old Coppola has declined to release the film to streaming, and has hosted screenings off and on since the film's run in theaters. 'This is the way 'Megalopolis' was meant to be seen, in a large venue, with a crowd and followed by intense interactive discussions about the future,' Coppola said in a statement released by Live Nation. After the screening of the over two-hour epic, Coppola is scheduled to host an 'in-depth interactive discussion' called 'How to Change Our Future.' The discussion also includes a Q&A with the audience. 'Megalopolis' stars Adam Driver as architect Cesar Catilina, whose vision of a utopia in New Rome is at odds with corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), with the mayor's daughter (Nathalie Emmanuel) caught in the middle. The all-star cast includes Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza and Dustin Hoffman. Driver defended the film and its maker as Coppola received the American Film Institute's 50th Life Achievement Award at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles in April. 'This is a principled life, and for a year in our culture when the importance of the arts is minimized, and our industry is seemingly out in the open, then the only metric to judge a film's success is by how much money it makes,' Driver said. 'I hang on to individuals like Francis for inspiration, who live through their convictions, through big moves, all in service of pushing the medium forward. 'Francis took $120 million and created a singular gesture for what he thought film could be, and I think that's pretty great.'
San Francisco Chronicle
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
‘We're nauseatingly in love': Ted Danson brings his real-life romance to ‘A Man on the Inside'
Love and mystery collide in San Francisco as real-life couple Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen bring their romance onscreen. The Golden Globe winner and his wife of 30 years have teamed up for Season 2 of the Netflix comedy series, ' A Man on the Inside. ' Steenburgen is set to play Danson's love interest on the show. Danson, who plays a retired college engineering professor who is hired by a private investigator to go undercover at a Nob Hill retirement home, gushed about working with his wife on his 'Where Everybody Knows Your Name" podcast. 'It's just magical,' he said on the episode, released on Wednesday, June 11. 'We're falling in love. The story evolves, but I'm just head over heels. My character is in love with her, and to sit there on camera and look into your wife's eyes — and we're nauseatingly in love in private life — and just disappear into her eyes in front of a camera is pretty astounding.' Steenburgen's character, Mona Margadoff, is a former musician and is expected to play a large role opposite Danson's Charles Nieuwendyk, according to Netflix's Tudum. Others joining the show include Michaela Conlin ('Bones'), Gary Cole ('NCIS') and Max Greenfield ('New Girl'). This isn't Danson and Steenburgen's first time working together. They have co-starred in a number of projects over the years, including 'It Must Be Love' (2004), 'Gulliver's Travels' (1996) and 'Pontiac Moon' (1994). In the latter, they starred as a married couple, which sparked their real-life romance. 'By the way, if we suck, it's her fault,' Danson joked on the podcast episode. 'I just want to go on the record.' 'A Man on the Inside' featured a number of iconic San Francisco landmarks in its first season, from Oracle Park to the Golden Gate Bridge and the Palace of Fine Arts. The show's first eight episodes were released in November and it was named one of the American Film Institute's 2024 TV programs of the year. The second season is expected to release later this year.
Axios
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Five events to do in SF March 28-30
No plans yet this weekend? Here are a handful of events happening around the city to know about. Friday 🧵 Quilt 2025: Quilt aficionados — your moment has arrived. This two-day event on Friday and Saturday includes an exhibit with more than 300 colorful quilts and wearable art made by local artists and members of the San Francisco Quilt Guild. 10am-6pm on Saturday at 1111 Gough St. Tickets start at $12. 🎸 Franz Ferdinand at the Warfield: If you're an elder millennial, you already know the imprint this Scottish rock band has had on our generation. 9pm at 982 Market St. Tickets start at $87. Saturday Open on Saturdays from 10am-9pm at the Palace of Fine Arts at 3601 Lyon St. Tickets start at $43. 11am-5pm at 2 Marina Blvd. Suggested $5 entry.
