Babs Olusanmokun, who some might remember from Andrew Dosunmu's Restless City (or on TV in popular series like Law & Order: Ci, The Unit and others) co-stars in this film adaptation of director Nick Sandow and writer Michael Batistick’s critically acclaimed stage play Ponies, which saw a 2-week theatrical run at New York’s Cinema Village last month. Set in New York City within the world of Off Track Betting (Otb), Ponies reflects the anxieties faced by recent immigrants to post-9/11 America. The main characters have fled their home countries because of war or other forms of strife, but they find that America is not necessarily a safe haven. Babs also...
- 8/7/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
It is neither necessary nor polite to bring horses to a Kentucky Derby party. Photo courtesy of the Conde Nast Archive. Even if you haven’t entered an Off Track Betting facility in New York lately, you probably know that hosting a fun Kentucky Derby party can be a delicate task. You want your Nicely Nicely friends to show up and have fun, of course, but you don’t want to spend the whole day preparing for a two-minute race and you sure don’t want to turn your home into the set of The Sting. Mostly, though, you want to skew your plans so that you never have a single guest bugging you with outrageous questions like “Where’s the bathroom?” in the minutes leading up to the race. This is the second in a four-part series brought to you by Open Bar. In the widely acclaimed first installment,...
- 4/28/2010
- Vanity Fair
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