Music producer Richard Perry, known for his iconic collaborations with numerous artists from Carly Simon to Barbra Streisand, has died at the age of 82.
Daphna Kastner, Perry’s friend, confirmed his death to news outlets. “He maximized his time here,” Kastner said in a statement to ABC News. “He was generous, fun, sweet and made the world a better place. The world is a little less sweeter without him here. But it’s a little bit sweeter in heaven.” Kastner said that Perry died at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering cardiac arrest.
Daphna Kastner, Perry’s friend, confirmed his death to news outlets. “He maximized his time here,” Kastner said in a statement to ABC News. “He was generous, fun, sweet and made the world a better place. The world is a little less sweeter without him here. But it’s a little bit sweeter in heaven.” Kastner said that Perry died at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering cardiac arrest.
- 12/25/2024
- by Krystie Lee Yandoli
- Rollingstone.com
Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes included Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” Rod Stewart’s “The Great American Songbook” series and a Ringo Starr album featuring all four Beatles, died Tuesday. He was 82.
Perry, a recipient of a Grammys Trustee Award in 2015, died at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering cardiac arrest, friend Daphna Kastner said.
“He maximized his time here,” said Kastner, who called him a “father friend” and said he was godfather to her son. “He was generous, fun, sweet and made the world a better place. The world is a little less sweeter without him here. But it’s a little bit sweeter in heaven.”
Perry was a onetime drummer, oboist and doo-wop singer who proved at home with a wide variety of musical styles, the rare producer to have No. 1 hits on the pop,...
Perry, a recipient of a Grammys Trustee Award in 2015, died at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering cardiac arrest, friend Daphna Kastner said.
“He maximized his time here,” said Kastner, who called him a “father friend” and said he was godfather to her son. “He was generous, fun, sweet and made the world a better place. The world is a little less sweeter without him here. But it’s a little bit sweeter in heaven.”
Perry was a onetime drummer, oboist and doo-wop singer who proved at home with a wide variety of musical styles, the rare producer to have No. 1 hits on the pop,...
- 12/25/2024
- by The Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Richard Perry, a music producer behind hits like Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” has died. He was 82.
The record producer died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after suffering cardiac arrest.
Daphna Kastner, a friend of Perry, told AP she referred to him as a “father friend, adding, “He maximized his time here. He was generous, fun, sweet and made the world a better place. The world is a little less sweeter without him here. But it’s a little bit sweeter in heaven.”
Perry made a big name in the 1970s, producing for the likes of Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Art Garfunkel, Carly Simon, and Ringo Starr. In the late 1970s, he started his own Planet Records label and signed acts like The Cretones, Pointer Sisters, and Billy Thermal, among many others. He sold the label to RCA Records in 1983.
TMZ reports that according to Perry’s personal assistant,...
The record producer died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after suffering cardiac arrest.
Daphna Kastner, a friend of Perry, told AP she referred to him as a “father friend, adding, “He maximized his time here. He was generous, fun, sweet and made the world a better place. The world is a little less sweeter without him here. But it’s a little bit sweeter in heaven.”
Perry made a big name in the 1970s, producing for the likes of Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Art Garfunkel, Carly Simon, and Ringo Starr. In the late 1970s, he started his own Planet Records label and signed acts like The Cretones, Pointer Sisters, and Billy Thermal, among many others. He sold the label to RCA Records in 1983.
TMZ reports that according to Perry’s personal assistant,...
- 12/25/2024
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Los Angeles, July 9 (Ians) Academy award-winning actor Robert De Niro attended the funeral of his 19-year-old grandson who died after taking fentanyl-laced pills.
The ‘Goodfella’s actor, 79, was joined by his longtime friends Christopher Walken, 80, Harvey Keitel, 84, and music executive Tommy Mottola, as he attended the funeral of grandson Leandro De Niro in New York, Mirror.co.uk reported.
De Niro’s girlfriend Tiffany Chen was also in attendance with their baby daughter Gia bundled close in a carrier.
Leandro died last week after taking fentanyl-laced pills at his $1million Wall Street apartment. At the time his grandfather Robert De Niro said he was “deeply distressed” at the news.
The teenager was found sitting in a chair beside white powder in his one-bedroom apartment on Sunday. His mother Drena, adopted by De Niro after he married her mother Diahnne Abbott in 1976, announced his death on Monday.
The funeral took place at the Frank E.
The ‘Goodfella’s actor, 79, was joined by his longtime friends Christopher Walken, 80, Harvey Keitel, 84, and music executive Tommy Mottola, as he attended the funeral of grandson Leandro De Niro in New York, Mirror.co.uk reported.
De Niro’s girlfriend Tiffany Chen was also in attendance with their baby daughter Gia bundled close in a carrier.
Leandro died last week after taking fentanyl-laced pills at his $1million Wall Street apartment. At the time his grandfather Robert De Niro said he was “deeply distressed” at the news.
The teenager was found sitting in a chair beside white powder in his one-bedroom apartment on Sunday. His mother Drena, adopted by De Niro after he married her mother Diahnne Abbott in 1976, announced his death on Monday.
The funeral took place at the Frank E.
- 7/9/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Harvey Keitel has a fantastic story about courting his wife of 20 years — and of course, his dear friend Robert De Niro is a part of the tale.
The Oscar-nominated actor on Wednesday dropped by The Late Show where he told Stephen Colbert about pursuing the love of his life, Daphna Kastner, which involved several crazy connections to his Taxi Driver and The Irishman castmate.
“I met my wife in Rome at a party for Robert,” Keitel told Colbert of their first meeting in the ’80s. “She allowed me to take her to dinner at the [Dal Bolognese Roma]. Then I called ...
The Oscar-nominated actor on Wednesday dropped by The Late Show where he told Stephen Colbert about pursuing the love of his life, Daphna Kastner, which involved several crazy connections to his Taxi Driver and The Irishman castmate.
“I met my wife in Rome at a party for Robert,” Keitel told Colbert of their first meeting in the ’80s. “She allowed me to take her to dinner at the [Dal Bolognese Roma]. Then I called ...
Harvey Keitel has a fantastic story about courting his wife of 20 years — and of course, his dear friend Robert De Niro is a part of the tale.
The Oscar-nominated actor on Wednesday dropped by The Late Show where he told Stephen Colbert about pursuing the love of his life, Daphna Kastner, which involved several crazy connections to his Taxi Driver and The Irishman castmate.
“I met my wife in Rome at a party for Robert,” Keitel told Colbert of their first meeting in the ’80s. “She allowed me to take her to dinner at the [Dal Bolognese Roma]. Then I called ...
The Oscar-nominated actor on Wednesday dropped by The Late Show where he told Stephen Colbert about pursuing the love of his life, Daphna Kastner, which involved several crazy connections to his Taxi Driver and The Irishman castmate.
“I met my wife in Rome at a party for Robert,” Keitel told Colbert of their first meeting in the ’80s. “She allowed me to take her to dinner at the [Dal Bolognese Roma]. Then I called ...
Harvey Keitel is facing a lawsuit over claims he failed to pay an architect for redesigning his home in New York. Robert Kahn alleges the "Reservoir Dogs" actor owes him $43,850 for hiring consultants and drawing up plans for an overhaul of the property in Manhattan.
In papers filed at a New York court this week, Kahn is demanding Keitel and his wife Daphna Kastner settle the bill for the renovation plans, which included combining three separate apartments into one home.
His lawsuit aside, Harvey Keitel will be seen starring opposite Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in upcoming movie "Little Fockers" which was the sequel of "Meet the Fockers". The big screen project is set to hit U.S. theaters on July 30.
In papers filed at a New York court this week, Kahn is demanding Keitel and his wife Daphna Kastner settle the bill for the renovation plans, which included combining three separate apartments into one home.
His lawsuit aside, Harvey Keitel will be seen starring opposite Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in upcoming movie "Little Fockers" which was the sequel of "Meet the Fockers". The big screen project is set to hit U.S. theaters on July 30.
- 1/28/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Keitel Sued Over 'Unpaid Bill'
Harvey Keitel is facing a lawsuit over claims he failed to pay an architect for redesigning his home in New York.
Robert Kahn alleges the Reservoir Dogs actor owes him $43,850 (£27,500) for hiring consultants and drawing up plans for an overhaul of the property in Manhattan.
In papers filed at a New York court this week (begs25Jan10), Kahn is demanding Keitel and his wife Daphna Kastner settle the bill for the renovation plans, which included combining three separate apartments into one home.
Robert Kahn alleges the Reservoir Dogs actor owes him $43,850 (£27,500) for hiring consultants and drawing up plans for an overhaul of the property in Manhattan.
In papers filed at a New York court this week (begs25Jan10), Kahn is demanding Keitel and his wife Daphna Kastner settle the bill for the renovation plans, which included combining three separate apartments into one home.
- 1/27/2010
- WENN
Keitel and Kastner Celebrate Birth
Veteran actor Harvey Keitel and his wife Daphna Kastner are celebrating after welcoming their first child into the world. Kastner gave birth to a baby boy, Roman, who weighed in at eight pounds, two ounces at a New York hospital early Tuesday, reports website Pagesix.Com. The Cop Land star, 65, already has an 18-year-old daughter, Stella, with ex-wife Lorraine Bracco, and a two-year-old son, Hudson, with his former lover Lisa Karmazin. Karmazin testified in a family court that she only learnt of Keitel's romance with Kastner two weeks before she gave birth. Keitel married Kastner in October 2001.
- 8/19/2004
- WENN
Keitel To Be a Dad Again
Hollywood veteran Harvey Keitel is to be a dad for the second time - his wife Daphna Kastner is four months pregnant. The 64-year-old Reservoir Dogs star announced the news to American gossip columnist Cindy Adams. He told the New York Post writer the pair don't care what sex the baby is "as long as it's a healthy baby". Keitel - who married Israeli actress Kaster, 42, in October 2001, three weeks after meeting her at the Toronto Film Festival on September 11 - has a daughter Stella with first wife Lorraine Bracco.
- 3/8/2004
- WENN
Keitel Accused of Shunning Son
A New York court has been told that Hollywood star Harvey Keitel refused to see his baby son until six months after his birth. The Pulp Fiction star's ex-girlfriend Lisa Karmazin claims the actor has visited his son - who is now 13 months old - just three times. Karmazin, a pottery instructor from San Diego, California, began a whirlwind romance with the 63-year-old actor after they met in February 2000. She claims their relationship soured when she discovered she was pregnant with baby Hudson - named after the Manhattan street where Keitel lives and where the baby was conceived - and deteriorated by the time she gave birth in September last year. Karmazin told Manhattan Family Court, "I called him from the hospital in labor. He said that he couldn't make it, that he would be there in a couple of days. It took him six months to see his son." Keitel married actress Daphna Kastner last October.
- 10/30/2002
- WENN
Keitel Forced To Pay More To Lovechild
Harvey Keitel has been forced to increase his child support payments to the woman he dumped while she was pregnant. Keitel's liaison with potter Lisa Karmazin produced a son, Hudson, five months ago. Keitel married another woman, Israeli-born filmmaker/actress Daphna Kastner, shortly after Hudson's birth. He had been paying $3,000 a month in support. Karmazin, who earns only $10,000 a year, asked for an increase to $7,000 a month, but Keitel's attorney argued she had chosen to live "a spartan lifestyle" and didn't need an increase. The court in New York split the difference and awarded her a $2,000 a month increase.
- 3/7/2002
- WENN
Harvey Keitel Marries In Jerusalem
Harvey Keitel married his Israeli-born wife Daphna Kastner on Sunday afternoon - dressed in black. Keitel was in Jerusalem to attend the Haifa film festival screening of his new movie The Grey Zone - which depicts how Jews were forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz death camps against their will. News of the wedding is a shock, because only last week reports emerged that the screen legend had just become a father again - to a little girl whose mother is a mystery woman called Lisa. Keitel already has a 16-year-old daughter, Stella, with actress Lorraine Bracco, currently his adversary in a fierce custody battle.
- 10/10/2001
- WENN
Film review: 'Spanish Fly''
An actress who appeared in a couple of Henry Jaglom films ("Eating", "Venice/Venice"), Daphna Kastner is also a writer-director whose first film was 1995's little-seen "French Exit". In front of and behind the camera, Kastner is enthusiastic but content with straightforward visuals and a lackadaisical lead performance as she delivers a polite, pretentious fish-out-of-water romancer in her second directorial effort.
"Spanish Fly" opens today at the Mann Westwood, and it might generate a little interest based on the male cast, including Toni Canto ("All About My Mother") and Martin Donovan. The modestly budgeted European co-production distributed by Avalanche Releasing will buzz around feebly for a short time.
Kastner plays Zoe, a young American journalist on a book-writing trip to Madrid, Spain, with extra emphasis on the character's klutziness and poor grasp of Spanish. She's self-absorbed to the point of misreading most men -- which, it turns out, is the subject of her project. Specifically, she's investigating the myth of machismo, while not about to deny her womanly urges in the process.
Sounds like a potential sexy update on the adventuresome-Yank-liberated-by-sensual-Europeans cliche, but "Spanish" has little going for it even with lowered expectations. Zoe asks the most banal, simple-minded questions of her random interviewees, while smart, attractive translator Antonio (Canto) feeds her a line of hooey and offers her several chances to get more personal input, which she resists.
Flighty and jaded romantically, with a cartoonish ex-boyfriend (Danny Huston) who has joined a "men's group," Zoe is unnerved by all the amore among the environs. When she crosses paths with older university lecturer Carl (Donovan), she embarks on a casual fling that only delays the inevitable narrative twist. Her agent calls to tell her the book deal is off, and she leaves Madrid in search of her long-lost father, a Spanish man with whom her mother had a passionate love affair.
A handsome brute of a guitar player (Antonio Castro) briefly wins over the heroine with his sexual charisma. Momentarily lighting up the screen, Marianne Sagebrecht and Rossy de Palma appear in a few scenes. Kastner at least knew to hurry things up at the end, concluding with a long-delayed, satisfaction-guaranteed tryst between Zoe and a patient but certifiably macho man.
SPANISH FLY
Avalanche Releasing
Miramax Films
Star Line, Portman Entertainment, Banfilm
A Juan Alexander production
Screenwriter-director: Daphna Kastner
Producer: Juan Alexander
Director of photography: Arnaldo Catinari
Production designer: Alain Bainee
Editor: Caroline Biggerstaff
Costume designer: Jose Maria De Cossio
Music: Mario de Benito
Color/stereo
Cast:
Zoe: Daphna Kastner
Antonio: Toni Canto
Carl: Martin Donovan
Julio: Antonio Castro
John: Danny Huston
Rosa: Marianne Sagebrecht
Running time -- 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
"Spanish Fly" opens today at the Mann Westwood, and it might generate a little interest based on the male cast, including Toni Canto ("All About My Mother") and Martin Donovan. The modestly budgeted European co-production distributed by Avalanche Releasing will buzz around feebly for a short time.
Kastner plays Zoe, a young American journalist on a book-writing trip to Madrid, Spain, with extra emphasis on the character's klutziness and poor grasp of Spanish. She's self-absorbed to the point of misreading most men -- which, it turns out, is the subject of her project. Specifically, she's investigating the myth of machismo, while not about to deny her womanly urges in the process.
Sounds like a potential sexy update on the adventuresome-Yank-liberated-by-sensual-Europeans cliche, but "Spanish" has little going for it even with lowered expectations. Zoe asks the most banal, simple-minded questions of her random interviewees, while smart, attractive translator Antonio (Canto) feeds her a line of hooey and offers her several chances to get more personal input, which she resists.
Flighty and jaded romantically, with a cartoonish ex-boyfriend (Danny Huston) who has joined a "men's group," Zoe is unnerved by all the amore among the environs. When she crosses paths with older university lecturer Carl (Donovan), she embarks on a casual fling that only delays the inevitable narrative twist. Her agent calls to tell her the book deal is off, and she leaves Madrid in search of her long-lost father, a Spanish man with whom her mother had a passionate love affair.
A handsome brute of a guitar player (Antonio Castro) briefly wins over the heroine with his sexual charisma. Momentarily lighting up the screen, Marianne Sagebrecht and Rossy de Palma appear in a few scenes. Kastner at least knew to hurry things up at the end, concluding with a long-delayed, satisfaction-guaranteed tryst between Zoe and a patient but certifiably macho man.
SPANISH FLY
Avalanche Releasing
Miramax Films
Star Line, Portman Entertainment, Banfilm
A Juan Alexander production
Screenwriter-director: Daphna Kastner
Producer: Juan Alexander
Director of photography: Arnaldo Catinari
Production designer: Alain Bainee
Editor: Caroline Biggerstaff
Costume designer: Jose Maria De Cossio
Music: Mario de Benito
Color/stereo
Cast:
Zoe: Daphna Kastner
Antonio: Toni Canto
Carl: Martin Donovan
Julio: Antonio Castro
John: Danny Huston
Rosa: Marianne Sagebrecht
Running time -- 94 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 12/1/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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