Daily Front Row

2012 January 20

On a Ledge of Acme

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Elizabeth Banks, Kyra Sedgwick
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(NEW YORK) The best way to unwind after taking in a high-octane flick like last night's Man on a Ledge screening, hosted by the Cinema Society, Gilt Man, and Grey Goose? Packing into a buzzy (and delicious) newest addition to Jones Street's ever-expanding spate of restos at the reopened Acme to fete the film and get the weekend started a tad early. Migrating from the screening at The Tribeca Grand, a lively mishmosh of co-stars, like Kyra Sedgwick, Elizabeth Banks, Sam Worthington, Anthony Mackie, and director Asger Leth, mingled with the likes of a silver-clad, luminescent Hilary Rhoda, Olivier Theyskens, restauranteur Geoffrey Zakarian, Gregg Bello, InStyle's Hal Rubinstein, Jessica Hart, and Charlotte Ronson, pressed cheek-to-cheek as the champagne refills flowed (and, in some cases, splashed). Among those making it a two-night Cinema Society affair, besides your dear Daily? Debbie Harry, Amy Sacco, and Banks, among others. Wheels of cured salmon propped atop cucumber provided a light bite, while a hearty spread of chicified soul fare fed hungry partyhoppers and/or those indulging in a few two many elderflower-tinged Fizz-of-some-sort concoctions. For the latter, Gilt-y as charged. 
ALEXANDRA ILYASHOV