And the Café Carlyle, where singer - pianist Bobby Short
entertained sophisticates from 1968 until his death in 2005, is still a haven for performers; Alan Cumming talks of breaking the rules by posing nude for an album cover outside the Cafe's doors.
Clearly, having already opened the movie at Sundance Searchlight is taking out «Mistress America» — in which lonely New York college freshman Tracy (Lola Kirke) is taken in by her almost stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig), a dangerously
entertaining urban
sophisticate who draws her into her crazy schemes — in the quieter August corridor rather than taking it on the more congested and expensive fall festival route.