Daily Front Row

2010 September 8

Isn't It Romantic?

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Adam Brody, Rebecca Lawrence, Elijah Wood, Katie Holmes, Malin Akerman, Jeremy Strong, and Josh Duhamel
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(NEW YORK) “Be romantic above all else, aspire to the most romantic and high-minded ideals of love, and just go for it!” At the Cinema Society screening of The Romantics last night, Adam Brody was feeling particularly poetic about love; ironic perhaps, as the romantics in question are a wedding party where the maid of honor, played by Katie Holmes, is in love with the groom, played by Josh Duhamel. Chaos and confusion ensues—but it was nothing but love at the J.Crew and People StyleWatch-sponsored screening, which drew the star-studded cast of Holmes (avec hubby Tom Cruise), Duhamel (sans wife Fergie), Brody, and Elijah Wood, Malin Akerman, Rebecca Lawrence, and Jeremy Strong.

Luckily for Duhamel, who reminisced about his own wedding, art didn’t imitate life. “The maid honor was [Fergie’s] sister, so that would have really been something!” he laughed. “We had so much fun at my wedding. It was everything we hoped it would be and more.”

“I loved having the challenge of playing friends with all these people, because there’s such a history there and we had all just met,” said Holmes of filming, who made cupcakes for her co-stars several times while on-set in Greenport, New York. The group, which played old college friends, spent much of their time at The Frisky Oyster restaurant; “they served us every night!” Homes laughed.

Wood, a fixture in the past at Rodarte’s runway shows, revealed that he’d be sitting front row again come Tuesday. “I love them as human beings,” he said of Kate and Laura Mulleavy after explaining that they met through a mutual friend, photographer Autumn de Wilde. “They’re incredibly imaginative, and they draw on such unique influences from movies to Santa Cruz, where they grew up. They really seem to operate outside of the realm of what fashion usually is.” It was back to work for Akerman post-party, but the actress admitted that there’s one Fashion Week show she’d set her sights on. “I’ve never been to Marc Jacobs, but I’d love to go one day! It’s like watching artwork walk down the runway.”

After the screening, it was off to the Gansevoort’s new Park Avenue outpost for rooftop champagne and Svedka cocktails, where Leighton Meester (fresh from the FNO runway show), Gabourey Sidibe, Kelsey Grammer, Anouck Lepere, and more mingled around the pool. And though the impending Fashion Week festivities were the talk of the evening, for some, love was still in the air. But first: a bit of advice from Rebecca Lawrence: “Try not to marry someone that’s in love with someone else!”
EMILY GYBEN