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December 19, 2009
Pics of Keanu in Kenmore
Keanu Reeves took a break from filming a scene for his movie "Henry's Crime" at Jinlan Chinese Restaurant in Kenmore on Friday afternoon. Reeves spent several minutes talking with fans who braved frigid temperatures in hopes of getting an autograph or a photograph with him.

http://blogs.buffalonews.com/popstand/2009/12/keanu-in-kenmore.html

Keanu Reeves Meets With Local WNY Leaders and Media
By Jennifer Stanonis
Story Published: Dec 16, 2009 at 11:23 PM EST
Movie star Keanu Reeves, director Malcolm Venville, and producer Lemore Syvan met with local leaders and media after another day of filming "Henry's Crime" in downtown Buffalo on Wednesday. "Great people and great support," Reeves said of his time here.
Keanu spoke about how friendly Buffalo has been to the crew, and reveled what made them choose this area to shoot part of his latest movie. "We were looking for... a place that had a past and was kind of moving into the future and transition itself, and Buffalo was the place," Reeves said
The film crew received a special honor from Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown as he proclaimed the week of December 14th, 2009 as Henry's Crime week for our city and county. Mayors from other local cities where filming will take place, like Niagara Falls and Kenmore, also brought gifts for the film crew including winter hats since it has been so cold here. Keanu poetically explained why they're filming during winter, saying it helps to enhance the romance of the movie. "Well in the cold of winter, one welcomes the needs and cherishes the warm heart of romance even more."
Keanu also revealed more about what this film is all about. "His name is Henry... and living an unsatisfied life... now our story is morally and ethically challenged because Henry decides when he comes out of jail to rob the bank that he already went to jail for robbing."
Economically the film has brought in more temporary jobs for locals and the decision to come here may not have happened if it weren't for the state's tax credit for filmmakers. "The New York State tax credit was huge news for New York filmmakers such as myself, because that meant that actually we could be here," Lemore Syvan, the producer of Henry's Crime, said. "Because usually it's very hard to convince financers to stay in New York. I would not be in New York State probably."
For the rest of the week Keanu and his crew will be filming in downtown Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and Kenmore.
http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/79469462.html

"Henry's Crime" Filming in Buffalo
Watch video of Keanu Reeves acting in "Henry's Crime" in Downtown Buffalo on Wednesday.
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Keanu Reeves attends the premiere for 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee' as part of the 59th Berlin Film Festival at the Berlinal Palast on February 9, 2009 in Berlin, Germany

Keanu Reeves, Blake Lively, director Rebecca Miller, actresses Robin Wright Penn and Zoe Kazan attend the premiere for 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee' as part of the 59th Berlin Film Festival at the Berlinal Palast on February 9, 2009 in Berlin, Germany

'It's like every seven years, turn over a new leaf,' Penn says of her character's changing life.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Robin Wright Penn wasn't supposed to be in "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," at least not in the way it was originally conceived by indie filmmaker Rebecca Miller ("The Ballad of Jack and Rose"). The writer/director conceived her newest movie's heroine as a 55-year-old woman coming to terms with her shady past and contending with her older husband's declining health.
But when Penn came into the picture, the story line stayed the same, while Pippa's age dropped 15 years. "Really and truly, age is just a number," the actress told MTV News. "I think we do it in stages in our life. It's like every seven years, turn over a new leaf. [Pippa's] at that crossroads."

Penn herself has undergone profound personal changes in recent years. After she spent almost two decades with Sean Penn, dating since 1989 and marrying seven years later, the couple began divorce proceedings this summer. Speaking with MTV, though, the actress resisted the notion that she and her character shared much in common.
Biographically speaking, that is certainly true. Told through a series of flashbacks that augment the present-tense narrative, "Pippa" follows the titular character from her days of youthful debauchery (played, in these sequences, by Blake Lively) to the time, decades later, when she and her elderly husband (Alan Arkin) move into a retirement home following his heart attack and she meets a man closer to her own age (Keanu Reeves).
Like Pippa, Reeves' character is struggling to make sense of life's difficult twists and turns. The actor revealed that his point of creative entry for the role was to imagine how to restart your own life after past failures, or as he put it, "the idea of dealing with the past and becoming present in your own life and changing it."
Change is certainly one of the film's central themes. Love, as Pippa says at one point, comes and goes. And at least in this respect, Penn agrees with her character.
"It's twofold. It does come and go, but when it comes back, it's bigger," she explained, adding, "When it goes, it goes. You're like, 'OK, this one came back and, wow, it feels better.' "

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1627140/story.jhtml

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Keanu Reeves And Robin Wright Penn On Love
The "Secret Lives of Pippa Lee" co-stars weigh in on the concept of love coming and going. (11.25.09)

http://www.mtv.com/videos/movies/459812/keanu-reeves-and-robin-wright-penn-on-love.jhtml

Keanu Reeves at the Angelika NEW YORK on 11/27 after the 7:25PM show of "PIPPA LEE" http://tinyurl.com/ylzzlb2

Keanu at Angelica Theater, NYC for a Question and Answer event following new film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee 11-27

Photo: Philip Mauro Thursday, November 26, 2009
OMG in this photo (and it's not photo-shopped!) Pastor Ann Kansfield of the Greenpoint Reformed Church is in the company of two very big movie stars: Keanu Reeves and Vera Farmiga who stopped by the Greenpoint Reformed Church Soup Kitchen, earlier today, to lend some support before the Kitchen's Thanksgiving meal was served. Reeves and Farmiga are filming "Henry's Crime." Some of the scenes are being shot in the upper level of the Church. According to Ann, "Reeves is playing the part of a big-hearted man who is falsely accused of pulling a bank robbery on a bank in Buffalo. Farmiga plays the love interest of Reeves' character."
Reeve's presence is also being felt in beneficent ways: The film production company producing "Henry's Crime," Ann happily reports, is donating funds to the soup kitchen to help begin a much needed rehab of the church's basement.
For those who don't know, the soup kitchen serves a healthy and delicious meal to as many as 80 people each week, which, says Ann, is a 20 percent increase over the numbers they served last year. "Due to this surge, to complement seating in the main hall, upgrading the basement space will allow the soup kitchen to keep up with the increasing demand by functioning as an overflow room on busy nights," she says.
Designers Goil Amornvivat (of Bravo's Top Design) and Tom Morbitzer have volunteered their expertise and will design a plan for the basement space, says Ann. "The duo, who live in Williamsburg, jumped at the opportunity to help us."

http://thewgnews.com/2009/11/keanu-reeves-visits-reformed-church-soup-kitchen/

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum Nov 24, 2009
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
If anyone can knit the unraveling title character in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee into a recognizable woman, it's Robin Wright. Always an actor of great physical loveliness, the star, now in her 40s, has a unique talent for conveying the minute mood shifts of an adult woman wised up by her own aging. She's pleasing as ever to watch in this high-class production by writer-director Rebecca Miller (Personal Velocity), adapted from Miller's own novel. But the rarefied dramatique circles in which Pippa (literally) sleepwalks are such a mess of highfalutin complications that it's impossible to empathize with the sad, lost, fragile heroine. (She's much more relatable in the novel.) The mix is Lifetime soap-meets-Woody Allen smart-set comedy, with less humor and a genteel Connecticut setting.
This we know: Pippa is married to a much older man, Herb (Alan Arkin), a successful publisher who left his wife (Monica Bellucci) for Pippa when the former Pippa Sarkissian was a crazy, drug- and sex-addled filly (played, in flashback, by Gossip Girl's Blake Lively). Now while Herb makes eyes at a new younger, crazy woman (Winona Ryder), Pippa somnambulates her way into a bond with her neighbor's emotionally trip-wired son (Keanu Reeves). The name-brand cast gives the movie buzz, but no velocity. C
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20322476,00.html

Actor Keanu Reeves speaks to a fan during the celebrity race practice session at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 17, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Actor Keanu Reeves sits in his race car during the celebrity race practice session at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 17, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Actor Keanu Reeves exit his race car during the celebrity race practice session at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 17, 2009 in Long Beach, California.

Actor Keanu Reeves signs an autograph during the celebrity race practice session at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 17, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Keanu Reeves attends the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Professional race car driver Al Unser Jr., (L) and Keanu Reeves spray champagne after winning the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Keanu Reeves attends the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Actor Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California..

Actor Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California.

Actor Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Actor Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Actor Keanu Reeves celebrates after winning the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California.

Actor Keanu Reeves celebrates after winning the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

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The 'totally tubular' Keanu Reeves was on Regis and Kelly this morning. While he can't live down a certain movie (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure), he can certainly promote new ones! REeves struck me as having high-energy and being in a good mood. Utilizing hand gestures often, his shoulder-grazing hair was still kind of distracting. I'd just like to trim…er, chop it entirely off. Come on! He looks better with shorter hair. I know people say I am too obsessed with people's hair, and the truth is… that I AM.
Maybe I shouldn't look just on the outside. Well. Okay. Everything Reeves said was kind of sexy. Even when he just said, "Me too." Crap, is that also superficial?

Swoon-worthy. keanu-reeves.net
Keanu said he can't cook, but was learning a bit for a role. I can hardly believe he's still a bachelor. No one has snapped him up? "I'm really good at eating. If you need someone to enjoy your meal, call me." Sign me up.
Okay, onto business. Reeves is in the new movie The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. It was directed by Rebecca Miller who also directed the amazing (little-known) movie Personal Velocity (also a book). Everyone seems to know that Blake Lively is in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, but we don't realize the cast also includes Robin Wright Penn, Alan Arkin, Maria Bello and even Winona Ryder.
Memorable Quotes from the Keanu Reeves interview:
"We make a lot of jokes about cougars these days but they're in control." - Regis"They've always been in control!" - Keanu
"Someone told me you felt you were a little too old to play this young fellow." - Regis"Yea. …I eventually saw the light." - Keanu

http://smallscreenscoop.com/keanu-reeves-on-regis-and-kelly/32866/

A source close to the situation tells 2-On Your Side reports that Keanu Reeves will not be shooting a movie in Buffalo are false.

Earlier today, a local talent agency, Exxcel Model and Talent, told 2-On-Your-Side the casting call for "Henry's Crime" went out for New York City only. However, our source says several local crew members have already been hired for pre-production.

There's been lots of excitement here surrounding the film. Just two weeks ago, several of you e-mailed photos of Reeves scouting locations for the romantic comedy. It's plot centers around a toll booth attendant looking for meaning in life when he's falsely accused of robbing a bank in Buffalo.

We contacted the Buffalo Niagara Film Commission for comment about the developments involving the film. They had no official comment.

Viewer photo of Keanu Reeves & Mayor Brown

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Keanu Reeves attends The Cinema Society & A Diamond is Forever screening of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee at AMC Loews 19th Street on November 15, 2009 in New York City.

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Keanu Reeves poses at the Stage Directors And Choreographers Society 50 Year Celebration at Tribeca Rooftop on November 8, 2009 in New York, New York.

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Keanu Reeves attends the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Professional race car driver Al Unser Jr., (L) and Keanu Reeves spray champagne after winning the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Keanu Reeves attends the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Actor Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California..

Actor Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California.

Actor Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Actor Keanu Reeves wins the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California

Actor Keanu Reeves celebrates after winning the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California.

Actor Keanu Reeves celebrates after winning the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California