{"id":788117,"date":"2026-05-11T05:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788117\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:43:14","slug":"jill-kargmans-new-movie-influenced-gives-us-a-foul-mouthed-slice-of-nycs-momzillas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788117\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Kargman’s new movie ‘Influenced’ gives us a foul-mouthed slice of NYC’s momzillas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Odd Mom Out\u2019 is now in<\/strong><\/p>\n

STAR of the Bravo series \u201cOdd Mom Out,\u201d\u00a0Jill Kargman, a screenwriter for 10 years, just wrote and stars as yenta Dzanielle, an Upper East Sider know-it-all \u2014 of which there actually is no other kind \u2014 in\u00a0her new movie<\/a>, \u201cInfluenced.\u201d<\/p>\n

More New York than the Statue of Liberty, she writes and mocks New York. Its opening guest list, at the Florence Gould Theater, was possibly determined by how many sequins guests could wear. The men\u2019s room probably had paillettes glued to their BVDs.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s funny. Foul. More than teeth came out of that bridgework.<\/p>\n

Kargman co-writes and stars as a social-media whocares chasing \u201c1 million\u201d faux friends \u2014 black-card status-obsessed Upper East Siders \u2014 until an unexpected oops shakes what\u2019s under her bra, etc.<\/p>\n

A funny foul-mouthed slice of NYC\u2019s Upper East Siders, it\u2019s the momzillas who do lunch after lunch with events, parties, galas, trunk shows, charity meetings, bar mitzvahs. It\u2019s sprinkling glitter on their graves. It\u2019s putting New York on. There\u2019s even a nice scene in a crappy cemetery where meanwhile a plane flew so low you could\u2019ve gotten a haircut.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook,\u201d she says, \u201cI developed a writing system. I\u2019ve done 12 books. I even wrote while I had a TV show for three years. I wrote while I was in the Hamptons and they were cranky. I kept writing even when my husband, daughter and I were on Christmas vacation.\u201d<\/p>\n

OK, OK, a mazel tov to you. The film\u2019s at NYC\u2019s Quad Cinema now.<\/p>\n

Highbrow crowd<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fridamania shortly hits NYC like a tequila. Painters, poseurs and Park Avenue patrons might soon leave their tweezers for \u201cFrida Week.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be silk behinds at the Met.\u00a0An opera<\/a>\u00a0about Frida Kahlo and husband Diego Rivera, through June 5. Rizzoli\u2019s hustling an art book about them. Amigos will pretend they knew Frida when she hadn\u2019t a canvas to splash onto.<\/p>\n

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The Museum of Modern Art is also\u00a0doing an exhibition<\/a>, through Sept. 12, with art students, collectors and people who rehearsed pronouncing the word \u201ccurator.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arriving will be \u2014 more exciting than a visit from Prince\u00a0Harry\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 the family of Frida Kahlo. They will be at dinners. Openings. Invites are coming. Hostesses are buying tequila, scrambling to find menus they can pronounce.<\/p>\n

NYC\u2019s opera crowd will do Champagne. The book crowd \u2014 prosecco. Museum people will sip opinions. And somewhere Frida herself is looking down and saying: \u201cCaramba! I told you so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting \u2018Honest\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preacher\u2019s ex-wife in Southern California says it\u2019s been no prayer picnic. New book about her 18-year marriage kaput. Three kids to raise.\u00a0Myesha Chaney. She was on Oxygen TV reality show \u201cPreachers of LA.\u201d She says:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy entire life I feared hitting rock bottom. Lowest point is where fear actually dissipates because you experience the worst that could happen, and you live to talk about it. No amount of cameras \u2014 or no \u2018lie that reality TV sells\u2019 could ever equate to the kind of truth-telling it takes to get up after everything falls apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Out May 19<\/a>\u00a0is \u201cHonest: A Memoir of What I Built, What I Lost, and Who I Became.\u201d<\/p>\n

EITHER\u00a0Jill Kargman\u00a0or this California preacher\u2019s wife tells of a woman in black crying. \u201cI\u2019m going to miss him,\u201d she sobs. \u201cMy husband. I knew he ran around but I\u2019m really going to miss him.\u201d A bypasser asks, \u201cWhen did he die?\u201d The woman replies: \u201cTomorrow morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only in a few other cities, kids \u2014 not only in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Odd Mom Out\u2019 is now in STAR of the Bravo series \u201cOdd Mom Out,\u201d\u00a0Jill Kargman, a screenwriter for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":788118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,322051,50558,100264,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,9342,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-788117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-jill-kargman","10":"tag-metropolitan-museum-of-art","11":"tag-moma","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-prince-harry","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116554354251583011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}