An upbeat crowd of film-industry worthies got off their couches and traded their sweatpants for formal wear to fill the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Thursday evening to see Scarlett Johansson feted at the 35th Annual American Cinematheque Awards.If the ongoing pandemic led to properly cautious protocols and the complications of slowly reopening cinemas went almost wholly unmentioned, the evening displayed a peaceful near-lassitude rather than the typical gala’s Hooray for Hollywood ethos.
After all, it’s been just a few weeks since Johansson won a significant skirmish with Disney and Marvel to get her proper payday for the “Black Widow” vehicle doomed by lockdown to underpay her what should have been a bounteous backend share of the box office.
(Johansson’s CAA agent Bryan Lourd — his former agency partner Rick Nicita chairs the Cinematheque Board — was in great spirits at the star’s table.)There was virtually
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