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Fifty years ago, chef and food writer James Beard consulted on the very first menu at the Four Seasons restaurant. Beard's input helped galvanize the kitchen in its early days, and over the last 50 years the Four Seasons has developed and maintained its position as the city's preeminent Caesar salad and power lunch spot, complete with seating charts that are more detailed than most star maps. On Saturday afternoon, the James Beard Foundation honored the Four Seasons' co-owners Alex von Bidder and Julian Niccolini at their annual Chefs & Champagne event.

           

Click on the stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Afghan Star, My Sister's Keeper, The Stoning Of Soraya M., Surveillance, Chéri , Quiet Chaos, Repo! The Genetic Opera, The Killing, 10 Rillington Place.

What would Optimus Prime say? According to the Daily News, "An advance screening of the summer blockbuster 'Transformers' turned chaotic Tuesday night and temporarily shut down the AMC Theatre on 34th St." Apparently only 300 people were expected, but instead the screening's organizers were "confronted with a line that stretched along Ninth Ave. When staffers tried to distribute passes, bedlam ensued." The police were called in and the whole theater was shut down for two hours, prompting this peeved observation from moviegoer Danielle Rieter, "I don't know why I can't see 'The Proposal' because everyone had a problem with 'Transformers.'" Indeed! It's unclear if the screening was on the IMAX screen, because you know how passionate people get with IMAX. Related: There were stabbings in Times Square after sold-out screenings of 'Saw' last year.

Recently at one of our sister sites, LAist's Julie Wolfson spent an afternoon with Cloverfield director Matt Reeves. In the interview that follows he spills some juicy details about the film, including what the title really means, which will be in theaters this Friday.

The new J.J. Abrams movie which is still listed as Untitled, but is unofficially being referred to as Cloverfield, was filming on the Lower East Side yesterday and last night. Did anyone catch it? The monster movie is due out January 18th, 2008 - and this past week Abrams spoke of the somewhat mysterious project at Comic-Con.

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too - two of them in -Ist cities.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a fatal fall victim at Clove Rd. and Hillcrest Terrace on Staten Island, a severed finger on East 38th St. and Madison Ave., and an animal rescue at 173rd St. in Queens.
• Sirius satellite radio (channel 85) will feature tribute broadcasts of performances by the recently deceased Beverly Sills tonight and tomorrow evening, at 9 pm and 8 pm, respectively.
• Shooting of the film adaptation of Jerome Robbins' ballet Jazz Opus recently took place on the Highline.
• The Gowanus Lounge reports that the Dept. of Transportation has begun the installation of bike lanes and other traffic-calming measures on 9th St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
• Congress will be holding hearings to discuss the re-opening of the Statue of Liberty's crown to visitors.
• A Bronx man was arrested after a sneak preview screening of "Transformers" this weekend, in a police sting operation that caught him digitally recording the movie. He will be the first person prosecuted under new more severe anti-piracy laws and faces fines of $5,000 and up to six months in jail.
• Guss' Pickles on the Lower East Side is unhappy that Whole Foods is selling what it claims is an inferior product made by a supplier in the Bronx with the Guss' name.
• A Brooklyn grandfather who's never been accused of a crime is claiming that cops stole $600, broke religious figurines, and planted drugs in his apartment during a court-approved search, after they accused the man of selling drugs and guns.

With the mid-week Fourth of July holiday, an abbreviated work week practically demands an afternoon at the movies complete with giant tub o' fatty snacks and subzero air conditioning. New York is a real haven for movie theater aficionados, and we all have our favorites. Here's a brief breakdown of what to see, and where, this holiday. In the comments feel free to weigh in on the best and/or worst places to see giant alien vehicles attack earth or betrothed couples acting goofy.

Yesterday's fire at the Indian Point nuclear power plant occurred in a transformer yard and away from the plant's nuclear area, but klaxons sounding at a nuclear facility have a way of putting people on edge. Transformers are the component of our electric power infrastructure that makes electricity suitable for transmission over the grid. When a fire broke out amidst the transformers used by Indian Point 3, the plant automatically shut down as by design. The other reactor, Indian Point 2, continued functioning normally.

Update: Above clip not from movie. But still totally awesome.