Café des Artistes was a fine restaurant at One West 67th Street in Manhattan and was owned by George Lang.
 He closed the restaurant for vacation at the beginning of August 2009 and, while away, decided to keep it closed permanently.
 He announced the closure on August 28, 2009.
 His wife, Jenifer Lang, had been the managing director of the restaurant since 1990.
Catastrophe is a short play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1982 at the invitation of A.I.D.A. (Association Internationale de Défense des Artistes) and “[f]irst produced in the Avignon Festival (21 July 1982) … Beckett considered it ‘massacred.
’” It is one of his few plays to deal with a political theme and, arguably, holds the title of Beckett's most optimistic work.
 It was dedicated to then imprisoned Czech reformer and playwright, Václav Havel.
IRM is the third studio album by French electropop singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, with all songs written and produced by Beck except "Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes" (written by Jean-Pierre Ferland).
 The album title was inspired by the French initialism for a MRI scanner.
 The title track was released as a free download on 9 October 2009.
 The album was mostly recorded at Beck's home studio in Los Angeles, California.
 The lead single is "Heaven Can Wait", a duet with Beck, and was released on 2 November.
 The music video for "Heaven Can Wait" was directed by Keith Schofield and was released on 19 November 2009.
 The video for "Heaven Can Wait" was named one of the Top 20 best music videos of 2009 by Spin Magazine.
 "Trick Pony" is featured in the football video game by EA Sports, "FIFA 11".
The Curtain Rises (French: "Entrée des artistes" ) is a 1938 French crime film directed by Marc Allégret.
The Dutch artist Otto van Rees (1884-1957), son of a family of academics, started his career in Paris, where he moved in 1904.
 By intermediation of Picasso, whom Van Rees met in the café Le Lapin Agile, Van Rees put up at an atelier in the Bateau Lavoir.
 At the Académie Carrière he became friends with George Braque.
 The Bateau Lavoir was a lively place where his contact with other artists, painters, (Picasso, Léger, Gris, Van Dongen) as well as writers (Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Apollinaire) deepened.
 His wife and fellow artist, Adya van Rees-Dutilh joint him soon after.
 Paris would be their winter residence on and off for over 30 years.
 Some of his fellow artists became dear friends over many years: Severini, Segal, Freundlich, Mondriaan, Arp, Zadkine.
 The summers were spent at Fleury-en-Bière, a little town next to Barbizon.
 Kees van Dongen spent the summer of 1905 there, together with Otto and Adya van Rees in the farmhouse Van Rees rented.
 They painted together in the fields around the village.
 Picasso was also a visitor, as well as other artists: Otto Freundlich, Marc Chagall and Blaise Cendrars to mention a few.
 After a stay in Italy his first grand exposition of 48 luministic paintings was held in 1908 in Rotterdam at the Oldenzeel gallery, gallery famous for its exhibitions (1892-1904) of works by Vincent van Gogh.
 In Paris, during the early years, Otto van Rees exhibited his work at the gallery of Berthe Weil and Clovis Sagot and at the yearly Salon des Artistes Indépendants.
 He also had part in the Sonderbund, Cöln in 1912 and the famous exhibition of Der Sturm in 1913.
 In 1912-1916 the art of Van Rees went through changes, pointillism and luminism lost his interest.
 His work evolved from physic cubism, as Apollinaire described it, to analytic cubism.
 One of the first collectors of his art then was Arthur Jerôme Eddy.
 During the first world war Van Rees changed his French summer residence for Ascona, little town at the Lago Maggiore.
 The artistic and anarchistic colony there was inspiring.
 With Arp, who later spent Christmastime 1915 at the Van Rees, Otto and Adya held the famous exposition of November 1915 at the gallery Tanner in Zürich.
 This exposition is now seen as the beginning of Dada-Zürich.
 The art dealer Henri Kahnweiler named Van Rees as an artist that brought the collage technique from Paris to Zürich as the start of Dada Art.
 Ascona would keep Van Rees’ preference.
 In 1928 Otto van Rees constructed a house on the hills there.
 The house had a ground plan of a circle and a square, announcing the famous 1930 collective art show of Cercle et Carré.
 After the tragic death of their oldest daughter, killed in a train accident in France, Otto van Rees spent more and more time in Holland.
 He moved there in 1934.
 In Holland the young painters called him their Nestor, who taught them the profound values on art.
 Many public buildings in Holland: churches, railway station, courthouse, ministry, theatres were embellished by his mural paintings .
Odette Joyeux (5 December 1914 – 26 August 2000) was a French actress, playwright and novelist.
 She was born in Paris, where she studied dance at the Paris Opera Ballet before taking the stage.
 Joyeux started her film career in 1931.
 Her first notable film was Marc Allegret's "Entrée des artistes" (1938).
 During the 1940s she established herself as one of France's most popular cinema actresses but made few film appearances after the 1950s.
The Union des artistes (UDA) or Artist union is a Quebec-based labour organization representing stage, television, radio and film performers in French-language media in Canada (the English language labour organization is ACTRA).
 It represents over 6,900 members and is affiliated with the International Federation of Actors (FIA).
 The current president is Sophie Prégent.
Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, playwright, essayist and comedian.
 His film roles have included those of Wally Shawn in the Louis Malle-directed comedy-drama "My Dinner with Andre" (1981), Vizzini in "The Princess Bride" (1987), Ezra in "The Haunted Mansion", providing the voice of Rex in the "Toy Story" franchise, providing the voice of Gilbert Huph in "The Incredibles" (2004), and providing the voice of Calico in "" (2010).
 He also starred in a variety of television series, including "Gossip Girl" and recurring appearances as Grand Nagus Zek in "" (1993–99).
My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 American comedy-drama film directed by Louis Malle, and written by and starring Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn.
 The actors play fictionalized versions of themselves sharing a conversation at Café des Artistes in Manhattan.
 The film's dialogue covers such things as experimental theatre, the nature of theatre, and the nature of life, and contrasts Shawn's modest humanism with Gregory's spiritual experiences.
The Princess Bride is a soundtrack album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 12 November 1987 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros.
 Records in the United States.
 The album contains music composed for the 1987 film "The Princess Bride", directed by Rob Reiner.
 The album features the song "Storybook Love", written and performed by Willy DeVille and arranged by Mark Knopfler.
 In 1988, the song received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.

Question: Who directed a film where the actor who played Vizzini in The Princess Bride plays a fictionalized version of himself at Café des Artistes in Manhattan
Answer: Louis Malle