When Julian Schnabel – painter, filmmaker, visual-field agitator (have you seen his deep pink, 17-story building in Greenwich Village?) – came through town a few weeks ago to promote his new film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, his boisterous reputation of course preceded him. “Larger than life” is how the film’s star, Mathieu Amalric (Munich), describes him. “Julian is a man of large appetites. He never sleeps – he is always eating, drinking, talking, inventing…” www.lacitybeat.com