Adam Gopnik: Breakfast with Andre Gregory: The New Yorker The director, avant-garde icon, and born raconteur Andre Gregory was having breakfast in the Village the other morning, and - as is his wont - was talking at length about the current state of his life, his art, and his soul. Andre, as he has been known, even to people who don't know him, ever since Louis Malle's 1981 film "My Dinner with Andre" made him into a kind of New Age guru, is a year from turning eighty, and, after a brush with cancer, is in the midst of a mad campaign of new creation. He's just finishing a cut, with the director Jonathan Demme, of a movie adaptation of Ibsen's "The Master Builder," with Wallace Shawn in the title role. In the legendary Gregory-Shawn manner, the production was rehearsed and reworked for more than a decade, and finally, in the past few years, was witnessed by several boutique-size audiences in a Village living room. An earlier Gregory-Shawn production, of "Uncle Vanya," was similarly preserved, by Malle, in "Vanya on 42nd Street.". . .