By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Slowing Down…
Yes, Virginia, it’s one of those days…
Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, but here are a couple of small topics…
The Loss Of Peter Boyle.
He hasn’t been in great shape for a while. But it is still sad when someone wonderful is gone. Both Frankenstein and His Bride went too early.
Great Stocking Stuffer
Casting vets Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins have a book out called “A Star Is Found: Our Adventures Casting Some of Hollywood’s Biggest Movies” and it’s a very easy, fun read with a lot of interesting info. The style – ghosted by Rachel Kranz – is a topic for every chapter and each woman offering a few hundred words on the subject, followed by the other, then back, and so on. There is plenty of inside stuff on films from Harry Potter to Parenthood to films from this year like Poseidon, The Da Vinci Code and The Holiday. They do pull punches and don’t name actors who might be embarrassed by some stories, but there is enough here for any civilian and really, people in the biz who are not just looking for a nasty exchange. The back and forth format is sometimes distracting, as it will cut one of the women off mid-story and then you have to catch up when it starts again. But it is a cover-to-cover read and that is a high compliment from me indeed.
Dinosaurs Gather To Look At Their Reflections In The Tar And Complain About The Discovery Of Fire
Horn, Goldstein, Waxman, and Holson got together at some event to talk about “their” beat for a cultural group called Zocola. It’s unfortunate that the organizers didn’t have the balls to include some of us who kick their asses up and down the beat week after week… and I’m not just talking about snarky headlines. This way, neither team was challenged in any way to explain how the floor is dissolving below them with anything other than the same old fine whines.
Patrick Goldstein, who I have long said is smarter than the work he’s been doing lately (the Irwin Winkler Academy honor push that was manifested in yesterday’s kiss-up column didn’t take at the Academy Board meeting last night… boo hoo), said something I agree with completely:
Goldstein: “It is almost impossible to beat the Internet at straight news”
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Your typepad thingy sucks. I did that Me and You symbol twice — typed it properly — but when it showed up as a comment one of the characters was deleted.
God Bless Peter Boyle.
He was one of those wonderful actors that we seem to take for granted. Obviously his ‘Monster’ seems to be his set piece performance, but he was also great as the original Archie Bunker (of a sort) in Joe and he even made me laugh in The Dream Team.
He will be missed.
Does MCN fill the void left behind in the wake of the floor dissolving beneath traditional media? Without links to stories in traditional media, places like MCN, HE and Risky Biz would be worthless.
Well, that would be an evolutionary issue.
I’m not saying that Traditional Media has no value. What I am saying is that that group, with the exception of Horn, almost never break any news at all. And perspective, which has become their job, is steeped in bad sourcing, manipulation, and the belief that because they are at major papers, they don’t get endlessly played.
The reality remains – as it has been for as long as I’ve been around – that there is very little actual news in entertainment news. If they feel the trades don’t break much news then these two papers NEVER break any news.
There is no question that these papers, given their resources, could kick all of our asses if they had any focus. And I have no doubt that given half their resources, there are a lot of small players in the world right now that could grind them into meaninglessness.
I’m being endlessly played right now by this already broken, but too good to keep to myself, news.
http://www.concertfordiana.com/newsarticles/interview.asp
It seems pretty obvious that these two young men are not as closely related to each other as they should be.
Not particularily regal, are they?
I dunno, Jeff. William resembles his mother, while Harry reminds me of his uncle, the Earl Spencer. Siblings often look quite unlike each other.
God help the monarchy if Harry ever becomes the heir apparent. He’s such a football hooligan.
“Not particularily regal, are they?”
What’s that they say about the apple not falling far from the tree?
Concert for Diana? Screw that. I’d rather donate to Lapdance for Prince William. His Royal Highness the Hotness! HRHH!
Coming soon … lapdanceforwills.com
I thought Harry resembled James Hewitt. It’s especially striking because William so clearly looks like a male version of his mother.
Anyone else agree that Me and You and Everyone We Know is one of the worst movies of the past few years?
I wouldn’t say ‘worst’ but I’d definitely say ‘most overrated’.
Irwin Winkler as a director – “At first Sight”, “Life as a House”, “De-Lovely” and this new Iraq movie.
Pass. Though “The Right Stuff” is one of my all time favorite movies.
Why hasn’t there been more ink on “Children of Men”, which is easily the movie I’m most excited about seeing (after catching Apocalypto).
I’m also very enthused about Children of Men — have been since I saw Cuaron’s presentation on it back in July. I don’t know why it’s not getting more attention.
I loved LIFE AS A HOUSE (and as a rule I loathe terminal-illness movies) and DE-LOVELY, as well as GUILTY BY SUSPICION and the NIGHT AND THE CITY remake. Irwin’s more than okay in my book.
Feel free to pile on me.
Sorry: De-Lovely reminded me of that Star Trek episode in which the aliens tried to put an injured human back together, even though they’d never seen a human before (and therefore botched the job). That is, it appeared to be the work of someone who had not only never made a musical before — he’d never even SEEN a musical before. De-Lovely made Beyond the Sea look like Singin’ in the Rain. (On the other hand, I liked Guilty By Suspicion a lot.)