Every time I see this one-sheet, I wonder the same thing. The wig is so obviously a wig… either Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin is The New Julia who dies from cancer at the end of this film or she’s playing a Hassidic girl who is marrying very, very young.
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
Maybe it’s because you’ve seen her in something else with different hair? I haven’t, and didn’t notice anything more odd about her hair than in any other one-sheet. Nobody’s hair looks natural in movie publicity.
Do Hassids wear wigs when they get married? I think I’m missing something.
Is it true, as Owen Gleiberman wrote in an EW sidebar column, that film critics are not allowed to mention stars’ wigs and hairpieces in their reviews?
Is that a sort of gentleman’s agreement, an actual slander-based law, some sort of journo-ethical thing, or just something Gleiberman pulled out of thin air?
I’m not saying it would apply here (and that indeed at least looks like a wig in the above picture); I think he was saying it’s some sort of breach of ethics to mention when an A-list actor is clearly wearing a piece.
Can a film critic get in trouble for pointing out, say, that Cage’s hairline in Weather Man and Ghost Rider was lower than it’s been in 23 years?
Never mind, answered my own question:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20165487,00.html
“Current libel law” states a critic can’t bag on an actor’s dubious hair?????
Yes, Jeff. It’s called a sheitel. Some even shave their heads.
Weird. Thanks.
Ms. Breslin got her Oscar nom for a movie rated R. “Kit Kittredge” is rated G.
I’m not part of the Family Values crowd yet I will recoil at such blatant Oscar-whoring.
Chucky with the most surprising post of the day.
Will someone please tell me “Chucky is just playing a character and you’re falling right into his hands” because this is getting intolerable.
No, Jeff, weird is refusing to have any physical contact with the opposite sex unless it’s for reproduction — and that’s done with a hole in a sheet…
I didn’t say that _wasn’t_ weird, but it’s weird on top of weird. The sheet thing at least makes a kind of ‘we’re terrified of our bodies because we live in the 7th century’ sense. Wigs for weddings? Huh?
Not wigs for weddings. Married women wear wigs as a custom on a daily basis.
The Hassidic notion is that the hair is meant for the husband’s eyes only… Eva Gabor’s version of a hijab.
Chuck in Jersey: He’s the MULDER of OSCAR-WHORING!
I just realized Chucky is a crazy person. I’m sorry. Sometimes I’m late on these things. It’s all become much funnier. I’m going to take a drink every time he mentions the Oscars. Or Oscar baiting. Or Oscar whoring. Or Oscar the Grouch.
Rothchild, also, don’t forget to take at least a sip every time he mentions theater chains, or a full swig if he mentions a particular multiplex in the Jersey/Western PA region.
D’oh… I meant Western Jersey/Eastern PA (Philly).
I wonder if they shot the one-sheet after she’d moved onto a different project and had different-colored hair? In any case, I can report that her hair looks fine in the movie itself.
Oh, and I can also report that she has neither a fiance nor cancer in the film.
Well good for that chris. Let me also state that he’s Mulder as in he’s always SEARCHING for his SUPPOSED TRUTH… THAT OSCAR WHORING IS REAL! When really… his spectrum of things is a bit silly.
Roger Ebert makes a great case for LMS wrongly getting a R when it really should have been PG-13.
Canada gave it a 14A rating, same as the Matrix movies, the newest Bond picture, The Incredible Hulk and The Happening.
By the way, we do all understand this movie takes place about a hundred years ago, right?
“Current libel law” states a critic can’t bag on an actor’s dubious hair?????
He’s either joking or covering for his bosses. There’s nothing in “current libel law” that would prevent Owen from slamming a star’s plugs, especially if s/he actually has them (truth being an absolute defense to libel).
Canada’s rating system is actually split up into different provinces. I believe most provinces gave LMS a 14A, but whatever. Actually, PG-13 movies are often rated PG in Canada and R movies are often rated 14A.
Even Kill Bill Vol. 2 was rated 14A in BC (Vol. 1 was 18A on account of the Crazy 88). Only the truely explicit movies (Sin City, Passion of the Christ, Assault on Precinct 13) are rated 18A.
But srsly, the MPAA is fucked the fuck up. Here’s what Seth Rogen has to say about the matter.
Breslin has said she wore a wig in the movie because she didn’t want to cut her own hair.
…or at least that’s what I read.