By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Wed Notes
Two quickies…
1. Oscar did NOT break up Winslet and Mendes. It was not much of a secret that they split during the fallout around Rev Road… a story that some of us actually showed restraint in not running, mindful that human beings should be allowed to work their personal lives out in privacy, especially with kids involved.
Oscar does not break up marriages… shared failure in the movie business very often does. Couples always want to work together, but when the movies go bad… well, egos are damaged and when both partners are looking for someone to blame… sigh…
2. I wrote this days ago, but Austin’s South by Twitterfest is suffering from major ComicCon syndrome. So much sound and fury that the noise becomes the significance… thus, meaning nothing.
If they can make a living and cough up delight for the mini-masses as such, good on them. It may be the next festival model. It will never be Sundance or Cannes or Toronto that way… but that may be an unworthy ambition. A two week party that does nothing to advance the products being marketed is really what fests were meant to be.
Just don’t tell the companies and individuals spending millions to use it as a marketing platform. Their delusion is paying for the party, where only liquor brand loyalty lasts.
And for those of us who find the endless and mostly worthless tweeting to be obnoxious enough to make us shout, “Get off of my bandwidth!!!!,” there is a classic web solution… stop reading it.
And that is yet another reason to look forward to Bermuda.