The Hot Blog Archive for February, 2007
Not Such A Scandal
When you gird your loins to sit with the people who conceived Notes On A Scandal, the novelist Zoe Heller and the screenwriter Patrick Marber, you wonder whether you should be watching your back. Razor sharp wits. Minds that have conceived some of the most cunningly brutal movie characters in recent years. And they both have those funny accents!
and…
Alan Arkin really doesn’t want to be here. He knows the name of every employee of the restaurant at the Four Seasons. He talks to them like an old friend. He is kind and honorable. But does he really want to be in Beverly Hills doing yet another interview? Not really.
The rest…
Size Does Matter
From the Oddly Subject-Lined E-Mail Collection –
SUBJECT: BLACK SNAKE MOAN : SAMUEL L. JACKSON : LIMITED EDITION 7-INCH
More detail after the jump…
Slow Monday
Just adding a Mac to repertoire… brave new world…
The quiet is growing… any minute now, someone will be accusing someone of something.
In the meanwhile, please feel free to use this space to fight amongst yourselves
The Billy Wilder Theater
I was fortunate enough to be at the brand new Billy Wilder Theater at the Armand Hammer Museum here in L.A. on Friday night for the kick-off screening of The Apartment, one of my very favorites from one of my very favorite directors.
It’s always a treat to see a classic on a big screen. I don’t think I had ever seen this one on a screen before. Even better, the presence of co-star Shirley MacLaine and producer Walter Mirisch was a special treat… even better than the hot pink seats and curtain.
MacLaine was very charming and funny in the post-film Q&A. The most interesting conflict between her and her producer was that, as far as she knew, the film started shooting with just 26 pages of script, with Wilder and IAL Diamond writing the rest along the way. After much hypothesis about why this was the case, Mirisch explained, “There was more of the script already written than you knew about.” MacLaine almost had a fit, as though she was still that 25 year old on the set, realizing after 48 years that she
Two Times The So What!
You know, I am thrilled for William Monahan and Michael Arndt and Amy Berg. WGA wins couldn
12 Comments »If The News Fits… Change It
If Vanity Fair scurrilously called you a gossip when you believed that your gossip sheet was somehow serious journalism, what would YOU do?
Before, in Vanity Fair
After, on Deadline Hollywood Daily
See how easily, if shoddily, the truth is manipulated?
Are you terrified yet?
The So Beautiful Season
Adam Gopnik wrote a piece in January 8, 2007 edition of The New Yorker titled, The Unbeautiful Game. It was about the issue of football stats and why they haven
9 Comments »The Ugly Awards
With few exceptions, the most unpleasant set of celebrity photos ever to appear in the New York Times.
Really.
I usually love the photos in the Times, but… how did the personal publicists let Penelope Cruz look like she has an acne problem? How did Peter O
Lunch With… Guillermo Arriaga
Lunch with the Babel screenwriter is served…
What Really Happened?
It’s almost as though trends are now happening en masse. Today, I ran into the following headline on the AP wire…
KILL: Astronaut movie story – one hour ago
The content of the link was
Oh Yeah…
I forgot one line from the Publicist’s Guild luncheon that might asume some.
Geirge Lucas, giving the award to Sid Ganis, who was the in-house publicist on Star Wars: Episode Five – The Empire Strikes Back, said, “Sid is the reason why The Empire Strikes Back is always written about as the best of the films, when it actually was the worst one.”
Hmmm….
