MCN Curated Headlines Archive for June, 2013

Mulling Murdoch’s NewsCorp Rebrand
And – The Twenty-Quid Logo Design For “News UK” (No Longer “International”)
“The movie marketers believe that women go to guys’ movies if they’re good, but guys won’t go to women’s movies ever. I’ve proved that wrong—as have many others—but they deeply believe that.”
Edelstein Listens To Obst’s “New Abnormal” Patter About H’wd Today And Tom’w
“Had there been knowledge of human rights issues any kind, Jennifer would not have attended.”
Lopez Apologizes For Singing “Happy Birthday” To Turkmen Tyrant Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
“Conservatives would be crucified for saying something like this. A liberal is given an easy exit. I’m not for punishing people for speech; but I am against excusing the threat of homophobic rape against a specific individual because the bigot says he pro-gay.”
Andrew Sullivan Dissects Why He Finds Alec Baldwin “Worthless”
A 1983 Miniseries Pitch By Orson Welles To An HBO Exec, As Alleged By Henry Jaglom And Peter Biskind
The Academy’s Eye-Popping List Of 276 New Invitees Includes:
Dawson, Gordon-Levitt, Grodin, Jovovich, Patton, Peña, Riva, Trejo, Delhomme, Fraser, Gautier, Agnès Godard, Kelemen, Mark Lee Ping Bing, de Rakoff, Arcel, DuVernay, Feig, Hardwicke, Kwapis, Larraín, McQueen, Panahi, Phillips, Zeitlin, Chang, Robert Frank, Greenfield, Longinotto, Guzmán, Honigmann, Jayanti, Lanzmann, Noujaim, Ophüls, Varda, Padilha, d’Arbeloff, Leiner, Meron, Hisaishi, Martinez, Delpy, Nichols, Rian Johnson, Terrio, Polley And Prince
“If this teeming, discursive book of a mere 300 pages were filleted to its slender core of aphoristic brilliance, it would be a chapbook of cinematic wisdom to rival Robert Bresson’s ‘Notes on the Cinematographer’.”
Brody Lavishes Himself On Jaglom’s Book-Length Taping Of Welles At Lunch
Jaime Wolf Remembers The Days Before U. S. Audiences Knew The Magic Of Jackie Chan
“ALL AMERICANS LOVE JACKIE. SOME JUST DON’T KNOW IT YET.”
With – Wolf’s 1996 Article From The Release Of Rumble In The Bronx