MCN Curated Headlines Archive for June, 2013

Washington Post Big Thinker Samuelson Wants To Un-invent The Internet; Cowers In Fear Of “Cyberattacks”

guardian

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

hollywoodreporter.com

Hedge Fund Activist Investor With 6.9% Of Holdings Renews Sony Grumbles After White House Downed

“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

Enter The Dragon‘s Jim Kelly Was 67

Spec Scripts For White House Down And The Heat Sold Within 24 Hours Of Each Other; Opened On Same Day

guardian

“Hollywood’s refusal to stand up to Alec Baldwin is shameful”

Report: FBI Files Show Michael Jackson Paid $35 Million For Silence Of Two Dozen Boys’ Families

Borelli‘s Breakfast And Banter With Michael Shannon

hollywoodreporter.com

Jennifer Lopez Does The Happy Birthday, Mr. President Thing For Turkmenistan Strongman, Dictator Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov

“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”

Evan Goldberg On Getting The Final Cash And A Feast Of Friends For This Is The End

guardian

“Feminism Is A Bit Of An Old-Fashioned Word,” Sez Sarandon

How Will Facebook’s Robot Censors Detect And Define “Porn”?

A 1983 Miniseries Pitch By Orson Welles To An HBO Exec, As Alleged By Henry Jaglom And Peter Biskind

“If Films Were Reviewed Like Videogames”

Kim Morgan On Latest “Tribute” To Marilyn

Prince Newly Inducted Into George Lucas-Mellody Hobson Chicago Wedding Caravanserai

LA Times

The Fake Steeds Of The Lone Ranger

Google Begins Purge Of “Adult” Blogger Sites In Two Days
And – Could This Affect Any Site?

“Rehabilitating a Hollywood stereotype by reverting to non-Native casting brings to mind that western cliché “white man speak with forked tongue.” But if anyone can get away with the piracy of race appropriation, it’s Johnny Depp.”

wsj

McGrath Visits With Woody Allen

Chicago Park District To Close Swath Of Lakefront For George Lucas-Mellody Hobson Wedding Reception As Well As Parking For Museum Of Science And Industry; City Also Pays For Repainting In Area Before Hullabaloo With Contributors To Mayor Emanuel

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

NY Times

Revising Tonto

Jonnie Rosenbaum On “The Preminger Enigma”

guardian

British Writer-Producer Joseph Lang Was 33

Richard Prince And Sofia Coppola Talk Art And Audience And The Terror Of Getting Clearances

hollywoodreporter.com

Mischa Barton Sez The Bling Ring “Creeps Me Out”

Is Pixar Putting The Brakes On Succession Of Sequels?

NY Times

Chocano Riffs On Film’s “All-Important Present Moment”

“Man Of Steel‘s version of Clark’s childhood and youth owes everything to Smallville. Well, except for the movie’s Jonathan ambivalently teaching Clark to be a sociopath.”

ny post

Channing Tatum, New King Of H’wd

Read The New Alamo Drafthouse Magazine: Birth.Movies.Death

The Damage Done In The Pacific Northwest By The Oregonian’s Abdication Of Arts Coverage

guardian

Alec Baldwin Hits Tweet Delete (Again) 

“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

variety

Could Netflix And HBO Go Benefit From Illegal Password Shares?

Costuming World War Z

Seitz At Gandolfini’s Service

variety

S. Korea Awaits The 43-Second Movie Download To Mobile Devices

NewsCorp Seems Likely To Shift NYPost Focus To Digital Competitor Of BuzzFeed

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

guardian

Wolff Will Update His Sagas Of The Court Of Murdoch, Verily, Unto His Days

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“I don’t think it’s cruel to say this, because John himself would undoubtedly have turned it into a gleeful anecdote: When he had the stroke that killed him, he was at a local dinner theater. Hell of a review.”

“I am inclined to aver that every activity needs its critics, from narcissists bloviating in Washington to exhibitors of knee holes in their blue jeans by way of following a fad. So, too, tennis players and others wearing their caps backward. There is, to be sure, only fairly innocuous folly in puncturing pants or reversing caps, but for political or artistic or religious twisting of thought or harboring holes in the head there is rather less excuse. I have always inveighed against the bleary journalism practiced by newspaper reviewers, as opposed to the real criticism performed by, well, critics.”

“I often felt a twinge of grief at the idea that John Simon had devoted his life to a method of work that could only make him increasingly unhappy. Here was a man, elegant, articulate, and vastly knowledgeable, fluent in at least half a dozen languages, whose gifts of mind gave nothing back to the arts he wrote about except a few unkind remarks that made fun of someone’s performance, ethnicity, physical attributes, or, with a pun, on his target’s name. (“If this is Norman Wisdom, I’ll take Saxon folly.”) Other theatre critics keep such darts in their rucksacks for occasional use; John lived by them.”

“One person’s critic is another person’s crackpot. That they are not united in their opinions is ascribable to the Latin saying: quot homines, tot sententiae. I myself prefer being considered a creep, but that is what you get for having what Vladimir Nabokov called ‘Strong Opinions.’ It is odd that in a country so wallowing in negativity, starting with mass shootings and climaxing with Trump, such an unimportant matter as theater criticism should generate so much hostility. The only target patently more important is lead in the drinking water.”

The DVD Wrapup: Cold War, Betty Blue, Official Secrets, Demons, Olivia, American Dreamer, Land of Yik Yak

E. Scott Weinberg On Youthful Fangoria Encounters

Rome Bookstore Closes

With a Grauniad-Alleged $300 Million Budget, Could The Yet-Unseen But Surely Weird Cats Pass A Billion Dollars at The Box Office?

WEEKEND READS ON MEDIAQUAKE

Tribune Trolley Problem

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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