MCN Curated Headlines Archive for January, 2014
“The secret to wearing dresses with such a low neckline is you have to stand tall, avoid drafts, and hire a really great editor.”
How Amy Adams Did Her American Hustle
Philippe Le Sourd On The 3-Year Shoot Of The Grandmaster (On Film)
And – Bruno Delbonnel On Shooting Inside Llewyn Davis (On Film)
“For the first four days, from Thursday through Sunday, it will be North American or world premieres only for the festival. Essentially, when we agree to and announce a premiere status, we want it to be real and to stick and not to have any surprises.”
Toronto Int’l Delivers Ultimatum About Premieres After Much Abuse Of Statuses By Non-Canuck Brethren
Plus – Poland Dissects The Situation Vis-À-Vis Telluride
Sherak’s Hw’d Walk Of Fame Star Installed Hours Before His Passing
And – Hammond Gets Personal With His Own Memories
Comments On The Passing Of Tom Sherak From Family, NATO And Hawk Koch
And – George Lucas Dubs Him An “Honorary Jedi”
“Just because NBC might theoretically be better off delaying things doesn’t mean Leno has a right to act hurt over what the network actually is doing. Qualified hosts don’t grow on trees.”
On The Jay Leno Departure And Eternal Return Self-Pity Tour 2014
“I don’t know why everyone thinks the high part and the low part of the brow are the only good parts/ When did the middle get to be the bad brow? It’s like, ‘Oh, that’s so bourgeois!’ Let me put this in perspective: we don’t really like miserable poverty, and we don’t really like gigantic, —hole-ish 1% creephood. I think we’re actually for the middle class. So make sure the middle class actually has some interesting stuff to think about.”
Ever-Quotable James Schamus On His Post-Focus Moment, With A Staff Of Zero
“No wind that blows but carries us further on.”
PETE SEEGER WAS 94
And – Seeger’s Testimony To The HUAC
With – “Seeger didn’t perform so much as lead sing-alongs, casting a warm campfire glow over every stage he stepped on. He was an encyclopedia, a living, breathing anthology of folk music, primarily but not exclusively American; his task, as he saw it, was to amass, preserve, and pass on a vast, motley canon of people’s songs. That job was a birthright.”
Jody Rosen On Seeger
Plus – Billy Bragg On Seeger’s Influence