MCN Curated Headlines Archive for February, 2015
“I was watching him interview Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras just before I learned he had passed. As I watched the event, I could hear David coughing and I was concerned for his health. When we last spoke on the phone he simply said he was dealing with a really bad cold.”
Anthony DeRosa On “The Generosity Of David Carr”
“An aside: Has The Times’s attention to Mr. Carr’s death been a tad over the top, even including a posthumous “last column,” constructed using the syllabus from his college course, with a ghostly byline that read “with David Carr”? The amount of coverage does raise the issue of what will happen when the Dalai Lama dies; of course, I’m guilty of joining in the hosannas myself.”
Margaret Sullivan On The Flux Of Media Reportage At The Times
“The only reason you come to do this again after the kind of splash we made is because you think you can make a better movie. But what’s exciting to me is that I’ve been able to attack it really like a terrier, like a pitbull, like a crossbreed between a terrier and a pitbull, a Perrier, I guess you could say.”
Joss Whedon Talks On-Set About Avengers: Ultron
“Over the last decade or so, the biopic has essentially become the comic-book movie of awards season.”
Bilge Ebiri Sez No To Mo’ Biopics
“When I saw the movie, I immediately saw that the black hole did not look as it should for a near maximally spinning black hole. I had not realized just how careful the Interstellar team had been with their renderings.”
“You should keep in mind there was nothing that obliged Christopher Nolan to try to stick to realistic science.”
Harris Wittels, 30, “Parks & Rec” Writer-Actor, Creator Of #HumbleBrag
And – Wittels Talks About Coming Back From Heroin Addiction 101m audio
“What? Oh please. I don’t even want to go there, OK? I don’t know what that bullshit is all about. It’s worse than a rumor, it’s personal assassination… I feel like I’m talking to Hillary Clinton talking about Benghazi! All you get is bullshit. I think Clint should be president.”
Michael Cimino Parries First Big U. S. Interview In 13 Years
“When I’m in Utah at the Sundance Festival, and an Asian brother comes up to me and breaks down in my arms, and says, “Mo’Nique, I am Mary Jones,” do you know that’s the biggest award you could receive? It had nothing to do with a trophy. If people want to say I didn’t campaign because I took my family first? I’ll accept that.”
Mo’Nique Sez She Was “Blackballed” Post-Oscar