MCN Curated Headlines Archive for June, 2015

Apple Loses Appeal On E-books; Users Likely To Share $450 Million Settlement

More Media Outlets Join Effort To Keep Gawker-Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Trial Open To Public

Amber Heard On Her Freedom To Be

NY Times

‘‘I think let’s start iterating. Let’s not wait for the perfect product.’’
NYTimes Magazine Catches Up With Arianna Huffington 

“So if The Huffington Post—which is 10 years old, hauls in more than 200 million unique visitors a month and cranks out roughly 1,200 posts daily on the backs of reportedly poorly paid or unpaid writers—can’t turn a profit on $146 million in revenue, then how are the other, venture-capital fueled sites with smaller audiences and fewer relationships with advertisers supposed to achieve profitability?”

Kristen Millares Young On The Short Life Of Native American Actress Misty Upham

Jim Hemphill Goes Auteur Over The Films Of Keith Gordon

NY Times

Disney Names First Female CFO

variety

Apple Music Censors Song Titles

“Women are exaggeratedly—and always—sexy. They’re sexy on the phone. Sexy on the job. Sexy fighting. Sexy tortured. Sexy dead. Sexy raped.”

Here’s The 2015-16 Award Season Schedule, Including HFPA, SAG, DGA, PGA, WGA, AMPAS

Hating Seth MacFarlane: The Timeline

telegraph.co.uk

Zemeckis On Back To The Future Remake: “Oh God No”

YA Author Lois Lowry Wanted More More More More From Inside Out

Matt Singer On Schwarzenegger As Auteur

NY Times

“The nurse says, ‘There’s a man in the waiting room; says he’s invisible.’ Doctor says, ‘Tell him I can’t see him.'”
Jack Carter Was 93

Tess Gerritsen On Why She’s Giving Up Her Gravity Lawsuit

Report: HBO Could Account For 35% Of Time Warner Value

Matt Zoller Seitz And S. I. Rosenbaum On The Sound Of James Horner

Jeremy Renner Does The Playboy Interview

“I can’t write with any real authority about Inside Out, because I haven’t see [sic] the movie, but I’m pretty much 100% positive that seeing the movie isn’t required to make this judgment. Because here’s the thing about movies: They are made of pictures.”
Profiles In Content Creation Courage: HuffPost Publishes Review Of Inside Out Without Seeing It

“To see both Amirpour and Glazer’s girlmonsters in action is to wonder how much their victims understand about mortal, terrestrial women in the first place, though perhaps the most obvious disparity between these ghoulettes is the way that they bait their traps.”

A Report On A New Exhibition Of Work By The Late Bruce Conner

Glenn Kenny Muses On The Gone With The Wind Non-Ban Non-Story

Looking Closely At The Collage Art Of John Ashbery And Guy Maddin

Billionaire Owner Of Regal Entertainment And Walden Media Wants To Build The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Farm On 5,000 Square Miles Of Windy Wyoming

Adam Cook On The Neorealist Topographies Of The Films Of Sean Baker, From Take Out To Tangerine

Ryan Gilbey Appreciates Wim Wenders As The Director Nears 70

“An uncertain journey whose outcome largely will be determined by its ability to adapt to readers’ changing habits.”
Gannett Moves Its Corporate Operations Around

variety

Estás despedido!
NBCU Ends Relationship With Perennial Presidential Aspirant Donald Trump Over “Derogatory” Remarks Against Mexicans

LA Times

Channing Tatum Says Magic Mike XXL Plotting Had No Ceiling

hollywoodreporter.com

Francis Coppola Returns To Marrekech Film Fest As Jury President

New 21st Century CEO James Murdoch Says He Doesn’t Let His Politics Get In The Way Of Business

British Communications Controller Ofcom Hopes To Move Into Pre-Screening Censorship Role

NY Times

Fellini Muse Magali Noël Was 83

LA Times

Catching Up With Lance Henriksen

“Contemporary art’s job is to wreck what came before. Is there a better job description than that to aspire to? Go out in the world and —- it up beautifully. Horrify us with new ideas. Outrage outdated critics. Use technology for transgression, not lazy social living. It’s your turn to cause trouble—but this time in the real world, and this time from the inside.”
John Waters Sends RISD Graduates Out Into A Bitter World

variety

French Far Right Figure Goes After Gaspar Noé’s Love

“Scenes From The War Against Black People,” “10 Crucial Films About One Crucial Subject” Curated By Charles Mudede And Sean Nelson

Elizabeth Berkeley Embraces Showgirls In Front Of 4,000 Fans Gathered In A H’wd Cemetery

NY Times

Times-Favored Former Mega-Mogul Michael Eisner Applies Skills To Local-Market TV For Talk, Game And Court Shows; Brooks Barnes Offers No Update On “Bazooka Joe” Projects

NY Times

“Is the problem that we have an unfettered capacity for credulity, for false belief?”
Ben Kenigsberg Talks To Hot Doc Makers About Manipulations

variety

“The day the Oscar ballots closed, I gathered everyone in the Focus conference room, and gave a speech. I said, ‘Look, we lost.’”
Making Brokeback

“Audible and visually recognizable reactions from the public likely will taint the jurors’ own perception.”
One Hold Barred: Hulk Hogan Wants His Sex Tape Kept From Open Court In Gawker Trial 

variety

“Every step we take, we are stepping toward the goal of normalization—I love that word. This is a continuum. The goal is the normalization in having artists and films rep society as a whole.”
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs On The Latest Member Invitates

Alex Pappademas On The Unsexing Of Mark Wahlberg

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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