January 2012
2 posts
Potential alternate titles for Shame:
The Man With The Great Apartment Who Couldn’t Stop Getting Laid
Sex Problems of the 1%
Michael Fassbender? Gun To Your Head? Yeah, You Would
It looks like the Mission Impossible people finally decided to do a straight up Bond homage, complete with white suited villain and lady assassin who only accepts payment in diamonds, which are forever, I’m given to understand.
Merits: tall building!; the Kremlin blowing up, for once; action scenes that make spatial sense and are safe for epileptics; the Simon Pegg - Jeremy Renner comedy...
March 2011
1 post
“If I called myself an atheist at 20, and an agnostic at 50 and 60, it...”
– Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of
October 2010
1 post
With Sean Parker as Tyler Durden
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one puzzled when The Social Network was announced as David Fincher’s next directorial effort. Has there been any project that has faced as much sight-unseen mockery as ‘the facebook movie”? Probably not since the pre-release snickering about Boogie Nights, back when it was “the porn movie starring Marky Mark.”
Well, things obviously worked out better than anyone...
January 2010
2 posts
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
3 posts
December 2008
2 posts
August 2008
19 posts
“And Scarlett Johansson[’s character] knows what she doesn’t want,...”
– Woody Allen on the melancholy undercurrents of Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rules I am immediately adopting for my life
You can’t kill me, I want to win all my fights, and I get the girl at the end of the movie, if I want her. Those are my three Hollywood rules.
-Fred Williamson explains what he does in movies.
In an A.V. Club interview filled with wondrous quotes, former football star and blaxploitation legend Fred Williamson drops wisdom on a variety of topics, from the kinds of sports he enjoys...
“In the 1990s, when a Democrat was in the White House, the rising economic tide...”
– Daniel Gross on Wal-Mart’s politics, in Slate
Heh.
Ugh, that nightgown she’s wearing? It’s setting feminism back 25 years. Wither the blood vials, Angie? Wither!!?
July 2008
15 posts
keyholez:
Bennigan’s (a “casual dining”...
“There’s one central question that vexes me: why has no one written a memoir...”
– errol morris, on david (not nick) carr (via leoncrawl)
Doing the research as we speak.
“He’s got a great sense of humor, he really does. You can say...”
– Teri Garr on Robert Wagner. Really, it’s a great interview.
Feminist Hero of the Day
Teri Garr on her film career and her role in “Tootsie” in particular:
TG: I thought that [Sandy] was caught between trying to have a career and trying to be a sexual woman, and it just doesn’t work. At least it didn’t in that movie, because it was made by sexist men. I can say that now, because Sydney [Pollack] isn’t with us anymore. [Laughs.] But he was a fine...
How Corporate Culture Creates Political Apathy...
mills:
Self-interest is all that matters
All statements of values and ethics are lies.
Doublethink is normative.
Love and affection are inappropriate
There is no reality
just get through the day.
Looking at the principles of corporate life that mills identifies has helped me realize that growing up under a repressive Communist regime is the perfect training for working in an...
People it turns out I can't casually refence at...
Lech Wałęsa
June 2008
35 posts
confessionizer:
I hope they are lying when they say high school is the best time of your life.
Who says that? The broad cultural consensus is that everyone hates high school.
College, that’s the best time of your life. Or beerest, at the very least.
“From release to porn in less than 48 hours!”
– There is now Spore porn. Internet, you win again.
“Wet Gaping Holes Where My Life Used to Be”
– McSweeney’s list of Porn for Depressives
“Page 115
INT. ALIEN TREASURE ROOM
(CARRIE enters alone.)
CARRIE: (To...”
– EXCERPTS FROM SEX AND THE CITY AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL.