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Longtime Companion: August 2012
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All of life’s questions are answered in the movies.' – Steve Martin in 'Grand Canyon' (1991, Lawrence Kasdan). Tuesday, August 21, 2012. Note: click on highlighted words for more info. Pretty pictures betray brutality. Orchestrated chaos cut to Hans Zimmer. ADD editing. Pounding synth score. Carnage composed, gorgeously shot – angles, lenses, smoke, light. But what Tony had that Michael missed is conscience. Current climate of superheroes, Mr. Scott still dealt in. Heroes. Flawed masculinity (. Ann Fucki...
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Longtime Companion: July 2011
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All of life’s questions are answered in the movies.' – Steve Martin in 'Grand Canyon' (1991, Lawrence Kasdan). Wednesday, July 6, 2011. That one with Rebecca DeMornay.'. Excerpt from Let Me Take You Down. An hour-long piece I produced, directed, shot, edited at 17,. About a young man pays for college by dealing drugs in the ghetto he grew up in. And it would make me smile. We all came at this as subversive black comedy. I believe it still works on that score. I start watching, I think, how silly. I Want ...
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Longtime Companion: 'That one with Rebecca DeMornay...'
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All of life’s questions are answered in the movies.' – Steve Martin in 'Grand Canyon' (1991, Lawrence Kasdan). Wednesday, July 6, 2011. That one with Rebecca DeMornay.'. Excerpt from Let Me Take You Down. An hour-long piece I produced, directed, shot, edited at 17,. About a young man pays for college by dealing drugs in the ghetto he grew up in. And it would make me smile. We all came at this as subversive black comedy. I believe it still works on that score. I start watching, I think, how silly. I Want ...
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Longtime Companion: May 2013
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All of life’s questions are answered in the movies.' – Steve Martin in 'Grand Canyon' (1991, Lawrence Kasdan). Sunday, May 12, 2013. Note: click on highlighted words for more info. Corporate execs now. And perhaps ex-TV actors turned film auteurs. It belied a lack of commitment, imagination, artistic character, appreciation for his clearly devoted fans, respect for his filmmaking peers. Paycheck, mortgaged one of his homes, sold his share of a bar. Residuals with bff Faison. The argument that his fleece ...
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Longtime Companion: Scott Free
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All of life’s questions are answered in the movies.' – Steve Martin in 'Grand Canyon' (1991, Lawrence Kasdan). Tuesday, August 21, 2012. Note: click on highlighted words for more info. Pretty pictures betray brutality. Orchestrated chaos cut to Hans Zimmer. ADD editing. Pounding synth score. Carnage composed, gorgeously shot – angles, lenses, smoke, light. But what Tony had that Michael missed is conscience. Current climate of superheroes, Mr. Scott still dealt in. Heroes. Flawed masculinity (. Ann Fucki...
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Longtime Companion: Scrub
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All of life’s questions are answered in the movies.' – Steve Martin in 'Grand Canyon' (1991, Lawrence Kasdan). Sunday, May 12, 2013. Note: click on highlighted words for more info. Corporate execs now. And perhaps ex-TV actors turned film auteurs. It belied a lack of commitment, imagination, artistic character, appreciation for his clearly devoted fans, respect for his filmmaking peers. Paycheck, mortgaged one of his homes, sold his share of a bar. Residuals with bff Faison. The argument that his fleece ...
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Longtime Companion: July 2009
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All of life’s questions are answered in the movies.' – Steve Martin in 'Grand Canyon' (1991, Lawrence Kasdan). Friday, July 10, 2009. Exterminate With Extreme Dispassion: Death Wish To Death Wish 3. Bronson: “What about the cops, they do anything? Rodriguez, nice Rican neighbor (given last name only, presumably out of respect for the character’s Latino heritage): “Yeah - they enforce the parking laws.”. Balsam: “What’re you doing? Bronson: “Thinning the herd.”. Some years ago that I observed the first.
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Longtime Companion: Citizen K
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All of life’s questions are answered in the movies.' – Steve Martin in 'Grand Canyon' (1991, Lawrence Kasdan). Friday, February 1, 2013. Note: click on highlighted words for the expansive experience. Ed Koch was a lunatic. And what was needed in the wake of riots, David Berkowitz and the entire country turning its back on us. Fellow Bronx boy with cartoon-character features (he looked like my alkie abuelo), he wrote a book called Giuliani. In which he was the hero, a New York City Mayor- cum-sleuth.
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Longtime Companion: April 2015
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All of life’s questions are answered in the movies.' – Steve Martin in 'Grand Canyon' (1991, Lawrence Kasdan). Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Note: click on highlighted words for the expansive experience. The first mainstream American film to fire bullet holes through the fabled myth of Giuliani. S 'cleaned-up, crime-less New York' (spanning '95 to 9/11. S A Walk Among the Tombstones. Is also a bona fide spellbinder. Indeed, the picture's pre-millennium. Night of the Living Dead. Last House On the Left. Write...
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Longtime Companion: Gene, You Ignorant Slut...
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All of life’s questions are answered in the movies.' – Steve Martin in 'Grand Canyon' (1991, Lawrence Kasdan). Thursday, April 4, 2013. Gene, You Ignorant Slut. Note: click on highlighted words for more info. Was my lifeline as a kid. And, on occasion, as an adult (via YouTube). Few 'celebrity' passings. Affected me as deeply as Gene Siskel. Will be sorely missed. The balcony is closed, and the aisle seats are now yours to argue in (with both vitriol and affection) for all time. Labels: at the movies.