From being hugged by Shirley Bassey to sharing a fag with Juliette Lewis, Oscars night in La turns out to be one magic moment after another
Hollywood is all about moments. Everything is moments in these days of Twitter and Instagram. A moment is all we get, so actually Andy Warhol was pretty off-mark with that 15-minute thing. Outstay your moment nowadays and they play the Jaws music. The "jump the shark" moment, they call it out here.
My mad weekend in La started when Harry Potter and Gandhi were on my flight out, or Daniel Radcliffe and Sir Ben Kingsley as it probably says on their passports. And at the Great British nominee party held by the ebullient consul-general Dame Barbara Hay, I had what I call a Marshall McLuhan moment, as in when, in Annie Hall, Woody Allen produces the great cultural theorist in a cinema queue to...
Hollywood is all about moments. Everything is moments in these days of Twitter and Instagram. A moment is all we get, so actually Andy Warhol was pretty off-mark with that 15-minute thing. Outstay your moment nowadays and they play the Jaws music. The "jump the shark" moment, they call it out here.
My mad weekend in La started when Harry Potter and Gandhi were on my flight out, or Daniel Radcliffe and Sir Ben Kingsley as it probably says on their passports. And at the Great British nominee party held by the ebullient consul-general Dame Barbara Hay, I had what I call a Marshall McLuhan moment, as in when, in Annie Hall, Woody Allen produces the great cultural theorist in a cinema queue to...
- 3/3/2013
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Dennis Hopper: actor, artist, filmmaker, Hollywood survivor.
Just days after remembering the loss of Sydney Pollack two years ago, we awaken to mourn the loss of another Hollywood icon, Dennis Hopper, less than two weeks after his 74th birthday. Hopper had been on my short list of "dream interviews" during my tenure at Venice Magazine. When I was lucky enough to finally sit down with him in November of 2008, I was thrilled, and didn't know quite what to expect.
What I found while smoking cigars with Hopper in his Venice home-studio, was a thoughtful man with a gentle demeanor, who spoke in measured tones and loved telling stories. Gone was the wild-eyed "enfant terrible" that Hopper had made his name playing, and sometimes living. What I saw instead was a man who seemed to be at peace with himself and his life, who loved his children, art, film and new ideas.
Just days after remembering the loss of Sydney Pollack two years ago, we awaken to mourn the loss of another Hollywood icon, Dennis Hopper, less than two weeks after his 74th birthday. Hopper had been on my short list of "dream interviews" during my tenure at Venice Magazine. When I was lucky enough to finally sit down with him in November of 2008, I was thrilled, and didn't know quite what to expect.
What I found while smoking cigars with Hopper in his Venice home-studio, was a thoughtful man with a gentle demeanor, who spoke in measured tones and loved telling stories. Gone was the wild-eyed "enfant terrible" that Hopper had made his name playing, and sometimes living. What I saw instead was a man who seemed to be at peace with himself and his life, who loved his children, art, film and new ideas.
- 6/1/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Plus, Happy Birthday Bea and Stephen, some behind-the-scenes Glee, The Ross Report debuts awkwardly, and guess who's playing gay?
This Newsweek thing just keeps giving. Newsweek editor Marc Peyser sat down with GLAAD president Jarrett Barrios and Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black to discuss it. Despite Dlb doing an admirable job of trying to explain, the introduction that was added to the conversation just goes to prove that Newsweek fails to understand the issue, or indeed, writing. I am so sick of people saying “you misinterpreted my bigoted comments, but if you weren’t so sensitive, you’d interpret what I meant.” These non-apologies always tick me off because they never apologize – it’s always about the reader being wrong. Look:
The piece examined the difficulty gay actors can have in being cast as straight romantic characters. We'd hoped to stir discussion of why there are still so few openly gay performers in Hollywood,...
This Newsweek thing just keeps giving. Newsweek editor Marc Peyser sat down with GLAAD president Jarrett Barrios and Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black to discuss it. Despite Dlb doing an admirable job of trying to explain, the introduction that was added to the conversation just goes to prove that Newsweek fails to understand the issue, or indeed, writing. I am so sick of people saying “you misinterpreted my bigoted comments, but if you weren’t so sensitive, you’d interpret what I meant.” These non-apologies always tick me off because they never apologize – it’s always about the reader being wrong. Look:
The piece examined the difficulty gay actors can have in being cast as straight romantic characters. We'd hoped to stir discussion of why there are still so few openly gay performers in Hollywood,...
- 5/13/2010
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
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