Taking direction
Pelé, Michael Caine and Sylvester Stalone on the same team: Genius.
The first time I saw this graphic, I thought it was satire. It turns out that I was wrong:
Well-funded advocates of privatizing the nation’s education system are employing a new strategy this fall to enlist support for the cause. The emotionally engaging Hollywood film “Won’t Back Down” — set for release September 28 — portrays so-called “Parent Trigger” laws as an effective mechanism for transforming underperforming public schools. But the film’s distortion of the facts prompts a closer examination of its funders and backers and a closer look at those promoting Parent Trigger as a cure for what ails the American education system.
Watching Peter Sellers reminds Me That Andy Kaufman was A Poor Imitation
Watch Dr. Strangelove if you disagree
Sacha Baron Cohen, as himself
Also discussed:
- Why Jews make good comedians
- Drawing out prejudices while hiding in persona like Ali G or Borat
- Concerns about Orientalism in The Dictator
Like our mother always said: “Don’t pick up hitchhikers unless you’re pretty sure it’s John Waters.”
All I could think of after seeing this was how I’d redo Cecil B. Demented badly if I picked up Waters.
New 'Blade Runner' film to be a sequel
Back in August, news broke that director Ridley Scott had signed on to direct and produce a new installment of his iconic sci-fi film “Blade Runner,” but no further details were revealed. Now it can be told that the project will be a sequel, and the original film’s screenwriter, Hampton Fancher, has been recruited to develop the film.
Nice.
Maybe they’ll get the distopian Los Angeles of the future right this time and they’ll be speaking a mish-mash of English, Spanish and Japanese in it.
I wonder if I could do something banal like this to make money with a random URL like this clown does.
New billboard takeover from Teacher. (Melrose & Fairfax)
Imagine if Edna actually stood up for education back in the day.
Let’s Make Documentary Cinema a Little Filthier
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One may afternoon in 1958, Mason walked into Wilbur’s office carrying a typed letter that ran to four pages. It began with Mason admitting that she was “none of the things I have pretended to be.
“I am not going to tell you there isn’t anything wrong,” the letter continued. “But it is not what I have led you to believe… . I do not have any multiple personalities… . I do not even have a ‘double.’ … I am all of them. I have been essentially lying.
