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Deadline Kate Winslet's Titanic screen test!
Culture Monster Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert to team for Jean Genet's The Maids. Alas, not for the screen.
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Flickr Truly amazing photoset of California billboards from 1974/1975 including billboards of Oscar interest
Today's Must Read
"Extraordinary Machines" by Steven Hyden which looks back at the celebrity coupledom of Paul Thomas Anderson and Fiona Apple, the way they were, and the way they are now divergent.
It had been his intention to write a conventional 90-minute comedy for Adam Sandler, whom he met while tagging along with Apple when she performed on Saturday Night Live in 2000. What he actually made was more like a Fiona Apple song — a disorienting mishmash of bright melody and percussive dissonance, with a main character who was odd and oddly compelling and prone to oddly explosive, out-of-nowhere outbursts. Unfortunately for Punch-Drunk Love, Fiona Apple songs were still a few years away from returning to fashion, and the film died at the box office.
It's a really insightful piece about two of showbusiness's most fascinating artists. So go read it.
Reader Comments (9)
What about Maya Rudolph? I love Fiona Apple and Paul Thomas Anderson but I love Paul Thomas Anderson more sharing his genes and life with Maya Rudolph. The daughter of Minnie Riperton, Maya is no stranger to living in the shadows of those closest to her. But, now as a woman with some name and face recognition, does she have to accept the reminder of press dedicated to her partner's ex?
4rtful -- the article is not at all about wishing Paul & Fiona were still together but about how artistically sympatico they are even though they're apart. and they're all still friends so it's cool
Kate was much more instintive and natural then,compare that to the reader's amnnerisms.
Ok, so, I actually think Jeremy Sisto could've been interesting in the Jack role. He certainly looks and acts more working class than Leo did.
He certainly does not,that voice,i could never picture him in paris,too well bred,a good actor will always show up a bad one.
Nathan, I read the article before I wrote my response. Maya's in Bridesmaids, so is Fiona's Paper Bag, one has nothing to do with the other, but, Rudolph has to do something more than have his children, in order to be shown, the proper amount of respect. I wish an enterprising, foreign auteur, decides to cast her in a Piano level period drama, that way, she'd have something of her own, to bat off, the dismissive.
Sisto was outclassed and acted. I do feel bad that the world sees how much he sucks and deserves to stay in generic television tough guy bait. Where Leo's adorable and the world's golden boy, Jeremy's a hyper masculine, man-beast, fuck-able, creep.
I have to say 4rtful, i could not disagree more. The article is in no way dismissive of Maya Rudolph. It just so happens that she is not the focus of their critical thesis. And when you look at the kind of work she has done, that makes sense. The great thing about Maya Rudolph in her film performances is her groundedness. She projects a lovely sort of warmth and maturity that has the power to ground even the silliest of scenes and films. But that is not a quality she shares with Paul Thomas Anderson. PTA is in no way grounded. His films are always heightened, always stylized, always taking place on a plane just above reality. He works in a highly theatrical, almost operatic space in which grand ideas and over the top characters are explored in a way that reveals their humanity and their importance. His style does however overlap with Fiona Apple, who works in the same plane of unreality. And it also helps that they are both the architects of their own creations, which is not something Maya Rudolph has expressed interest in. Fiona Apple writes her songs, PTA directs and I believe also writes his films.
Why then must Maya Rudolph's work be tied to him when they have so little in common artistically? Because he is her husband? Wouldn't you hope that someone with the skill of Maya Rudolph could have a career defined by her own achievements, not just how they measure up to their husband's work?
And I quite like Jeremy Sisto. He was good a couple years ago in Waitress, one of those movies that never really gets talked about now even though it was well received at the time. A shame really. I liked that movie a lot.