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Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 8:30AM Recommended Randomness
Movie City News there's been a lot of talk of the sexism of Hollywood hiring in terms of the directors chair. David Poland decided to investigate (albeited in a limited sample way) which studio jobs since 1999 went to previously indie directors. He's since added 2000 and 2001.
VF Hollywood Courtney Love interview excerpts - good stuff on her small role in Empire which she hopes to return to for Season 2
Deviant Art Awesome Seussified illustrations via Dr FaustusAU: Mad Max, Alien, The Exorcist and more
TimeOut NY talks to Patti Lupone. Did you guys see her on Penny Dreadful. She was surprisingly effective in straight horror drama, no comedy or singing necessary
MNPP honors the awesomeness that is Simon Russell Beale on Penny Dreadful (I also totally love that performance - S2 is just running circles around S1)
"New York is Dead" My pocketbook can take no more Kickstarter but I would love to see the Gayby stars (besties Matthew Wilkas and Jenn Harris) in this comic series. Sounds morbidly perfect for them
Gene Kelly's Butt is my new favorite tumblr. How come noone told me about this one before? It's a cheeky wonder
Vulture Amy Schumer photobombs a random couples engagement photo in Central Park - lucky guys!
News Catch Up
Variety in news that will surprise no one Hungary has selected Son of Saul as their Oscar entry this year. It's our first "official" player
THR Emmy Nominations will be announced at 11:30 AM EST instead of the customary morning show frenzy. Will this set off a chain reaction? (I always love the early morning thing myself)
Variety Jaden Smith is joining Baz Luhrmann's Netflix series (ugh) as a graffiti artist
Pajiba the actresses who've admitted they want to play Captain Marvel from twins Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard and onward
MTV Joseph Gordon Levitt promises that the Sandman movie will be faithful - i.e. not an "action flick" like other comic book movies
Empire Danger Danger. Terry Gilliam finally has funding for Don Quixote. Do we really need this? I once read a very convincing argument (I forget which critic -sorry) during the release of that 2002 documentary about his spectacular failure to get that made that his entire career was already Quixote myths so it was for the best that he didn't go for the redundancy
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"AS IF..." you haven't already read this. But just in case you missed it. Vanity Fair has excerpts from an upcoming book on the Oral History of Clueless that seminal teen flick which is now (gulp) 20 years old. Somehow Paul Rudd still looks basically the same but the rest of us who loved it and everyone else involved have aged. I love that one of Amy Heckerling's inspirations for it was the positivity of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
For about a hot minute yesterday I thought "ooh, we should do a 'top ten lines from Clueless' article" but by the end of the hot minute I had thought of 50 with no end in sight so perhaps we'll have to wait until its 25th to come up with that. Daunting... as perfection tends to be.
Reader Comments (11)
"let's blow off P.E., have a calorie fest and see the new Christian Slater?"
LOL shows how awesomely dated some of those lines are when revisiting.
"Cher's saving herself for Luke Perry"
Kids today would be like, umm who? haha makes me sad
Patti Lupone was so marvelous in Life Goes On. I would love to see her do more straight dramatic work.
So crazy that Angelina auditioned to play Cher! It's hard to imagine her as anything other than what she is now -- not a young, auditioning actress.
"Why am I even listening to you? You're a virgin who can't drive."
Christopher Lee has died aged 93. It was a few days ago but news only released today.
RIP Christopher Lee, one of the greats.
(On a less sober note, re: Penny Dreadful, Nat, I have something NSFW for you that is about 200MB in size. Let me know if you're interested...)
Ruby Dee has also passed away.
Ruby passed a year ago today, SanFran.
Oh! My bad.
Christopher Lee--one of those actors who could just scare the bejesus out of you with a glance. Be at peace.
How I LOVED that "Clueless" oral history. I thought I'd known everything there was to know about that movie, but these two facts jumped out at me:
*Sarah Michelle Gellar would have played Amber but "All My Children" wouldn't let her out for it (and no wonder she seems so bitter about her soap opera days)
*The original casting director would have stayed with it, but than once Paramount optioned it -- Paramount, which considerably has a lot of money -- they expected her to work for free!