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Mark Lisanti, the Defamer hotshot from '04 to '08, starts today as Movieline's new editor-at-large with three commentaries per week. And what if something really astonishing happens on a Tuesday or a Saturday or a Monday night? Lisanti is going to sit on his hands and wait for the next scheduled posting op? That's not cool, man, if that's the deal. If you're in it, you're in it.

"This is dialectics. It's very simple dialectics. One through nine. No maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space...you can't go out in space, you know, without like, you know, with fractions. What are you gonna land on? One-quarter? Three-eighths? What are you gonna do when you go from here to Venus, or something? That's dialectic physics, okay? Dialectic logic is, there's only love and hate. You either write for a movie site full bore or you don't. No chickenshit fractions." -- Dennis Hopper's photojournalist speaking in Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979).

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 6, 2009 at 11:28 AM

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p.Vice says ...

Your middle name doesn't happen to be Faust, does it?

Posted by p.Vice at July 6, 2009 1:53 PM

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Deathtongue_Groupie says ...

Green is not a good color on you, Jeff....

Posted by Deathtongue_Groupie at July 6, 2009 2:12 PM

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Carl LaFong says ...

What if something "really astonishing" happens? Call in the second string, and take in a Michael Mann flick, of course!

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Jeff is going into a screening of Public Enemies and has asked me to post his thoughts on the still-developing Michael Jackson story -- Moises Chiullan.

posted by Moises Chiullan at 3:21 PM on Thursday, June 25, 2009

Posted by Carl LaFong at July 6, 2009 2:33 PM

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micamayer1 says ...

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Posted by micamayer1 at July 6, 2009 7:02 PM

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BurmaShave says ...

I really do hope Hopper talked about writing for a movie-site and I just don't remember.

Posted by BurmaShave at July 7, 2009 12:47 AM

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byanyother says ...

Great quote. Lisanti will get sucked in probably - the same people seem to be floating around Defamer, Vanity Fair online and now Movieline - of them all, Lisanti is the only one worth reading.

Posted by byanyother at July 7, 2009 7:40 AM

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