Hollywood Elsewhere will be bopping (traipsing?) around Manhattan for the next 11 hours or so. I’ll be attending a William Goldman memorial at 3:30 pm .(here’s my 11.16 obit), possibly dropping by a Warner Bros. holiday party around 5:30 or 6 pm, and then catching an 8 pm performance of Kenneth Lonergan‘s The Waverly Gallery at the John Golden theatre. The cast stars Elaine May, Joan Allen, Michael Cera, Lucas Hedges and David Cromer.
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
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Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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