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April 21, 2022 11:20 pmby Jeffrey Wells

From Richard Brody's New Yorker review of Robert Eggers' The Northman ("Just a Bunch of Research and Gore"): "To tell this story, which Eggers co-wrote with the Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón, the director creates a pictorial world of visions and wonders, muck and gore, to evoke the crudeness and the cruelty, the mystical tenor and animistic passion, of the Viking realm -- of rural Northern European medieval society over all.
April 21, 2022 5:56 pmby Jeffrey Wells

From Ted Johnson and Dominic Patten’s Deadline summary of today’s courtroom cross-examination of Johnny Depp: “The extent of Depp’s addiction to oxycodone and other substances was made crystal clear in a text one of his nurses who had commented on Black Mass. ‘I was high as a motherfucker when I made that film,’ Depp told the nurse with a digital laugh. ‘[But] it’s not like I took the pills to get high…I took the pills to get normal.”

April 21, 2022 5:31 pmby Jeffrey Wells


It's my earnest belief that the best things in life...the things that we tend to regard as the best things in life, I should say...are things that happen on their own...randomly, curiously, suddenly, quietly, oddly and sometimes even annoyingly. But they always drop in.
April 21, 2022 5:09 pmby Jeffrey Wells

Bill Murray doesn’t suffer fools, and I love that about him. When he’s not being funny he can be rather brusque and dismissive. Especially with clueless or insipid journalists. Which is why, in a certain light, he’s long been one of my personal heroes.

Friendo: “God only knows what that’s about. The alleged ‘Bill Murray did or said something inappropriate on the Aziz Ansari film’ thing.”

HE: “He doesn’t crap around or play the game. I’ve seen him in action. The inference is that he acted inappropriately in a sexual way. But I’ll bet money that whatever he did or said, it wasn’t that bad. And that the complainer is a Millennial woman. And that her beef was about Murray being insensitive on some level.”

Friendo: “I’ll bet it isn’t sexual but, as you imply, some kind of sarcastic or angry response by him. Somebody was offended by something he said, and so they complained.”

HE: “Murray’s been in this racket for 40-plus years without significant incident, and suddenly he’s going to… what, inappropriately hit on someone? I can’t wrap my head around that. Why do you think it’s non-sexual? Just curious.”

Friendo: “He’s not that guy…not the lunging horndog. He’s just annoyed and irritated with everyone.”

HE: “Who suspends a movie in mid-production over something that might seem offensive in a certain context, but which isn’t all that serious?”

April 21, 2022 1:55 pmby Jeffrey Wells

Minutes after hearing of the sad passing of 90 year-old Robert Morse, I was watching his Tony Award–winning, one-man-band performance as Truman Capote in Tru (‘89).

Written by Jay Presson Allen, the whole show is on YouTube, broken up into nine segments. I’ve only watched two, but it’s obvious Morse’s Tony was well deserved.

Quick — what was Gore Vidal’s alleged response when asked about Capote’s slow, haphazard, Montgomery Clift-styled suicide of ‘84?

April 21, 2022 10:16 amby Jeffrey Wells

April 21, 2022 7:53 amby Jeffrey Wells



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