Day: August 3, 2025

A few hours ago THR’s Mike Barnes posted a report on the death of director Jonathan Kaplan, whose finest feature was and always will be Over The Edge (‘79), a fact-based teen crime film that included the screen debut of Matt Dillon.

The subhead of Barnes’ story acknowledges Over The Edge, but the article doesn’t mention this 46-year-old film (made when Kaplan was 30 or so) until paragraph #16, and even then in a no-big-deal, keep-your-shirt-on fashion. That’s not cool. It’s also derelict. Over The Edge is historic…drills it down, wakes you up.

This Jonah Hill scene was shot and subsequently cut out of Knocked Up 18 or 19 years ago, and before today I’d honestly never seen it. Really. Semen milkshake chug-a-lug.

I hated this effing film after first glancing at the one-sheet, and now most of the world, it seems, has joined HE’s hate team. Tears of joy…weeping with gratitude.

In 1946 Hermann Goering was convicted of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials. He was no one’s idea of an Albert Speer-like moderate, but he was primarily a go-alonger. A Hitler ally and almost certainly an anti-Semite from way back, he played the political game in order to gain and wield power. He liked to eat (a total fatty until the final year of his life) and collect art and swagger around. He doesn’t appear (emphasis on the “a” word) to have been a rabidly racist Nazi ideologue like Heinrich Himmler. He got what he deserved at Nuremberg, but was fundamentally no more and no worse than, say, Dick Cheney during the Dubya years.

“Well, so was Ulysses S. Grant. Maybe it’ll work out like that.”

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Justine Bateman, starting around 4:30 mark: Before streamers and tech companies came to regard more or less everything as content, “the goal was this excellence…you wanted to be associated with something really good…something that would last beyond this era…[back then it was almost] shameful to do something [just] for money…sometimes you had to but you didn’t feel good about it.

“But what happened 10 years ago was that [we had] this streaming situation and studio chiefs chasing after the streamers and not wanting to look like chumps, so [that] really screwed things up. The studios started looking at films and TV series just as content. There have been exceptions over the last 10 years, of course, but the focus became volume content.”

I voted for Harris because I wanted someone semi-sane and mostly sensible running things, but I understand why the battleground schmoes didn’t like her.

“A party of scolding, bullying, cancel culture…this is actually what fascism is.”

Piers Morgan on 8.1.25:

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Piers Morgan Says Democrats Should reevaluate themselves, before next election

♬ original sound – Mimzie

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