…vaguely resembles Timothee Chalamet, granted, but my immediate response was that it looks more like late ‘80s or early ‘90s Eric Stoltz. (Two months younger than Barack Obama, Stoltz is now 64 — a jarring realization.) Plus the orange ping-pong ball is the size of a tangerine.
This sculpture indicates something, methinks. It suggests that the worldwide federation of hipster cineastes has planted a flag on the lunar Marty Supreme surface while the hermetic Academy is living on its own planet while doggedly embracing the OBAA Paul Thomas Anderson theology, blah blah.
I realize, of course, that the ICE terror in Minnesota has triple-cinched an OBAA Best Picture win along with PTA nabbing the Best Director trophy. No arguing this. But the international cool cats are almost certainly more into Marty.
