“Building a model from your own material…that’s how this works…it’s about taking out all the technical, logistical stuff that gets in the way.” — from Ben Affleck‘s attempt to explain Interpositive.
If President Biden insists on wearing old-man comfort shoes, he could at least wear the all-black kind that would at least simulate the black leather Presidential footwear tradition that has been in place since the days of Abraham Lincoln if not before. Biden’s wearing of whitesides is appalling — a symbolic degradation of the dignity … Read more
I bought these Bruno Magli lace-ups roughly 15 or 16 months ago. Online, marked down, size 13. But they felt too small. I’d been wearing 12 all my life (or since I was 13 or 14), but I shifted into 13 about a decade ago. For well over a year I’ve been reminding myself to … Read more
In Peter Yates‘ The Hot Rock, the great Robert Redford plays John Dortmunder with only a very slight hint of comedic tilt. Half-deadpan and half buried angst. Dortmunder, a hard-luck career criminal with a dryly sardonic attitude, was introduced in Donald Westlake’s same-titled 1970 pulp novel. (It began as a hard-boiled Parker book under his … Read more
HE to Gavin O’Connor, emailed last night around 10 pm: “Gavin — I’ve just come from a screening of The Accountant 2, and I fucking loved it! It made me feel like I was 15 or 16 and hanging with friends. “The brotherly rapport, which is to say the low-key, contentious, character-driven humor….the disciplined brainy … Read more
I’m not actually “serious” about trying to launch any of these therapeutic or advice concepts into actual going concerns, but I could easily dispense HE-styled wisdom and insight along these lines if so required. I have the ability to bullshit people and convey meaningless-but-harmless insights in a kindly, thoughtful, considerate way…as much of an ability … Read more
In all my years on this planet I spoke to Sean Connery only once, during a roundtable at a 1982 New York press junket for Richard Brooks‘ Wrong Is Right. I wasn’t much of a fan of the film (nobody was) but it was thrilling to absorb the vibe and smell the aroma of the … Read more
Daniel Craig’s floppy blonde mane, the pink wristband, the black leather jacket, the ruffian black jeans, the dangling shades, the forest of short white whiskers…exquisite. And in precisely the right way, director Luca Guadagnino offers his cultured professorial outfit with just a touch of flare. (A world of difference between white sneakers and whitesides.) But … Read more
But not so much the shorts and especially the greenish-gray whitesides…no offense. This is a New York Film Festival ticket-buying line for Average Joes. One of HE’s all-time favorite Manhattan greasy-spoon, mid-20th-Century diners.
HE is passively into discouraging or diminishing interest in Proof of Concept Accelerator movies…no offense. I simply wish to align myself with the tens of millions of relatively slender, well-educated squares out there (i.e., those who are not obese or MAGA or who don’t wear whitesides)…an alignment with the 95% of the Americans who don’t … Read more
You have to admire Martin Scorsese‘s “killer’ footwear combo….those shiny brown Italian loafers accented by violet socks…perfect. Especially compared to Steven Spielberg‘s whiteside lace-ups and maroon socks…atrocious. Older guys are allowed to wear comfort shoes, agreed, but whitesides are completely verboten. Marty looks like an elegant resident of Bologna or Milan…Spielberg looks like Joe Schlubbo … Read more