Eddie Murphy did James Brown two or three times on Saturday Night Live, but the Delirious version is my favorite. 31 years ago and obviously old hat, but now it’s renewed hat with Get On Up opening on 8.1. How good is Chadwick Boseman‘s Brown? Pretty good, I’m hearing, but Murphy’s, for me, will always be the shit. How hard is it to do Brown? Just (a) get raspy and snappy and gravelly and (b) ignore your consonants. Concentrate on mood sounds rather than words.
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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