Bill Maher: “I don’t want to sound like Donald Trump, Hillary, but your campaign stinks and your numbers are terrible…and that laugh…the one that makes people think you’re the Wicked Witch of The West Wing.” (And eye bags! I know they’re not funny because too many people have them and they’re not a criminal offense, but eye bags are a very pungent metaphor.) Best line in whole riff: Scott Walker “looks like a drunk in a silent movie who’s just been punched by mistake.”
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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