There’s no mention of racism, or anything political or controversial on the tour. Jeff is an unapologetic booster of movies, and that’s his whole agenda. Lots of actors and movies were described by him as “very very great,” and that’s how he really feels about them. I love his enthusiasm, but I wonder whether his rap wouldn’t be more interesting if he incorporated some social history. Of course, yours truly is the cynic who loathes Good Will Hunting, considering it Gus Van Sant’s schmaltzy sellout film! And when Jeff talked about the Copley Plaza Hotel because Tom Cruise came through it in The Firm, I only remembered, during a fire there, movie mogul Sumner M. Redstone dangling absurdly out a window.
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You can’t say they don’t warn you.
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Looking back on a time when action sequences unfolded without the currently fashionable veil of rapid editing and CGI.
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Except for a few agitators like Sean Penn and Barbra Streisand, people in Hollywood prefer to play down their liberal bent.
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When I first realized that movies would, for better or worse, dominate my imagination forever, I really gave no thought to the forces at work creating these transfiguring images on a screen.
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One day, Jerry Seinfeld was talking with his good friend Steven Spielberg, and he said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if ‘B’ movies were really about bees?”
- Catch him if you can
Another first: the coach of an obscure Southern collegiate lacrosse team has been fired after one of his players smashed the window of a security vehicle using a . . . slingshot.
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His ongoing beatification notwithstanding, Clint Eastwood has never lined up behind traditional notions of the hero. Watch the trailer for Flags of Our Fathers (QuickTime)
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Anybody who’s had dealings with small children knows the importance of “the pitch.”
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