Friday, August 27, 2010
I'm Salivating
The star and director of my favorite all time movie reuniting on what may be my favorite play. And it will play in New York, so I can see it! http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/aug/26/kevin-spacey-shakespeare-richard-iii
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Like why?
I'm a hypocrite. I will rail about celebrity worship, yet if it's the terrible sin I claim it to be, I belong in Satan's bedchamber. Worse still, my railing at 2010 celebrity worship is simply a defense for the pathetic, shameful, state of my favorite celebrities. Those that are alive of course. But even the dead one's I can shame later in life. Olivier in the Neil Diamond remake of the Jazz Singer? Orson Welles in Transformers? Richard Burton in the Exorcist II? John Lennon's solo career? Shakespeare writing Two Noble Kinsmen?
Malcolm McDowell's career started with If... and Clockwork Orange, two of the greatest films and performances of all time. Progressively it worsened to Caligula (McDowell, Sir John Gielgud, Helen Mirren, and Peter O'Toole all in a film that was unsophisticated by Hustler Magazine softcore porno standards) and Cat People (incestuous were-cats: enough said), and in the past five years it has reached an appearingly horrifying nadir in joining the voice cast of Disney's Bolt with such shameful company as John Travolta and Miley/Hannah/Destiny Cyrus/Montana. In a movie about a talking dog. But no, it got worse: he joined the cast of Heroes. Bob Dylan's achievements are far greater than McDowell's. Then he made a Christmas album. Keith Richards is such a pathetic parody of himself that he's somewhat amusing. This guy was the greatest riff writer who ever lived, and now he's most famous for snorting his dad's ashes. Can still play great guitar though.You can't get off to a better start with your career than Peter O'Toole did, with the leading role in one of the biggest movies of all time in Lawrence of Arabia. And sure he nearly drunk himself to death during the next 20 years, and did some crap, but he still had room for Becket, the Ruling Class, and My Favorite Year, and some great stage work. He still does the occasional good work, but basically he's just become the stereotype of the drunk old actor.
All of the above are great examples of why a 4 foot 7, orange painted smurf from Long Island by the name of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is the biggest star in the universe. When there's no one great to choose from, one must idolize the most worthless human beings in the world, aka the cast of Jersey Shore.
Malcolm McDowell's career started with If... and Clockwork Orange, two of the greatest films and performances of all time. Progressively it worsened to Caligula (McDowell, Sir John Gielgud, Helen Mirren, and Peter O'Toole all in a film that was unsophisticated by Hustler Magazine softcore porno standards) and Cat People (incestuous were-cats: enough said), and in the past five years it has reached an appearingly horrifying nadir in joining the voice cast of Disney's Bolt with such shameful company as John Travolta and Miley/Hannah/Destiny Cyrus/Montana. In a movie about a talking dog. But no, it got worse: he joined the cast of Heroes. Bob Dylan's achievements are far greater than McDowell's. Then he made a Christmas album. Keith Richards is such a pathetic parody of himself that he's somewhat amusing. This guy was the greatest riff writer who ever lived, and now he's most famous for snorting his dad's ashes. Can still play great guitar though.You can't get off to a better start with your career than Peter O'Toole did, with the leading role in one of the biggest movies of all time in Lawrence of Arabia. And sure he nearly drunk himself to death during the next 20 years, and did some crap, but he still had room for Becket, the Ruling Class, and My Favorite Year, and some great stage work. He still does the occasional good work, but basically he's just become the stereotype of the drunk old actor.
All of the above are great examples of why a 4 foot 7, orange painted smurf from Long Island by the name of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is the biggest star in the universe. When there's no one great to choose from, one must idolize the most worthless human beings in the world, aka the cast of Jersey Shore.
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