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...candid letter that read, “I love it when you’re a bitch, please come play a bitch for me.” The Harvard Crimson: How did you decide to make the film? Joe Wright: Working Title, who had done “Bridget Jones?? Diary,” approached me with the script. I didn’t think I was going to like it much, because I thought “Pride and Prejudice” was for girls. I took the script to the pub and by about page...
...emotionally stunted man-child just like Michael!” And I agree with most of them—especially the last.“Thriller” is a masterpiece of pop songcraft, compliments of Rod Temperton’s songwriting and Quincy Jones??s legendary production. And the video’s creature effects are spectacular: Jon Landis, the director of “An American Werewolf in London,” helmed the shoot, and brought his horror film expertise to the production.The unrelentingly long video, however, begins as a pastiche...
...Truth Lies” plants itself firmly in the venerable shady-side-of-showbiz genre. This particularly sordid little tale centers on the Martin-and-Lewis-esque 1950s musical/comedy duo of Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth, distancing himself from his “Bridget Jones??s Diary” nice-guy image), who perform a yearly telethon to benefit polio victims. Behind the scenes, they indulge in plenty of sex, drugs, fights, and mob connections.The dead girl who opens the film is Maureen O’Flaherty (Rachel Blanchard), a college student working...
...gajillions and quadrazillions of dollars, knows about powerful questions. He’s asked us about slavery, the Holocaust, being kind to space aliens, and most importantly about the very fabric of our lives, and whether or not that fabric can be purchased with the “Indiana Jones?? DVD box set. He certainly left me with a powerful question at the end of his current summer blockbuster. Why hasn’t someone put Dakota Fanning in a dark hole and left her there for a very long time? Actually, the film raised other questions...
...rock and Conrad’s avant-classically-influenced drone intersect, especially since Conrad was involved with other rock experimenters like John Cale (of The Velvet Underground) back home. Other stuff: German industrial-noisers Einstuerzende Neubaten’s collaboration with randy no-wave poet Lydia Lunch, Joe Jones?? Fluxus-inspired machine music, Bastard Noise’s divine Japanese tour...