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...movie has a carload of gay jokes, which is odd, since John and Jeremy's bonding is, well, not exactly homoerotic, more like the intimacy of college-prankster soul mates--fratonic. They may want to have sex with strangers, but they most enjoy being a team. And the most heartfelt I-love-yous the guys say are to each other. The script's burden is to pry the buddies apart and get them to chase women meaningfully...
Perhaps because there are three of them, the dogs are not the biggest stars on the set. "The fox is completely breathtaking," says Sturridge. "In your soul you know that a dog can be trained, and you think, Well, no, not a fox. So when you see a fox run and stop exactly where you've told it to stop, you go, For f____'s sake, that is amazing." O'Toole, as the imperious duke who buys Lassie from a struggling coal-mining family and takes the dog away to his Scottish manse, is not as easy to control...
...confirm its veracity. The rent isn’t bad either, considering I get my own room (more than most of my friends at NYU can say), and two mostly-edible meals a day. So I traded in my scented candles for votive ones and signed away my soul on the dotted line...
Southern musicians aren't used to being on the tail end of any genre. After all, the South is where jazz and blues were invented. Where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil so he could play the licks that would become rock 'n' roll. Where Ray Charles realized that gospel sounded just as good outside of church. So the past 25 years must have been painful for Southern rappers, having to stand by while New York City and Los Angeles rhymers got all the respect and most of the record sales...
Brewer got to film it in Memphis, with its rich music tradition that nurtured styles from Sun Records rockabilly (Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis) to Stax soul (Isaac Hayes, who has a small role here, and Otis Redding). "I wasn't making a black movie," Brewer insists. "I was making a Memphis movie. It's my love letter to Memphis...