Misc. inanity

Random thought.

By September 5, 2008No Comments

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  • bill says:

    Oh, good Lord. This is what the inter­net has done to writ­ing, folks.

  • Montgomery Vincent says:

    Oh, so that really was you who jumped into the fray along with the rest of us. I’m glad someone with some cred­ib­ilty thought that what Wissot wrote was ridicu­lous. What she said would have been obnox­ious in any con­text. I mean, if she wants to write about it on nerve, that’s cool, but don’t expect me to take you ser­i­ously as a film writer if you’re inter­ested in let­ting me know that you just got drilled by David Barton. Say what you will about people like Denby or Lane, but at least they nev­er pep­per their reviews with asides about hav­ing their salad tossed by a “fam­ous chef,” or get­ting a reach around from a sinewy Hall of Fame shoot­ing guard for a former east­ern con­fer­ence power­house. Wissot should be embar­rased, but I have the feel­ing she’s not, that she prob­ably equates her piece with oth­er ground­break­ing moments in print, such as Gay Talese’s Frank Sinatra Has a Cold or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

  • Dan says:

    Wow. I’m ded­ic­ated to film, but not so ded­ic­ated I’d give up hot sex with an attract­ive per­son because their views on film did­n’t align with mine.
    Part of me wants to say “pix plz” just to cause trouble.

  • bill says:

    The “About Me” sec­tion in her pro­file is writ­ten in the third per­son. Just thought I’d men­tion that.

  • Vince says:

    Sorry, Glenn. That’s been the name of my blog for years.

  • Claire K. says:

    I’m frankly dis­ap­poin­ted that all the bick­er­ing over Wissot’s hot noon­er com­pletely over­shad­owed the true gig­gler in her post, her claim that she learned to shun artist­ic self-congratulation FROM JUDITH MALINA.

  • Tony Dayoub says:

    Sorry Claire, I don’t know enough about Malina to get that last joke. I only know her from her role as Grandma in “The Addams Family” (1991).

  • Dan says:

    Claire, I found the line about artist­ic self-congratulation to be a hoot in of itself, because boy howdy is it nev­er not true. Her pro­file, etc., reads quite a bit like “Look at me! Look at me! LOOK AT ME!!! HOORAY INTERNET!!!”
    I bet she has a MySpace.

  • Filmbrain says:

    Not pre­ten­tious enough. How about in French? “Sexe fant­astique d’après-midi avec un Bodybuilder chaud.”

  • Claire K. says:

    ooh, and for my part, I’d com­pletely for­got­ten that she’d been in The Addams Family, so I thank you for remind­ing me, Tony.

  • Brian says:

    Wait, when did “The House Next Door” become “The House Madam Next Door”? Geez, Seitz leaves and everything goes all Norman Mailer on us…

  • Tim Lucas says:

    Why not just rename it “Some Ran Coming”?

  • cadavra says:

    Actually, Tim, if you think about it, it’s even dirti­er the way it is now!

  • DUH says:

    Wow, just clicked the link. I knew there was a reas­on that I’d been vis­it­ing the House Next Door a lot less since Seitz left. Whoa, that place has really gone down­hill (and I don’t say that just because of that ridicu­lous post).