Housekeepingself-indulgenceSome Came Running by Glenn Kenny

My shame, part two...

By May 21, 2009January 12th, 202610 Comments

The chron­icle con­cern­ing how I have been most sorely used (I won’t link) con­tin­ues over at The Auteurs’. It’s still funny. I hope. 

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10 Comments

  • Max says:
    May 21, 2009 at 8:53 am

    “The next day, I tell my ther­ap­ist. She does not laugh. “That’s part of what you pay me for,” she explains.”
    Hilarious!
    A very enter­tain­ing read, as usu­al. ‘Your-Less-Than-Boring-Ass-Life’.

  • Ethan says:
    May 21, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    This was in the onion avclub’s review pos­ted today:
    …but it really pays off in a cameo by film crit­ic Glenn Kenny, who brings a hil­ari­ously sleazy the­at­ric­al­ity to the role of an “escort crit­ic” who expects graft for his reviews. Their shad­ow eco­nomy oper­ates a lot like the one in col­lapse: If you want to stay in busi­ness, you have to keep greas­ing the wheel.
    The people have spoken.

  • Herman Scobie says:
    May 22, 2009 at 7:53 am

    Tony Scott sez “He is played by Glenn Kenny, a film crit­ic and enter­tain­ment writer — and thus a cor­di­al screening-room acquaint­ance of mine — with a com­bin­a­tion of gran­di­ose self-regard and the­at­ric­al self-disgust that recalls Orson Welles in his Paul Masson wine commercials.”

  • Pete Segall says:
    May 22, 2009 at 9:31 am

    To keep the chor­us going, David Edelstein: “The vol­uble blogger-critic Glenn Kenny plays a blogger-critic—of call girls! In the movie’s most vivid scene, Kenny is degen­er­ate appet­ite incarn­ate, nego­ti­at­ing with Chelsea the price of a good review while pav­ing the way for a career as the Sydney Greenstreet of under­ground cinema.”

  • Diane Rainey says:
    May 22, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Reading the review of Girlfriend Experience, the name Glenn Kenny rings from far in my psyche. Willam Paterson College, early 1980’s. It’s all a blur. We worked togeth­er on the col­lege news­pa­per. I was afraid of you.
    Good to see you’ve made it so far, Glenn.
    Diane Hart-Rainey

  • Tom Russell says:
    May 22, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    And accord­ing to Dana Stevens– not your favour­ite col­league, true– your per­form­ance was “superb”.

  • Ron Goldberg says:
    May 22, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    Reprint the ori­gin­al My Life In Porn I‑IV!

  • Yuval says:
    May 22, 2009 at 8:35 pm

    That was also funny. The first part seemed fun­ni­er and hope­ful with all those wise crack­ing friends and new oppor­tun­it­ies turn­ing up. The second part is harsh reality.

  • Matt says:
    May 25, 2009 at 10:34 am

    Well, that was quite an insight into Soderbergh’s pro­cess… Nice to know that the Red cam­er­as are work­ing out for him. Also, you can take solace in the fact that, not hav­ing seen the film yet, I’m now even more motiv­ated to do it by how spec­tac­u­larly uncom­fort­able your scene looks to be 🙂

  • JC says:
    May 25, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    Well, Ben Lyons gave the film a “See It” on At The Movies, which I’m sure will bet­ter help you sleep at night, Glenn. 😉
    The oth­er Ben only gave it a “Rent It”, though…said it was too vague with its timelines, gen­er­at­ing more con­fu­sion than it should have. Oh well.