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• Tom Russell says:

  December 4, 2009 at 12:42 pm

  I am, indeed, miss­ing the Spout blog.

• lazarus says:

  December 4, 2009 at 12:52 pm

  I’m not sure why David Poland both­ers writ­ing about the awards sea­son because as you say Glenn, he seems so bit­ter about the whole thing. Write about some­thing else, then. Every year he goes through the same kvetch­ing about EVERY awards group, how they don’t know what they’re doing, and more import­antly, why they’re irrel­ev­ant. It’s either that they’re com­pletely off the reser­va­tion, or try­ing to pre­dict the Oscars with no ori­gin­al­ity. He also seems to wait for the per­fect moment to do his annu­al quot­ing of WIlliam Goldman’s “Nobody knows any­thing”, which has pretty much lost any punch it may have had (and Goldman’s own track record for the last couple dec­ades only proves HE def­in­itely doesn’t).
  As for Armond White, I don’t know what “polit­ic­al eco­nomy”, but his own polit­ic­al cur­rency should be drop­ping with every reac­tion­ary review he puts in print. Hopefully his cur­rent term as NYFCC pres­id­ent will be his last one. Your city’s group deserves bet­ter. Maybe you can stage a coup d’état at the next gathering?

• Pete Segall says:

  December 4, 2009 at 12:58 pm

  I’m glad you bring up the mar­ket­ing of Up in the Air because it gives me the chance to note per­haps the WTFiest part of a very WTFy Thanksgiving: American Airlines is actu­ally using the film in a pro­mo­tion­al cam­paign (I gath­er it’s Clooney’s car­ri­er of choice). I haven’t seen the movie but it seems a bit like the Budapest mass trans­it author­ity using Kontroll to pro­mote itself.
  Just wanted to point that out. Meaningful con­ver­sa­tion may recommence.

• The First Bill C says:

  December 4, 2009 at 1:30 pm

  @Pete: Actually, the air­line is not por­trayed neg­at­ively and the movie makes air travel seem as appeal­ing as it can be (almost com­ic­ally so: I can­’t recall one cry­ing baby or sub-par chick­en din­ner), at least until it does­n’t. Even then, the cir­cum­stances that inev­it­ably sour Clooney on fly­ing aren’t related to fly­ing as such.

• Kelly Jones says:

  December 8, 2009 at 11:46 am

  “I’m not sure why David Poland both­ers writ­ing about the awards sea­son because as you say Glenn, he seems so bit­ter about the whole thing. Write about some­thing else, then.”
  And I’m not sure why Glenn Kenny keeps writ­ing about Armond White, because, as you con­tinu­ously see, he seems so bit­ter about him all the time. Write about some­thing else, then.
  In fact, GK’s obses­sion with AW is like Andrew Sullivan’s obses­sion with Sarah Palin.

• Glenn Kenny says:

  December 8, 2009 at 11:55 am

  Yeah, me and Armond White=Andrew Sullivan and Sarah Palin. Wow, that’s just bril­liant, Kelly, I can­’t believe it only took you five days to come up with it.

• Kelly Jones says:

  December 8, 2009 at 12:37 pm

  It’s not bril­liant, just apro­pos. However, I do balk at men­tion­ing someone like Palin and White in the same breath because I believe the two are miles apart in intel­lect and writ­ing abil­ity (White being the super­i­or one).
  But there is clearly an unhealthy obses­sion you have with Armond sim­il­ar to that of Sullivan and Palin. I like Andrew, but he seems to have gone off the rails lately, shut­ting down his blog to read “Going Rogue”!?! I’m truly wor­ried about the guy. Worried about his health and men­tal stability.
  Your obses­sion does­n’t make me worry about your health (though I do hope you’re well), but I do think your Armond fet­ish is juni­or high. Dude, it really just comes off as juni­or high envy, not cri­tique. Perhaps you crave the same kind of inde­pend­ence that Armond has? He’s not tied to a film circle group­think the way you are, and, in my opin­ion, I think you (secretly) admire that.

• Glenn Kenny says:

  December 8, 2009 at 2:40 pm

  Kelly, I look at the sheer num­ber of Armond White ref­er­ences on this page alone, and I under­stand you. I do need help, and I’m gonna get it.