self-indulgence

Soul-searching time

By December 15, 2009No Comments

While I’m always happy to have Some Came Running’s exist­ence acknow­ledged by James Wolcott, whose work I’ve been fol­low­ing since he was a con­trib­ut­or to Creem at least (and I’m sure he’ll be delighted that I brought it up), it does give me some pause when said acknow­ledge­ment occurs in the con­text of yet anoth­er exam­in­a­tion of what a com­plete din­gus Jeff Goldstein is. This, com­bined with the fail­ure of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to even con­sider hon­or­ing my per­form­ance in The Girlfriend Experience makes this gray Tuesday an even…grayer one. 

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  • bill says:
    December 15, 2009 at 11:28 am

    No com­ment.

  • Tony Dayoub says:
    December 15, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    Yeah, I fol­lowed the AVATAR com­ments, but stayed away for much of the same reas­ons Wolcott points out at VF. Tempers were run­ning a bit high for what simply amounts to being a pop­corn movie.
    I’m lib­er­al as all get out, but I really don’t mind when my polit­ics get trashed in a fantasy movie. Hell, RAMBO, GRAN TORINO, and a whole load of John Wayne films would laugh at this leftie’s ideas. Doesn’t stop me from see­ing the film, and snick­er­ing loudly when they get it wrong… because I’m ALWAYS right.

  • JF says:
    December 15, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    That is a ter­rible over­sight on the part of the HFPA. The Erotic Connoisseur is second only to Colonel Landa in the pan­theon of 2009 screen vil­lains. To be fair to the HFPA, though, I believe there’s some kind of stip­u­la­tion this year that only one actu­ally good thing can be nom­in­ated in each cat­egory. See also: the ridicu­lous omis­sion of Breaking Bad.

  • justine says:
    December 15, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    Deeply wrong, this oversight.
    When The Erotic Connoisseur greets our plucky heroine in THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE, it’s much like that movie-jolting moment when George Sanders climbs through the win­dow in REBECCA.

  • James Russell says:
    December 15, 2009 at 10:59 pm

    Oddly reas­sur­ing to see that polit­ic­al blogs of an avowed liber­tari­an per­sua­sion still seem to be run by dicks all these years later…
    Oh, and: http://moviemorlocks.com/2009/12/14/jumping-on-the-list-bandwagon-10-films-youll-probably-never-see/