Sandra Bernhard, Jerry Lewis, and Robert DeNiro, The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese, 1982. "I don't want to screw up the Santa Barbara Film Festival timetable, but...well, the Academy needs…
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Because it's the Purps, bro. And because it's funny, cuz my birth date is August 8.
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...oh, no, wait, it's the aforementioned. That is, Frank Tashlin's Susan Slept Here, 1954. A weird one, not just because of the whole "she's-seventeen-years-old" thing. Obviously. Not major Tashlin, but…
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The film producer Ted Hope is a thoroughly resourceful and brilliant guy whose opinions on where film, specifically "independent" film, is, and where it should be going, I find to…
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Not an illustration from the scene itself, but an image from one of the films under discussion.For a prior scene, see here.SCENE: The Carroll Gardens apartment that the proprietor of…
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"Amity Shlaes is a credentialed right-wing scribe, best known for The Forgotten Man, her book about how FDR fucked up the Great Depression, thus earning him four presidential election victories (if…
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