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| bartist |
 Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:07 am |
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marantzo wrote: Lucy must be your dog.
Where is Betsy?
I'm guessing there's a billboard or neon sign of some kind, in the Phoenix area, that depicts Ms. Ball waving? Betsy lives in Prescott, IIRC?
Syd -- Branagh:Olivier....I hadn't noticed, but now I'm seeing the resemblance. Ha! |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:28 am |
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bartist wrote: marantzo wrote: Lucy must be your dog.
Where is Betsy?
I'm guessing there's a billboard or neon sign of some kind, in the Phoenix area, that depicts Ms. Ball waving? Betsy lives in Prescott, IIRC?
Syd -- Branagh:Olivier....I hadn't noticed, but now I'm seeing the resemblance. Ha!
I believe betsy lives in the remarkably vertiginous town of Jerome, described by more than one person involved in the Sedona tourist trade as "A drinking town with an artist problem." By the way, the drive from Jerome to Prescott down 89A is one of remarkable beauty provided you are not the one doing the driving. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:02 pm |
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Jerome looks tiny, on the map. "A drinking town with an artist problem," sounds like Bolinas, CA. I hate mountain drives, for precisely the problem you cite....if I'm driving, all I experience is me dodging logging trucks and fizzing up my semicircular canals on hairpin turns.
You know the street names of the Lucy intersection? Wonder if it's on Google streetview.... |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:01 pm |
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| I stayed at Betsy's place once but I don't remember the name. Jerome might be right. It's a nice town. I had a good time in that area. Betsy was a very good hostess. And she has an older woman friend named Dallas who is also very nice and entertaining. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:05 am |
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Saw 50 50 tonight with Earl. It's a terrific movie, and while I'd read that it never gets far enough away from shallow laughs and predictable plot turns to be as honest as it should be, I thought it was a subtle, emotionally satisfying movie. It's also the first movie performance from Joseph Gordon-Levitt I've liked. It's great seeing him come across as an adult. Anjelica Huston is great as his mom. The whole cast is strong. Seth Rogen is very good (I like him a lot, and it's too bad with Judd Apeaow kinda disappearing from the scene, Rogan has disappeared with him), and I just like Anna Kendrick. Serge Houde is quietly emotionally devastating as Gordon-Levitt's Alzheimer's suffering dad.
The only slight downside is that it's another movie that uses Seattle as a location without getting any sense of the Seattle mindset. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:37 am |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:41 am |
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| You write like a dream, Marc. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:41 am |
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| Joe, I'm blushing. Thanks. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:58 am |
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Sounds like a movie I'll miss. I loved some of Thompson's writing but his aura and personality have never intrigued me as much as they do many people. When all was said and done he was a drunk, and drunks don't make good company for me. I thought Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a drag of a movie and Depp gave an amazingly self-indulgent performance.
You do, as noted, write beautifully and passionately, however. Guess you didn't catch After Fall, Winter. Eric Schaeffer says he had a great time in Austin; he sat on a panel or something and the film got a nice review, so that was good. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:52 am |
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| Great review of "Rum Diary," and it echoed my feelings when I saw the trailer in the theater: Depp's having lots of fun but the film itself doesn't appeal to me. (Just too much competition out there, especially this time of year.) |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:39 pm |
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Joe, I'm glad someone saw 50/50 and reviewed it here...I've been wavering on it, will probably check it out now, as I've liked JG-L even in his more juvie incarnations.
No surprises in Marc's review....seems to me a kind of artistic self-indulgence happens whenever anyone tries to bring HST to screen. The trailer turned me off; Marc's comments make me think the film is better than what I saw, but not better enough. BTW, love the phrase "lysergical light." Good writing is playful and inventive....a pleasure to read. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:23 pm |
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Billy,
Eric's film was screening at the same time as The Rum Diary. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:28 pm |
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Marc wrote: Billy,
Eric's film was screening at the same time as The Rum Diary.
Bummer for Eric. The competition must have been damaging to attendance at his film. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:48 pm |
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| Yes, those were my thoughts. I can't imagine a worse time slot. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:51 pm |
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Jeff, Who Lives at Home gets a big thumbs up. Touching, funny and wonderfully acted by the entire cast, particularly Susan Sarandon.
Shame is the worst film I've seen all year. Absolutely rancid. |
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