The film's pretty good. Some holes in it, but an interesting concept. I love it when things happen offscreen - your imagination always makes it so much worse, and therefore more effective.
I got to interview Sally Potter about the film, and it was a delight. I've got to review Rage pretty soon actually... it's worth a look, kids...
That's really amazing, Ms. Potter managed to make it feel exactly like a student film. Amateurish, pretentious, shitty framing, stilted, crappy ad-libbed dialogue and everything.
Just when I thought I couldn't love Dame Judi one iota more...she lights up a doobie after calling fashion pornography to which we are all addicted. Dammit, Judi. Not fair.
I feel Oprah and all, 'cause I haven't been happy with my own weight since, oh, around the time I hit puberty. But it always has bothered me that one of the richest, most successful and most influential women in the world seems to feel the need to PUBLICLY berate herself about her weight. Every time I read the inevitable "Oprah gained 40 lbs again and ZOMG she is SOOO bummed about it," I have to wish that she could try, at least in public, to take this sort of thing a little more in stride. She's Oprah, for God's sake! If someone is rude enough to ask her about an apparent weight gain, she can't just say, "Bish plz, I've had a hectic life lately and shit happens"?
Hey, Oprah? Can we talk? Look. You're an extremely successful woman. You have scads of money and iconic status. You're in your fifties. At this point, I don't think anyone should expect you to have the metabolism of a 23-year-old.
It seems like every. single. time you gain or lose 15 lbs, you're ALL OVER IT in the media. It's not just the tabloids that do it--I can't remember how many times I saw you on the cover of some magazine, gleefully holding up a pair of jeans much bigger than the ones you were pictured wearing, and some glorious and gaudy blurb in a clever font blared "OPRAH'S WEIGHT LOSS! HOW SHE DID IT!!11"
Please sit back and chill. I don't care how much you weigh. In fact, I don't want to know. Yeah, you're not one of those whippet-waisted young things, but dude, you don't look unhealthy. And if you WERE having some kind of weight-related health problem, I'm sure you have a crack staff of highly-paid medical professionals at your beck and call who will tend to you most solicitously.
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I got to interview Sally Potter about the film, and it was a delight. I've got to review Rage pretty soon actually... it's worth a look, kids...
09/03/09
I kind of want to see this just to watch Jude Law in drag, but I'm thinking I can wait for Netflix and not plunk down $13 to do so in a theater.
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HeadBrainIt seems like every. single. time you gain or lose 15 lbs, you're ALL OVER IT in the media. It's not just the tabloids that do it--I can't remember how many times I saw you on the cover of some magazine, gleefully holding up a pair of jeans much bigger than the ones you were pictured wearing, and some glorious and gaudy blurb in a clever font blared "OPRAH'S WEIGHT LOSS! HOW SHE DID IT!!11"
Please sit back and chill. I don't care how much you weigh. In fact, I don't want to know. Yeah, you're not one of those whippet-waisted young things, but dude, you don't look unhealthy. And if you WERE having some kind of weight-related health problem, I'm sure you have a crack staff of highly-paid medical professionals at your beck and call who will tend to you most solicitously.
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HeadBrainI'd like to add: The Big Easy. That scene btw Dennis Quaid and Elllen Barkin -- HOT!
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