What happened to all the good Hollywood films?
Posted by Simon in Film on 08. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
In a sprawling piece over at GQ, Mark Harris digs deep into the systemic problems with Hollywood’s studio system and the slow death of American mainstream cinema. From the whoring of films for profitability, devolving tastes and economic realities, Harris weaves into his truly informative essay plenty of levity and Solomon-like pinches of balanced perspective. [...]
Being almost famous apparently nothing like that movie, Almost Famous
Posted by Simon in Pop Culture on 04. Aug, 2010 | 1 Comment
On top of starting social meme’s and, occasionally, being a musician, Kanye West has become Twitter’s newest most hilarious celebrity to follow. I mean, where else but @kanyewest can you view pictures of goblets, and crowns, and victorian dressers, and Persian rugs, and Chanel jackets, and read informative stream of consciousness including gem’s like: “Fur [...]
The Morning Dump: Talk Show Host (music), Hollywood heists, El Bulli’s Inedible Swan Song
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 06. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
?uestlove of The Roots, band for Late Nate with Jimmy Fallon, writes the piece someone should have thought to write but nobody did, and does it in Twitlonger form no less: a brief history of talk show entrance music and how it works in today’s music marketplace. No, it’s not as easy as him and [...]
