Rushfield Babylon
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Hathaway and Franco will read their bits, fine, but nothing special. Only be slightly awkward.
The ceremony will actually clock shorter than in previous years but will feel much longer.
The pizza I’m going to order from this new place I’ve heard about is going to turn out to be, upon consideration, amazing.
The awards will be given to the people who sort of deserve them considering the people who really deserve them don’t have a shot so you’re not even thinking of those.
One presenters bit will be shockingly funny. Two more will make you chuckle. The rest will be median banquet circuit level.
At some point you will wonder why you are spending your night watching a Rotary Club quarterly luncheon.
And King’s Speech, Fincher, Firth, Benning, Leo, Bale, Seidler, Sorkin, TS3, Inside Job.
A Sunday morning conversation with Justin, 24, Atlanta, GA. Film guru.
Justin: (10:12:58 AM) Drive angry 3d: awesome
RichardRushfield: (10:13:12 AM) how could that not be good?
Justin: (10:14:12 AM) It had a pretty small take for the weekend box office…apparently nic cage, breasts in 3d and the 1969 dodge charger arent cool anymore?
Justin: (10:14:19 AM) Did i miss something
RichardRushfield: (10:14:25 AM) ridiculous!
Justin: (10:14:50 AM) It was like a classic b movie
Justin: (10:15:34 AM) Also nic cage drank beer from a
Justin: (10:15:39 AM) Guys skull
Justin: (10:15:42 AM) True story
Justin: (10:17:17 AM) Other things in this movie: violence against women, drug use, necrophilia, human sacrifice, satanism
And where will be Drive Angry 3d’s Oscar glory come this night next year?
You Say its Your Firth Day!
House of Firth
Heaven is a Place on Firth
Colinostomy!
For What Its Firth
Firth Case Scenario
From Bad to Firth
Colin Heights
Finch Mob
Sork In the Road
Stick a Sork In It
Don’t You Annette About Me
INTERVIEWER
When did you realize that you had talent?
TALESE
Never. All I have is intense curiosity. I have a great deal of interest in other people and, just as importantly, I have the patience to be around them.
Gay Talese interviewed in the Paris Review by Katie Rophie.
If you are a journalist today and you can read this interview (eye rollers and all) without feeling grotesquely inadequate, then you may be the reason we’ve come to this pass in media. Or maybe you just don’t relate.
I’ve always thought there are two kinds of people who become journalists; those who want an excuse to explore the world and poke their heads into stuff, and those who have the world all figured out before they get out of high school and want a soap box to tell the world what they know. Unfortunately, in my experience, the higher you get these days, the more they tend to be in that latter category.
He says mid-rant himself…
• Disemboweled kittens
• Fresca
• Goofus and Gallant
• The five postulates of Dalton’s Atomic Theory
• Moss jerky
• SARS
• Millions of voices suddenly crying out in terror and then suddenly silenced
• The cetology chapter of Moby Dick
• The cast of Supertrain
• My mother’s lasagna recipe
• Jokes about airplane food
• Hummingbird tears
• The left turn lane at Santa Monica Blvd and Sawtelle
• 8 milligrams of shut the hell up