February 2012
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Your Last Oscar Recap Podcast!
The Rushfield Babylon Oscar Recap Lay That Crystal Down Podcast is here!
Before we bid Oscar farewell, let’s recap this show so that it stays recapped
In which we discuss the woes and joys of Oscar night with a distinguised panel of experts, featuring Emily Yoshida, Jon Bronson and veteran observer Jim Gibson.
We debate the merits of Cirque, the stupendous journey of Angelina Jolie’s leg,...
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Bullitt's Telecopier scene →
This is pretty much the model of what every scene in film should be.
Happy Oscar night America.
Come spend your Oscars with me in the Daily Beast... →
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“The answer points right back at the question, at the unbearable otherworldliness...”
– I discuss George Clooney’s crumbling Oscar juggernaut and the madness of Oscar punditing over at The Daily Beast
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NikkiLeaks Addendum
Valiant Nikki watcher David Poland points out the other interests that Nikki’s pro-Baron Cohen/Anti-Academy screed served: namely pleasing Nikki’s true masters WME boss Ari Emmanuel, and possibly some folks at Paramount - another of her string pullers - along the way.
When people ask why I dislike our Crazy Aunt in the Attic so much it boils down to this: the nastiness I can live...
“I’ve lived the life of a rockstar in this trade. You really get to see it...”
– I am addicted to Reddit’s IAmA series. This confessional of a rock star locksmith is dazzling.
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NikkiLeaks: Up the Academy
In the HBO/Entourage fantasy version of the Nikki Finke story, Hollywood’s most ruthless blogger stops at nothing to punish a source who gives a scoop to a rival publication. In that fantasy, she meticulously plots her revenge and goes in for the kill by dropping an item about, let’s say, a deal that was this close to being finalized, her perfectly timed report killing it and costing...
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In this week's NYT Magazine, I mapped our for your... →
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The LA Times Nails the Academy for Being Itself
Let it never be said that the Los Angeles Times is incapable of proving the obvious. With an enormous team investigation, they are indeed perfectly capable of proving what is abundantly clear to any casual observer.
In the past decade, the Los Angeles Times has lost roughly half of its readership. Its coverage of Hollywood has all but become invisible, its pages filed alternately with gray...
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Oscar journalism summarized →
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Galveston. Always Galveston.
A very creditable...
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“51. Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, etc, etc/But I, being poor,...”
– A history of Ireland in 100 excuses.
In this week's NYT Magazine, I map out for you the... →
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“As a result, viewings of Midnight in Paris on the big screen became events in...”
– I discuss my bafflement at the Midnight In Paris phenomenon over at The Daily Beast
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“Has there ever been a trade story about a remake of a well-known Hollywood...”
– Jeff Wells on Variety on the upcoming remake of Hitchcock’s Rebecca bashed on the Daphne DuMorier novel. At least they aren’t calling it a Rebecca reboot.
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Stepping Through Reality Portals
Was taking stock a bit on the podcast of the important milestones we’ve been passing on the road to the collapse of civilization and it feels that in the last few weeks we’ve made some huge strides. Certainly our days on Earth as non-media based entities and living flesh must be drawing to a close.
• Last week Marvel released a 17 second teaser for their upcoming Superbowl ad for...
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The Ten Best Dickens Names
1. Sir Wackford Squeers
2. Dick Swiveller 3. Lord Mulberry Hawk
4. Miss Ninetta Crummles, The Infant Phenomenon
5. Ebenezer Scrooge
6. Mrs. MacStinger
7. Alfred Jingle 8. Cleopatra Skewton 9. Uriah Heep
10. Mr. Pumblechook
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