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March 19, 2005
Michelle Trachtenberg Bonanza!
Current front-runner for best movie I've seen in 2005 is the documentary BORN INTO BROTHELS. Proof that art has the power to change the world. Thrilling, funny, and completely heartbreaking.
Could there be a movie any different from BORN INTO BROTHELS than Disney's new ICE PRINCESS?? I'm going to see it, too, because of the lovely Michelle Trachtenberg, who also stars in MYSTERIOUS SKIN. She's been doing an everest of promotion for Disney, and has mentioned MSKIN quite a bit. In fact, on this week's Moviefone.com site, there is an extended feature on Michelle (takes a little while to download, but it's worth it) that opens and closes with segments of the "drive-in" scene with her and Joseph Gordon-Levitt from Mysterious Skin, and also shows a bit of the more disturbing stuff with Brady Corbet and the little boys from the film. There's even a snippet in this film showing all of us at Sundance, posing away.
You can find this Michelle feature RIGHT HERE!! (This probably won't be on the web that long, so do it soon.)
No matter how you feel about Disney, go see ICE PRINCESS and support Michelle, because she's great. But before that, see BORN INTO BROTHELS. And then see it again.
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March 09, 2005
Some Things Slapping Around in My Head
My Sundance Update is soon....
First, here are a few things on my mind.
(1) This past week was my ten-year anniversary with Michael. He confirmed that he is my favorite person on earth. We took a trip to Kent, Connecticut to visit our friends Jamie and Eamonn, who live in the woods nearby, who are wonderful people, who made amazing meals (flank steak! morning porridge!!) for us. In the town of Kent, at a great little bookstore owned by Richard J. Lindsey, Bookseller, we jointly bought an original first-edition hardcover of Richard Yates's REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, one of the most devastating, technically perfect, memorable, and greatest books ever written. (Now I have all of Yates's books on hardcover except ELEVEN KINDS OF LONELINESS.) In addition, the four of us drove to Great Barrington, a cool town I highly recommend to anyone visiting that Massachusetts / New York / Connecticut intersection area.
Anyway. Here are photos of the late Yates, as well as Jamie & Eamonn's beautiful viszla Lilla.
(2) Either Mario Vazquez or Bo Bice deserve to win AMERICAN IDOL. I also like Nadia Turner.
(3) Dr. Phil has now become one of the biggest creeps on the planet, in my view. I've always thought his show was trashy--and this is coming from someone who loves stuff like ELIMINIDATE and MAURY--but now he's totally gone overboard. His recent crap where he smugly interviewed the family of a suspected teenage sexual offender was ultra offensive and way, way, way over the line of tastefulness... this article about "Brad, Kenda, and Mikai" pretty much mirrors my feelings. All in all, I wound up (a) feeling really sorry for the teenage "demon," (b) absolutely hating his celebrity-hungry parents, and (c) wanting to rip Dr. Phil's Texas-twangin', barbecuin', holier-than-thouin', bald head off his neck. These "sexual predator" Dr. Phil episodes join the horrifying episodes of THE SWAN as the worst TV moments of the past 12 months.
(4) My favorite cd so far this year? OUTSIDE CLOSER, by HOOD. I think I might like it even better than the also recent BEFORE THE DAWN HEALS US, by M83.
(5) I am sick, sick, sick of winter. Enough already!
(6) However, I love mochi. And I've discovered a Thai restaurant in Brookline, MA that makes lychee martinis. They are beyond sublime. In fact, I'm going to stop now so I can drive through the snow and have one.
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March 08, 2005
The French Website
Yes, I still need to update this weblog with my report from Sundance. I've been procrastinating, but also working on my novel.
In the meantime:
France will be the first country in which the Mysterious Skin film is unleashed, with a release date at the end of May. mK2, the distributor, has set up a website on which you can see photographs, read information (in French!), and view the trailer (in English, but with French subtitles) for the film. You can find it here:
More news soon!
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