So many of these folks have talent but are not encouraged by the system to expand their range.
I'd love to see Spike Lee direct a Hemingway biopic. I'd love to see him direct a Jane Austen film. Tarantino can write for sure, but he is so wrapped up in his grindhouse fanboy shoot-em-up chop socky mentality that he doesn't seem to ever go beyond that comfort zone. Why? He took a good story by Elmore Leonard (one of my faves) and he stuck close to the original. IMHO the best thing he's done was Jackie Brown. Maybe if he played an addict or some sort of Bad Lieutenant (Harvey Keitel version) type of creepy character, he'd get some respect. Maybe that will change now and she won't feel she has to do dreck like Miss Congeniality and All About Steve to keep her career going.Ĭlooney makes everything look so easy that no one thinks he's working, sort of the Robert Redford syndrome.
Sandra Bullock can act, but she picks bad scripts. And the problem with his films is always always the writing. So many of these folks can't seem to identify their own strengths and weaknesses.Ĭameron writes only slightly better than George Lucas, but he keeps writing his own stuff anyway. This is very good for her because she'll get funding to make more films. I flipped by and saw Bigelow win and win again. And his mother took her cane and blocked me, so I couldn't get up there very fast."įrom the boodle this morning, here's kguy with an homage to the Victor Flemings of the world: "And then, as I'm sure you saw, when we won, he raced up there to accept the award. So we weren't even able to discuss ahead of the time who would be the one person allowed to speak if we won. "But there have been all these events around the Oscars, and I wasn't invited to any of them. "What happened was, the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably out of court. That's what we're talking about when we refer to "unscripted moments." She claims that, when the winner was announced, Williams' 87-year-old mother tried to block her with a cane, and he outran her to the stage. Much bad blood between Burkett and director Roger Ross Williams, we later discover. I had no idea what she was saying, but I'm sure whatever it was made perfect sense to her. This one had just the one, when my former Miami Herald colleague Elinor Burkett, the producer of the short documentary Music By Prudence, interrupted the director's acceptance speech and launched into an incomprehensible speech of her own. Or was that just me, in my post-vacation daze?Īll Oscar telecasts are required to have unscripted moments. They're usually disappointing and tedious, to be sure, but the production numbers and montages didn't do much for me, the double-emcee format slowed the pace, all the winners were predictable, and everything felt a little flat. Sorry to disagree with my friend Hank: This one stunk.
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