Ok, you’re not gonna understand any mystery from this article, that’s for sure. It basically serves up a few selected quotes from actors (Lady Gaga?), almost none of them good (reactionary Right Wing nutter/good actor Gary Oldman’s is alright), but all put together they’re worthwhile in that good acting, or a good actor, is hard […]

“The market for fame is saturated. You can all go home. Sorry for getting your hopes up like that. The truth is, you have a better chance of being hit by a satellite than by fame. And just so we’re all on the same page, fame is exactly the point of all this. Any ambition […]

“Re: The Other Categories (besides Best Pic, Actor, Actress, etc.), no one cares. That’s the irreversible flaw of the Oscars. You’re wasting three-plus hours to get to a grand total of roughly four minutes of meaningful action. Even football doesn’t have that poor of a ratio. The Oscars are pointless and stupid. On that note, […]

“McQueen defined a fleeting moment in Hollywood’s depiction of manhood, standing between the ’50s kitsch of Sinatra, John Wayne, and Elvis and the post-Vietnam second-guessing of the pathological Eastwood, the sensitive New Age Redford, and Burt Reynolds. He was the first and maybe the last action hero to be neither absurd nor ironic. (He) cultivated […]

Clothes in films can be highly evocative. The coat worn by Richard Burton in ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ represents the mood of an era. You can read this ft.com article here.

They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.” – Lee Marvin