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    David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right

    Oscar-Nominated Movies All the Same This Year
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    01/07/09

    In reply to David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
    Is this the right place to raise the ultimately unanswerable question of whether The Night of the Gun is the brilliantly prescient end result of society's increasing fascination with drug memoirs and correspondingly increasing fascination with the possibility that they're fabricated -- or whether it's one of the most toweringly self-indulgent meae culpae ever committed to paper in the name of self-examination and "truth"?


    Because if so, I just finished the book, and have successfully formed an opinion now. I just thought you should know. (PS: I'm pro-.)

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    Image of ginger rant ginger rant
    01/09/09

    @skahammer: I'm anti, but I read the book so long ago that I can't remember why.


    Wait: By "pro," you mean you liked the book, right?

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    01/07/09

    In reply to David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
    It's Killer Klowns From Outer Space!
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    01/07/09

    In reply to David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
    So he's video-blogging his own drug relapse?


    Now that's journalism!

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    01/07/09

    In reply to David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
    It was weird whan his mom yelled "David! What are you doing down there??"
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    01/07/09

    In reply to David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
    It's giving me that Gacy feeling and that's never good.
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    01/07/09

    In reply to David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
    My impulse was to assume that DC is back on crack again. In fact, I am still not convinced. With a best-seller to his credit, is this shit really necessary?
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    01/07/09

    @SeaBassTian: DC is just a comic. Don't marvel because he's so animated.
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    01/07/09

    In reply to David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
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    01/07/09

    @Sidwell Enemies: Bad man stop.
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    01/07/09

    In reply to David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
    Hmmmm. So that's who was holding me as a sex slave for six months.
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    01/07/09

    In reply to David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
    I had kind of hoped Heath Ledger as the Joker would have put an end to all other creepy clowns in a dank basements qualifying as news.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    01/07/09

    In reply to David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
    After Sanjay Gupta, I'm not surprised by anything.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    01/07/09

    In reply to David Carr Just Doing What Feels Right
    As awesome as the video is, should the NYT really be spending its money on this?
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    01/07/09

    @Mount_Prion: Why so serious?
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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    01/07/09

    @Mount_Prion: Given this recent development, bankrupt in May may have been too optimistic.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    01/07/09

    @Mount_Prion: How much do you think they "spent" on this, really?
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    01/07/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: Quite a bit of intellectual capital with me at least.
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    01/07/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: You said they paid him for this! Carr don't come cheap!
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    12/05/08

    In reply to Oscar-Nominated Movies All the Same This Year
    The year's biggest tragedy: the best new releases I saw in a theater this year are Kung Fu Panda and Bolt.


    Everything else I watched, um, not at the theater.

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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    12/05/08

    @Lizawithazee: Scratch "tragedy" and insert "indication of advanced lameness on my part."
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    12/05/08

    In reply to Oscar-Nominated Movies All the Same This Year
    What are the actual Oscar contenders this year? I know Australia is out, because it's basically some guy's love letter to a place that nobody in this country cared a koalajoeyaussiecrap about. In my opinion there are movies that are Oscar caliber and those that are painfully obvious Oscar beggars. Meaning those actors who are screaming at the academy to finally notice them so they're doing that whole "See, I have depth, and lookee I'm going on a journey/through a transformation, so you'll have no idea that it's me" thing.


    That would be:


    1) Brad Pitt and his Button movie ( How mad is he that Casey Affleck got the shine in his whoizit, shot by that coward whatshisface movie last year, huh, I ask you?)


    2) Will Smith and his 7 pound movie ( He's thinking Ali, Pursuit of Happyness...what? Nothin?!)


    3) Tom Cruise and his Valkyrie movie (Well, what does he really expect? A Few Good Men and Born on the Fourth of July were decades ago, despite TNTs sole effort to remind us that he was a decent actor before Scientology did some strange things with probes and brain suckage.)


    Am I forgetting anyone?


    (Oh, and I don't need to see Philip Seymour Hoffman anymore, ever. The man scares me. His level of creepitude is off the charts. Also, Dicaprio is highly overrated, and I'll be amazed if he can pull off tragic, affected husband and father without reminding me of Luke from Growing Pains which he does in every movie he's in.)

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    12/05/08

    In reply to Oscar-Nominated Movies All the Same This Year
    That description would also cover every New Yorker short story ever published!


    Except "The Lottery".

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    12/05/08

    In reply to Oscar-Nominated Movies All the Same This Year
    I think Sheila's Legs should win the Oscar for "Best legs on a Gawker writer." But that's just my opinion
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    12/05/08

    @bjonston: Check'em out here: [gawker.com]
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