Would just like to point out that Forest Whitaker is a Scientologist. Thankfully, this just seems to be a sop to fundraisers and not anything that will accomplish much on a policy level. #annawintour
@Jackson West: These people are the very definition of bourgeois mediocrity. Sure, they're all technically proficient, but they're unremarkable figures who fall into two categories: either extremely conventional (Edward Norton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ma Yoyo, Kerry Washington, Anna Wintour) or outstanding flakes (Alfre Woodward, Forest Whitaker, Teresa Heinz Kerry). What have they given us that will truly last? Oh, who cares anyway? --I just don't like people calling them "cultural figures." Maybe "society luminaries" would be a better term.
@i'm a bottle: You know what's odd? That among the fresh batch of 26 appointees to the Committee on the Arts and Humanities there is not ONE artist-artist. You know, a painter. A sculptor. An art photographer. An installation artist. A video artist. No one whose work would be displayed in galleries or museums.
I don't mind Anna Wintour; she's nec pluribus impar in her field and a staunch supporter of young American fashion designers who think outside the box. She makes sense. Yo-Yo Ma doesn't bother me either. Ed Norton I sorta get--he just produced a doc on Obama's campaign, so this is his reward. But Bryan Lourd, Kerry Washington and Sarah Jessica Parker befuddle me. These are not people who trade in, or represent, the "artistic" or "humanistic" side of filmmaking. These people are the reason why David Lynch, arguably a true American original and an artist of the utmost order, can't get funding in the U.S. for his films. I suppose they'll sing him official hosannas when he's dead..
@snugbug: You let Yo-Yo Ma off too easily. Look at his dicography since 1996. It's purely commercial tripe. There's nothing significant on it at all after that point. Compare the music he chooses to perform with the music that Rostropovich performed. Night and day there. #annawintour
@TableNein: Dunno, she seems pretty stable to me, but with SATC continually dangling that carrot out there, it's no wonder she looks a little run-down.
@naugahydeinplainsight: All these neigh-sayers are a bunch of appaloosas! SJP still spurs a funny feeling in my jockeys. An unbridled feeling of passion, if you will.
@resipsaloquacious: If she's that tired she should have her secretariat cancel some of her events. She needs to spend more time at home, being a mudder to her kids.
@Our Lady of the Massacre: I hate to break this to you, but Tarantino is pretty notorious for saying he's going to do something and then never coming through (although he did finally make Inglourious Basterds). I'm still waiting for the novel version of Kill Bill, the 4 hour Kill Bill extravaganza, and a remake of Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill starring Britney Spears.
@Our Lady of the Massacre: Sounds exciting, although I do have to wonder what this film could possibly be about. If memory serves, the Bride gone killed Bill already. Unless there's ANOTHER Bill who wronged her that we know nothing about? Very intriguing.
Tarantino himself has mentioned that a sequel might revolve around Nikki Bell's quest to avenge the death of her mom Vernita Green at the hands of The Bride from Vol. 1.
@shortskid: If that were so, it's at this point a full-blown vendetta, no longer a narrative of personal revenge. It reminds me of that wonderful chapter in "Huck Finn" about the Grangerford-Shepherdson multi-generational feud. Yay! I always maintained that Tarantino is kind of a classicist at heart..
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I don't mind Anna Wintour; she's nec pluribus impar in her field and a staunch supporter of young American fashion designers who think outside the box. She makes sense. Yo-Yo Ma doesn't bother me either. Ed Norton I sorta get--he just produced a doc on Obama's campaign, so this is his reward. But Bryan Lourd, Kerry Washington and Sarah Jessica Parker befuddle me. These are not people who trade in, or represent, the "artistic" or "humanistic" side of filmmaking. These people are the reason why David Lynch, arguably a true American original and an artist of the utmost order, can't get funding in the U.S. for his films. I suppose they'll sing him official hosannas when he's dead..
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But Katy could send him hyperlinks to Lily Allen's boobies. That would probably be even better.
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On another note, OOOOOHHHH that Oliver Hudson!
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She once was a perky fillie, but now anyone who thinks so has blinders on.
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Tarantino himself has mentioned that a sequel might revolve around Nikki Bell's quest to avenge the death of her mom Vernita Green at the hands of The Bride from Vol. 1.
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