"I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then," begins Kanye West in his Interview interview with Steve McQueen. It only gets better from there, with Kanye being equally reasonable and outlandish, just like we like him.
Critic Armond White has denied heckling Steve McQueen at Monday's New York Film Critics Circle awards. "I was misquoted, lied about...I didn't yell anything. I was talking among my friends at the table," White said regarding his behavior during McQueen's speech. So he was rude, but not that rude.
Critic Calls 12 Years a Slave Director a "Garbage Man" at Ceremony
Last night, notorious film critic Armond White (dubbed The World's Most Contrarian Film Critic by Time) continued his tradition of howling, transparent public spectacle at the New York Critics Circle Awards. This time, his heckling was aimed at 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen. You know how Lady Gaga sings, "I…
"I'm just happy things like that get made and people are employed. Otherwise they wouldn't be working. At least it brought things into consciousness. So I can't really knock it." - 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen on Django Unchained. Given his preceding comments, this counts as #shade.
12 Years a Slave: Can a Movie Actually Show the Horror of Slavery?
After Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave made its Toronto Film Festival debut last month, Vulture's Kyle Buchanan proclaimed, in a headline accompanying a gushing review, “Your Best Picture Winner Will Be 12 Years a Slave." I read that and wondered why a writer would set expectations so high for something he loved…
Long Live McQueen
[People may claim that Johnny Depp is the Sexiest Man Alive, but Steve McQueen is one of the sexiest man to ever live and he was the definition of cool. Sorry, Johnny. You're not there yet. Image via Life.com.]
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'10,' 'Valley Girl' Lead Charge as Terrifying Remake Fever Grips Hollywood
Because the week wasn't ruined enough with RoboCop news and word of Gene Simmons judging ad jingles, the End of Ideas caravan rolls on today with not one, not two but three whole fucking remake concepts for us to dread — none more irritating than Hyde Park's reimagining of Blake Edwards's classic 10. It's not that…