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Biskind's juicy dishing about how hotshot directors were brought down by the twin demons of arrogance and rampant libido is also tainted by his admission that he can't vouch for the accuracy of many of the book's details. ''Not only is the terrain distant, but in this period memory has been enfeebled by booze and drugs,'' he writes on the very first page....

Even facts that could have been checked more easily are sloughed off. Biskind claims that ''up to 1975, no picture cost more than $15 million''; ''Cleopatra'' cost 20th Century Fox $44 million in early-1960's dollars, and the eight-hour Russian ''War and Peace'' (1966-67) cost at least $96 million. Biskind misspells the names of several well-known Hollywood people; he wrongly asserts ''there was little or no precedent for an actor actually producing a picture'' before Warren Beatty on ''Bonnie and Clyde'' (what about Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Ida Lupino, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, et al.?); and he thinks Julia Phillips is the only woman producer to win an Oscar (Lili Fini Zanuck and Wendy Finerman have done so as well).

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/10/reviews/980510.10mcbridt.html

I said nothing to the contrary of this, fwiw.

Strictly Ballroom

oh and if you guys like the oblivians or thee headcoatees and anything similar, the ettes are a must-own.

I'll watch them later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_films

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grtziYOSIhY

(there's a complete buster keaton feature "Sherlock Jr", which I haven't watched yet, split into 6 parts)

New Yorkers, I must see White Dog this Tuesday, alas no time will work cept 10:20pm! Dig:

(1982, SAMUEL FULLER) Kristy McNichol adopts an injured German Shepherd — then finds it compulsively attacks African- Americans, including Paul Winfield. Based on a true story, Fuller’s film was shelved for a decade amid charges of racism.
1:00, 5:10, 10:20

THE HOST - ABOUT TO START WATCHING THIS EXCITEDDDD

Also, the roadcrew theme became the music for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News!

harisson ford also a total babe in that movie, but less total babe than paul newman in chl

my roommate called it one of the best movies ever

now i am watching the Butcher Boy

i just watched "stranger than fiction" - was in the mood for that kind of movie though didn't know what to expect (had read no reviews, only seen previews), and i liked it, though it's kind of overwritten at times. generally though, good writing, interesting direction and cinematography (some cool pull-back long takes, or whatever they're called), and weird but decent acting - the whole thing sort of flips btwn emotion and not-emotion constantly, i guess b/c the main characters' emotions are sort of intellectualized or analyzed - or they're sort of on the brink of feeling them? or they are feeling them, yet in a more detached way? which is weird and should make those characters hard to relate to, yet i did, and you'd think this would make for a boring film, but i wasn't bored. it kept things intriguing. it's not really a full-on comedy.

and it makes chicago totally look like somewhere i could live?

The VHS version they released in the US was inexplicably canary yellow.