The idea that a company in the business of mainstream entertainment would make something as creative, substantial and cautionary as this has to raise your hopes for humanity.
—
John Anderson of the Washington Post on Wall*E
And let me just add that if there is a better movie than Wall*E released this year, I’ll eat my hat.
Also, it it permissible for me to say that Andrew Stanton is my favorite director? I mean animation officially counts now right?
But if you’re not a kid or a young man, you are, in Hollywood parlance, part of a ‘niche’ audience. Here are some examples of who the movie industry considers ‘niche’: women, obviously. African Americans. Anybody over 35. Christians. Latinos. Gay people. Asians. Anybody who reads movie reviews. Anybody who reads anything.
—
Mark Harris
Might I also add “Anybody who likes good movies”
If I had to use a band name to describe the conditions in my apartment right now, it would definitely be Hot Hot Heat.
Either that or The Dave Matthews Band.
1.) “A wallow in the shallow end of femininity” - Genevieve Koski Onion AV Club
2.) “…awash in materialism and narcissism, a cloth flower pinned to her dress where cool chicks wear their Obama buttons, this It Girl has become totally Ick.” – Manohla Dargis NY Times
3.) “Almost sixty years after ‘All About Eve,’ which also featured four major female roles, there is a deep sadness in the sight of Carrie and friends defining themselves not as Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, and Thelma Ritter did—by their talents and the swordplay of their wits—but purely by their ability to snare and keep a man. Believe me, ladies, we’re not worth it.” – Anthony Lane The New Yorker (Amen on all counts brother)
3 & 1/2.) “White guy with a baby! Let’s follow him.” - Miranda Hobbes Sex and the City: The Movie
Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising these grave concerns that he claims he had. And I think you have to look at some of the facts. One, he is bringing this up in the heat of a presidential campaign. He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book. Certainly let’s look at the politics of it.
— White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan responding to a question about Richard Clarke’s book (March 22, 2004)
If they made a movie about my life I think a good title for it would be “The Andy Stokan Story”
It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
— Barack Obama, commencement
speech at Wesleyan University (via
joelaz)
morelli:
Today I deleted my MySpace account and updated my Tumblr for the first time in 5 months. It’s a new day, folks.
Wanna get in on the ground floor of something really good? Then you should really start following future famous novelist and all around amazing person Lauren Morelli. You’ll thank me later.
I think you can teach someone to write effectively, but you cant teach them to write good.
At work today we had a Hannah Montana themed birthday party. So of course who do you think was there the entire time chaperoning her daughter? Why Annie Leibovitz of course.
Only in New York kids. Only in New York
I really want to go talk to young people and tell them that if they ever feel outcast, or different, or like they don’t fit in, then thats good because it just means they’re probably on the right track.
