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- Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:43 am
- Forum: Just Kids
- Topic: Just Kids Tidbit #29: New York Punk -- Early Years
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4044
Re: Just Kids Tidbit #29: New York Punk -- Early Years
Liz encouraged me to comment (even though I haven’t posted much lately). I got involved in the LA Punk scene as a student. I even made a film about it. LA Punk evolved later than NYC and the UK on the cusp of 80s and was a bit of a synthesis between the two. The scene was more theatrical (surprise, ...
- Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:49 pm
- Forum: The Rum Diary
- Topic: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5982
Re: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
Thanks for the info, Db. I tried to Google it myself, and the first couple of websites could not be displayed. Makes you wonder????? But the Guardian worked: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb/17/alexander-litvinenko-film-the-terminal-spy Here's the Variety link. IN and GK Films (this deal was...
- Mon May 31, 2010 1:13 pm
- Forum: The Rum Diary
- Topic: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5982
Re: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
I thought of this discussion thread when I read this article in the LA Times. A few of you were trying to understand the role of a producer versus the role of a director and/or writer. Though not about JD (the players are familiar, Mike Newell and Jerry B), this article really defines the involvemen...
- Wed May 26, 2010 3:08 am
- Forum: The Rum Diary
- Topic: The Rum Diary Question #29 ~ Themes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2676
Re: The Rum Diary Question #29 ~ Themes
Here goes... Once a thing of beauty shatters into a million pieces, it is beyond repair: whether it's a girl, an island or the American Dream. The best you can do is stop history from repeating itself. Fight the childish greed that makes us reach for shinny, pretty things before we know how to hand...
- Mon May 24, 2010 3:59 am
- Forum: The Rum Diary
- Topic: The Rum Diary Question #29 ~ Themes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2676
Re: The Rum Diary Question #29 ~ Themes
Here goes... Once a thing of beauty shatters into a million pieces, it is beyond repair: whether it's a girl, an island or the American Dream. The best you can do is stop history from repeating itself. Fight the childish greed that makes us reach for shinny, pretty things before we know how to handl...
- Sun May 16, 2010 9:17 pm
- Forum: The Rum Diary
- Topic: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5982
Re: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
Wow. I am so impressed by these questions and answers. I have wandered back and forth to DZ for over a year but I have been caught recently by the excellent ideas I read here, the lucid answers etc. It is fascinating and I can't wait till I can more properly fit in. I read TRD awhile ago and I trul...
- Sun May 16, 2010 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Rum Diary
- Topic: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5982
Re: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
I hope that all of you will be able to suspend your expectations based on what's on the page. Bruce Robinson spent much of his career getting work he cared about sliced and diced by studio suits who thought they knew better. That’s seems to have made him more uncompromising than bitter. I was recent...
- Sat May 15, 2010 2:05 pm
- Forum: The Rum Diary
- Topic: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5982
Re: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
With Johnny appearing in the movie, I would imagine he kept a sharp eye on what was going on, but I still wonder if the owner of the company would have as much power as we might hope. Power fluctuates with the money. Shantaram is a good example of producers limited power relative to the primary inv...
- Sat May 15, 2010 2:09 am
- Forum: The Rum Diary
- Topic: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5982
Re: Rum Diary Question #26 ~ Why Not Yeamom?
As a producer, you are king (or queen). You can do what you like... change actors, directors, ask for a re-write of the screenplay. You have control. You do however, have to answer to investors (most times that means studios) and protect their investment. When a film runs up costs that aren't direct...
- Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:21 am
- Forum: The Rum Diary
- Topic: The Rum Diary Question #11 ~ Carnival
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5692
Re: The Rum Diary Question #11 ~ Carnival
I saw the question, and decided to dive in. I think HST rolls out the Carnival scene in a highly choreographed way. For me, the Kemp-Yeamon-Chenault triangle parallels and is a metaphor for the Americanization of Puerto Rico. Kemp’s infatuation with Chenault and Yeamon’s squandering of her culminate...
- Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:41 pm
- Forum: Loser's Town
- Topic: Loser's Town Tidbit #9 ~ LA County
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5970
Re: Loser's Town Tidbit #9 ~ LA County
Alright, I have maybe a stupid question as I am not that familiar with the area, but where about on that LA county map would be the neighborhood where Johnny's house is located.? Does it have an area name? JD lives in West Hollywood. Just above "Los Angeles" on the map. Liz, there must be...
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:08 pm
- Forum: Loser's Town
- Topic: Loser's Town Tidbit #2 ~ LA Freeways
- Replies: 62
- Views: 6864
Re: Loser's Town Tidbit #2 ~ LA Freeways
I've been driving in LA my entire adult life and truth be told... I'm probably one of the reasons you've learned to drive defensively. Hysterical!! So you're the culprit!! Turn your blinker off already would ya!! You've been making a right turn for 3 miles already!! ROFL ROFL Deb Blinker, what blin...
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:32 am
- Forum: Loser's Town
- Topic: Loser's Town Tidbit #2 ~ LA Freeways
- Replies: 62
- Views: 6864
Re: Loser's Town Tidbit #2 ~ LA Freeways
:biglaugh: I love listening to "outsiders" describing LA freeways. Having driven them for 30 years, and even dragging my house around behind me on those freeways, I guess I am used to the rules of the road. I have never had a "white knuckle" experience. There are certain rules t...
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:17 am
- Forum: Loser's Town
- Topic: Loser's Town Tidbit #1 ~ The Dedication & Epigraph Page
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4250
Re: Loser's Town Tidbit #1 ~ The Dedication
Seems the Scaramanga Bros produced more than Stuff. While promoting WEGG Johnny talked about collaborating with "Danny" on a script in several interviews saying that they were already shopping it around to the studios. One description made the plot sound like a cross between Religilous and...
- Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:39 pm
- Forum: Hunter S. Thompson
- Topic: In memoriam, Hunter S. Thompson
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2904