Comments for Lonesome Quill http://thewordybird.com/blog Levine Copywriting: The Blog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:08:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 Comment on Marriage: A (Very Short) Play in Four Acts by Chetzi-Tooshi « Lonesome Quill http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1237&cpage=1#comment-1859 Chetzi-Tooshi « Lonesome Quill Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:54:35 +0000 http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1237#comment-1859 [...] Remember chetzi-PJ? [...] [...] Remember chetzi-PJ? [...]

]]> Comment on 3 Movies and a TV Show by admin http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1469&cpage=1#comment-1703 admin Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:29:30 +0000 http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1469#comment-1703 Wow. Do you think Mia was both his creative muse AND his voice of reason? Maybe he's just a neurotic hack, and she steered his earlier projects in the right direction? SCANDALOUS. Wow. Do you think Mia was both his creative muse AND his voice of reason? Maybe he’s just a neurotic hack, and she steered his earlier projects in the right direction? SCANDALOUS.

]]> Comment on 3 Movies and a TV Show by Joe http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1469&cpage=1#comment-1700 Joe Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:26:30 +0000 http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1469#comment-1700 Woody Allen's turning point did coincide with the whole Soon-Yi fiasco. In fact, I would say that his golden era ended exactly when his relationship with Mia Farrow ended. His last completely satifying film, in my opinion, was Manhattan Murder Mystery, and he originally conceived and wrote that to be a film with Mia Farrow. Diane Keaton took over the role when Mia found those pictures of Soon-Yi with her ankle behind her ear. I don't know for sure that the break-up somehow caused his decline, but it's hard not to draw that conclusion. Woody Allen’s turning point did coincide with the whole Soon-Yi fiasco. In fact, I would say that his golden era ended exactly when his relationship with Mia Farrow ended. His last completely satifying film, in my opinion, was Manhattan Murder Mystery, and he originally conceived and wrote that to be a film with Mia Farrow. Diane Keaton took over the role when Mia found those pictures of Soon-Yi with her ankle behind her ear. I don’t know for sure that the break-up somehow caused his decline, but it’s hard not to draw that conclusion.

]]> Comment on 3 Movies and a TV Show by admin http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1469&cpage=1#comment-1697 admin Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:58:19 +0000 http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1469#comment-1697 Ooo, I like Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors, too! What do you think happened to him? Did something fail in his brain? I find the Soon-Yi thing inexcusable, too, even though that's very old news and hardly an original opinion. Re: Tuscan Sun, I find that to be true of pretty much every real estate fantasy: They never explain how the protagonist got to be a millionaire (and in reality such a person would not be a millionaire). The movie did go so far as to point to her having cashed out on the sale of her house, but apparently her ex got a huge chunk of that, so. Ooo, I like Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors, too! What do you think happened to him? Did something fail in his brain? I find the Soon-Yi thing inexcusable, too, even though that’s very old news and hardly an original opinion.

Re: Tuscan Sun, I find that to be true of pretty much every real estate fantasy: They never explain how the protagonist got to be a millionaire (and in reality such a person would not be a millionaire). The movie did go so far as to point to her having cashed out on the sale of her house, but apparently her ex got a huge chunk of that, so.

]]> Comment on 3 Movies and a TV Show by Joe http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1469&cpage=1#comment-1695 Joe Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:01:40 +0000 http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1469#comment-1695 Back in the 80s I would have found it hard to believe there would ever come a time when I wouldn't even bother to watch a Woody Allen film. Many of the films from that era remain among my all-time favorite films (Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Broadway Danny Rose). This makes Woody Allen's subsequent loss of genius all the more perplexing and unsettling. For me, the first signs of trouble were apparent in Bullets Over Broadway (1994). Although there was a lot to enjoy in that film, something had clearly changed. By the time Celebrity rolled around, I was forced to say that Woody Allen had made a truly terrible film. Anything Else was the first that I skipped, and have not seen to this day. Fortunately, DVDs and Roku make it possible to rewatch the gems and pretend he never made a film after Manhattan Murder Mystery. As for Under the Tuscan Sun, I never saw the film, but the thing about the book that bothered me no end was the unacknowledged fact that this gal obviously had loads of money. There was a romantic notion of going off and renovating a crumbling ruin and eating humble peasant food and finding yourself, but no sense whatsoever that this salubrious path is available to only a very small percentage of people. Fortunately, I have nothing to say about Paper Heart or The Choir. Back in the 80s I would have found it hard to believe there would ever come a time when I wouldn’t even bother to watch a Woody Allen film. Many of the films from that era remain among my all-time favorite films (Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Broadway Danny Rose). This makes Woody Allen’s subsequent loss of genius all the more perplexing and unsettling. For me, the first signs of trouble were apparent in Bullets Over Broadway (1994). Although there was a lot to enjoy in that film, something had clearly changed. By the time Celebrity rolled around, I was forced to say that Woody Allen had made a truly terrible film. Anything Else was the first that I skipped, and have not seen to this day. Fortunately, DVDs and Roku make it possible to rewatch the gems and pretend he never made a film after Manhattan Murder Mystery.

As for Under the Tuscan Sun, I never saw the film, but the thing about the book that bothered me no end was the unacknowledged fact that this gal obviously had loads of money. There was a romantic notion of going off and renovating a crumbling ruin and eating humble peasant food and finding yourself, but no sense whatsoever that this salubrious path is available to only a very small percentage of people.

Fortunately, I have nothing to say about Paper Heart or The Choir.

]]> Comment on Media Highs/Lows by admin http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1461&cpage=1#comment-1656 admin Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:10:34 +0000 http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1461#comment-1656 Hey, Eric. I think any camp that promotes conformity is not a force for good -- and of course in Berkeley, we have plenty of camps that are all about breaking out of the box. (I love Berkeley.) But the "fat camp" question is really alive in our culture right now, since there's such a huge panic around obesity and even more anti-fat rhetoric than there's been in the past. When I first heard about this show I was delighted, because we see so little in mainstream media that a) shows fat bodies, b) portrays those bodies as attractive; and most remarkably, c) questions the body-hating paradigm. So far, the show has done an impressive job of presenting everyone, with every kind of body, as sympathetic, with real pain from difficult issues in their lives. And on ABC Family! It's a miracle! Hey, Eric. I think any camp that promotes conformity is not a force for good — and of course in Berkeley, we have plenty of camps that are all about breaking out of the box. (I love Berkeley.) But the “fat camp” question is really alive in our culture right now, since there’s such a huge panic around obesity and even more anti-fat rhetoric than there’s been in the past. When I first heard about this show I was delighted, because we see so little in mainstream media that a) shows fat bodies, b) portrays those bodies as attractive; and most remarkably, c) questions the body-hating paradigm. So far, the show has done an impressive job of presenting everyone, with every kind of body, as sympathetic, with real pain from difficult issues in their lives. And on ABC Family! It’s a miracle!

]]> Comment on Media Highs/Lows by Eric http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1461&cpage=1#comment-1655 Eric Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:03:07 +0000 http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1461#comment-1655 OK, I am giving Huge a go (I also watch the other four letter H word show, Hung). Observation: how different is "fat" camp from all other camps out there? You send kids to any number of genre camps (sports, social, academic, etc) for a single reason: so that they will eventually "make it" in society. The problem is that these camps are inevitably made up of like-minded/bodied campers -- kids who are fat. Kids who play sports. Kids who do math, etc, etc. -- leading to a population on the outside segregated by weight, athletic ability, academics, etc. OK, I am giving Huge a go (I also watch the other four letter H word show, Hung).

Observation: how different is “fat” camp from all other camps out there? You send kids to any number of genre camps (sports, social, academic, etc) for a single reason: so that they will eventually “make it” in society. The problem is that these camps are inevitably made up of like-minded/bodied campers — kids who are fat. Kids who play sports. Kids who do math, etc, etc. — leading to a population on the outside segregated by weight, athletic ability, academics, etc.

]]> Comment on 2 x 2 by Media Highs/Lows « Lonesome Quill http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1416&cpage=1#comment-1626 Media Highs/Lows « Lonesome Quill Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:52:04 +0000 http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1416#comment-1626 [...] In his weecap of Winter’s Bone in The New Yorker, David Denby writes that director Debra Granik “envelops us in mysteries [...] [...] In his weecap of Winter’s Bone in The New Yorker, David Denby writes that director Debra Granik “envelops us in mysteries [...]

]]> Comment on Birthday Bonanza! by Liza http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1437&cpage=1#comment-1459 Liza Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:54:50 +0000 http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1437#comment-1459 I feel the same about Spot. I feel the same about Spot.

]]> Comment on Birthday Bonanza! by Melissa http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1437&cpage=1#comment-1448 Melissa Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:51:43 +0000 http://thewordybird.com/blog/?p=1437#comment-1448 Tewtelly agree on the lucky to have found Johnny piece. I am not lying when I say that I pretty much daily give thanks. Tewtelly agree on the lucky to have found Johnny piece. I am not lying when I say that I pretty much daily give thanks.

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