Friday, May 27, 2005

Orson & H.G., meet Steven

The late Spielberg is wonderfully weird. I am teenage excited about http://tinyurl.com/a2zus.

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Perfidy

When Werner Herzog threw himself on a cactus after completing the filming of Even Dwarves Start Small, did he think that he was taking away all of the sins of mini-man? If we worshipped birds he'd have trailed a wing on the ground, feigning a limp, passing himself off as a scapegoat.

My lunch with Andre the Giant

It had been years since Andre last called, and still his sub-baritone cascade of language reverberated in my ears.