very good actors in good movies

[Wayne Johnson]

Shipping News was made into a somewhat laconic movie with Kevin Spacey.
Spacey is high on my list of "real actors".  I am truly, truly sorry I never
got to see him in the B'way production of the Iceman Cometh.

wgj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "IgorLoving" <lovingigor@earthlink.net>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: very good actors in good movies


> Shiping News I believe was made into ta movie, it was a great book. Have
you read "The Time it Never Rained"? about the Texas drought of the fifties.
I actually like the Three Stooges and the Little Rascals. Very silly movies.
The men in skirts movie era is upon us. The Trojan War as fought by Brad
Pitt was pretty interesting, they evidently didn't pay much attention to the
book.
> Oh well.....
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerry Storm <mesmo@gilanet.com>
> Sent: Jul 16, 2004 7:52 AM
> To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> Subject: Re: very good actors in good movies
>
> Bubba, et al,
> At the risk of encouraging movie talk, a sinister enemy which dominates
the
> cultural landscape of this country to a degree that I find alarming, I
will
> comment on this recent thread.
>
> I watched "Bird" only last week, with my jazz students. I first saw it
> shortly after its release. IMHO it is not a good movie nor a good
> characterization of the life of Charlie Parker. On the other hand it is an
> honest if failed attempt to spread the legend of a special hero of mine
and
> I applaud Mr. Eastwood for having the balls to make it. Whitaker was a
poor
> choice to play Charlie Parker, not the he can't act but that he did not
> "get" the character. On the other hand, the Black actors who might have
done
> a better job would have had to gain 50 pounds for the role, a task they
> would likely have resisted. Bird was a heavy dude, a monstrous force in
> American music, an all-time genius hall-of-famer.
>
> I thought "The Unforgiven" was great.
>
> Clint was tight with Ray Charles. He is a real fan of blues piano masters
> and plays some decent box himself. Maybe he will attempt "The Ray Charles
> Story" one day, or "The Pinetop Perkins Story".
>
> Summer reading has included "Cold Mountain" and recently watched that
movie
> (DVD) as well (2 movies in one month! I must be weakening). Not as good as
> the book but not bad, a decent job by all. A memorable tale by a first
time
> novelist, there is hope for all of us.
>
> Best book so far this summer was "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx, one
of
> the best American writers I know about. Don't know if they've made a movie
> of it. It made me want to live near the sea again, an idea which is
> germinating in my mind.
>
> Katherine Boo is at it again in the New Yorker (July 5 edition) with "The
> Best Job in Town". This is a long piece investigating the phenomena of
> "outsourcing" of jobs to India and the impact upon the natives there. She
is
> a wonder, one of the best journalists working today. I'd like to hug her.
> They won't be making any movies of her work but it should be required
> reading.
> G
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wayne Johnson" <cadaobh@shentel.net>
> To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:10 PM
> Subject: Re: very good actors in good movies
>
>
> > Enjoyed Bird very much.  I thought it captured a lot of that period and
I
> > alway like Whittaker.
> >
> > Well....did you like "The Outlaw Josey Wales"?  Or "The Unforgiven?"
> >
> > Must find common ground.  Must find common ground.  Must find common
> ground.
> >
> > wgJ
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@HotPOP.com>
> > To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: very good actors in good movies
> >
> >
> > > Wayne wrote:
> > >
> > > > Odd, Michael.  I didn't find the story line the least bit
> > > incomprehensible.
> > > > Honor and I enjoyed it immensely.  Eastwood is becoming a truly good
> > > > director.
> > >
> > > Yeah, well after it was over my roommate & I turned to one another
> > > and we couldn't figure out who had done what to whom and
> > > when it had happened.
> > >
> > > You're pulling my leg, right?
> > >
> > > Another lame movie by Eastwood is Bird (about Charlie Parker).
> > >
> > > Mike
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