Ok, there is a documentary coming out SOON that you need to see.
It is GREAT. It's called FEELS GOOD MAN, and I cannot say enough good things about it. It is funny & terrifying & powerful & important, an absolutely stunning film.
Watch this trailer and get excited:
FEELS GOOD MAN premiered at Sundance & was all set to blaze through the festival circuit when COVID-19 shut all of that down.
So it's gonna play to select audiences on 8/28 then get a full US digital release on 9/4!
Full disclosure: filmmaker Arthur Jones & I were friends in grade school! We have had very little contact as adults, except for the occasional exchange on social media and one time we met up for drinks in Manhattan about 15 years ago.
Given where we are now-- Day 3 of @realDonaldTrump in the hospital, infected with COVID-19-- it's worth a look back at the timeline of what happened with Herman Cain.
June 20th: attends Trump rally in Tulsa. No mask.
June 25th: no more lockdowns
June 26th: Biden wants a mask mandate. Cain disagrees.
It is a symptom of how insane @realDonaldTrump has made things that ppl are confidently speculating on the possibility that this is a last minute piece of political theatre in which they are faking a full outbreak & quick recovery in order to change the subject yet again
I'm sure someone will write a clear-eyed breakdown of exactly how complicated it would be to stage something like this, and what is the minimum number of ppl who would have to actively/knowingly participate in the lie in order to pull it off.
It strikes me as far beyond his capabilities-- not that he wouldn't have the WILL to do it, or that he couldn't find ppl to go along with it-- but this would require a certain amount of discipline & self-control. An impressive amount.
I never liked church as a kid, but when they passed around a petition asking everyone to boycott our local movie theaters if they showed Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation Of Christ, I was **done** with The Catholic Church and organized religion forever. (I was 12.)
I didn't know anything about TLTOC and had yet to see a Scorsese film, but I remember the priest describing the film as "pornographic" and it sounded like bullshit to me. I had no interest in seeing the movie but there was no way in hell I was going to stop going to the movies.
Eventually, when I saw the film a few years later on VHS, it confirmed that they had been lying about the movie, which was better than any sermon I had ever heard. It's basically It's A Wonderful Life but with Jesus seeing what it would be like if he wasn't the son of God.
I was supposed to be in the same BoB episode YOU were in, @jimmyfallon!
Even if you only have 5 minutes to talk to me about your experience, it would mean so much.
[Previous guests include Seth Rogen, Jon Hamm, Aimee Mann, etc]
Oh yeah, the podcast is about how I was fired by Tom Hanks the day before I was supposed to film my scene; I was told the reason was that he saw my audition tape & thought I had "dead eyes"!
Beginning my personal re-watch of #Studio60ontheSunsetStrip in prep for the 9/20 @GLucasTalkShow 17-hour watchathon to raise money for @BCEFA bc I haven't seen it since it first aired & I wanna see it again as myself b4 watching it in character as "retired filmmaker George Lucas"
Also: @patrickcotnoir is working so hard in preparation for this one that the least I could do is watch all 22 episodes again before watching them a 3rd time for our show.
I think this is the watchathon Patrick was put on earth to produce.
Taking stock during my Studio 60 re-watch:
I have performed improv in front of 2 actors who were on Studio 60, and I was in a movie with 2 others.