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.
ALSO: I feel like there should be more Studio 60 gifs and memes than there are. Like, a LOT more.
One of the small delights of my Studio 60 rewatch is that these illegal versions have terrible subtitles that often mangle the dialogue in ways that I really enjoy on a show about writing & perfectionism.
Matt Albie would be FURIOUS at how badly this punchline got destroyed:
I think I have genuinely fun & great observation to make about #Studio60ontheSunsetStrip that I don't *think* anyone else has made before (altho maybe they have) but I cannot make it until we get through with the full 17-hour marathon on 9/20 (the wee hours of 9/21, actually).
JANUARY 2007: the suggestion is planted in my brain and will be activated roughly 2 years and 4 months later
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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"!
I hope that some day he will record commentary tracks for these films, because I know almost nothing about how they were made and I would give anything to hear him talk about that.
Barring that, I would like someone smart to sit down and interview @AlbertBrooks about how he made these movies. They are among the greatest films anyone has ever made and I'd just love to hear him talk about them.
I wish there was a book or podcast for @AlbertBrooks that was similar to the conversations Truffaut documented with Hitchcock or Bogdanovich had w/Orson Welles.