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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Pidgeon on December 02, 2010, 03:23:10 PM
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Interesting.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1603034.php/Steve-Martin-audience-offered-full-refund-after-his-event-was-too-boring (http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1603034.php/Steve-Martin-audience-offered-full-refund-after-his-event-was-too-boring)
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"As for the Y's standard of excellence, it can't be that high because this is the second time I've appeared there."
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Why didn't he go with what works and play "Late for School" or any of his other banjo hits?
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I'm siding with Steve on this one. If you're a big enough fan of his to pay $50 to see him at the Y for something advertised as an interview, how do you not know he's a huge art guy now? And just wrote a novel that takes place in the art world? I'm not a big fan of banjos and books about Picasso, but this is not like Dylan suddenly going electric, either.
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Agreed. They should've known better. Refunding the show is ridiculous.
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This would have never happened if they had just let George Strombolobouloys interview him again.
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Every action this venue has initiated in this incident is deplorable. Sick.
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I'm not a big fan of banjos and books about Picasso.
Did you mean "and/or" rather than "and"?
I happen to like both.
You, my friend, are a weirdo.
Ask Spike!
Abstract-Expressionism was a CIA false ART movement, I think>
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Here's an interesting article written by someone who ACTUALLY went to the event:
http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.php (http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.php)
Love these comments:
"So two rich assholes put on a crappy interview for their wealthy
audience and someone’s monocle popped out.
Who give a shit?"
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http://thehairpin.com/2010/12/fmk-bill-murray-steve-martin-chevy-chase/ (http://thehairpin.com/2010/12/fmk-bill-murray-steve-martin-chevy-chase/)
Double K for Steve Martin. Ouch.
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I disagreed with their verdict. Bill Murray ain't husband material, unless you want to be at least emotionally, if not physically, abused. I would kill him, marry Steve Martin (who seems like a nice enough fellow, if a bit of a bore), and fuck (SNL-era) Chevy Chase.
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Here's an interesting article written by someone who ACTUALLY went to the event:
http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.php (http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.php)
Love these comments:
"So two rich assholes put on a crappy interview for their wealthy
audience and someone’s monocle popped out.
Who give a shit?"
From the above blog:
"A woman took to the podium and introduced Martin and Solomon; at some point, referring to Martin's impressive variety of accomplishments, she called him a "Renaissance man." Solomon and Martin came out, and Solomon immediately expressed her opinion that, as he lacks any accomplishments in the sciences, designating Martin a "Renaissance man" was perhaps a bit much. Martin agreed and said something to the effect that Leonardo da Vinci set the standard of a Renaissance man to a degree that has hardly been met since."
Are we supposed to believe that this was a serious discussion? It sounds like one or both of them (the interviewer and Martin) are insane and/or incredibly narcissistic. I'm embarrassed for both of them.
This is the point where I would have RUN out. Bbut I wouldn't think of asking for a refund.
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I heard about the Abstract Expressionism as a CIA false art movement thing on Too Much Information, but it sounded more like the CIA made Abstract Expressionism their pick to sell the US to Europeans on the fence, rather that creating it or fabricating it. We should all be so lucky as to have the CIA get behind something we were going to do anyway and give us tons of money to do it in the interest of furthering their goals.
The thing about Reality TV as a plot to wipe out liberals in the entertainment industry was pretty interesting, too.
I'm not a big fan of banjos and books about Picasso.
Did you mean "and/or" rather than "and"?
I happen to like both.
You, my friend, are a weirdo.
Ask Spike!
Abstract-Expressionism was a CIA false ART movement, I think>
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...and fuck (SNL-era) Chevy Chase.
Prat fuck?
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More like fucking a prat, but a cute one.l
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I confess to getting profoundly irritated every time Steve Martin pulls out his banjo on a talk show. I know it's not fair of me to expect celebs to only do one thing forever, but the banjo music thing is exceptionally boring.
On the other hand, I'm pretty much in favor of Rick Moranis' country music career.
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On the other hand, I'm pretty much in favor of Rick Moranis' country music career.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but what I've heard is actually not half bad.
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Based on Sarah's answer as well as those of Ms. Klausner and Ms. Vargas-Cooper, I have to wonder if I'm more in the minority than I thought in finding Chevy Chase insufferable and not at all funny. I'm not considering his looks at all, which the above three obviously are, but I'd say he's the least talented of the original SNL cast, I've never been able to get through Fletch, and his scenes in Caddyshack are a huge drag on a movie that spends the rest of its running time being hilarious. I don't remember hating him in Vacation but I haven't seen it in a really long time.
Am I missing something? Do I need to give Fletch another try? Is there something else I haven't seen that will turn me around?
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In the K/M/F game, the person who gets the F isn't being graded as anything but meat, or such is my understanding, anyway. For example, I think Bill Murray is infinitely funnier and probably smarter than Chevy Chase, but I've always found him strangely repellent in the looks department, so he'd never get a mere F from me.
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I disagreed with their verdict. Bill Murray ain't husband material, unless you want to be at least emotionally, if not physically, abused.
Don't rule anything out!
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Based on Sarah's answer as well as those of Ms. Klausner and Ms. Vargas-Cooper, I have to wonder if I'm more in the minority than I thought in finding Chevy Chase insufferable and not at all funny. I'm not considering his looks at all, which the above three obviously are, but I'd say he's the least talented of the original SNL cast, I've never been able to get through Fletch, and his scenes in Caddyshack are a huge drag on a movie that spends the rest of its running time being hilarious. I don't remember hating him in Vacation but I haven't seen it in a really long time.
Am I missing something? Do I need to give Fletch another try? Is there something else I haven't seen that will turn me around?
Chevy has had his moments on Community but it's clear he's one of the least talented performers in that cast as well (certainly not worse than Ken Jeong though). His character has started to become a drag in the second season, really.
I think Vacation probably holds up (haven't seen it in a long time either). Chevy was a talented physical comedian and still has a knack for deadpan delivery -- that along with charisma carried him as far as he could possibly go for a while. I guess he was to jerks what Adam Sandler is to idiots, only Sandler has played his cards right.
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I usually loathe those 'the book was better' whiners, but I will say that the Fletch character is WAY cooler in the books, and what you see in the movie is basically Chevy Chase being Chevy Chase. I enjoyed that movie well enough at the time, and we all quoted lines constantly for several months but I can't imagine I'd really be able to sit through it now. All the other guys in the movie are basically there for Chevy to bounce jokes and insults off of...
Vacation, on the other hand, I would think has many awesome lil things to keep you going thru the Chevy bits. Think about who all's in that thing: Randy Quaid, D'Angelo, Candy, Brian Doyle Murray, Jane Krakowski,
Imogene Coca etc etc.
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I just misread "Vacation" as "Vatican." Now that's a Chevy Chase movie I might want to check out.
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What's so loathsome and whiny about observing that the book is better (as it usually is, IMO)? If the filmmakers don't want their work to be compared to the book they base it on, shouldn't they maybe come up with their own idea?
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I really enjoyed that F/M/K column, and am eagerly awaiting their take on Lou Grant vs Ted Baxter vs Murray Slaughter. Harder than it seems!
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Marry Lou, fuck Ted, and kill Murray.
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I heard he read the entire script to Shopgirl.
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On the other hand, I think a Zach Galifianakis interview where he refused to talk about anything other than Civil War re-enacting would be really fascinating.
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On the other hand, I think a Zach Galifianakis interview where he refused to talk about anything other than Civil War re-enacting would be really fascinating.
Even though he's a North Carolinian (as am I), I can't help but think of how fabulous he would look in one of the blue Union uniforms.
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There's actually a pilot for a show floating around somewhere where Zach plays a Civil War re-enactor who's way too into getting the details right (what he eats, how/where he sleeps, etc).
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that's a good comment!
Here's an interesting article written by someone who ACTUALLY went to the event:
http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.php (http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.php)
Love these comments:
"So two rich assholes put on a crappy interview for their wealthy
audience and someone’s monocle popped out.
Who give a shit?"
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On the other hand, I'm pretty much in favor of Rick Moranis' country music career.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but what I've heard is actually not half bad.
Yeah, it's not bad. Kind of a fun listen, in fact.
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I usually loathe those 'the book was better' whiners, but I will say that the Fletch character is WAY cooler in the books, and what you see in the movie is basically Chevy Chase being Chevy Chase. I enjoyed that movie well enough at the time, and we all quoted lines constantly for several months but I can't imagine I'd really be able to sit through it now. All the other guys in the movie are basically there for Chevy to bounce jokes and insults off of.
FLETCH (the movie) still holds up. It's been years since I read the books but I remember thinking the movie was a pretty faithful adaptation, albeit a little more on the slapstick side. Then again I also saw the movie before I got into the books.
I'd be interested to see some kind of FLETCH reimagining. Maybe a TV show.