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...little accident at a local power station: his body has been magnetized, and when he touches the video boxes he instantly erases all the tapes, rendering them useless. The demand by a stern lady of the neighborhood, Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow, a living connection to the Zelig trope), to watch Ghostbusters sends the guys scurrying to make their own 20-min. version of the old Bill Murray comedy, and finish it by nightfall...
...vast and diverse, I think you have to build your sort of own philosophy.” Gondry’s method is based in the do-it-yourself ethic of Sweding. “I have this old philosophy about bringing people to their own film and watch[ing] it together,” he says. If Sweding a film can improve on the original, it’s because of its creators. “First of all, they just make them from memory...they don’t watch the film and compare and imitate them, it?...
...arguing over the marketability of their shorter, home-made interpretation of “Rush Hour 2.” The implication is clear: Gondry doesn’t think much of Brett Ratner’s oeuvre. But what does he think of the people who watch his own films? Does he consider himself above the industry that he so clearly considers pedestrian despite his participation in the studio system? What does Gondry think makes a movie worth watching?As ambitious as these questions may be, the director isn’t terribly concerned with answering them...
There was once a brilliantly happy time in my life: the halcyon days before my thesis. In those days I wore makeup and tried to get people to go to absinthe bars. Now I watch old Britney Spears videos and cry in the library at 2 a .m. I am wretchedly altered, I must admit. If I had an engagement to a sailor who returned after years at sea and saw me now, he would probably say the same. I ritualistically avoid public places. I guzzle three cups of coffee a day. My paleness could inspire 16th-century poetry...
Indeed, election mania is gripping the entire state, from talk radio to blogs and even craigslist, where pleas were being made for tickets to the Austin CNN debate and the Texas Democratic Party's Debate Watch at the Austin Hyatt. The TDP's online drawing for 100 debate tickets attracted over 40,000 entrants, and party officials called on the media Wednesday to get the word out to the public that the Hyatt party was sold out. One poster warned shoppers not to be scammed by ticket offers: "Hang on to your money and take a free seat in front...