They're Shooting IV

[Al Haidar]

I'm afraid that's just not enough for me! I looked Penn up on IMDB last
night, and Fast Times is literally the last thing he did that might make my
top... 500 movies? 30 years is long past the expiry date on any good will
from me for that role. I still stand by my defense of PTA's
choices—although perhaps more tentatively than before—solely because of how
well he used Adam Sandler.

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:48 AM, <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> **
> Anyway, Penn gets a lifetime pass for his performance as Jeff Spicoli in
> Fast Times at Ridgemont High
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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> *From: * malignd at aol.com
> *Sender: * owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Date: *Thu, 6 Jun 2013 17:33:37 -0400 (EDT)
> *To: *<pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject: *Re: They're Shooting IV
>
> What do you know about who's an artist and who's not?
>
>  And are you suggesting that when Sean Penn, face actor, scenery chewer
> extraordinaire, slaughters a movie with his self-indulgence, I  should
> censor my opinion because I'm not an artist but that unwatchable ham is?
>  Is this a religious thing?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>
> To: Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Cc: malignd <malignd at aol.com>; pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 7:10 pm
> Subject: Re: They're Shooting IV
>
>  it's always encouraging listening and reading words from people are not
> artists ripping other artists to shreds ... especially when engaged in
> speculation.
>
> sent from phillip's iPhone
>
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:59 PM, Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Not to mention Wilson is playing the most annoying character in the book
>
>
>
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 5:42 PM, <malignd at aol.com>malignd at aol.com wrote:
>
>  He deserves more than the benefit of the doubt;  I mean, it's his movie.
>  But when Wilson trots out his tired schtick and Sean starts chewing the
> scenery, the lights, the key grip, he may have second thoughts.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Haidar < <attarhaidar at gmail.com>attarhaidar at gmail.com>
> To: malignd < <malignd at aol.com>malignd at aol.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l < <pynchon-l at waste.org>pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 10:42 pm
> Subject: Re: They're Shooting IV
>
>  After Punch-Drunk Love, I think PTA deserves the benefit of the doubt
> when it comes to casting.  I'm more interested to see how the adaptation of
> IV will fit into Anderson's filmography overall. He swore in interviews
> that he didn't see The Master as a father-son story, and yet ... there it
> was, another PTA film thick with estrangement between fathers and sons. It
> always thrills me to see a new film from someone whose work is clearly
> dealing with real and deeply personal themes, not merely dictated by the
> box office or cinematic style du jour. How that will play out with a
> collaborator like Pynchon (by way of his writing, anyways) is exciting
> enough to me that I'm fighting the urge to be pre-disappointed with (some
> of) the casting.
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:20 PM, < <malignd at aol.com>malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Owen Wilson and Sean Penn?  Two movie killers on the same screen.  How'd
>> the miss Nicholas Cage?
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Henry M < <scuffling at gmail.com>scuffling at gmail.com>
>> To: Pynchon Liste < <pynchon-l at waste.org>pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 11:23 am
>> Subject: They're Shooting IV
>>
>>  Shooting on the Thomas *Pynchon* adaptation recently began in Los
>> Angeles, with a sprawling lineup including Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del
>> Toro, Owen Wilson, Sean Penn, and many more. The first pics from the set
>> offer a look at Phoenix, who as *...*
>> <http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.slashfilm.com/first-look-joaquin-phoenix-in-inherent-vice-maya-rudolph-joins-cast/&hl=en>
>> <http://www.slashfilm.com/first-look-joaquin-phoenix-in-inherent-vice-maya-rudolph-joins-cast/>
>> http://www.slashfilm.com/first-look-joaquin-phoenix-in-inherent-vice-maya-rudolph-joins-cast/
>>
>>
>> Yours truly,
>> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> Henry Musikar, CISSP
>>  <http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20>
>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>>
>>
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