Thighs Wide Shut

actor Geene Courtney models a scarf, skirt, bracelets, and a crown made from hot dogs, frankfurters, and kielbasa in her role as Queen of National Hot Dog Week, as selected by the Zion Meat Products Company. She wears a bikini, and kneels with one hand on her hip.  circa 1955

Miss Fabulous Frankfurter Lorraine Cole is crowned Frankfurter Queen 1956 by Hebrew National at the Hotel Wellington on 55th Street

Ready Player One
Props Culture
Official Site | Trailers & Mo
PG-13 | 140 min

At the close of last year, I bemoaned that The Post was material not worthy of Spielberg’s talents.  He’s a great history teacher, but I prefer him as a science(-fiction) professor.  Take his Lincoln, his Bore Horse, his Bridge of Thighs (two of which were good movies), and erase his names off of them.  Let someone else direct those movies.  Give me more of his The Adventures of Tintin.  Did you see that movie?  It was STUNNING.  I wanted him to make 239239239 more of them.  He didn’t, but hey, my post-Post prayers have been answered in his big screen version of Ernest Cline‘s Ready Player One book (which I sadly didn’t read, but now maybe should have).  THIS is the kind of movie Spielbergo needs to direct.  This material isn’t beneath him, nor above him – it suits and fits him perfectly like a Power Glove

Spielberg made his mark in the 80s.  Ready Player One is a movie/book love letter to that time, and even to the movies he made and produced (Back To The Future!  Jurassic Park).  And it feels like a Spielberg extension of the leap he took when he finished Kubrick’s A.I..  A.I. was his love letter to Kubrick, and it didn’t feel like a Spielberg movie whatsoever, and that’s part of what makes it such an incredible undertaking and end result.  I mean, look at this!

And with RPO, Spielberg is free of Kubrick’s ghost and essentially makes his own A.I.

Now I’m not going to say that RPO is perfect – it’s not – it does better with the virtual gamer sh!t than it does with the reality real world stuff, and the ending was kind of a meh drop off, but it’s one fcuking hell of a visual ride that must be taken on the big screen.  My jaw was dropping endlessly, and my eyes kept popping out, not believing the unbelievable things it was seeing (spoiler alert – The Shining stuff alone is worth the price of admission).  It’s like a Tintin adventure for the modern and future-modern times.  Most importantly – it just works.  It works, where other films like it should have worked but just didn’t, like Speed Racer, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Tron: Legacy, Sucker Punch, and even Back To The Future II

And what really worked for me was that it’s a movie that takes place in 2044, but it feels like an 80s movie.  The good guy is our Marty McFly-type (Tye Sheridan, who made his debut with Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, a visual feast as well), the bad guy is straight out of any 80s movie evil corporate boardroom (Ben Mendelsohn, who should be in EVERYTHING), and the ghost hanging over the whole affair (not Kubrick) is a cross between Steve Jobs and Louis Tully (Mark Rylance, nailing the nerdy awkwardness, kinda like he was Mitch from Real Genius).  Not sure how 80s Olivia Cooke‘s character was, but I love her and her eyes, and it had to be said

Spielbergo, I’m ready for more, player.  So why are you bothering with remaking West Side Story?  Are you too close to George Lucas to touch a Star Wars movie?  You wanna remake something?  REMAKE THE PREQUELS!!!

Verdictgo: Breast In Show

Player One is Ready for you today at a theater near jews and white nationalists

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

a Doodle For Hunger by Luke Perry

a Zsa Zsa Gabor collection of her scripts from television appearances, 1960s-1990s, including (in alphabetical order): Batman (3 scripts from the episode ‘Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires’), Bonanza, Burke’s Law, The Donna Reed Show (3 scripts from different episodes), The Facts of Life, Gilligan’s Island, Hollywood Backstage, The Love Boat (3 scripts from different episodes), Matt Houston, and The Rounders (2 scripts); some with the star’s annotations, some noting her name on the covers [The Estate of Zsa Zsa Gabor auction]

Moby
Rough Trade NYC
March 21

Congrats Moby, with this show (at this super AWESOME venue, to celebrate the release of your solid new album), you have now tied Beck for the artist I’ve seen most in concert – with 10 shows apiece!!!  Looking forward to the next 10.  As you would say, I would like to say to you – thank you, thank  you, thank you!

Setlist – Mere Anarchy / The Middle Is Gone / Falling Rain and Light / Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? / Porcelain / This Wild Darkness / The Tired and the Hurt / The Last of Goodbyes / A Dark Cloud Is Coming / The Sorrow Tree / The Ceremony of Innocence / Like a Motherless Child / Extreme Ways / South Side / Natural Blues / Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin cover) / Go! / We Are All Made of Stars / Almost Home

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