50s Pitch for 'The Canyons'

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Lindsay Lohan in Richard Phillips' 'First Point'

I'm not what you'd call a Lohan fan but, thing is, and this speaks to her star quality, (even though I paid no attention at first -- I didn't even watch until today) she looks good in this trailer.

Okay, sure, there's not a lot of 'acting' by Lohan but she holds her own in this thing effortlessly. Not that that means anything (much like this write-up) but she did it, it caught my attention, and so I wrote this write-up up (though I'm at a loss for why, which speaks to Lohan's mysterious power).

The film/art piece made its premiere at Art Basel but won't roll out in the US until Phillips' show at the Gagosian Gallery in NYC Sept. 15 this year. 

While we wait for the short film in its entirety, this trailer gets embedded again and again. If you haven't seen it (where have you been?). If you have...





















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First Photo of Lindsay Lohan and Grant Bowler as 'Liz & Dick'

Nice. I'm surprised. Was expecting strained poses and odd eyes, but this is cool. Going black and white was a classy choice. Composition is dynamic -- weighted to the lower left but balanced by negative space in upper right. Also, a nice diagonal coming out of the lower right corner which leads to Bowler's rounded shoulder, the form of which is mimicked by Lohan's forehead and hair.

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So Lucky To Of [sic] Read This

It's only four paragraphs but my my how sharp the British can be -- especially when a target presents itself. The Guardian reports Lindsay Lohan may portray Caitlin Thomas, widow of the poet Dylan Thomas, in an upcoming biopic. So what? These rumors fly around all day. However, in this case Lindsay is at a disadvantage. Seems she recently said the following of Robert Altman (with whom she worked on "A Prairie Home Companion"), "I am lucky enough to of [sic] been able to work with Robert Altman...He left us with a legend that all of us have the ability to do...Be adequite."

Well... (Let me catch my breath). Suffice it to say the Guardian doesn't cut Lindsay any slack. They continue by pointing out that, while few actors possess Lohan's 'anti-qualifications' for playing literary figures, many American movie stars leap at the chance to show off their 'slo-o-ower echt Englishspeak' in classy movies about British people who write, read, or just carry a lot of books around.

Anne Hathaway will be Jane Austen in the regrettably and anti-literarily [sic] entitled "Becoming Jane", Johnny Depp as JM Barrie, Renee Zellweger as Beatrix Potter, and Nicole Kidman (although she is Australian, for our purposes she will be considered Americanized by association with Hollywood), who portrayed Virginia Woolf (and her nose) in "The Hours". I mean, look at her -- that piercing gaze, the way she holds the cigarette -- all so clever. You just know this person could tell you how the Electoral College works, or what the longest river in the world is.

Let's face it -- the British sound smarter than us. Once I knew a conductor who spoke with a wisp of a British accent even though he grew up in the Midwest United States. Who can blame him? He wanted to sound better than the average schmo conductor from Winston-Salem or some town in Idaho. From now on I'm talking with an accent and I'm never going anywhere without a book (hardcover, thank you very much). If necessary I'll wear a fake nose and smoke in order to appear more...uh...what's the word? Smart. That's it. I want to look and sound...oh, uh, what was that word again? Oh, yeah -- smart.

Complete Guardian story