DEAR NEIGHBOR: Hi, George, this text message is from Richard, next door.I've got a confession to make. I've been riddled with guilt for a fewmonths & have been trying to get up the courage to tell youface-to-face. At least I'm telling you in this text, & I can't live with myself a minute longer without your knowing about this.The truth is that, when you're not around, I've been sharing yourwife, day & night. In fact, probably much more than you. I haven'tbeen getting it at home recently & I know that's no excuse. Thetemptation was just too great. I can't live with the guilt & hope you'llaccept my sincere apology & forgive me.Please suggest a fee for usage, & I'll pay you. Regards,
Richard NEIGHBOR'S RESPONSE: George, feeling enraged & betrayed, grabbed his gun, went next door,& shot Richard dead. He returned home, shot his wife, pouredhimself a stiff drink & sat down on the sofa. George then looked at hisphone & discovered a 2nd text message from Richard.
2nd TEXT MESSAGE: Hi, George, Richard here again. Sorry about the typo on my last text.I assume you figured it out & noticed that the darned Spell-Check had changed "wi-fi" to "wife." Technology, huh? It'll be the death of usall.
I think everybody’s looking for something they’ve never seen before. You work on your songs, but your songs also work on you. So you absorb and you excrete and in some way you retain, and slowly you start to become some place that songs are passing through. I’d like to think that they enjoy blowing through you. There’s something electric about you, maybe, some kind of a force left behind by music that passes through you. Like everybody likes to be around someone who does something well and loves doing it, so songs would be no different, right? Like, ‘Let’s blow down and see that guy.'
Swinton chooses the people first, not the projects, and her relationship with Guadagnino – with whom she formed the production company Crazy Crazy Crazy Normal Normal Normal in 2017 – is clearly an inspiring meeting of minds. She first came across him when, as an unknown Italian director, he pursued her via her agent in 1994. He then ran into her in Rome later that same year and Suspiria is the latest result of their ongoing conversation – a film about which they have been talking, both confirm, for almost 25 years.
on-the-nature-of-horror This film was written for Swinton – and for her co-star Dakota Johnson – the director says, and it’s difficult to imagine anyone else stepping into the role of Madame Blanc, a tormented choreographer and dancer who has, effectively, sold her soul for her art. There is a dignity to Swinton’s performance in the film, and a fragility that is immensely moving. That Guadagnino loves her is evident as the camera studies her every move.
Two Long-Lost Peter Sellers Films Discovered in a Trash Can
Screenshot from one of Peter Sellers’s recently discovered films, “Insomnia Is Good for You”Today’s “holy crap!” story is the discovery of two long-lost Peter Sellers films that were salvaged from a trash can. Sellers, for those who may not know him, was a British actor and comedian, probably best known (at least to some of us) for his triple-header starring roles in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. He also played Chief Inspector Clouseau in the majority of The Pink Panther movies. According to the New York Times Arts Beat blog, the lost films are titled “Dearth of a Salesman” (wah-wah) and “Insomnia Is Good for You,” and both come from 1957, when Sellers’s career was just starting to take off. Clocking at about half an hour each, the films were co-written by Sellers and renowned Canadian author Mordecai Richler, who twice won the Governor General’s Award. The shorts are silly, satirical takes on public-information films, and may even have been used by Sellers as reels to show producers his talent, reports the Independent. They were found by Robert Farrow, the building manager of the site that housed Park Lane Films, when he found 21 film cans among the garbage cleared from the studio and took them home. That was in 1996, but he didn’t actually sort through the contents until recently. There he found the negatives, titles, out-takes, and master prints of the two Sellers films.
The titles are being digitally restored and will screen at next May’s Southend Film Festival. Until then, viewers can watch short clips from both of them embedded in the New York Times‘ blog post. Jillian Steinhauer
Now, against the current backdrop of out-of-control hostility, destruction of nature, political lies and chicanery, repression of human rights, and corruption without impunity of all kinds, Yoko Ono has emerged with Warzone(Chimera Music), her newest musical project.
