with Richard Gere, 2018.

Rand - not hand - Puppets

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/theater/noam-chomsky-puppet-show-manufacturing-mischief.html

I want to buy a new watch. 

Bye (not ‘buy’ in this instance). 

R.I.P. James

 

never forgotten. 

 

#raininNY

                  
                   

r.i.p. Milos Foreman :(

Head alone shows you in the prodigious act

Of digesting what centuries alone digest:

The mammoth, lumbering statuary of sorrow,

Indissoluble enough to riddle the guts

Of a whale with holes and holes, and bleed him white

Into salt seas.  Hercules had a simple time,

Rinsing those stables:  a baby's tears would do it.

But who'd volunteer to gulp the Laocoon,

The Dying Gaul and those innumerable pietas

Festering on the dim walls of Europe's chapels,

Museums and sepulchers?  You. bye.

                               You

Who borrowed feathers for your feet, not lead,

Not nails, and a mirror to keep the snaky head

In safe perspective, could outface the gorgon-grimace

Of human agony:  a look to numb

Limbs:  not a basilisk-blink, nor a double whammy,

But all the accumulated last grunts, groans,

Cries and heroic couplets concluding the million

Enacted tragedies on these blood-soaked boards,

And every private twinge a hissing asp

To petrify your eyes, and every village

Catastrophe a writhing length of cobra,

And the decline of empires the thick coil of a vast

Anacnoda.

          Imagine:  the world

Fisted to a foetus head, ravined, seamed

With suffering from conception upwards, and there

You have it in hand.  Grit in the eye or a sore

Thumb can make anyone wince, but the whole globe

Expressive of grief turns gods, like kings, to rocks.

Those rocks, cleft and worn, themselves then grow

Ponderous and extend despair on earth's

Dark face. bye.

           So might rigor mortis come to stiffen

All creation, were it not for a bigger belly

Still than swallows joy.

                         You enter now,

Armed with feathers to tickle as well as fly,

And a fun-house mirror that turns the tragic muse

To the beheaded head of a sullen doll, one braid,

A bedraggled snake, hanging limp as the absurd mouth

Hangs in its lugubious pout.  Where are

The classic limbs of stubborn Antigone?

The red, royal robes of Phedre?  The tear-dazzled

Sorrows of Malfi's gentle duchess?

                                   Gone

In the deep convulsion gripping your face, muscles

And sinews bunched, victorious, as the cosmic

Laugh does away with the unstitching, plaguey wounds

Of an eternal sufferer.

                         To you

Perseus, the palm, and may you poise

And repoise until time stop, the celestial balance

Which weighs our madness with our sanity.

         S. Plath

Happy Brat Pack Anniversdary (sic)

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink?intcid=inline_amp

 

2nd Unit exteriors ... with a zero script

...but some type of subconscious plan. b ye.

link:
 http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/news/2013/12/for-filmmakers-diy-digital-distribution-platforms/
 

Avant-Garde Analog DIY presentation using power chords and battery operated devices. bye.
 

Dust in the Wind

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind

Oh, ho, ho

Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away

And all…
bye.

The Marina Abramovic Electric Company

https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/marina-abramovic-is-going-to-electrify-herself-with-1-million-volts-for-the-sake-of-art/

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Helen Mirren sticks up for them stunts.

CLICKDALINK: https://ia.cinemablend.com/news/2397712/helen-mirren-thinks-stunt-performers-should-get-oscars?_fc=2397712&utm_campaign=cb-ofb-m-us-d0757aef&utm_source=ofb

#streetcrack

 

Without Brando as Corleone, the Godfather I and II could not have been the films that they are today- pure classics.  bye.

Happy Day after Easter.

. ... According to some sources, the Easter bunny first arrived in America in the 1700s with NOS (Not Otherwise Specified) immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and transported their tradition of an egg-laying hare called “Osterhase” or “Oschter Haws.” Their children made nests in which this creature could lay its colored eggs. These humanoid rabbits (hares) were NEVER one day late to deliver any eggs and popular mythology has never mentioned anything about any Easter Hare aka Bunny wearing a kind of color schemed bathrob, sweatpants or reading glasses. bye.

bu·reau·crat·ic

ˌbyo͝orəˈkradik/

adjective

adjective: bureaucratic

1. relating to the business of running an organization, or government.

   
   

   "well-established bureaucratic procedures"

   overly concerned with procedure at the expense of efficiency or common sense.

   
   

   "the plan is overly bureaucratic and bye complex"

   
   

Deez Nuts.

Swift and Delicate.

Taylor Swift's latest nemesis...Andy McDowell's daughter, Margaret Qualley and a fragrance commercial that was directed in 2016 by Spike Jonze. bye. #rippedoff  #coldbusted

This ain't for the best
My reputation's never been worse, so
You must like me for me
We can't make…

This ain't for the best
My reputation's never been worse, so
You must like me for me
We can't make
Any promises now, can we, babe?
But you can make me a drink

Dive bar on the East Side, where you at?
Phone lights up my nightstand in the black
Come here, you can meet me in the back
Dark jeans and your Nikes, look at you
Oh damn, never seen that color blue
Just think of the fun things we could do
'Cause I like you
This ain't for the best
My reputation's never been worse, so
You must like me for me
Yeah, I want you
We can't make
Any promises now, can we, babe?
But you can make me a drink
Is it cool that I said all that?
Is it chill that you're in my head?
'Cause I know that it's delicate (delicate)
Is it cool that I said all that
Is it too soon to do this yet?
'Cause I know that it's delicate
Isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it?
Isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it?
Delicate 
Third floor on the West Side, me and you
Handsome, your mansion with a view
Do the girls back home touch you like I do?
Long night, with your hands up in my hair
Echoes of your footsteps on the stairs
Stay here, honey, I don't wanna share
'Cause I like you

This ain't for the best
My reputation's never been worse, so
You must like me for me
Yeah, I want you
We can't make
Any promises now, can we, babe?
But you can make me a drink

Is it cool that I said all that?
Is it chill that you're in my head?
'Cause I know that it's delicate (delicate)
Is it cool that I said all that
Is it too soon to do this yet?
'Cause I know that it's delicate
Isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it?
Isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it? Isn't it?
Delicate

Sometimes I wonder when you sleep
Are you ever dreaming of me?
Sometimes when I look into your eyes
I pretend you're mine, all the damn time
'Cause I like you

Is it cool that I said all that?
Is it chill that you're in my head?
'Cause I know that it's delicate (delicate)
Yeah, I want you
Is it cool that I said all that
Is it too soon to do this yet?
'Cause I know that it's delicate (delicate)
'Cause I like you
Is it cool that I said all that?
Is it chill that you're in my head?
'Cause I know that it's delicate (delicate)
Yeah, I want you
Is it cool that I said all that
Is it too soon to do this yet?
'Cause I know that it's delicate
Delicate

bye.

 

NEWS FLASH linker: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/03/13/taylor-swift-accused-copying-2016-ad-for-her-new-delicate-video.html

new Nick Zedd DVD release exhibit- includes new films!

Bye.

p.s. Sneak Preview(ed)

 

NYTIMESREPEAL_LINK: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

 

  

Consolidation of streaming services is the new 'merge movement.' Weird. TCM (Turner Classics)has announced it has clawed into FILMSTRUCK.

p.s. An amicable($$$) clawing.

http://www.ingmarbergman.se/en/blog/ingmar-bergman-100-years

Actor Paul Bettany is perfectly cast and delivers a perfectly measured performance in MANHUNT, now on Netflix! So great to see him doing top level work again since juggling time between his family and movie roles. bye.

                p.s.  (snl skit above NOT Bettany, but just as good for another good reason - i.e. hilarious)

     
 

 

https://youtu.be/FhwktRDG_aQ

#floormatlandscape

‘Conflict’ Photographer.

 http://www.chrishondrosfilm.com 

   

75 years alive and kickin'

Happy Birthday, David Cronenberg !
May you make many more films for the world to see and experience.
bey(sic) bye.

#Doorstop

   

Actor Burt Reynolds will still get the 'final cut'

      #glowingeditorialkeystrokes
      #BurtReynolds
      #theBromleyProject

Arrival Link:   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5497915/Burt-Reynolds-82-swaps-stunts-walking-stick.html

www.poetryfoundation.org

    #annesexton

link:  http://slippedisc.com/2018/03/just-in-john-williams-leaves-all-his-scores-to-juilliard/