... in earnest.
Dear Ms. Barbara Kopple and Mariel HemingSlay,
Why in the hell did you guys have to accept a paycheck stub from Ms. Oprah Winfrey in order to further your cause and make the news with this humiliating family documentary about long gone "Papa?" Next time guys, go chase a bull down the Henry Hudson Parkway all the way to the TMZ film studios and dress yourselves up as hysteric wine guzzling matadors with crap fishing rods looking desperately to help improve the ratings for Harvey Levin's sinking ship. This is not as dangerous (i.e. EXPLOITATIVE) as what you just did to doc(mock?)umentary filmmaking standards with this poorly made doc and furthermore is far less risky than what "Ernest aka Papa" did out there in Barcelona during vacations from writing Pulitzer Prize winning novels...Now I know why he drank so much and left all of his Will & Fortune to his Florida house cats. "...but why, Jane, is this self-serving expose on a family member that we never even met not as dangerous (i.e. EXPLOITATIVE)?" Mariel just asked, looking straight into Barbara's Kopple's iPhone camera again with so much heartfelt guilt painted on her face. "Hello!!!," shot Jane, #1 - "like your hubby said in the movie, "STOP MAKING UP STORIES MARIEL!" #2 - "be cuz, there are no marlins swimming on NY City streets (at least I hope not), so honestly, no worries girls - run! run! run! Like Oprah did from her last gig. Take your lewd house $$$money and RUN!
Sincerely,
Santiago aka Manolin aka Bye
p.s. Shameful Kopple. What ever happened to Harlan County, USA? Now there is a story worth talking about again. Did you forget already? Your rent is due this month, is it?
Oh, I get it. No one in the Winfrey office seems interested in coal mining poverty and UNION BUSTING films, right. ummmm, and I wonder why that is? Who exactly did you help fund a campaign for Oprah? Exactly. I'm gonna head on down the road and file a grievance with "my" Union. If it's still around and standing, that is. later on blogville. Mariel Hemingway is a likeable person, just too damn "histrionic" for this busman's holiday weekend.
p.s.s. Barbara, you shoulda consulted with Jane. The film woulda been better, and stronger, if you had Tom Cruise pop up and hop up and down on the Hemingway living room furniture at the end of the movie. duh.
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