Many have tried, most of them fail. Getting DeNiro to talk can be frustrating, demoralizing, and not always worth the end result.
“Looking back—with the slightly battered perspective I would gain over three weeks spent trying to talk to Robert De Niro—perhaps I should have known better. Since he emerged in the early 1970s as one of the most remarkable, intense, and dazzling actors ever seen on-screen, De Niro has rarely agreed to be interviewed. When he has consented, that was generally when the trouble started. Articles about him typically deteriorated into accounts of the interview’s collapse, and of the interviewer’s resulting anger, frustration, acquiescence, or bafflement.”
This will sound surprising, but before Kevin Smith made a shitty animated T.V. show out of Clerks, someone else beat him to it and made an even shittier live action version. The good news—we can’t berate Smith this time for huckstering one more needless incarnation of his register jockeys.
Chuck Palahniuk’s new short story Mister Elegant in VICE magazine.
Writer Warren Ellis, author of comic books, graphic novels, and two forthcoming novels, is bringing his “Second Life Sketches” to the Reuters Second Life News Center as a weekly column beginning next month.
All I want for Christmas—-two parents buy their kid a Microsoft Zune, and were the ones surprised when the tyke got an eyeful of the hour and forty four minute orgy that was loaded on it.
Gotta hand it to Microsoft. They’ll do anything to get a leg up on the MP3 player market.
The Hater ponders the paradox that is John Mayer. “The guy who would ask for a Dundie, or who would write some of the more entertaining things here, wouldn’t ever listen to John Mayer, let alone be John Mayer. What gives?”
Because you didn’t ask for it: in her new book Love Hotels, American photographer Misty Keasler portrays some of the newest, most creative love hotels of Japan. Wired>
“Sorry I’ve been so coy about these rumors, but I always like to wait until the contracts have been signed and the “first trimester” has been survived until I talk about stuff.
But yes, inexplicably, I’ve been hired as an Executive Story Editor by the fantastic television show LOST. As I’m neither an executive nor an editor, this is really just a fancy Hollywood way of saying that I’ve joined the writing staff.
I can’t talk about much more than that, so I implore you to please stop asking me what the island is, who the Others are, how Matthew Fox smells, etc. Still, I will say that I’m insanely honored to join such an amazing group of writers (some of their new scripts I’ve been lucky enough to read are destined to become the best episodes of the series), and I’m very grateful to Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for having so much faith in me.”
What has seven legs, both male and female reproductive organs, and nub antlers?
Rick Lisko took down the abnormal deer with his truck. “It defiantly was a freak of nature, Lisko said.
“And by the way, I did eat it,” Lisko said. “It was tasty.” (from the Fond Du Lac Reporter)
My small mind can not formulate an explanation. Could somebody please explain this?
SHAQUILLE O’NEALS CHRISTMAS PARTY! at Jokerz’s Comedy Club, DECEMBER 19th, 2006 – 9PM! – Come Party with Shaq and the rest of the team! Tickets only $10 in advance (VERY LIMITED) Bottle Service and VIP Seating available.
Why, why would Shaq-fu throw a Christmas party at a second rate comedy club, in Milwaukee, and invite the public? Sure they’re playing the Bucks the next day, but is he that hard up for attention?
I live a mile away from Jokerz and I’m disappointed to hear that the Shaq and the Miami Heat are coming to my neighborhood. The drawing power of our Arby’s Jamocha shake and undoubtably Silk, the stripclub above Jokerz’s may be good enough for the rest of us, but professional athletes should have a higher standard. They do not mill around in clubs in lower income/blue collar neighborhoods when there’s higher class hoochies to be had downtown.
If this what happens to championships teams, thank God these concerns are no where near the horizon for the Miwaukee Bucks.
