What the Manolo Is…
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is…
The Mark Helprin and the Velvet Fog, they are sublime!
And now, from the sublime to the wan, there is the You, Me and the Dupree. All the Manolo can say is, go away, Owen Wilson, and do not return until you are not just lazily playing your own smarmy, solipsistic self. The Manolo has grown weary of you and your “schtick”.
And while you are going away, Mr. Butterscotch Stallion, please take this Kate Hudson person with you. the Manolo does not understand her supposed attraction. She seems self-enamored and humorless, and the camera does not like her. Better she should be elsewhere than on the Manolo’s movie screen.
The only real actors present in this lazy movie were the Micheal Douglas, and the very amusing and talented Matt Dillon, who seemed to come in from the entirely different, much better, much funnier movie.
March 20th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Oh Manolo dear, I share your pain when it comes to You, me and Dupree. I suffered through a flight from Chicago to San Francisco where this crime against the cinema was the only available distraction from crying babies. Now, when I look back, I should have opted for the crying babies.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Thank you, Manolo, for saving me once and for all from “Dupree.” We keep thinking about watching it and something divine and righteous stops us every time. Last time it was “Tenacious D And The Pick Of Destiny.”
Owen Wilson was perfect in “Zoolander” and never since. As for Kate, most recently I heard from my parent’s good friend that Miz Hudson was a merciless bully to their daughter at Crossroads in Santa Monica. So bleh to her and her spooky-looking eyes and her vapid and marginally-talented soul.
What is to account for the dearth of Matt Dillon these days? Is choosy? Is he bored? Can he not be bothered? He’s so much fun to watch.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Owen Wilson reminds me of every other handsome, spoiled, indulged, upper-middle and upper-class boy I knew in Dallas (where he’s from). Except the others did not become Hollywood stars and settled down to reasonably useful lives, getting married and going into real estate, finance, law, etc. Whereas Owen is forever developmentally arrested, chronologically growing older and older but emotionally forever 18. (Luke Wilson may well be the same but at least he pretends to be somewhat more mature.)
I think Kate Hudson is popular b/c everyone wanted her to be the second coming of her mother (a hard burden to bear). Which has not happened. And now she’s destroyed her image as “cool young wife and mom” by leaving her husband. So she’ll coast on the benefit of being “Hollywood royalty”, I’m sure, but she’ll have to really work if she wants that “big chance” again.
April 14th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
memoir from antproof case is one of my favorites!
(have you tried arthur phillips’ the egyptologist or jon clinch’s finn? both are more of the unreliable narrator business, with the egyptologist on the more comedic and finn on the more faulkner-y end of things.)