Sunday, February 1, 2009

Some random thoughts for a new month:

1. Tell me what was in better shape during the Super Bowl halftime show: Bruce Springsteen's larynx or his cock.
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2. Prince's "Alphabet Street," after several years' distance, sounds limper than I remember."Cat! We need you to RAP!" predates "Jughead" by three measly years.

3. Emile Hirsch gave Milk's most impressive performance: loose, uninhibited, randy.
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4 comments:

  1. TalFebruary 2, 2009 at 3:01 AM

    1. Gestures definitely took precedence over voice, so I'll interpret that loosely as "cock."

    2. Yes

    3. Definitely (although Josh Brolin gets a close number two for being understated in a movie rife with overblown showboating)

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  2. MFebruary 2, 2009 at 6:39 AM

    2. I prefer the 7-inch mix, which ends on "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah."

    3. Hirsch, Franco, and Penn all did (to my eye) great work. I'm surprised people like Brolin so much; he was fine but the role was pretty limited and I didn't see him do all that much with it.

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  3. Alfred SotoFebruary 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM

    Brolin and the lesbian campaign manager suffered from underwritten parts. Hirsch was a revelation: it was the kind of starmaking performance that made everyone in the theatre laugh whenever he appeared.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 3, 2009 at 11:25 AM

    I liked him fine, but the key to his performance is probably that Cleve Jones told him "I'm a queen -- you can play me that way."

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