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| Joe Vitus |
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jeremy wrote: Marilyn recently announced that she was leaving Facebook. I could imagine her enunciating in a Swedish accent, "I want to be alone."
Much as though I liked Marilyn, I didn't find this news out of character, and, though it's possible to point fingers, her second and final departure from Third Eye was an accident waiting to happen.
She, with significant a contributions from Rod (in truth the only ones I tend to read) has created an excellent film blog. I wish her well and trust that her latest retreat is not symptomatic of bigger issues.
I don't think the two should be lumped together like that. Marilyn has significant issues. I tried to be her friend, but when she ended up emailing me that she hoped someone I loved--anyone--would suffer horrible pain, I realized I couldn't keep trying.
Rod didn't leave this site with her in a huff. He continued to comment and to link his essays from Marilyn's site. Marc attacked him repeatedly, claimed Rod was hurting this site by not contributing to it and only linking from another site, but contradictorily saying the articles he linked were boring. And, of course, Rod can be touchy, and at that point he left. Too bad, as his articles were insightful.
Now Marc barely contributes anything to this site but little squibs here and there, then links his big articles. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:36 pm |
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"...The training and talent seem to come together in later life."
I've noticed that for years. Actors who I thought couldn't act if their life depended on it, became quite good in their old age. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 3:02 pm |
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Befade wrote: Gary.........of course it's you........
Frank Langella wrote a very revealing book called Dropped Names about all the famous people he's known. (Gary.......you could have written that book.)
If you believe it, Langella has bedded everyone from Jackie O. to Dinah Shore to Elizabeth Taylor to Rita Hayworth. Talk about a man on a mission.
Well, thank you so much for that description of me, Betsy. I can't think of anyone who was famous that I bedded.
 For some reason your post reminded me of a time when Henry Miller was interviewed and was asked about The Tropic of Cancer and if he actually had that many sexual adventures. Henry replied, "The book took place over a ten year period. The sexual encounters didn't add up to much during ten years." The quote might not be exact but it damn close.
And of course Langella bedded all those women. Women have some kind of strange attraction to vampires. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 3:32 pm |
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| Marilyn didn't really seem to fit in well with Facebook. Rod's still there and also links to his reviews from Facebook. He's got a really good one up now on "Ed Wood" but hasn't made it back to Fairbanks in his series of reviews on action films. I enjoy reading essays by both of them. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:53 pm |
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Quote: Now Marc barely contributes anything to this site but little squibs here and there, then links his big articles
Of the thousands of pieces I've done on Dangerous Minds, I bet I have linked to less than a dozen of them here.
Need I remind you that Marilyn was a guest in my home for a couple of weeks.
Rod's articles represent the worse kind of pretentious, bloated, inbred kind of movie reviewing of the sort I've always loathed. Academic horse cockery. And Mr. Heath's fiction was of the sort I associate with romantic novels. Sorry. The shit makes me gag. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:20 pm |
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| Meanwhile we are, memberwise, shrinking more than a Bahamian souvenir tee shirt. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:25 pm |
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Marc wrote: Quote: Now Marc barely contributes anything to this site but little squibs here and there, then links his big articles
Of the thousands of pieces I've done on Dangerous Minds, I bet I have linked to less than a dozen of them here.
The question is, other than those, what have you contributed by way of serious reviews, rather than quick blips. We could use more of your original work.
Marc wrote: Need I remind you that Marilyn was a guest in my home for a couple of weeks.
This must be directed at someone else because I never questioned your treatment of Marilyn. Though it wasn't kind later on, now that you've brought it up.
Marc wrote: Rod's articles represent the worse kind of pretentious, bloated, inbred kind of movie reviewing of the sort I've always loathed. Academic horse cockery. And Mr. Heath's fiction was of the sort I associate with romantic novels. Sorry. The shit makes me gag.
Then why were you bothered he was linking them? Surely they were easier to ignore if they weren't cluttering up the site?
Just own that you're doing what he did, and that it was obviously not wrong of him, seeing as you clearly don't think it's wrong of you. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 7:07 pm |
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Joe,
I'm sure we had a chat about saying your peace [SIC] and moving on. You don't need to justify yourself, trust in your fellow contributors to see for themselves. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 8:06 pm |
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Rod's reviews were very long. And if my memory serves, Marc didn't come close to linking a dozen of his reviews on here. It would be nice if his views of films on here were longer than they have been. There have been movies that I've disagreed with Marc's view, but lately I've solidly agree with his capsule reviews e.g. The Dark Night Rises and Premium Rush (which I saw before him, so I guess he agreed with me).  |
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| grace |
| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:47 pm |
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| Not to keep beating the "movies I plan to see" drum, but I saw that John Dies at the End was picked up at the TIFF. Paul Giamatti is one of the mains, and the plot sounds up my alley - a couple of quasi-slackers trying to save the world from a stealth invasion. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 10:14 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Rod's reviews were very long. And if my memory serves, Marc didn't come close to linking a dozen of his reviews on here. It would be nice if his views of films on here were longer than they have been. There have been movies that I've disagreed with Marc's view, but lately I've solidly agree with his capsule reviews e.g. The Dark Night Rises and Premium Rush (which I saw before him, so I guess he agreed with me).
We bill ourselves as the "Third Eye Film Society," so in-depth discussions of films have their place. In fact, that's something's that's seriously lacking here. If you remember, we have a forum for longer film reviews. Check how many reviews have been posted there in the last few years. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:37 am |
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Marc wrote: Quote: Now Marc barely contributes anything to this site but little squibs here and there, then links his big articles
Of the thousands of pieces I've done on Dangerous Minds, I bet I have linked to less than a dozen of them here.
Need I remind you that Marilyn was a guest in my home for a couple of weeks.
Rod's articles represent the worse kind of pretentious, bloated, inbred kind of movie reviewing of the sort I've always loathed. Academic horse cockery. And Mr. Heath's fiction was of the sort I associate with romantic novels. Sorry. The shit makes me gag.
I agree about Rod's writing, and would add that Rod himself was always remarkably mean-spirited and nasty to me, for no reason that I could ever figure out. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:49 am |
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Rod and Marilyn aren't always all that pleasant, but they take film reviewing seriously and are very good at it. Marilyn is paranoid about Chicago politics, which, since Barack Obama comes out of that, makes her paranoid about him. I take her word about Chicago politics since she lives there, less about Obama because his connections are a couple of steps removed from Mayor Daley.
I should mention that if I have to steal an image for a trivia contest, I immediately go to "Ferdy in Films." The solutions can take days. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 2:12 am |
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| Besides, anyone who can do a full-length review of "Duck Amuck" (as Marylin recently did) is all right in my book. (And in my opinion, "Duck Amuck" does everything "A Serious Man" does in a few minutes, does it better, and stars a better actor.) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:57 am |
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| Nobody begrudges Marilyn her success with the blog or her fine knowledge of films--or Rod, for that matter. They just lack people skills. |
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