tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post114171085069193046..comments2024-02-08T05:04:18.484-08:00Comments on J'S THEATER: Oscars + Kirby Puckett RIPJohn Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073378940347627766noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post-1141875587688341922006-03-08T19:39:00.000-08:002006-03-08T19:39:00.000-08:00I haven't seen any of the nominees but Crash/Crap ...I haven't seen any of the nominees but Crash/Crap (first time that's happened to me in years). I agree it is a mish-mash of a film but don't argue with the believability of some of the portraits. The situation of Howard's character facing off with the police actually happened with Howard. Haggis talks about this in the DVD commentary. Howard shared the story with him during filming. Apparently Howard was having a bad day went to an ATM and turned around to find himself surrounded by police looking for black male suspect. It was the last straw and he just went off saying some version of what his character in Crash says, and similarly a cop intervened and diffused the situation. Regarding the rest of his and Newton's characterization, I do believe that there are folks who would not be on the phone to the NAACP or a civil rights attorney. They wouldn't tell the story to you or any other righteous black folks who would rightfully protest. They might not even associate with those folks so as never to have come up against the chafing mirror of their astounded gaze having heard the story and the choice of silence. Some people would be too horrified about being molested or having to admit that they watched their woman be molested or that they were with a man who watched them be molested. Nevertheless, I felt the film was just too forced, great piece for college residential education programming, but shaky as a piece of art. George Clooney, yikes, you nailed that one. Which book would you suggest he read? This puts me in mind of performance artist Damali Ayo's suggestion for a Race Crisis hotline ("help, I'm having a race crisis white ignorance is killing me!) and resource center where you could get a book(s) (e.g. Don't Believe the Hype) so you didn't have to give away time to people that you can't get back correcting their profound ignorance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post-1141771106828858902006-03-07T14:38:00.000-08:002006-03-07T14:38:00.000-08:00On Monday (3/7) at about 4:45pm I was driving down...On Monday (3/7) at about 4:45pm I was driving down University Avenue when I heard the inevitability that Kirby would be taken off life support at anytime. I cried when I heard this. As a lifetime Minnesotan Kirby has meant so much to me the last 20 years. As I heard on the radio today he really was a tragic hero. He gave so much, yet was flawed, and he didn't even get the gift of longevity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post-1141755339311202582006-03-07T10:15:00.000-08:002006-03-07T10:15:00.000-08:00J, you know we have this very antagonistic, comica...J, you know we have this very antagonistic, comical and healthy debate going on about mainstream films, but I agree with most of your observations on this one, except for the Titanic. Granted, the first hour and a half was just Hollywood, but watching mami wata sink that metallic whale is a great spectical. Sorry. Loved it! 19th century rationalism versus Olokun -- I want a sequel. Hell, in this age, I might live through one.<BR/><BR/>Crash -- Ok. It is predictable, but it is meant to speak to a-paint-by-numbers public that feels somewhat vindicated and bigger than themselves when Sandra Bullock's character can be a completely homicidal white woman. She is a post-post modernist Miss Daisy if you ask me. Her character needed a friend and her "coloured" filled the spot without anyone asking how the "coloured" felt about it. Like, wasn't she talking shit to her house servant just a couple of hours before she slipped and busted her ass. I'll stop cause there is more. <BR/><BR/>Crash got the big picture award with its imperfect little pictures. It was predictable. It was a CNN afternoon with an Anderson Cooper crying on the lense interpretation saturating the script. Sometimes I just think white folk award themselves for putting things on the screen that are uncomfortable to them, with no credence to the perspective of others.<BR/><BR/>Ain't seen Brokeback. Sorry. Will do that soon. Maybe today. The problem is I think I lived Brokeback and a negro is not trying to see dem dare parts over yonder again.<BR/><BR/>Catch my drift.<BR/><BR/>Hustle & Flow -- Liked the music. Liked the picture. Liked the performance. But Howard againist Hoffman reveals the whole wide world of American arts in its not so gracious gap. A pimp and a poet. One black. One white. What they think about us versus what they think about themselves. Who wins? Hoffman. Of course. Performance was fucking great, but the subject matter makes it a shoe-in (makes me think of Gotham Bookmart)<BR/><BR/>Gotta run.<BR/><BR/>Ciao.Littlemilkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08875308841224185781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post-1141743919672416892006-03-07T07:05:00.000-08:002006-03-07T07:05:00.000-08:00I heard about Kirby Puckett's death last night -- ...I heard about Kirby Puckett's death last night -- that's really sad. The Twins should rename the new Metrodome after him (Hell, he brought them the Series win in '87), but that may be unlikely.<BR/><BR/>On Terence Howard (sans Deshon)...I'm waiting for his racial/cultural implosion. It's coming in '06...I can feel it!<BR/><BR/>Oh, and "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" is the second hip-hop song to win an Oscar; Eminem's "Lose Yourself" won back in 2002 (to not much shock, if I remember).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com