It should be horrible, and I distinctly remember it as horrible, yet it's...not. At all, really. In some respects, despite a few overly broad strokes near the conclusion, it's even quite incisive. For one, there's Travolta: belying the film's reputation, his performance here is as iconic, winning and nuanced as ever, in many respects his best.
For another, the film wrestles with the question well suited to ILM: whether journalistic ambition and integrity are inherently and fatally comporomised by the pop culture and/or commercial spheres (and interestingly, the film doesn't really answer that question). Moreover, the film portrays Rolling Stone quite accurately and unabashedly as the soulless corporate rag it was by 1985 -- why on God's earth Wenner ever consented to this--much less co-starred in it--is beyond me. If he was in on the joke, it must have been his last. And perhaps his only.
And if all that wasn't bizarre enough, there's a crazy irony with respect to the Rove/Plame/Novak scandal at the end. That's right: Perfect, starring John Travolta. Have at it.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)
Alright!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 August 2008 16:58 (seventeen years ago)
Also, Jamie Lee and her current vehicle.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 August 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)
And if you haven't seen this...you should:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4z6ezLMx2U
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 August 2008 17:04 (seventeen years ago)
I'll have to rent it again. All I remember is the end-credit sequence with cast members, including Jann Wenner, performing aerobic exercises.
― Terrible Cold, Thursday, 7 August 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)
It should be horrible, and I distinctly remember it as horrible, yet it's...not. At all, really.
yes, yes it is
― omar little, Thursday, 7 August 2008 17:24 (seventeen years ago)
Jamie Lee Curtis, I am still in love with you, I want you to know. When people haul out that hermaphrodite urban legend crap, I defend your honor every damn time. Just so you know, JL. Twenty-odd years I'm in your corner here. So feel free to throw your boy some scraps or something. Just sayin'.
― J0hn D., Thursday, 7 August 2008 17:35 (seventeen years ago)
Totally unrelated: I love "Twist of Fate," Olivia Newton-John's Top Five hit from HER John Travolta big budget bomb, Two of a Kind. I loved it when older stars tried to get all New Wave.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 17:41 (seventeen years ago)
I saw Two of a Kind again a few months ago. It's absolutely atrocious.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 7 August 2008 17:42 (seventeen years ago)
Hahah, I was just thinking of "Twist of Fate" as well.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 August 2008 17:46 (seventeen years ago)
I thought "Heart Attack" (the new wavey single that preceeded "Twist of Fate") was the real gem from that period.
― zaxxon25, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:03 (seventeen years ago)
Anyone own that Gold comp released a couple of years ago? I wonder if it's too much ONJ for one man to own.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:04 (seventeen years ago)
I do remember that the issue of RS that featuring Perfect on the cover also included a big feature on the hardcore scene, mostly the SST bands that I was very familiar with, but also Flipper. Who I wasn't familiar with. That Rolling Stone was touting an underground band that I didn't know about already made me run out and buy Generic.
― bendy, Thursday, 7 August 2008 22:21 (seventeen years ago)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/jamie-lee-curtis-has-never-worked-hard-a-day-in-her-life
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 December 2019 15:22 (six years ago)
may we all be so lucky
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 December 2019 15:29 (six years ago)
what a great interview - jamie lee is a national treasure tbh
― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 2 December 2019 15:33 (six years ago)