― sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
The original or the seventies version?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
Fear and Loathing and Great Gatsby - both have large amounts of mint juleps.
― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes, one of the best books ever. I don't really have anything to add to that.
― thom west (thom w), Monday, 3 March 2003 03:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 3 March 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 April 2003 11:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:49 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:54 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:56 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:58 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:01 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 6 June 2003 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
― the bellefox, Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
keep meaning to rerereread "tender is the night"
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I liked the first third a LOT but not the second third. maybe the last third would have been different, again
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 27 November 2005 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 27 November 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Sunday, 27 November 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 27 November 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 27 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
What a great formulation, from N.!
― the bellefox, Sunday, 27 November 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, like three times. what i meant was unfilmable in the sense that it wouldn't make a very good film.
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 27 November 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 27 November 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 November 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/thanksgiving/photoessay/images/c18535-18-398h.jpg
Is that you in the middle, Ned?
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 November 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
the later jack does, but i think JN c. chinatown could've pulled it off - gatsby needs to have that spark of obsessiveness, which robert redford couldn't really do.
plus now that i've mentioned it i can't imagine anyone but JN not sounding silly saying "old sport."
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 28 November 2005 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Nicholson could never pull this off. His penchant for injecting irony into the most commonplace of utterances would give the game away.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 November 2005 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 November 2005 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link
has anyone seen the 1949 version with alan ladd?
imdb on the 1926 silent version: "No prints of this film are known to survive. Check your attic."
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 28 November 2005 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link
With respect, Alfred, 'thusly' is a 'ly' too far. I am reminded of the Amises' dentist: 'Open widely'!
For a moment I thought that J.D. was saying not that only JN could pull off Gatsby, but that ... only JtN could!
― the bellefox, Monday, 28 November 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
They'd have to have harassed him Kubrick-style, making him say the lines so many times he dropped the Nicholson affectations. Even then, I'm not sure he'd have been the best pick. Redford was reasonable, but the main problem was he looked like he belonged with the prestige and money. Gatsby was supposed to be more suspicious.
― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.3-x.nl/images/front/25873.jpg
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link
With Tim Hopkins as Gatsby?
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I went looking for my copy of tender is the night to run through that another (a sixth? a seventh?) time but I must have given it away again (the sixth time? the seventh time?)
must pick it up again today
I read 'the last tycoon' a while back and it read as you'd expect: a touch bitty and piecemeal, not entire
a dizzylingly great writer
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link
But Gatsby: a classic, a masterwork, etc. I had to read it in high school then again for a college course, but haven’t revisited it since. Will have to correct that.
Something interesting that a college prof pointed out when we were studying Gatsby was the fact that Fitz endlessly employed the word “careless” and its variations to describe Daisy.
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/68451324
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 06:33 (ten years ago) link
The first hour is the comedy of the year. Best moment: Tom's slo-mo slap of Myrtle; CUT TO black guy playing trumpet.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 October 2013 12:38 (ten years ago) link
I'm disappointed that as Leo said "we're goign to meet Meyer Wolfsheim, one of the city's most distinguished businessmen" we didn't get CUT TO HUGE SILHOUETTE OF WOLFSHEIM'S QUIVERING JEWISH NOSE instead of THE EYES OF DR. ECKLEBURG or whtaever
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 October 2013 13:02 (ten years ago) link
I'm about halfway through and jjjusten is otm, first 20 minutes made me want to tear out my own eyes...but it has kinda surprised me so far. Like, it's not as horrible as I expected. I'm pretending not to hear most of the music. *barf*
Tobey McGuire's narration is distractingly bad. From the initial voiceover I thought I was going to see him in horrible old-man makeup because he sounded so frail and doddering. And the line readings are really weird, strange pauses in weird places...cmon dude
But I dig Leo's Gatsby. He's good with the facial stuff, the way his eyes belie the confidence he's trying to project, it's pretty spot on.
Anyway back to the movie.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 April 2014 23:54 (ten years ago) link
Wtf was dayo talking about? It's so not a love story!
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 16 June 2014 07:51 (nine years ago) link
why did you watch this
― macklemorange is the new wack (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 June 2014 07:53 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZh6xSV-12c
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 June 2014 11:22 (nine years ago) link
I'm talking about the book haven't seen the movie
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 16 June 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
I'm talking about the movie haven't read the book
― 龜, Monday, 16 June 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
you should it rules
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
Help.
le what pic.twitter.com/2yNgBgAr7n— Jared Pechacek (@vandroidhelsing) January 4, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
Also unperson says the author is actually previously published by an actual publisher? Which is the most surprising thing.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
it could be good if it punctures the smooth facade/babe in the woods schtick he and many other narrators use, like uncover some buried rage that he studiously evades in his narration of 'gatsby.' probably bad though.
― treeship., Monday, 4 January 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
The summary reads like the pitch was "I've got it, I'll turn this Fitzgerald character into a Hemingway one."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 January 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link