jeff goldblum

goldblum seems like such a bro

This is a FANTASTIC read - https://www.gq.com/story/jeff-goldblum-the-oral-history

i was just reading that! it's a lot of fun

Jeff Goldblum: I like to look at #jeffgoldblum on Instagram, which my wife makes fun of. And then I take pictures of the things that interest me. [Pulls out his phone] There are many paintings and pictures of me, some nice and some very primitive and bad. People get tattoos of my face. This is me in a banana split, where I’m the center of a dessert. People made a balloon out of me…very nipply. Quite nipply. This is me in Earth Girls Are Easy. This is a stupid shot of me on a pool table. Here’s the painting Wes Anderson gave me after Life Aquatic that he commissioned [pictured above]. You see why my wife says, “Cut it out.”

if i was jeff goldblum this is probably what i'd do tbh

I went through a period of my life where I really couldn't stand Jeff Goldblum, but I think it might have been Goldblum saturation. You don't want too much Goldblum in your film, just the right amount.

interesting how that sorta reads as the flipside to every harassment accusation coming out

yeah, that thought occurred to me too

Yeah I was worried for a moment when I saw this revive

Easily one of the best celebrity puff pieces ever. I'm not a Goldblum superfan or anything, but he's always at least good in stuff, even Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

his Portlandia cameos are the stuff of comedy-acting legend in any right-thinking canon

NYC retro next month... Between the Lines has been restored!

Just announced: @QuadCinema presents The Goldblum Variations, an expansive retrospective devoted to Dr. Ian Malcolm himself, Feb. 8-21

The series includes a run of a new 2K restoration of Joan Micklin Silver's Between the Lines (1977) https://t.co/fD5JQXKlfq pic.twitter.com/LhN0DY2rmR

— Screen Slate (@ScreenSlate) January 28, 2019

Thought this would be about his jazz album

Jeff Goldblum defends Woody Allen: ‘I think there is a presumption of innocence until proven guilty’ https://t.co/GWTfz4B1CP

— The Independent (@Independent) November 7, 2019

cancelled

I no longer gaf what anybody thinks about Woody Allen, pro or con

More to the point, a slow-building tide of stories about Goldblum -- I've noticed scattershot comments over the past couple of years -- is reaching a crescendo; a slew of threads and comments today from a variety of figures. Roxane Gay shared a second hand note a couple of weeks ago, and Nicole Cliffe's thread a few weeks back is worth noting:

oh boy did I come home to a lot of emails from women w J*ff Goldblum stories

— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) October 16, 2019

Along with her follow-up thread today:

The Woody Allen thing sucks, but I want to make sure you know that it is NOT what brought JG on my radar, that was two *very* emotional women last time I was in Los Angeles, followed by a lot of private correspondence when I mentioned it publicly.

— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) November 7, 2019

I don't understand the Jeff Goldblum *thing*. Like, he was good in The Fly, he was funny in The Tall Guy, he was a diversion in Jurassic Park (in that he kept you from realizing what a piece of shit you were watching until it was over), he was competent in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (a very good movie that he did nothing to fuck up)...but this idea that there's something innately cool, or funny, or smart, or sexy about him? It's fucking baffling.

i like him in stuff and i know lots of people who find him sexy.

I don't understand the Jeff Goldblum *thing*.

He's essentially a comedic actor with a relatively small bag of acting tricks, but with good timing and delivery. As a 'dramatic' actor, he has a nice, light touch, but he is not in his proper element. His characters, no matter how central to the plot, are always throwaways or lightweights. He'd make a very amusing Hamlet, but the story would cease to be a tragedy, because he'd be much too shallow to be tragic. He'd be an impossibly bad King Lear.

He is a great dramatic actor in the Fly imo

something innately cool, or funny, or smart, or sexy

he's from pittsburgh

oh pleez Nicole Cliffe, share with us your certainty on Woody Allen, cuz I don't have any

he was a diversion in Jurassic Park (in that he kept you from realizing what a piece of shit you were watching until it was over)

somehow he kept me from realizing it even now

He‘s got the sophisticated bachelor thing down, but a lot of it codes as creepy and slyly lecherous. He’s fun to watch, but I don’t get the “sexy” aspect. Unless schmoozey swinger is your type.

I don't understand the Jeff Goldblum *thing*. Like, he was good in The Fly, he was funny in The Tall Guy, he was a diversion in Jurassic Park (in that he kept you from realizing what a piece of shit you were watching until it was over), he was competent in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (a very good movie that he did nothing to fuck up)...but this idea that there's something innately cool, or funny, or smart, or sexy about him? It's fucking baffling.

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yeah I'll OTM this except I'll correct it to write, "HE was great in The Fly."

I'm surprised no one's mentioned his bit in The Big Chill as a gibbering narcissist.

kinda a sex pest in that movie iirc? or am I definitely not rc?

they all were, they were boomers iirc

The Big Chill was a bad movie. Not because it was about boomers, but because it was a shallow mediocrity with a good cast and high production values.

Yeah I watched it a few years ago for the first time and was surprised at how flimsy it was

kinda a sex pest in that movie iirc

post better

Mediocre isn't bad. It's fine: it hits its TV-era notes.

hes six foot four, thin, plays piano

/kinda a sex pest in that movie iirc/

post better

yes, as an actor in a role

ok man I was only responding to the big chill/ gibbering narcissist post prior to mine.

apologies if it came across as me assigning this designation to him in real life

v funny in igby goes down imo (as an unctuous monster)

jurassic park i think i've covered before

i get why he has a cult, he has a strange fey presence that nicely ironizes poses like the centerfold shot in JP. i think it should be weaponized for villains more but i think that about everybody.

My ex was on the sexy Goldblum train a decade ago and I supported her in this tbh

frankly all my exes have been on said train

He was the only interesting thing in the Thor movie he was in.

I would like it to turn out that he's not a creep, but if he is, so be it.

Goldblum pulling a train of difficult's exes

hm

The Nicole Cliffe thread inspired a good friend of mine to tell me that she and several others got groped by him at a film fest some years back. So, eternal shit list.

one of the weirdest things about stuff like this, scarjo etc etc is that these ppl will go to the mat publicly for the "honor" of being in a terrible new Woody Allen movie

Until recently it was a sign in the industry that You'd Made It by appearing in a terrible Woody Allen flick.

now done by by appearing in a terrible Tarantino flick

(tho that usu indicates 'resurrection;)