Film Log Protagonist by Jessica Yu

I would love to interview her.
I am a doc. fan
I love very everyday people used as a story.
The theme of "what it means to be a man," is very intriguing to me.
She is an intellectual. She read Euripedes.
And I am studying the art of story telling.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Film Log Next Stop Wonderland., Hope Davis Daisy Kenyon, female sensibility?

Hope Davis was a discovery and made a new admirer in me because she could be the beautiful cool intelligent blonde like she is in Next Stop Wonderland , in every film The way that Jen Anniston is in every movie she makes wearing mini-skirts and her long blonde hair. So Hope Davis is Very attractive and blonde in NSW
but she has hid her looks in disguises almost (American Splendor). And I love her in one of my all time favorite movies About Schmidt. And is she in what else? something where she played the kind of up tight upper crust Mother. Any way the film had a gyno-centric pov. (Yes POV is not that obscure of a term. Mr. Amazon..) And I can't think of a better term. what about the terms and meanings of female POV or a female sensibility? ? And yes Jane Austen did that. Really came through in Sense and Sensibility. I wrote about this female sensibility previously. But gyno-centric is what I am going to call it. HA HA Oh guess what--the American New Wave is the title given the Film makers of the 90s not the film makers of the 70s. I thought I hear Leonard Maltin using that term to describe the 70s films. I saw it on one of those---maybe that Laslo Kovacks docu./tribute

PSH is in this Next Stop Wonderland and loved his supporting role. I kept thinking Sean would never return in the film and he does unexpectedly and it is a refreshing surprise. We see him in 3 major scenes I think--that includes the scene where he is on tape. so if you are on tape are you really in the film? lol
And well I guess the storytellers were telling us the Brazillian easily replaced her so Erin made the right decision with the Plumber/marine biologist.
This film reminded me of the other film I am watching: Daisy Kenyon. starring Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda. d. Otto Preminger--Peter Bogdonavitch: Are you familiar with Otto Preminger? Daisy Kenyon was also about a woman who had a choice. Was able to have a choice due to beauty, sex appeal, intelligence independence of thought and "breeding" or class. And she was a career woman Her role was so FAb. esp. when the scene where she is in bed talking to her daughter and lounging on the bed where the chauffeur is getting dressed. At first we just see a man in the background getting dressed. One with a nice body. Then the last frame shows him kissing Erin's Mother in what is clearly a chauffeurs uniform!!!!!
Next Stop Wonderland. had and element of class with the Mother. Was the Mother, Holland Taylor some kind of Modeling agent? I have Owning Mahoney to watch next.
And there was class in the Dana Andrews character in DK. According to the commentator Foster Hirsch. 1) The element of class distinction comparing the two.--2) both were women who had the "luxury" of a choice. 3) both had attractive suitors.

English language word of the week:

mensch (mens̸h, menc̸h)
noun pl. menschen mensch′en (-ən)
a person, esp. a man, regarded as being honorable, decent, and responsible and having strength of character
Etymology: Yiddish < Ger, person < OHG mannisco, orig., human < mann, man + isc-, -ish
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


I always knew that mensch was a Yiddish term, but I thought it was a derogatory one.--- Shows you what I know--- about American -Yiddish anyway. Many Yiddish words are certainly a part of American slang. Certainly there is a book or three on the topic.

English language word of the week: Amanuensis

Main Entry: aman·u·en·sis
Pronunciation: \ə-ˌman-yə-ˈwen(t)-səs\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural aman·u·en·ses \-(ˌ)sēz\
Etymology: Latin, from (servus) a manu slave with secretarial duties
Date: 1619
: one employed to write from dictation or to copy what another has written.

Pat Hackett acted as amanuensis to Andy Warhol. This is how the AW Diaries and Popism were written.

Sean Penn 5 questions with----will be charged with battery.

Calif. prosecutor: Penn to be charged with battery
Feb. 19, 2010, 2:12 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California prosecutors say Sean Penn faces battery and vandalism charges stemming from an altercation with a photographer in Brentwood last fall.

Spokesman Frank Mateljan with the Los Angeles city attorney's office says the two misdemeanor counts were expected to be filed later Friday.

A phone message for Penn's attorney, Barry Hirsch, was not immediately returned.

Mateljan says Penn kicked a photographer during a dustup in October. The photographer's camera also was damaged.

If convicted, Penn could face up to 18 months in jail.

I wonder if Sean Penn is cool to hang out with. I bet he was difficult to be married to. But in the beginning he may be very intelligent, exciting and fun to hang out with. Then the very thing that made him exciting and fun to hang out with--is the thing that made him impossible to live with. Is this correct Robin Wright-Penn? Now back to just Robin Wright probably.

Film Log Doubt PSH

Doubt with the great Streep and the great PSH.

The Hurt Locker, Jeremy Renner

OK folks. This blog will serve as my film log now too, as I want to record all the films I see.
The Hurt Locker is fantastic and the lead performance of Jeremy Renner is a stand out. Not surprisingly, he got an Academy Award nomination. However, he doesn't have a chance in hell of winning against Jeff Bridges or Clooney. But he probably is being noticed by producers and directors. I hope so. I am looking forward to seeing him in other roles--especially those with an accent. He looks like he could play a British gangster or something.

English language word of the week: diaphanous

Main Entry: di·aph·a·nous
Pronunciation: \dī-ˈa-fə-nəs\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanēs, from diaphainein to show through, from dia- + phainein to show — more at fancy
Date: 1614
1 : characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through
2 : characterized by extreme delicacy of form : ethereal
3 : insubstantial, vague
— di·aph·a·nous·ly adverb
— di·aph·a·nous·ness noun

Andy Warhol in a cowboy looking hat. Loving this book "The Genious of Andy Warhol" By David Dalton and Tony S. Somebody.

How about producing my own TV show in the spirit of AW. How about a press pass to do interviews in the name of AW. Love my stylin' abilities. Check out the photo place in Belmar. CAMC.

Main character; Develop protagonist first, Seeking collaborators for film about a MA female going crazy

OK! got here today. I think you need to write what you know. I agree with that. But you can write what you know with fiction or non-fiction. this woman has night and then day dreams of a sexual fantasy nature and the day dreams start to have destructive consequences. She will have a daydream/fantasy around it. Should she have a night-time dream before the daydreams start or after?
A screenplay where the protagonist is juggling kids and leaves the car seat at home.

Inspired by Daniel

I found some excellent Willi Smith pants in my size for $6.99 at Goodwill. I wonder if they are vintage Willi Smith? At that store I also found some Doc Martens in pretty good shape, I would say, for $6.99 They are not in my size but I think I can sell them at a garage sale for $15.