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Alfred Hitchcock

Saw Mongol, will see the Dark Knight. I luved Christian Bale in American Psycho!!! So funny.

Stayed in & watched TV. WOW! On TCM, old fave, Sweet Smell of Success (1957), then Rope (1948) from Hitchcock. Had never seen it. Pyrotechnic filmmaking, it’s made w/out cuts. So pervy & disturbing, particularly for the time. HITCHCOCK WAS OUT THERE… He did the 1st American picture about a serial killer, Shadow of a Doubt, several years earlier. Rope is about a thrill-killing. The perps are a rich male couple who think they are superior. Leopold & Loeb-types. Saw Frenzy (1972) for the 1st time in years…it’s very shocking too. (Hitch was wild. I heard on some show that he wanted to call North By Northwest, the picture w/ scenes at Mt. Rushmore, The Man In Lincoln’s Nose.) Then I saw High Fidelity…liked it, but not brilliant.

Looked at a documentary on the Ramones. I get the Sex Pistols–but not them!!! The music is so bad & they’re so stupid. JL walked in & said,”Spare me!” So I did.

Another LA Story…….

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Monica Vitti in Antonioni's L'avventura I rarely find a new movie that attracts me & there’s no new music I like. The last movie I really liked Team America: World Police…& that was released years ago.
2 of my favorite classic film masters, mid-century modernist Michelangelo Antonioni, & the legendary Ingmar Bergman, just died at great ages. These men were important artists who inspired & influenced so many.
After hearing of Antonioni’s death I was in the office of my Beverly Hills orthopod. Seated next to the reception window, I overheard the name of an iconic producer. Dino De Laurentis was there w/ his leggy blonde wife. In his late-eighties, De Laurentis is the very last of a dying breed. He produced giants like Fellini, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, as well as plenty of big commercial fare. Bravo, Dino. Entertainment is slices of verité now. The big Phil Spector murder trial of victim Lana Clarkson, here in LA, is televised. The best summer movie, I am eager to watch testimony today by action director Michael Bay & anything else they offer up. Prosecutor Alan Jackson & no-nonsense Judge Fidler are new stars!!!