Paparazzi, Psycho and Pagoda: NY Sunday Times in 60 Seconds
Filed under: New Releases, Celebrities and Controversy, Exhibition, Sunday NYT in 60 Seconds
There's a war underway on the streeets of Los Angeles - with celebrities and their "people" on one side, and the ever-more-ambitious paparazzi on the other. But the photographers themselves are a factious army, and David B. Halbfinger and Allison Hope Weiner dare to tell their various sides of the story. It's a doozy, hopscotching from Pacific Palisades to Dubai, and implicating everyone from a Malibu lifeguard-on-duty, to a homeless Vietnam vet with "a rapport with the celebrities", to a plastic surgeon with little regard for doctor-patient confidentiality. A must read.
- Slate's David Edelstein moonlight-files a story on Gus Van Sant, on the eve of the North American release of his Kurt Cobain movie, Last Days, and somehow gets the director to open up on the massive disaster that was his remake of Psycho. Well, sort of: "I have this new theory about films. It's almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if we started on a Wednesday. Not because of the planets. It's that sometimes you start with the wrong balance and the whole thing gets messed up."
- Meanwhile, the star of Van Sant's new movie, Michael Pitt, can't even buy his own cigarettes: "'Someone needs to buy them for me,' the 24-year-old said. 'I don't have a license, and I always get carded.'" Julia Chaplin follows him through a night of tuna fish and 40s before he and his band, Pagoda, rock the Lower East Side.
- Another one to file under "What slump?": A host of New Yorkers are playing hooky to spend their mornings at the multiplex.
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