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January 31, 2005
Sundance: Sharon Waxman on more stupid
New York Observer's Jake Brooks is on the case: "Currently embedded in a Park City hotel, Ms. Waxman is covering the Sundance Film Festival for the sixth time in her career. "It kind of gets bigger and crazier—and more stupid—as the years go by." Brooks also quotes Waxman on "maverick" narcotics of choice. "Once [Paul] Anderson went on to make Boogie Nights he tended toward the hard-partying, woman-hopping life led by Quentin Tarantino, his mentor. Cocaine became his drug of choice because it was better suited to his hard-charging, larger-than-thou ego and the maw of his artistic need. Russell was strictly a marijuana man, which was more suited to his neurotic, internal nature." And he quotes from her review of Peter Biskind's last brickbat: "The truth is that most Hollywood books are unrepentantly lame... a few racy anecdotes strung together about strategically mentioned movie stars, along with an explanation of how-I-ended-up-here-from-my-humble-beginnings."
Posted by Ray Pride at January 31, 2005 04:25 PM
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