Hollwood
Fisting
Damien
Chazelle has a very glamorous name that is in keeping with the
moniker of directors Max Ophuls and Joseph Losey. I saw his film
Whiplash when riding from Berlin to the States on a KLM aeroplane
flight and I liked it. I feel that Whiplash was also a musical. I
wanted in all sincerity to endorse LaLa Land as I am a great lover of
the musical film genre. I didn't expect Mr. Chazelle the Hollywood
company man to be on the same level of Vincente Minnelli, Rouben
Mamoulian, Stanley Donen or Gene Kelly, but I thought that perhaps he
had in him the careerist abilities of a George Sidney, Chuck Walters
or at the very least Richard Quine. He seems to be borrowing heavily
from the Woody Allen Everyone Says I Love You playbook. Instead of
badly copying The Bandwagon he should have looked at a movie musical
like Godspell or Hair for pointers.
Despite
the valiant effort of likeable stars and troopers Ryan Gosling and
Emma Stone the film falters. I was puzzled by the musical score of
Justin Hurwitz and choreography of Mandy Moore. There were momentary
flashes where the music and dancing seemed like they were going
someplace interesting, and I'd get excited, then it would fizzle out.
In tone LaLa Land can't decide whether its working anti-naturalism
or the Threepenny Opera kitchen sink.
Noticed
in the credits of LaLa that one of my Club Sucker at the Garage kids
Steve Gizicki was the musical supervisor. Steve was always a
methodically ambitious lad. Last time I saw him in 2003 in London he
was working for George Lukas.
Now
that musicals are back on the Hollywood radar, perhaps someone will
crank out one that really sizzles.
*
Got
to re-connect with my niecy the gifted novelist Lisa Teasley while
she was in Berlin visiting her hot German lover. Lisa has been in
Shanghai for several months on a writers residency. Miss Lisa is one
sexy black mama who radiates divine charm and splendour. That
quality comes through in her writing. Please go out and get her
short story collection Glow in the Dark and her two novels Dive and
Heat Signature. I felt very fortunate to have Lisa as a special
guest on CHEAP Funk ReBoot FM's public radio program that kollektiv
CHEAP hosts occasionally. I was feeling under the weather and tried
to cancel, but had waited too late so the show went on. Marcuse
Siegelstein and Susanne Sachsse of CHEAP were out of town so it was
up to Daniel Hendrickson and I take up the reigns. I called the
program Carte Blanche and besides Lisa featured Manuel Schubert aka
Vicki Baum of the Taz.de. Go check out the podcast here:
also
the CHEAP Funk podcast from the end of last year:
and
http://reboot.fm/2016/09/24/cheap-funk-they
come-from-the-future-2kottifm/
*
At
this time I would like to introduce to my dear readettes the sultry
Miss Hokey Knickerbocker of the famous Knickerbocker gossip dynasty.
Hokey's great uncle was Cholly Knickerbocker and her aunt was Suzi
Knickerbocker so she comes to us at VD is SFTD with a royal pedigree:
Thank
you Vagimule, and I do mean mule but in the nicest way possible
sweets. Just want to start off by telling you of some delightfully
scandalous picadillos of some of my favorite Hollywood couples. Ava
Mendes and Oscar nominated Ryan Gosling are the perfect pair. So are
Anna Faris and Chris Pratt. What their legions of devoted fans don't
know is that these lovely Hollywoodites are just mad about the game
of basketball. Well not so much the sport but the players that come
with it. Both Anna and Eva arrange for their husbands to have group
sex with some of basketballs finest players. Thats right the ladies
love seeing their men making it with the likes of Jeremy Lin, Tyson
Chandler, Jason Smith, JJ. Redick, Derrick Rose and Rick Rubio. Its
a little strange but stars have appetites that are different from you
and I.
Joshua
Kushner the handsome brother-in-law to Princess Ivanka of Trump has
been spending a little too much time lately with Queen Melania, but
Ivanka hasn't told her father the King about it and won't as long as
they remain discreet. Daddy Dearest is way too busy running the
country to notice what his wife does behind his back so please don't
tell him. Josh is too cute to be killed.
