modernity is the new post-modernity.
And Cage. There are often lists of the great living male movie stars: De Niro, Nicholson and Pacino, usually. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He’s daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air. No one else can project inner trembling so effectively. He always seems so earnest. However improbable his character, he never winks at the audience. He is committed to the character with every atom and plays him as if he were him.
- Roger Ebert on Nicolas Cage
(Source: rogerebert.suntimes.com)
“My feeling about Elvis is that he was a very good actor with great comedic charm, and that he would have worked well in Wild At Heart, but Wild At Heart was more my “Andy Warhol performance” than my Elvis performance, and what I mean by that is that – and I have to go back to a book by Stanislavsky called An Actor Prepares here – where he put forth the rule that you must never imitate anybody while acting, which I understand, but rules are made to be broken.”
Apparently this is how you sell watches to Australians.
Every year, I say I am going as this for Halloween, but then I remember that it’s almost impossible to find a Snakeskin blazer.