tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post2515739599567762568..comments2024-03-04T14:52:40.445+02:00Comments on pulpetti: Q&A with Christa FaustUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-9826362060029347682010-05-14T22:43:41.391+03:002010-05-14T22:43:41.391+03:00Hey, may I belatedly suggest Lara Flynn Boyle as a...Hey, may I belatedly suggest Lara Flynn Boyle as another contender? I'm watching RED ROCK WEST again at the moment, and man is Lara great as the femme fatale there... Smart casting otherwise as well, with Nic Cage as the sucker and Dennis Hopper as a contract killer (Lyle, from Dallas). This is truly a vintage Gold Medal by, say, Day Keene or Gil Brewer but set in the early '90s. Outrageous coincidences and (possible) plot holes are part of the package, I guess. Lara is 40 this year.Anders Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164550847416446757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-85218738313325476312010-04-30T09:21:00.509+03:002010-04-30T09:21:00.509+03:00Todd: I'm thinking myself as being already 40,...Todd: I'm thinking myself as being already 40, even though I was born just ten years after Gershon. <br /><br />I'm thinking that Christa Faust announced that she has sold the movie rights to MONEY SHOT, so we might have a chance of getting Gershon/Bello/Fiorentino in the lead.Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-86805595833994020212010-04-30T01:51:40.462+03:002010-04-30T01:51:40.462+03:00Fiorentino has a reputation for being tough to wor...Fiorentino has a reputation for being tough to work with...Having just read this thread for the first time, I'm impressed by the notion of Gershon, who isn't Quite 50 yet, Juri, no need to hurry us of the '60s gen along any (TM, b. 1964), though for some reason from my memory of MONEY SHOT, which I read more than a year ago, I'd think her a bit slight, but I like it. What's more, Gershon might like it. The even slighter, physically, Maria Bello might like it as well.<br /><br />I have had my book stacks fall on me. It's not a happy way to awaken. Ikea shelves, fah.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-51682249859380765662010-04-25T20:26:00.750+03:002010-04-25T20:26:00.750+03:00Gershon is 50?!
Fiorentino has sunk, but don'...Gershon is 50?! <br /><br />Fiorentino has sunk, but don't you think MONEY SHOT THE MOVIE wouldn't rise her out of her depths? Man, just like John Travolta! <br /><br />Cassavetes himself enjoys a bit of a cult status in Finland. I know a lot of younger guys who admire his movies. I've never really gotten very deep into them, that must be said, even though I liked THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE to a certain extent. SHADOWS left me a bit cold.Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-75686851164912171922010-04-24T22:20:10.844+03:002010-04-24T22:20:10.844+03:00Gershon was actually born in 1962 - she's one ...Gershon was actually born in 1962 - she's one year older than me!<br /><br />Fiorentino would be good choice, too, but she hasn't had much of a career for the last coupla decades, has she?<br /><br />Cassavetes as a Finnish cult item? Really? The reason I caught GLORIA was because it was shown on national TV here, but there wasn't really any hoopla around it. Too bad - kids these days don't recognize quality, etc, etc. I must however admit I found THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE to be quite a snooze, and I never made it through A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE.Anders Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164550847416446757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-87355448369550247062010-04-24T22:05:38.351+03:002010-04-24T22:05:38.351+03:00Um... yeah... I'm not much of a sales person, ...Um... yeah... I'm not much of a sales person, am I? Actually GLORIA enjoys a bit of a cult status here in Finland, and it's played quite a few times in the national television. At least something we Finns do better than you Swedes: we like and know our Cassavetes! <br /><br />Wouldn't Gina Gershon be a bit too young to be Angel Dare? I'm thinking Linda Fiorentino. Even though Gershon is better looking. <br /><br />Haven't read the other books by Lankford you mention, will have to move them higher up on my TBR pile.Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-88900547356316578882010-04-24T21:48:11.935+03:002010-04-24T21:48:11.935+03:00Referring to a forgotten Cassavetes movie as some ...Referring to a forgotten Cassavetes movie as some kind of sales pitch?... Well, you would have appeared as way cool for about one dozen individuals (including me), and the remainder of mankind would have gone "HUH?". But really, GLORIA is way underrated. Gena Rowlands is sensational in it.<br /><br />Btw, if MONEY SHOT is ever to be filmed I'd like to suggest Gina Gershon for the lead.<br /><br />Oh, Terrill Lankford. Loved SHOOTERS. I have EARTHQUAKE WEATHER and BLONDE LIGHTNING in my, uh, TBR pile.Anders Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164550847416446757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-9161548264768543812010-04-24T21:03:24.466+03:002010-04-24T21:03:24.466+03:00Anders:
> 1) Do you guys really have TBR piles...Anders:<br /><br />> 1) Do you guys really have TBR piles in the physical sense? <br /><br />No, of course not - it would fall and I'd be buried under it and no one would ever find me. It's a spatial metaphor I've always wondered about - my TBR is actually my book shelf. (Or "shelves" and "boxes" to be exact. And, yeah, "piles" - on the floor, for the most part.)<br /><br />> 2) Money Shot is great great great.<br /><br />Hear hear! <br /><br />> 3) If Money Shot was ever published in Sweden I guess it would provoke the same kind of criticism as Juri refers to.<br /><br />I'm quite sure of that myself. This is what Christa herself said somewhere: she found the women in the porn business usually very strong persons, and certainly not victims. Which is not to say there *are* victims of the international porn business. (Terrill Lankford talks about the same issue in the admirable SHOOTERS, a book which I would've also like to have seen in Finnish.)<br /><br />> 4) I saw John Cassavetes' GLORIA for the first time the other day (and a fine movie it was, too), and somehow I think there are some thematical similarities between that and MONEY SHOT; <br /><br />That's an apt comparison - one could've used that in the back cover copy.Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-84955001992277965282010-04-24T20:29:43.620+03:002010-04-24T20:29:43.620+03:00A few late comments:
1) Do you guys really have T...A few late comments:<br /><br />1) Do you guys really have TBR piles in the physical sense? I myself maintain a list of books I own that I haven't read yet (and I would be embarrased to tell you how many items are on it). But a pile in the physical sense? No.<br /><br />2) Money Shot is great great great.<br /><br />3) If Money Shot was ever published in Sweden I guess it would provoke the same kind of criticism as Juri refers to. Women in the porn business are somehow supposed to always be more or less victims, and victims only. A woman in charge - as described in Money Shot - would be dismissed as unrealistic.<br /><br />4) I saw John Cassavetes' GLORIA for the first time the other day (and a fine movie it was, too), and somehow I think there are some thematical similarities between that and MONEY SHOT; a woman of a somewhat disreputable reputation is all of a sudden forced to battle organized crime on her own, and does so fully believably - i.e. in neither case does it detoriate into the KILL BILL kind of bullshit.Anders Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164550847416446757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-87167409750689974892010-04-22T09:12:44.345+03:002010-04-22T09:12:44.345+03:00Yeah, I sure know what you mean. I mean, my TBR pi...Yeah, I sure know what you mean. I mean, my TBR pile has been growing from the year 1985 or so. I've been thinking for years that I'd read more if I weren't working for the media and the book publishing.Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-84994168658816062692010-04-22T01:09:45.716+03:002010-04-22T01:09:45.716+03:00I have the HCC book Money Shot, but have not read ...I have the HCC book Money Shot, but have not read it. You know how it is when your TBR pile grows faster than you can read. Sounds like i should move MS closer to the top. Thanks for posting the interview.Frank Loosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12564007564601986631noreply@blogger.com