Saturday, March 29, 2014
Fell Swoop's new show, The Last Temptation of Paula Deen, is registered for the 2014 Hollywood Fringe! We're going to be at The Lounge Theatre on Santa Monica Blvd, and we're going to be a h…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:09AMSunday, March 23, 2014
is getting excited about great actresses in one-scene roles in overpraised movies. Tilda Swinton is marvelous in The Grand Budapest Hotel.I actually admired the movie and could probably go o…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:21AMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Finally got to 12 Years a Slave. My favorite part was Alfre Woodard's scene. I admired the movie, but her performance was the only part of it that brought tears to my eyes.Also saw something…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:24AMThursday, March 13, 2014
After my first point about The Wooster Group's new show (for the record, I'm generally a fan and admiring of their work and history), I was going to post in the comments of Bitter …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:08AMshortly after it opened. I found its jokey Native American drag and flat, affected speech unsettling, but I didn't think much more about the show after. I've been a fan of Troilus and Cressi…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:06AMsince I updated this. I went to New York. Russia invaded Ukraine. Matthew McConaughey won an Oscar. The world moves too fast, you know.Hopefully more soon.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:16AMFriday, February 14, 2014
And we're throwing a party on March 5. Come join us as we step away from our devices for a night of telling Tales from the Internet!Buy advance tickets at Brown Paper Tickets. Please join us…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:11AMTuesday, February 4, 2014
twice in the theater. The first time was with great excitement and determination to get to the 70 millimeter, Cinerama Dome experience. I walked out of the movie baffled, frustrated, and a l…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:37AMSaturday, February 1, 2014
I have every intention of writing on two very different projects, seeing at least two movies and maybe a play on top of it, working on Fell Swoop's Fringe 2014 project, doing some volunteer …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:00PMmade a movie and it opened today. It's called At Middleton and it's lovely. I am going to try to get to it this weekend and all of you should too. It's playing at Sundance Theatres in West H…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:41AMSunday, January 26, 2014
and just watched the first episode of the new season. Kim Gordon and Richard E. Grant are guest stars. Rita Wilson is back. And Natalia gets her eff you moment to Adam. I am very happy with …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 07:29PMThursday, January 23, 2014
I turned on HBO over the weekend so I could watch Looking. I want to write about it, but with only one episode in I can't say much more about it except that I think it looks very promising. …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:58AMTuesday, January 14, 2014
which surely owes Woody Allen (or Mia and Ronan Farrow) a thank-you for what I think is going to be a little break from the internet morality police. But that's a different post, I…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:49AMMonday, January 13, 2014
I finally focused enough yesterday on my new play, Hope House, to get some work done and feel like I'm starting some momentum on it. Of course today I didn't work on it at all, so there's th…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:43AMSaturday, January 11, 2014
about the HBO documentary Valentine Road, and never posted it. I was looking over old posts tonight and looked at it again; the movie really upset me at the time and I felt strange about pos…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:17AMis perfect, because that movie is all about his face. Also, is the mustache an homage to Lars and the Real Girl?
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:38AMThursday, January 9, 2014
(See here for the full story.)"It's accidental. I was not in any way thinking of that," [Woody Allen] said. "The two things that come up all the time that I was never thinking of were anythi…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 06:47PMOr, if you prefer my obnoxious subtitle, "The Straight Gaze."See here for part I.One element I found a little strange as I watched was the lack of any real sense of POV for the main gay play…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:37PMon Saturday at Cinefamily's double feature with Cruising. We've seen Cruising on DVD so didn't stay, although I did want to a little, just to see it with an audience. I probably would'v…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:32AMwhat is probably a foolish New Year's resolution to write every day of 2014. My description of writing is rather loose -- journaling and blogging count -- and this has helped make it doable …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:32AMThursday, December 19, 2013
of things I almost posted on Facebook until I remembered I still have a blog.1. I came super close to buying a bow tie just because an 11-year-old from Memphis made it. I don't wear bow ties…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:43AMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Speaking of which, I don't know if I ever linked to this site, but isn't it darling?Favorite recent photo. Hubba hubba!
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:36AMat MOCA Pacific Design Center a couple of weekends ago. Christopher Knight wrote a good review in the LATimes here.I mostly find this stuff more camp than actually hot, but seeing all those …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:28AMThursday, December 12, 2013
on TCM last night. God bless em. I watched this clip with JW about 3 or 4 times before moving on.God bless Fred too, but I get irritated when he moves in front of Cyd for those two seconds. …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:28AMto Anjelica Huston.Ms. Huston:I went to the ALOUD event surrounding your new book, A Story Lately Told on Monday at the Wilshire Ebell Theater. I feel like I made a massive fumble in my book…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:22AMSunday, December 8, 2013
before the holiday. I had every intention of writing a blog post about it but never pulled the trigger. So now seems as good a time as any.A friend of Isaac's wrote a good post about the sho…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 08:32PMSaturday, December 7, 2013
this trio I'm sitting across from right now. If I were more shameless I'd sneak a picture, but I'll stop short and just try to paint one for you.The one on the stage-left end of the mod blac…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 06:45PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
I am 38.Sometimes I read other people's blogs and I wish I could blog like that. Simple, diaristic, nice pictures, basic storytelling. Then I think I could never keep that up. And anyway I a…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:38AMFriday, November 8, 2013
Saw him acoustic at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever on Tuesday. Been on a Youtube binge since then. This one is choice; the band freak-out towards the end is wild.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:24PMwas a lot of navel-gazing crap, wasn't it? Here's something much fresher and more casual from the mini writing journal I've started carrying in my back pocket--11/6Watching Return of the Jed…
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