Joan Allen was ravishing in that movie. It's weird, that she can be so lovely in her 40s in one way, and then you look back at her in her 20s, and she's lovely in a different way.

(Also, William Petersen is (a) damn young, and (b) damn good-looking!)

He's also bow-legged, which I did not know till I saw that movie.

The funny thing about Tom Noonan is that he's so polite and nice and soft-spoken in interview, and then he turns around and plays the same attributes as creepy on film. I've seen some of What Happened Was, a film he directed, and it's all about the awkward things one reveals to fill up a silence.

Also, I just like the fact that Noonan is 6' 9". He is like a walknig pool cue.

And it has one of my top five last scenes of any movie EVER, that long, silent walk, with that utterly crushing contempt--nay, worse than that, indifference--in every line of her body. So fucking pitiless. I love it.

Which got simulatneously sent up and hommaged (brilliantly) at the end of Altman's THE LONG GOODBYE.

(Also, William Petersen is (a) damn young, and (b) damn good-looking!)

He's also really good (and young) playing an obsessive Treasury agent who's a bit of a serious dickhead in TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. which also features one of Willam Dafoe's first (and nastiest) turns.

I wrote down a thesis somewhere to the effect that To Live and Die in L.A. is as total and exact a celluloid expression of the middle-80s as can be had. Gay anxiety, excessive displays of teh macho, cynicism, people literally printing money, hair gel, tight pants, short shorts, drugs, psychotic acts of revenge, flames, paranoia, abuse of power, and John Pankow's fishbelly-white butt. Perfect!

Wall Street my pert and much prettier than John Pankow's white fanny.

I wrote down a thesis somewhere to the effect that To Live and Die in L.A. is as total and exact a celluloid expression of the middle-80s as can be had. Gay anxiety, excessive displays of teh macho, cynicism, people literally printing money, hair gel, tight pants, short shorts, drugs, psychotic acts of revenge, flames, paranoia, abuse of power, and John Pankow's fishbelly-white butt. Perfect!

Plus, Wang Chung on the soundtrack!

Plus, Wang Chung on the soundtrack!

Everybody have fun tonight.

The girl on the left (plays Lucy?) could be Loona

Hmmm. A bit too traditionally pretty for Luna, I think. Although they could probably do a lot with make-up and a blond wig.

I really have to see "The Long Goodbye", it looks like. Altman's a bit of a hit-and-miss for me, i.e. loved "Gosford Park", "The Player", "McCabe & Mrs. Miller", lukewarm on "Nashville" and "Short Cuts", annoyed witless at "Pret-a-Porter".

Is Loona a blonde? I thought she had darker hair. Must to read again.

I am so bad at fandom.

"The Long Goodbye " is brilliant.

Another vote for loving Altman's The Long Goodbye.

Best entrance evah? Harry Lime certainly ranks in the top five, but I still think Tim Curry's entrance in Rocky Horror is my favorite.

That'd get my vote, though Vincent Price's thunder-punctuated "I HAVE ARRIVED!" in House of the Long Shadows is a contender too.