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January 28, 2005
CHILD’S PLAY?
I read the following on Page Six:
ROBERT De Niro vanishing from his seat at the Beekman during Wednesday's screening of his abysmal "Hide and Seek" (
Debra Birnbaum's review: Page 39), leaving his wife, Grace, to suffer alone
From Birnbaum's review:
LET'S hope Dakota Fanning's parents are investing her paychecks wisely. She's going to need that money to pay her therapy bills for enduring "Hide and Seek," a schlocky thriller choking under the weight of its own psychobabble.
Not only has she been transformed into a lost member of the Addams family with a dark brown wig and several layers of under-eye makeup, she's also forced to suffer every horror-film clichdirector John Polson ("Swimfan") - a graduate of the School of Loud Knocks - can think up to inflict upon her.
Heres another review, by David Levine, who didnt think much of the film. You can watch preview clip there as well.
For young Emily Callaway, her games of Hide and Seek with an imaginary friend named Charlie have become anything but simple and innocent. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a series of increasingly nightmarish acts that even her father David cannot stop. Who or what is Charlie? David wonders. How can an imaginary entity have this kind of hold on her? Maybe Charlie is not imaginary at all, but instead a flesh-and-blood, malevolent presence?
I saw some previews of this movie, Hide and Seek, last night while watching CSI, and I was sickened by what Hollywood is willing to put little kids through for a movie. And why do the parents give their permission? Is everyone so greedy for a buck that they'll potentially sacrifice a child's future well-being? The child may grow up well adjusted, and then maybe he/she won't. It's a gamble, so why gamble? Dakota Fanning was so convincing it was difficult to determine if she was acting or not. Let's pray this movie flops BIG time sothat Dakota isnt typecast by Hollywood and rented out by her parents.
Posted by kitty at January 28, 2005 01:46 PM
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I lived in L.A. for far too long, and one of the many things that made it such an uncomfortable place to live was the fact that so many parents I knew were busy attempting to thrust their children into show business on some level - whether they were talented or not. And the bottom line, at least in my experience, was that these parents were all trying to fulfill some childhood fantasy of their own through their children - despite the myriad dangers inherent in that career. Robbing a child of a childhood is NEVER a good thing!
Posted by: Gayle at January 28, 2005 03:27 PM
A city ordinance here in L.A. requires all parents to force their children into show business, especially if said parents are failed entertainment aspirants or work on the periphery of the movie industry. Sorry, Gayle. It's the law.
Posted by: Rodger Jacobs at January 28, 2005 04:32 PM
We here at LLP have GOT to get Rodger to join our family. You're GREAT!
Posted by: kitty at January 28, 2005 05:57 PM
Well, remember that girl from the poltergeist movie? Who died of chronic constipation/toxic shock?
Then there's the chic from the exorcist (linda blair?) who said she regreted making that movie.
Posted by: Aaron at January 28, 2005 05:58 PM
Linda Blair starred in a horrible '74 piece of trash called "Born Innocent." Born Innocent
She played this teenaged girl sent off to juvie (juvenile hall) where she was raped by the other girls using a broom. That industry is lousy with that kind of child abuse.
Posted by: kitty at January 28, 2005 06:33 PM
Ahhh, Linda Blair and the broom stick in "Born Innocent." Thank you, Kitty, for bringing back to mind one of the few pleasant moments of my adolescence.
Posted by: Rodger Jacobs at January 28, 2005 07:24 PM
Who raised you, Fagan? Was Bill Sikes your bully-brother?
Posted by: kitty at January 28, 2005 07:37 PM
You misunderstand me yet again, Kitty. For a 15-year old male -- which I was in 1974 -- that scene in "Born Innocent" was porn ... well, that and the annual Sex in the Cinema layout that Playboy always did. Joey Heatherton's boobs in "Bluebeard" ... my oh my.
Posted by: Rodger Jacobs at January 28, 2005 07:42 PM
Best Fagan on film: Oliver Reed.
Posted by: Rodger Jacobs at January 28, 2005 07:42 PM
I was responding to the qualifier "few," which I inferred to mean a relatively pathetic adolescence.
Somewhere I think I still have Oliver Reed on video at the '86 Golden Globes flipping off the camera. He was sitting behind Aidan Quinn, who was up for Best Actor (or was it supporting?) and when the camera was poised on AQ, Reed was very prominently flipping us off :)))
Posted by: kitty at January 28, 2005 07:49 PM
Oliver Reed, a man's man, died on a bar stool in a pub. So did Jason Miller but his hometown cronies in Scranton spread the canard that he died on stage at the Scranton Playhouse while rehearsing a play. Nope, died with a stein of beer in his hand at the local brew pub.
Posted by: Rodger Jacobs at January 28, 2005 07:59 PM
Off topic here, but the Nicobar Islands region of India is scaring the hell not just out of me but the scientific community as well. Best bet: undersea volcano is erupting.
Posted by: Rodger Jacobs at January 28, 2005 08:16 PM
Worst case scenario: the December 26 nine-pointer was a precursor for something much, much worse to come. Frankly, you can't have a quake of that severity and magnitude without everlasting consequences to the planet. I was struck by an interview I saw last eve with a woman who survived the tsunami. She and her husband were on the beach and they saw "black smoke coming out of the water, billowing clouds of black smoke."
That's indicative of volcanic activity.
Posted by: Rodger Jacobs at January 28, 2005 08:20 PM
Here's a better link to the Nicobar Islands seismic activity. We're talking nine quakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater in the same region on the same day. I don't think God is a fan of outsourcing to India.
Posted by: Rodger Jacobs at January 28, 2005 08:29 PM
Posted by: Rodger Jacobs at January 28, 2005 08:36 PM
Thanks to Rodger, here’s the link to the most recent earthquakes.
Posted by: kitty at January 28, 2005 10:32 PM
Yep. Sorry. Should've embedded that link. Must've been thinking about Linda Blair and the broomstick or maybe Gillian Anderson.
Posted by: Rodger Jacobs at January 28, 2005 11:42 PM
As yes, Scolder from X-Files.
Posted by: kitty at January 28, 2005 11:50 PM