HELL FROZE OVER!!!!
So if hell freezes over is it still considered hell. Yes in fact HELL YES. I guess I could have also titled this article TO HELL AND BACK, but it doesn’t stress the cold well enough.
You know what is funny, everytime I tell people that working at Sundance ‘08 was a miserable experience they laugh and ask again “No really was it fun” “NO! I said NO”
First off let me just name the obvious reasons it was hell on earth. The cold, not just the temperature but the snow, yes it snowed everyday I was there, the people well most people in the world suck and unfortunately a large percentage of these people go to Sundance. Did I mention the weather. The city itself is not a city it is a village, so don’t be fooled by the title of Park City, cause it aint. The village still after 30 years still cannot handle to people or the traffic that arrives for the festival. Even after the 2002 Winter Olympics it still cannot handle the massive size of this blob of entertainment transplants. So lets get this straigh Park City sucks, its small and its cold but I bet it is really nice in the summer. Imagine that, what a lovely time to have a festival in the mountains during the summer!
So the work I had to do kept me fairly busy, which was nice but it was always those breaks that left me wondering why I was still here. If it wasn’t for my hard-working boss, I would never have come, and she agrees that we should never go again. So on to more complaining (you are not getting to the good stuff until the end) the dinner we had planned the night after the premier of the film we were working on was botched beyond all recognition. What a Terrible Terrible place THE BON APPETITE supper club was, and they treated us the people trying to prepare the party for the actors and execs that were coming like animals forcing us to stand outside until the previous party was over. Which had starte
d late, we stood outside for about an hour, some people gave up my boss didn’t so I stayed. Finally getting into the place I was extremely disappointed plus I heard their food wasn’t that great even though it was cooked by the amazingly talented Giada de Laurentiis (pictured right). So that blew and finally we got away and ate some pretty decent thai food.
Anyways not much good stuff happend after that EXCEPT!!!
The next day as we were trudging up and down crappy overcrowded main street, in the cold and in the snow. I see one of the most unique and greatest actors of my life
CRISPIN GLOVER - standing outside giving an interview. Now Crispin was the only person in the whole city dressed in a suit. Black with pinstripe, black shirt, black tie and black dress shoes. AMAZING. Anyways I could have been able to talk to him but unfortunately I was working and also feared being to much of a fan boy and freaking him out (if that is possible). Anyways this got me thinking about him and what is so cool about him besides the one line “Get your damn hands off her” so below are some youtube clips of him on letterman and one of his music videos.
and again on Letterman
and now his real talent
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No JM, his movie premiered earlier in the week, and he probably didn’t stay very long. I did see Bill Macy which is huge but he was like interviewing some tall blond model, it was wierd.
There is something funny about all these LA nobs shivering, trudging up and down slushy streets…
Serves them right… Burn Malibu Burn!
Cool! I wonder why he was doing the interviewing?
So did you watch any good movies or is that post coming later??
We are going to have to start asking Ace With a J for movie reviews…
There is a rumor that one of fritoP.’s first school projects is comparing and contrasting the two Thomas Crown Affair movies. That would be good to read….
HINT
Alright, so I didn’t watch the videos the first time I read the post. At trn and Cindy’s urging, I did so. The clowny clown video may be the most perfect 30 seconds of video ever created. A touching montage of emotions of life… as a clown. with big shoes. brilliant. congrats Tort!
(thats what the retarded kids used to call him)
Okay fritoP. here is your first student film idea… a dramatic, subtle re-interpretation of clowny clown clown starring Ace With A J or Paul Walker, whomever is available
That video is crazy.
I really wish you would have had a better time…so I take it no JM sighting?? (had to ask)