The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Is Heath Ledger Really Dead? Or Who Is His Identical Twin? http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/is-heath-ledger-really-dead-or-who-is-his-identical-twin http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/is-heath-ledger-really-dead-or-who-is-his-identical-twin#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:30 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/is-heath-ledger-really-dead-or-who-is-his-identical-twin omg you guys.Heath Ledger did not have a brother (as far as we know) and so I must jump to a semi-conclusion. Is... Heath Ledger alive? Because, you guys, this fellow sitting in the Henry Street Ale House last night, at a table in the window with a girl? I have never seen anyone ever who looked so disturbingly identical to someone else. He had kinda unfortunate blond Point Break/Prince Valiant hair, not unlike one of Heath Ledger's many bad hair moments. His face seriously was identical. I know this is messed up but 1. I was not alone and the person with me was like, dude, why is Heath Ledger here? There was gasping. And 2. This was quite near the epicenter of previous Heath Ledger sightings, so it felt normal to see Fake Heath Ledger-so normal that it felt like seeing Real Heath Ledger. Have you seen this guy out and about in Brooklyn? Why hasn't Google-Face-Buzz-Space invented the terrifying face identifier Internet searching software yet so I can find him? And... well, what if it's vampire Heath Ledger? Do we have to stake him? UPDATE: Associate Editor Dave Bry saw him as well! On Grand Street, in Manhattan, yesterday-wearing a hoodie. What is going on???

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]]> omg you guys.Heath Ledger did not have a brother (as far as we know) and so I must jump to a semi-conclusion. Is... Heath Ledger alive? Because, you guys, this fellow sitting in the Henry Street Ale House last night, at a table in the window with a girl? I have never seen anyone ever who looked so disturbingly identical to someone else. He had kinda unfortunate blond Point Break/Prince Valiant hair, not unlike one of Heath Ledger's many bad hair moments. His face seriously was identical. I know this is messed up but 1. I was not alone and the person with me was like, dude, why is Heath Ledger here? There was gasping. And 2. This was quite near the epicenter of previous Heath Ledger sightings, so it felt normal to see Fake Heath Ledger-so normal that it felt like seeing Real Heath Ledger. Have you seen this guy out and about in Brooklyn? Why hasn't Google-Face-Buzz-Space invented the terrifying face identifier Internet searching software yet so I can find him? And... well, what if it's vampire Heath Ledger? Do we have to stake him? UPDATE: Associate Editor Dave Bry saw him as well! On Grand Street, in Manhattan, yesterday-wearing a hoodie. What is going on???

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/is-heath-ledger-really-dead-or-who-is-his-identical-twin/feed 30 Why Can't America See 'The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus'? http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/why-cant-america-see-the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/why-cant-america-see-the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:45:57 +0000 Dave Bry http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/why-cant-america-see-the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus
Here is the UK trailer for Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, which, insanely, still does not have a US distributor. How can that be? We are expecting a purchase at the Toronto Film Festival next month-or you will have to go to Europe in October to see it. There are very many reasons that we are getting on the bandwagon for a US release.

1) The story, of a man who has sold his soul to the devil for immortality and the power to cross into parallel dimensions, seems particularly well-suited to Gilliam's darkly comic psychedelia.

2) It is Heath Ledger's last work. He died part way through filming.

3) Along with Heath Ledger, it also stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell-making it a sort of big-screen menagerie of Hollywood hot boys.

4) Along with them, it also stars Tom Waits and Christopher Plummer-who own two of the English-speaking world's greatest speaking voices.

5) Tom Waits plays the devil, which is basically a role that's been waiting for him to play since the bible-or at least since he wrote and recorded "Way Down In the Hole" for his 1987 album, Frank's Wild Years. (That song, of course, was also the theme song for The Wire.)

6) "I don't know why he thought of me," said Waits, of Gilliam, in an immensely enjoyable self-interview Pitchfork's report sends us to. "I was raised in the church."

Besides the movie, in the interview, Waits discusses everything from his favorite songs to obscure word origins to the scariest things he can think of. To the question of how he'd compare two guitarists he's worked with, Marc Ribot and Smokey Hormel, he answers: "Octopus have eight and squid have ten tentacles, each with hundreds of suction cups and each have the power to burst a man's artery. They have small birdlike beaks used to inject venom into a victim. Some gigantic squid and octopus with one hundred foot tentacles have been reported. Squids have been known to pull down entire boats to feed on the disoriented sailors in the water. Many believe unexplained, sunken deep-sea vessels, and entire boat disappearances are the handiwork of giant squid." Oh yes. It is well-worth reading the whole thing.

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Here is the UK trailer for Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, which, insanely, still does not have a US distributor. How can that be? We are expecting a purchase at the Toronto Film Festival next month-or you will have to go to Europe in October to see it. There are very many reasons that we are getting on the bandwagon for a US release.

1) The story, of a man who has sold his soul to the devil for immortality and the power to cross into parallel dimensions, seems particularly well-suited to Gilliam's darkly comic psychedelia.

2) It is Heath Ledger's last work. He died part way through filming.

3) Along with Heath Ledger, it also stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell-making it a sort of big-screen menagerie of Hollywood hot boys.

4) Along with them, it also stars Tom Waits and Christopher Plummer-who own two of the English-speaking world's greatest speaking voices.

5) Tom Waits plays the devil, which is basically a role that's been waiting for him to play since the bible-or at least since he wrote and recorded "Way Down In the Hole" for his 1987 album, Frank's Wild Years. (That song, of course, was also the theme song for The Wire.)

6) "I don't know why he thought of me," said Waits, of Gilliam, in an immensely enjoyable self-interview Pitchfork's report sends us to. "I was raised in the church."

Besides the movie, in the interview, Waits discusses everything from his favorite songs to obscure word origins to the scariest things he can think of. To the question of how he'd compare two guitarists he's worked with, Marc Ribot and Smokey Hormel, he answers: "Octopus have eight and squid have ten tentacles, each with hundreds of suction cups and each have the power to burst a man's artery. They have small birdlike beaks used to inject venom into a victim. Some gigantic squid and octopus with one hundred foot tentacles have been reported. Squids have been known to pull down entire boats to feed on the disoriented sailors in the water. Many believe unexplained, sunken deep-sea vessels, and entire boat disappearances are the handiwork of giant squid." Oh yes. It is well-worth reading the whole thing.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/why-cant-america-see-the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus/feed 10 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 11:23:10 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus Heath LedgerEarly reviews of Heath Ledger's final film:

They mean fans of director Terry Gilliam. No one seems to have a bad word for Ledger, though.

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]]> Heath LedgerEarly reviews of Heath Ledger's final film:

They mean fans of director Terry Gilliam. No one seems to have a bad word for Ledger, though.

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