This is fairly freakish… although it does sort of resemble my office at the moment.
I like how the web page describes it as only a ’semi-extreme’ performance. I guess a fully extreme performance would have to involve Kris Angel.
Flatland!
update
Ends with a combo of triumph and sorrow.
My thoughts go out to his family, and my good friend Mark who counted James as a friend since college.
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This is all over the place, but in the interest of the one ‘dark matter’ phantom non-reader I have on the West Coast, I’m posting to spread the news. Ripped it straight from Engadget [link].
The passing of a great man, with a greatness defined equally by his failures and triumphs.
I’ll choose to recall him at his cine-intellectual apex when during a certain interview he revealed the “ultimate irony” of 1992’s The Player:
“The actress whose breasts you see[1] is not the actress whose breasts you wish to see.[2]”
Of course, as it would happen I can’t seem to find that interview online to attribute it, so we’ll just have to remember it fondly in the iPod of our minds. Or acknowledge it was never said, and that I just had a very vivid dream once about Altman giving the Player interview and saying the words, and it just all seemed right, so I never doubted it. Or something.
[1] Cynthia Stevenson
[2] Greta Scacchi
NOTE: This would have gone up last week, but I’ve been unable to access my blog from my home ISP for about six days. It looks like they finally knocked something loose at Comcast, so I’m getting in there.
A damned shame to see a great go so young. He did it his way.
Also a shame that the obit fails to mention BK’s bit in This is Spinal Tap, undoubtedly his greatest role.
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