Boo! Hiss!

Jan. 16th, 2006 07:21 am
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James Lileks is dead to me.

In his most recent Bleat, not only does he dismiss the brilliant Witness for the Prosecution as "[f]airly ordinary stuff", but he manages to pull a threefer by dissing Elsa Lanchester, Marlene Dietrich, and Charles Laughton in the same sentence. (He also misspells Lanchester's name and claims that the source material is an Agatha Christie novel, rather than - correctly - a short story.)

Charles Laughton (together, if you insist, "with his jowls") was the greatest ugly film actor in history. Dietrich's character, Lileks claims, was made "entirely of dry ice", despite the fact that her every action in the movie is emotionally driven. And how could anyone possibly consider Elsa Lanchester unlovable? Shame on you, Mr. Lileks!

Date: 2006-01-16 01:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] countrycousin.livejournal.com
Hadn't seen his column before. It is well named.

Witness for the Prosecution is one of my favorites.

Date: 2006-01-18 10:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carbonelle.livejournal.com
Thank heavens, then for the puniness of my film-knowledge database: I do not doubt your judgement for a minute, but I would purely hate to have to die to the architectural snark!

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