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SUNSET STRIP, 1972
Seeing Bogdanovich in the car next to them, Friedkin could not resist the urge for some competitive banter. He stuck his head out of the limo's sunroof and called out a line from a review of The French Connection.
"The most exciting American film in twenty-five years! Eight Oscar nominations and five Oscars!"
Bogdanovich responded in kind. "The Last Picture Show, a film that will revolutionize film history. Eight nominations, and my movie's better than yours."
But Coppola got the last word. He stood up through the sunroof and roared, "The Godfather, a hundred and fifty million dollars!"
For the moment, Coppola had proven that even in those early days, he understood the real language of Hollywood.
-M. Schumacher
"The most exciting American film in twenty-five years! Eight Oscar nominations and five Oscars!"
Bogdanovich responded in kind. "The Last Picture Show, a film that will revolutionize film history. Eight nominations, and my movie's better than yours."
But Coppola got the last word. He stood up through the sunroof and roared, "The Godfather, a hundred and fifty million dollars!"
For the moment, Coppola had proven that even in those early days, he understood the real language of Hollywood.
-M. Schumacher
STATE OF EMERGENCY
Vogue Italia September 2006
Photographer: Steven Meisel
Model: Hilary Rhoda & Iselin Steiro
LUXURY
“I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.”
Coco Chanel
SOME KIND OF MAJESTY
Some kind of nature,
Some kind of soul.
Sound kind of mixture,
Some kind of gold.
Some kind of majesty
Some chemical load.
BOWFINGER'S BIG THING
Dave: But movies cost millions of dollars to make.
Robert K. Bowfinger: That's after gross net deduction profit percentage deferment ten percent of the nut. Cash, every movie cost $2,184.
JANNIS TSIPOULANIS
"There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.”
― Helmut Newton, White Women
ART LINSON
"Power is an elusive term, but in Hollywood it's everything, I don't care what they say, you either have it, want it, or you're afraid of losing it."
THE ETERNAL EXECUTIVE
”You’re very unhappy for a long period of time. And you don’t experience joy. At the end you experience relief, if you’re lucky.” -John Calley, accepting the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences near the end of his life.
THE MACHINE
"The thing what you learn in directing is that no matter how complex the shooting, you have to remain sensitive to the people around you or the machine will ultimately take over. If you don't keep in mind the essential humanity of it all, technique will dominate." - Irvin Kerschner
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