I think I may have posted the whole letter when you first left Movieline, but I’ll bust a repost, as this bit made me think of the only piece of hate mail I’ve ever written in my life. Here’s the relevant paragraph, the last one of the letter:
“In closing, I’d wish you luck in your quest to become the retarded bastard child of Entertainment Weekly and People, but for my very real fear that your remaining staff lacks the acumen to identify sarcasm.”
I am but a soldier in Eve’s army.
I’ll dance with you, if you’ll dance with me on the 50% stock price drop my old employer took about 2 weeks ago.
laces up dancin’ shoes
You know, Oilver Stone complained about me in person? I was so thrilled. I’d written about a baby video I watched with an actual baby, and said, “she reacted to it much the way I react to Oliver Stone films—she cried for awhile and then fell asleep.” Hee!
As for other writing . . . I’m working 9-5 as a copy editor, and writing my books, so I don’t know that I’d really have time and energy to do a regular column as well (I did try Premiere and EW; I wonder if Salon pays enough to make it worthwhile?).
Eve, dear, you didn’t mention - were you wearing pointy shoes while you danced on their idiotic selves?
I’m so glad they’re getting what is deserved.
I’ll add to Eve’s response by paraphrasing Ebert:
Trailers advertise the films as the studio execs wish they’d been made.
Am I right in assuming this wasn’t a lapdance?
Darn. I too was expecting to read of the Dwamatic Demise of Pwincess Pwecious. I swear, it’s getting to the point where Eve’s enemies list is beginning to rival Nixon’s.
(not adding fuel to the fire by mentioning that the reviewer in my local paper kinda sorta panned Eve’s latest book…)
WhatwhatWHAT? Give me a link!!! Hell, as long as he mentioned it, it’s still publicity!
While this is good news, I was really hoping Pwincess Pwecious had finally quit.
Still, Eve’s cleaning the world, one enemy at a time.
http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=wsj:2002:09:22:18565:SHOWCASE
OK, it’s not that bad. He just says that you could’ve mined the story for more mawkishness.