"The actor is starring in and producing the action thriller 'The Accountant 2,'
which is in production in Los Angeles."
Related reading . . . The previous post, as well as other posts
now tagged "Center Square."
* The dinghy of the title is from the center square on the cover of
a classic paperback edition of Salinger's Nine Stories.
Random thoughts suggested by the reference in the
previous post to Aegean Park Press and to stencils —
"Stencil’s entire existence is focused on the hunt for V.,
a classic novelistic quest-without-resolution (in fact, V.
might be fiction’s greatest example of a MacGuffin). V.
may be a person, or may be a place, though it could
also be neither: Pynchon calls it, at one point,
'a remarkably scattered concept' and, at another,
'the ultimate Plot Which Has No Name.' "
— Alexander Nazaryan in The New Yorker ,
article dated March 29, 2013
How about a date ?
From this journal on Good Friday, March 29, 2013 —
The above video frame reads "From Mastermind George Miller."
Click here to enlarge. See also another George Miller in this journal.
* Reference: A review of Gone Girl .
Ben Affleck sings "Aquellos Ojos Verdes"
at the end of "Hollywoodland."
This post was suggested by the death on a Beltane
of Solomon Golomb and by the appearance of
Prof. Colva M. Roney-Dougal in a CV linked to
here on yesterday's MIchaelmas morning.
From The Harvard Crimson , "Atlas to the Text," on March 8, 2011 —
See as well the new Atlas on Netflix —
Metaphysics for the damned —
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From the 1979 film "A Little Romance" —
Reading something you It's just a book. I used to read those too. What is it?
An Introduction to Metaphysics,
School has changed I'm just reading it for fun.
Fun?
Most people think anyone
I don't. But I have to admit
Heidegger.
Heidegger isn't all that hard.
Like, "Why is there something |
… And for the not so damned —
The Source —
https://www.bard.edu/library/arendt/pdfs/
Heidegger-EinfuhrungMetaphysik.pdf
The actress playing the teen reading Heidegger in the 1979 film
"A Little Romance" was Diane Lane. The film was set in Venice.
Later in Venice . . .
Ben Affleck and Diane Lane at the 2006 Venice Film Festival
premiere of "Hollywoodland" :
An antidote to Hollywoodland . . .
The classic novel Under the Volcano :
"Here was finality indeed, and cleavage!"
"There is no writing on glass."
— Paraphrase of Mark Zuckerberg at 2017 Harvard Commencement
* Cf. this journal on August 4, 2021.
A different NAM that some will prefer —
Experiential Events in this journal
on the above DC program date —
Perhaps Affleck's rendition of "Aquellos Ojos Verdes " will help.
See Hollywood Moment (January 22, 2018).
Note that some have to stop and some don't.
This journal on the above date, 5 July 2008 —
"Review by Charles Isherwood in today’s New York Times :
A god deserves a great entrance. And Dionysus, the god of wine
and party boy of Mount Olympus, whose celebratory rituals got
the whole drama thing rolling in the first place, surely merits a
spectacular one….”
A death on the date of the above symmetry chat,
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 —
An Hispanic Hollywood moment:
Ojo de Dios —
Click for related material.
For further Hispanic entertainment,
see Ben Affleck sing
"Aquellos Ojos Verdes "
in "Hollywoodland."
From The Hollywood Reporter today —
" Jeremy Irons' dry Alfred Pennyworth:
'One misses the days when one's biggest concerns
were exploding wind-up penguins.' "
See as well the today's 9 AM (ET) post and …
The author —
Mark Zuckerberg in a commencement speech
at Harvard on May 25 —
"Movies and pop culture get this all wrong.
The idea of a single eureka moment
is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate
since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people
with seeds of good ideas from getting started.
Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about
innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass.
That’s not a thing."
THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) 8 p.m. on HBO.
Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, an enigmatic mathematics savant
with special-ops-caliber skills who moonlights as a numbers cruncher ….
— The New York Times today, What's on TV Saturday
In other news today —
“You can’t play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way
without giving the audience the sense that there’s something behind
that mask waiting to get out, that he’s a little crazed, he’s strange.”
— The late Adam West, according to The Hollywood Reporter
Update of 2:42 PM ET Saturday —
A note at the end of an article on architecture historian
Christopher Gray in the current online New Yorker —
This article appears in other versions
of the April 10, 2017, issue, with
the headline “Dem Bones.”
"Defeated, you will rise to your feet as is said of Dry Bones .
These bones will rise again." — Agnes Martin, 1973
Accounting for Taste —
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty at the Oscars:
Ben Affleck, star of "The Accountant," at the Oscars:
See also Prisoner + Bones in this journal.
"Do you know what he called this place? A museum."
Update of 11:06 PM ET —
A search for background on the "Holiday" screenplay leads,
via a useful historical website, to …
Other Hollywood material —
Or: Lost in Conversion
The main title is the name of Ben Affleck's firm in "The Accountant."
The subtitle was suggested by religious remarks in the previous post.
From "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic" —
"The following June, 1945, von Neumann penned
what would become a historic document entitled
'First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC,' the first published
description of a stored-program binary computing machine—
the modern computer."
Image from von Neumann's report —
Version converted to text —
See also "Turing + Dyson" in this journal . . .
For a character that "spans both worlds,"
see posts tagged "Oscar Day 2007."
Related image data —
" 'No views' is good." — Christian Wolff
From "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic" —
"To store the programs as data, the computer would need
something new: a memory. That’s where Pitts’ loops
came into play. 'An element which stimulates itself
will hold a stimulus indefinitely,' von Neumann wrote
in his report . . . ."
— Amanda Gefter, Nautilus , Feb. 5, 2015
Related material —
"Here we go loop de loop" — Johnny Thunder, 1962
* I.e., Ben Affleck in his new film.
"July 5, 2012, begins normally enough —
Ben Affleck’s character goes for a drink
at the bar he co-owns with his hilariously
sarcastic twin sister Margo …."
Margo Dunne: Well, the Irish prince graces us
with his presence. [she flicks water in his face]
Nick Dunne: His majesty prefers not to be moistened.
Margo and Nick go on to discuss what Nick should get
his wife as a fifth ("wood") anniversary present.
One possibility, from the German website EinsteinSpiele.de —
(Suggested by the word Legespiel in yesterday's link Tribute.)
See also the above date — July 5, 2012 — in this journal.
Why knows what evil lurks…? — The Shadow
Backstory: "Amy Adams" + Shadow in this journal.
Related material —
Amy Adams as Lois Lane:
In the new Amy Adams version, Superman's Smallville mom
is played by Diane Lane.
Lane also played George Reeves's sugar mommy
in the 2006 film Hollywoodland .
Ben Affleck and Diane Lane at the 2006 Venice Film Festival
premiere of Hollywoodland :
See, too, today's previous post, and Amy Adams as Lacey Yeager
in the yet-to-be-made film version of An Object of Beauty .
Click images for details.
Seth and Stefon, eat your hearts out.
Related material: Diamond Girl and the following ad
for Eliza Doolittle Day:
The above images are from a prequel (March 29, 2013)
to 'Nauts (March 26, 2006.)
See also Spider Mother, Gamer Post, and Spider Tale.
Out for Blood
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Dedication added on
Oct. 4, 2004, 2:10 PM:
To Jacques Levy,
who died on Sept. 30, 2004.
Levy directed “Red Cross,”
a Sam Shepard play that is
said to be about
“the vampire quality
of language.”
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Kerry “shouldn’t be looking to score
technical points like this is
Harvard-Yale debate society.”
— Chris Lehane, quoted in
today’s Washington Post
From today’s Harvard Crimson:
Ben and Jerry:
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“I know I’m in the minority,
but I like Bush.”
— Jerry Bruckheimer,
quoted in the
New York Daily News
of April 11, 2004
Long Winter Evening
Humphrey Bogart took The Big Sleep on this date in 1957. As his character said in that film,
“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. I don’t like them myself. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings.”
He may at times have been short on manners, but never on style. Perhaps his spirit will revisit the City of Angels on this long winter evening, as the film industry seems to need a refresher course in that subject. Here is a scene that seems tailor-made for his reappearance.
Yale Club of Southern California
January 14, 2003
Yale in Hollywood:
Entertainment Mixer
Beverly Hills, 7-10 p.m.
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“Meet other Yalies |
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“It’s rumored Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were investors in this hipster minimalist-decor bar. If you want their Tuesday night all-you-can-eat sushi for $9.95, call to make a reservation. The Continental is located at 8400 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, (323) 782-9717.”
Mmmm… Blue booze and sushi!
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