It's clearer every day that Trump has absolutely no idea how he's perceived in the country or the world except when he accidentally sees a picture he doesn't like--the peeling blue paint or the Kennedy Center tarp--on TV, or on the very rare occasions when a mean, mean reporter asks a real question.
Yeah, only the highest-quality takes are getting posted.
I'm very touched by this. When I wrote the biography I didn't imagine younger artists would read it as a how-to manual about coping with success, failure, depression, fame, pride, humiliation, aging, ego. But books have a weird way of deciding what they're about. That one is about how to keep going.
Alonso is not exaggerating. I would put this one next to Windows, the only film Gordon Willis ever directed, on a shelf labeled "We're just gonna forget that ever happened."
A great detail!
Jimmy knew a joke could only surprise an audience once. If something was off en route to a great line he'd shout "Bup bup bup!" to cut the actors off, then go back so a big laugh wasn't wasted on a bad take. Writers loved him for that. And for lots of other reasons too. We will all miss him.
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