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Amateur Publicist Joel Silver Has Wachowskis' Backs For the Last Time
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 4:50 AM on May 14, 2008
In a loooooong video interview with David Poland over at Movie City News, producer Joel Silver chats about the prismatic, pyrotechnic up and downs of his career — the latter of which the bomb Speed Racer likely entered in the time since the modulated mogul sat for this conversation. And while he eventually acknowledges still dreading opening weekends and the Saturday morning silence that follows his weaker openings, he wastes little time defending the Wachowskis' career-suffocating reclusion and his role as de facto mouthpiece: "It ends up being harder for me because I end up being the voice for them. I wish sometimes they'd speak for themselves because they're much smarter than I am, and they're much more articulate than I am. ... I just listen to them relate to everybody and I say, 'Here's what they think.' That's how it happens." No, Joel — we think you mean that's how it happened. Time for a change, big guy. [The Hot Blog]
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Sleepyhead
Posted 5:35 AM 14/5/08
Did it come from your link? They are both Cleveland-based. This is odd.
Sleepyhead
Sleepyhead
Posted 5:31 AM 14/5/08
@Juancho: There's an ad intruding into your comment! Will it bop down to mine now that I'm last? I am squicked out.
Sleepyhead
Juancho
Posted 5:15 AM 14/5/08
Sort of off-topic, but click here to read another sad, excellent article about Joel Silver and a casualty of the dream factory.
Juancho
Benovite
Posted 5:13 AM 14/5/08
Little known fact: Kubrick was born Stanley Wachowski.
Benovite
Juancho
Posted 6:00 AM 14/5/08
@Sleepyhead: I don't know how the ad got there, sorry about that. I didn't do an html/pic add-on. The link is good, though.
(I'm in Cleveland, the Plain Dealer is our daily.)
Juancho
Desk_hack
Posted 6:11 AM 14/5/08
@Juancho: That was interesting. Sad, and probably more common than any of us know.
Desk_hack
Monsieur.Mind
Posted 7:04 AM 14/5/08
@Juancho: Wow. Very sad.
I'd love for Silver to one day write an introspective autobiography. I'm sure it would be fascinating, surprising, and even touching.
Monsieur.Mind
kylo4
Posted 8:01 AM 14/5/08
So basically the Wachowski's are going to have a terrible time recovering from this and so he wants to get out as quick as possible before the full shitstorm arrives?
kylo4
NoGrumpys
Posted 8:17 AM 14/5/08
@kylo4:
before the full shitstorm
known to those who saw the movie as "Chim Chim cookies"
NoGrumpys