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Got To Give The People, Give The People What They Want.

Typepad blogs list the referring address for visitors, and I’ve discovered that the single biggest tag that drives search engines to Meerkat is 'Joseph Gordon Levitt'. Closely followed by 'Prison Porn'. The combo of Gordon Levitt’s predominantly underage body of work and that factleaves me a little uneasy, but I’m not above exploiting a little light pedophilia for traffic's sake.

The posters for JGL's new film The Lookout caught my eye on the Bowery yesterday. Looks promising, even if the trailer casts it in a way-too backwards narrative light, the most overused trick in the quasi-indie playbook. Director Scott Frank did write Out Of Sight, however, a movie so good that even Jennifer Lopez came off as a credible Fed, as well as delivering the most gorgeously narcotic cinematic pas de deux in recent memory.

JGL looks soulful and raw entirely without cant in this one, as is usual for this anomaly in glossy young Hollywood. Good chin, too.

Preview: Alternative Pin-Up #9

As a sort of appetizer for his special guest star spot in Reno 911! The Movie, try a little slice of Rudd. He takes a staged interview situation and makes it spontaneous and jazzy and grungy and alive and sexy: auto-palorazzi. He’ll be appearing here shortly as Alternative Pin-Up Number Nine.

 

In fairness the interviewer’s not bad. What’s this I Got Shotgun stuff?

Top Ten Alternative Pin-Up Countdown: The Emotional Vampire

“A great numb feeling washes over me and I let go of the past and look forward to the future. I pretend to be a vampire. (Takes a swig from a bottle of Jack.) I don’t really need to pretend because that’s who I am. An emotional vampire. I’ve just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. Feed off other people’s emotions. Search for this night’s prey. Who will it be?”

Number Ten on the Alternative Pin-Up Countdown, James Van Der Beek as Sean Batemen in The Rules Of Attraction has a glare that reveals pissed-off disenchantment and an undeniably attractive hostility. He's the brother of American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman and a fellow inhabitant of Brett Easton Ellis’ bleak and drug-infested but always good-looking world, where too much dirty money and good raw personal material has gone sour. More on why this black-as-coal, utterly contemptuous and corrupted dude makes it hurt so good in the second part of the post.