I rarely have any advanced reports on popular culture. I more often only learn about celebrities I never heard of before from their obituaries.
However, here's a heads-up on a new film starring Owen Wilson titled "Paint," about a Vermont television painter (teaching people how to paint artistically on television). For members here, a point of interest is that the main character is a pipe smoker.
I haven't seen the film, only a short trailer, so I can't comment on it as a cinematic work, but I did hear an interview with Owen Wilson who caught my attention by saying that, since the main character smoked a pipe, he took the time to go to a pipe shop and get some pointers on how to make that look as natural as possible. I guess if I see the film, I'll see how he did.
It could be that since pipe smoking is a habit, a routine, and a ritual, it may be difficult to impersonate all that with a short lesson or two.
I have liked some of Wilson's roles. I thought he did a good job in "Paris Nights," about a time traveling tourist who visited various American expatriates in the 1920's -- Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and so forth.
I somewhat empathize with his outsider presence as an actor, a slight sense of arrested development, not as much as Adam Sandler, but emphasized by his halting Texas drawl. He's had his problems in life, to say the least, but that often accompanies the curse of fame. I can be jealous and grateful at the same time, though acting was never my thing.
However, here's a heads-up on a new film starring Owen Wilson titled "Paint," about a Vermont television painter (teaching people how to paint artistically on television). For members here, a point of interest is that the main character is a pipe smoker.
I haven't seen the film, only a short trailer, so I can't comment on it as a cinematic work, but I did hear an interview with Owen Wilson who caught my attention by saying that, since the main character smoked a pipe, he took the time to go to a pipe shop and get some pointers on how to make that look as natural as possible. I guess if I see the film, I'll see how he did.
It could be that since pipe smoking is a habit, a routine, and a ritual, it may be difficult to impersonate all that with a short lesson or two.
I have liked some of Wilson's roles. I thought he did a good job in "Paris Nights," about a time traveling tourist who visited various American expatriates in the 1920's -- Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and so forth.
I somewhat empathize with his outsider presence as an actor, a slight sense of arrested development, not as much as Adam Sandler, but emphasized by his halting Texas drawl. He's had his problems in life, to say the least, but that often accompanies the curse of fame. I can be jealous and grateful at the same time, though acting was never my thing.
