A friend of mine recently gave me all the DVDs I could carry home. He was getting rid of some of his that he said he would never watch again. I scored some good stuff, I think. (He was appalled at my selection of "The Professional", though. He said, "I want you to know your supporting child pornography. He was totally exploiting that little girl. I want you to think about the fact that Luc Besson wanted to have sex with 14-year-old Natalie Portman when he made that. Plus nothing with Gary Oldman can be good." — Though he did concede my point that Jean Reno is incredible and you should watch everything he does, even if it's "One Man Steel Magnolias".)
Anyway, I realized after I got them home and was slotting them into my collection that about half were stamped with: "For Your Consideration". This is odd, I thought.
Then it dawned on me. He's a member of the Academy. These are Oscar screeners.
For a movie buff like me, that was a pretty cool revelation.
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Yeah, sicko. Everybody knows Natalie Portman wasn't fuckable until at least "Beautiful Girls."
Awww...I like Gary Oldman! C'mon...Sid and Nancy is a classic!
Oh, and my brother just gave me the okay for you to give his number to your Academy friend. He really admires S's work, but thinks he can help bring it to the next level. You know, help him iron out the kinks in his production, in his camera work. Be a kind of mentor, really. And he hears S makes a great cup o'joe. He could really use those kinds of skills on the set of his next short. And who knows, a word here and there from my brother could raise your friend's profile a little. Help him finally make a name for himself, after all those years of toiling in obscurity.
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