Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Film Movie Critic Blind Item!
Posted by Mark on Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:30 PM
For some reason this week's New York runs a four-web-pages profile of The New York Press Still Exists film critic Armond White, because he's good copy, for the same reason that everything infuriating is good copy. But rather than take for fucking ever to repeat the same rant already done better by the sadly dormant Armond Dangerous, I'll just ask: who is the "well-known film critic who would just as soon keep his name out of this", who tells the piece's author, Mark Jacobson:
"Shit, you're writing a piece about Armond? Armond's smart and all, I get a kick out of him, but do I really have to see him looking out of the magazine like he's the last angry, honest man in the film culture?"
So, um, who? A "well-known movie critic"? (That's giving us way too much credit, incidentally.) David Edelstein is New York's lead critic — but even during that Movie Club debacle at Slate a few years back, he seemed to take Armond more seriously than this. I repeat: who? My guess is Nathan Lee — something about the slangy cadence and highbrow cred, plus he's given New York good fire-stoking inside baseball before. (Update: He says it wasn't him, in the comments, after Glenn Kenny and the L's Benjamin Strong almost come to blows.) Your guesses?
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Well, it sure wasn't me. I'm not well known, and besides that I would have let my name be used since I actually like Armond's writing. And also because I'm a shameless publicity whore.
By the way, Glenn Kenny may be as tall as and heavier than Armond, but my money would still be on AW to kick his ass, metaphorically and otherwise.
Andrew Sarris, the tattling bitch
I'm gonna guess it was the same person as the anonymous commentator from yesterday...
@Benjamin Strong: Oh, do you? If you feel quite so strongly about it, why do you come around here to say it?
Nope. I would have gone on record if I had anything to say.
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