Fur At Telluride Film Festival, very likely Options

[RedSatinDoll]

From the Telluride Film Fest site:
17    Fur
P/Fri 6:30 PM - C/Fri 10:00 PM - N/Sat 9:00 AM
Nicole Kidman going for broke again and suggesting that it’s about time someone wrote a book about her. –DT (U.S., 2006, 120m)  In person: Steven Shainberg

*DT=David Thomson

http://www.telluridefilmfestival.org/press.html

Wait a cotton pickin' minute here - so it's time "someone" wrote a book about her? Well, what a funny coincidence that Thompson has! And no doubt is carting around a trunkful of signed copies to sell.

So he's using the film to promote his book (apparently with her implied blessing)? What ever in the world happened to his vaunted "distance" from his subject? A lot of stuff and nonsense if you ask me.

[scarlett]

Wait a cotton pickin' minute here - so it's time "someone" wrote a book about her?  Well, what a funny coincidence that Thompson has!  And no doubt is carting around a trunkful of signed copies to sell.

So he's using the film to promote his book (apparently with her implied blessing)?  What ever in the world happened to his vaunted "distance" from his subject? A lot of stuff and nonsense if you ask me.

He's just an opportunist looking at a convenient opening to garner interest in his own endeavors. I doubt the sale of his imaginary biopic is foremost on her mind right now. Of course, he is going to plug the daring feat that is her perfromance, so he can cash in on book sales. At long last the public can find out about the woman behind the Fur - or rather the man selling books on the streetcorner of the movie with the woman in Fur.

[polaris]

Wait a cotton pickin' minute here - so it's time "someone" wrote a book about her?  Well, what a funny coincidence that Thompson has!  And no doubt is carting around a trunkful of signed copies to sell.

So he's using the film to promote his book (apparently with her implied blessing)?  What ever in the world happened to his vaunted "distance" from his subject? A lot of stuff and nonsense if you ask me.

Funny funny things here!. I posted this on my blog a few months ago:
"The book might in fact use some of the publicity that will result when Kidman starts promoting Fur, a fictional portrait of the photographer Diane Arbus."

Prophetic, eh? Maybe, with skanky's permission, I should write a sequel to "Well Duh". I might finish it in two years and use the Wong Kar Wai film to promote it. .

This post has been edited by polaris: Sep 6 2006, 07:55 PM

[RedSatinDoll]

Funny funny things here!. I posted this on my blog a few months ago:
"The book might in fact use some of the publicity that will result when Kidman starts promoting Fur, a fictional portrait of the photographer Diane Arbus."

Prophetic, eh? Maybe, with skanky's permission, I should write a sequel to "Well Duh". I might finish it in two years and use the Wong Kar Wai film to promote it.  .

Forget the book - put out your shingle as "Resident NKU prophet".

Every good NK board needs a resident prophet, don't you know?

[janjan]

At right is the window display at a store on Colorado Avenue. It's David Thomson's latest book, which I will be reading shortly. Apparently, Telluride organizers wanted Kidman to be one of their three honorees this year (in lieu of Penélope Cruz, below on a panel with Forest Whitaker and Infamous director Douglas McGrath and in her tribute marquee photo outside the Sheridan Opera House), but that didn't work out. Pity, I say. David Thomson was an attendee and Fur was playing, so Kidman would've been a perfect choice to receive the TFF honoree treatment (which includes a clip reel of performances, a Q&A, and the bestowal of the Telluride silver medallion -- all in front of a theater of 250 non-paparazzi cinephiles).

http://aslittleaspossible.blogspot.com/

If you click on the link, you can see the window display there. Imagine the publicity and promotion for Thomson if Nicole had attended. I don't know if Nicole would have wanted to meet him though.