Give it up for Lily Tomlin for keeping her cool in the face of that abusive tantrum. What a dick, indeed.
Wow, that's both horrible and awesome at the same time. I can't imagine anyone wanting to work with someone like that. -H
the guy sure seems like a jerk. at the same time, what do we know about how lily tomlin behaved, i.e., to what he was responding?i really want to like her - we share the same birthday! but the jury is still out for me (e.g. the whole coming-out interview with armistead maupin in the advocate that wasn't ... went to see the celluloid closet around that time and the audience booed her voiceover).
Not to defend Mr. Russell, but from the clip, it appears that Lily Tomlin started the ball rolling down the *&^()$# hill. Nevertheless, his reaction was completely over-the-top and truly ugly. Looks like we've found another candidate for Asshole Rehab.
ooh, transcript pees.i missed the boat ...
I love Lily and all but actually, she started it with a whole crazy rant beforehand. A video of that was floating around on Youtube a few days ago but has mysteriously disappeared already.
wooooow.i've worked in film and while i *heart* lily, they're both totally out of line. veteran actors can be hard people to please. especially when they think they're right. and his handling of it was worse than a child throwing and temper tantrum in the middle of k-mart.
I can't imagine someone on my staff speaking to me like Lily did to him; however, his response, the name calling and the language could not be more inappropriate. I can't imagine working in that atmosphere.
Before you judge Tomlin too harshly, you should know that Russell (the director) has a reputation for stirring up his actors to get a reaction. He's notorious in Hollywood for getting actors wound up.I think he just met his match in Tomlin. If you can't take it, don't dish it out.
Yeah, I don't agree with the critiques of Lily Tomlin. We're definitely not seeing what agitated her -- but, I can definitely see how working with this dickhead (whose treatment of her was ABSOLUTELY VIOLENT and no comparison to her anger) would make her respond like that. It seems surprising that Hoffman didn't do anything, I guess.
David is a genius and the movie is completely brilliant. So he had a bad day and acted like a jerk. Big deal. To say you will not watch another movie by him is just silly and your loss.
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Give it up for Lily Tomlin for keeping her cool in the face of that abusive tantrum. What a dick, indeed.
Wow, that's both horrible and awesome at the same time. I can't imagine anyone wanting to work with someone like that.
-H
the guy sure seems like a jerk. at the same time, what do we know about how lily tomlin behaved, i.e., to what he was responding?
i really want to like her - we share the same birthday! but the jury is still out for me (e.g. the whole coming-out interview with armistead maupin in the advocate that wasn't ... went to see the celluloid closet around that time and the audience booed her voiceover).
Not to defend Mr. Russell, but from the clip, it appears that Lily Tomlin started the ball rolling down the *&^()$# hill. Nevertheless, his reaction was completely over-the-top and truly ugly. Looks like we've found another candidate for Asshole Rehab.
ooh, transcript pees.
i missed the boat ...
I love Lily and all but actually, she started it with a whole crazy rant beforehand. A video of that was floating around on Youtube a few days ago but has mysteriously disappeared already.
wooooow.
i've worked in film and while i *heart* lily, they're both totally out of line. veteran actors can be hard people to please.
especially when they think they're right. and his handling of it was worse than a child throwing and temper tantrum in the middle of k-mart.
I can't imagine someone on my staff speaking to me like Lily did to him; however, his response, the name calling and the language could not be more inappropriate. I can't imagine working in that atmosphere.
Before you judge Tomlin too harshly, you should know that Russell (the director) has a reputation for stirring up his actors to get a reaction. He's notorious in Hollywood for getting actors wound up.
I think he just met his match in Tomlin. If you can't take it, don't dish it out.
Yeah, I don't agree with the critiques of Lily Tomlin. We're definitely not seeing what agitated her -- but, I can definitely see how working with this dickhead (whose treatment of her was ABSOLUTELY VIOLENT and no comparison to her anger) would make her respond like that. It seems surprising that Hoffman didn't do anything, I guess.
David is a genius and the movie is completely brilliant. So he had a bad day and acted like a jerk. Big deal. To say you will not watch another movie by him is just silly and your loss.
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