tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22992063698126932352024-03-13T04:49:28.329-07:00Prince of SwineWOMEN ON TOP - Join us for an ongoing series of public service articles from http://www.war-reform.com/ and the motion picture http://www.princeofswine.com/ entitled The Viagra Generation: Still Coming Up LimpPrince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-78831594486539504852012-06-19T23:27:00.001-07:002012-06-20T11:02:14.798-07:006 Reasons Indy Films Are Better Than Studio<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQDAztV9Vi6myx2Ibpd_w_nubax9KiFpOGVyfJdg1-y9DuoF0QV6cnfABmadBuEssWo9CSsVxbVp1ktfJ_1PJs2IS08zeV0SWklVFf2gpmnYsIJaSXsaxQ3udArY0fbe761r2wgvO3Guo/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQDAztV9Vi6myx2Ibpd_w_nubax9KiFpOGVyfJdg1-y9DuoF0QV6cnfABmadBuEssWo9CSsVxbVp1ktfJ_1PJs2IS08zeV0SWklVFf2gpmnYsIJaSXsaxQ3udArY0fbe761r2wgvO3Guo/s320/1.jpg" width="235" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>1.</strong> <strong>Studios Must Pander to Teenagers and Below</strong>. Teenagers, especially teenage boys, buy most of the tickets in this country and around the world. Once a movie gets above a certain budget it must cater to them, if it wants to make its money back. The trend has been going on so long its further driven the adult market away from multiplexes. If you’re wondering why most Hollywood movies are brainless and enjoy cartoon violence mixed with easily impressed women, it’s because that’s what teenage boys get off on. The next biggest market is children. Cable and Pay Television tends to be more adult and attracts better writing/directing.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>3. The Larger the Budget, the Smaller the Creative Risk</strong>. No one wants to take risks with huge sums of money, that’s human nature (we're seeing this tragically right now, in the tepid political response to the economic crash). It’s much easier to make a risky bet for one dollar or even a million than on a 150 million dollar blockbuster (the very minimum it takes to release a picture globally these days). The result is often formulaic and dull, pandering to the lowest common denominator or mediocrity by committee. Indy films are small entrepreneurs or local restaurants (not chains), they can afford to do things their way and put a lot of thought and care into them. It’s the difference between a meal prepared by a chain and one prepared by a chef. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>4. No Teenagers in Audience or Screaming Children</strong>. See reason 1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>5. Better Sex Scenes</strong>. Past a certain budget a studio movie must, almost by necessity, be no more adult than PG-13, or it’s losing the bulk of it market right out of the gate. That means teasing, innuendo, and the suggestion of sex, but nothing intense, physically, emotionally or politically. It’s hard to document but most filmmakers complain the level of skin in a sex scene won’t draw as restrictive a rating from the MPAA as physically intense sexuality, emotionally intense sexuality, or especially anything controversial (Hollywood claims to be liberal but the MPAA leans slightly right of center). An R rating isn’t much of a blow to an indy because the audience is already overwhelmingly adult and probably bored by PG anyway.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>6. Adult versus Cartoon Violence</strong>. The level of violence allowed in a PG film is truly astounding, but it’s almost all of the cartoon sort, without emotional consequence or human understanding, cheap and unconsciously sadistic, but oddly physically as well as emotionally clean and shallow. Anything with actual violence, where the violence comes with emotional consequences or something other than cartoon death and injury, is deemed too intense and possibly damaging for younger viewers (so we admit them into adulthood addicted to violence, like a drug, but with a completely antiseptic and puerile notion of it – violence separate from humanity or self-knowledge). In many cases this ignorance/lack of depth lasts until death and even runs for President.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Does anyone have big enough balls left to run this country right? Or are balls even necessary any more? Are they obsolete? Should we just throw up our hands, admit defeat and hand the place over to Hillary?</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Exhibit A: Mitt Romney. Here’s five reasons we can’t vote for Mitt Romney: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Citigroup, five of the largest banks and the top five contributors to Romney’s campaign. Would it be fair to say, in light of this, Mitt’s balls are no longer his own? It would be more accurate to call him a whore for the big banks, but that doesn’t rhyme with wimp, and we can’t see any way around Obama’s inherent wimpiness at this point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It does take balls, on the part of the banks anyway, to stand up in front of the country and insist what they’re doing is good for all of us or even most of us. That whole “a free market will save us” and “get government out of business’s way” – they don’t even believe that any more. The big banks are currently taking our money (from the Federal Reserve, at zero percent interest) and buying government bonds with most of it (i.e., charging us interest on it) without risking or investing a dime. So the biggest champions of the free market (the banks) won’t touch the market with a ten foot pole under these conditions. Betting on the government instead.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXwEwJbG0M5r8xgGJNeW8AUGcPgPCfjUdu2rPDlw3RyAtn8j61ocvHnbHK7v8wP_wzhILQPLZ9faIWtM79Q9MsCpaBv5h8UEEDQTbyLNYitcnOCDXsIvZsk5UTpJ2ZHGLQS5dIcLzrsm0/s1600/derivatives.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" fba="true" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXwEwJbG0M5r8xgGJNeW8AUGcPgPCfjUdu2rPDlw3RyAtn8j61ocvHnbHK7v8wP_wzhILQPLZ9faIWtM79Q9MsCpaBv5h8UEEDQTbyLNYitcnOCDXsIvZsk5UTpJ2ZHGLQS5dIcLzrsm0/s320/derivatives.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What are the banks doing with most of the rest of our money they’re charging us for? Gambling with derivatives again (which has zero to do with growing the economy and is a huge risk to it), still completely unregulated in this regard, still government insured, we’re still on the hook if they lose, and they’re even bigger now than when they were too big to fail in 2008. If one of the big ones bets wrong and we don’t bail them out again it could collapse the already fragile global economy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we vote for this crap again by voting for Romney, it’s not him that lacks balls, it’s us. It’s akin to saying to someone who just robbed you, “Thank you sir, can I have another? Would you like to have sex with my wife too while you’re at it? Because I don’t think you fucked me well enough the first time.”</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Which leaves us with: the wimp. Why is Obama such a wimp? Because he talks big and does nothing or next to nothing. He keeps quoting Teddy Roosevelt for instance. You know what Teddy Roosevelt did under these circumstances? He brought anti-trust law down on Wall Street. That’s exactly what Obama should do now. It would solve too big to fail as well as breaking the lobbying power of the largest banks (divide and conquer). It’s the political equivalent of bitchslapping them into submission so they shut the hell up and aren’t corporately unified enough to bribe Congress any more. Wall Street squawked about it then, just as it does now. Do you know what Roosevelt said of this? “They hate me and I revel in their hatred.” To translate that from Edwardian English: Scream bitches and enjoy it, there’s plenty more where that came from.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">For the record, anti-trust law doesn’t hurt business at all, just the opposite, it has the same economic effect as diversifying ones portfolio, i.e., it spreads and minimizes risk, as well as pruning our economic tree to make it fuller and larger. It’s just breaking up a gang of crooks who’ve grown too big for their own good and the good of the country, big enough to sink the global economy, big enough to buy both houses of Congress and the Presidency, and stack the deck in their favor. Did breaking up the phone company a few decades ago hurt our economy or did telecommunications grow like mad after that, the now smaller companies renewing themselves, with new management, now competing with each other at everything from cellphones to the internet, so that we are now a world leader in telecommunications?</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8mFxs3y3PDaGvKTmh-QMpJYOnRxQdh44WxzidvrBDJJUE5barVZh8c0JXbX88mitg2i-QGUUizyTHdhGZBfGIcxO0oMiRSxl_NCErpzPQ84JWAnbkxEFEDh60PnPL-c2mKtZoeOTLuGU/s1600/imagesCAYYBKHN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" fba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8mFxs3y3PDaGvKTmh-QMpJYOnRxQdh44WxzidvrBDJJUE5barVZh8c0JXbX88mitg2i-QGUUizyTHdhGZBfGIcxO0oMiRSxl_NCErpzPQ84JWAnbkxEFEDh60PnPL-c2mKtZoeOTLuGU/s1600/imagesCAYYBKHN.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">So our advice: hold your nose and vote for the wimp, praying that, with nothing to lose and his legacy to think of, he’ll wise up, stop bending over for Wall Street and grow a pair in his second term. There is some cause for hope. He hasn’t threatened anyone with anti-trust law yet, but we do have a new anti-bullying law. He’s warming up to go after the big banks by first standing up to fourth graders in other words. And those little savages can get pretty mean, so, ya’ know, after them, the banks should be easy.</span></div>
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<img height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeEQKOEWHbu-kSFRoXVhhBkBylR0zrDGRjvvAVRlS3BEi5wiiv0bWqZjdXY5deZr1iR1ghKdmuplRAizkqkZ2lckOdear3ga0KcnIFmqPRKMFSmiFgAhgas5oOouGJtCWiEo3Xi9x8X_E/s320/imagesCAKF90DK.jpg" style="filter: alpha(opacity=30); left: 514px; mozopacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 2033px; visibility: hidden;" width="68" />Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-80315529991118699332012-06-06T14:32:00.001-07:002012-06-06T14:32:29.024-07:00Has Anyone Seen Our Balls? Part II<span style="font-size: large;">Before we use Part I of this series (<a href="http://www.princeofswine.blogspot.com/2012/06/pardon-me-miss-has-anyone-seen-our.html">http://www.princeofswine.blogspot.com/2012/06/pardon-me-miss-has-anyone-seen-our.html</a>) as the basis for an anti-feminist rant on the secret agenda of Hillary, Steinem, Oprah and the rest of the crew, consider an even more alarming trend. Women not only have a casual attitude about castration regarding their pets and their men, but also about themselves (and this can be tragic on a profoundly human level).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It pains us to do this, more than you can imagine, but we’re going to have to cite (positively!) an investigation from none other than Ms. Magazine in support of this idea. <a href="http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/09/12/the-hysterectomy-epidemic-where%E2%80%99s-the-outrage/">http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/09/12/the-hysterectomy-epidemic-where%E2%80%99s-the-outrage/</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpFjBCt0ogcreAILBR9gn-KYzDhJZ6QDAZeZ2h-DQ3Ic6MS6SiMuRPa6-sAIQ5XTZ0zK1v4rGs-UV5NSD_d1pJ0kFsNMqBGpcQmMOb-Xh64YxmHQWmHgsxLgEFrFQaO5VESOTk3ye1tcA/s1600/HF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" fba="true" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpFjBCt0ogcreAILBR9gn-KYzDhJZ6QDAZeZ2h-DQ3Ic6MS6SiMuRPa6-sAIQ5XTZ0zK1v4rGs-UV5NSD_d1pJ0kFsNMqBGpcQmMOb-Xh64YxmHQWmHgsxLgEFrFQaO5VESOTk3ye1tcA/s320/HF.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">The key findings of this study? Over 70% of hysterectomies are unnecessary. While some women do experience relief from pain, health improvements and other safeguards from removal of the uterus, many more than this do not, and in fact, the procedure increases health risks in more areas than it avoids in the long run. Finally, a common side effect of hysterectomy is loss of ability to orgasm, reduced libido, and/or greatly reduced intensity of orgasm. It’s hotly debated exactly what percentage of women this occurs in but one of the most anti-hysterectomy organizations (the HERS foundation) puts the number at 54% for loss of orgasm, 66% for loss of sexual desire, and those numbers bump up 10-15% when loss of the ovaries or loss of ovarian function occurs with hysterectomy (which happens in about half of all hysterectomies in the US).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The most shocking finding according to Ms.’s author (Frances Whittlesey)? Women, by and large, don’t seem to care much. Where’s the Outrage, as she asks in her title? Ms. Whittlesey points out, “Can you imagine this sort of silence if a doctor threatened to remove the male testicles without a life threatening reason?”. No, we can’t in fact, which is probably why we still have our testicles, however much trouble they keep getting us into, whatever the pain, and however much you’d all like to remove them for your own piece of mind and the benefit of the planet.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzNiudPWbO3o2NCXlAmN1bP-fai_vWTk8hsnX8HjOg8LtPguZbY3CYh8-xSjNtEnMl6cWkMG8J7Mr5K_xljn4IDGvQH2ESyaAc_S0we7AUMtX8BIE8YWCtHmX0zfPndINgTdU26U1LS9M/s1600/imagesCAZGSN46.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" fba="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzNiudPWbO3o2NCXlAmN1bP-fai_vWTk8hsnX8HjOg8LtPguZbY3CYh8-xSjNtEnMl6cWkMG8J7Mr5K_xljn4IDGvQH2ESyaAc_S0we7AUMtX8BIE8YWCtHmX0zfPndINgTdU26U1LS9M/s320/imagesCAZGSN46.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Forty years after the groundbreaking publication of Germaine Greer’s <em>The Female Eunuch</em>, it seems some things have changed but much more hasn’t. The most disturbing fact and what Greer missed? Men aren’t the ones most in favor of castration, of men or women. What women do to dogs, for reasons of behavior modification, not overpopulation, they’d like to do to men if they could. And don’t expect much outrage or sympathy if you point this out to them. They’re even more merciless to their own kind, why should they feel sorry for you? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When moving in animal rescue circles one often hears the mantra, “Spaying and neutering is a social responsibility.” There’s also the common refrain, “How we treat animals is a reflection of how we treat ourselves.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Given this we thought it might be a good idea to examine exactly why we spay and neuter our animals in the hopes it might shed some light on how we treat ourselves in these troubled times. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The primary reason we spay and neuter is to keep down the huge and ever growing unwanted pet population. That’s an excellent reason to spay and neuter our own species, and the reasons we don’t do this (save for the tragic and brutal wave of unnecessary hysterectomies in this country which we’ll examine in Part II of this series) beg the question: why not find a less painful, brutal and invasive method to treat our animals? Why not a doggie vasectomy or tubal ligation? (Relax, we’re not espousing a doggie condom, diaphragm or pill, though we often wonder if some owners would go to this length after watching them brush their dogs’ teeth as well as trail them with the infamous scooper and plastic bag). </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcYop-Q_ZVl3vvwgSZ0mqnr9QRLGFeiGqcpe1HjqxI20xPkzkXrWOg3BdWY3ahd-X-UgNC3wknzO6DUgMD4RUPMPUJc3oO3wHXblY6inYlr3RLc0pQBYN4WXETmRR-m3jKTlXzjomxnrY/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" fba="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcYop-Q_ZVl3vvwgSZ0mqnr9QRLGFeiGqcpe1HjqxI20xPkzkXrWOg3BdWY3ahd-X-UgNC3wknzO6DUgMD4RUPMPUJc3oO3wHXblY6inYlr3RLc0pQBYN4WXETmRR-m3jKTlXzjomxnrY/s200/images.jpg" width="198" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">The answer to this is truly illuminating. The veterinary establishment stands firmly against this, not for reasons of pet overpopulation or cost (vasectomies and tubal ligations are just as cheap, if not cheaper, than castration and hysterectomy), but for reasons of behavior modification, especially in males. A dog vasectomy might solve the problem of overpopulation, but it leaves the male hormones dangerously in place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first thing one notices in sampling the available literature is opinions on neutering differ sharply and predictably along gender lines. Women are the primary caretakers of animals in this country (as well as being a large majority of those who volunteer at animal shelters), and also the most steadfast voices in favor of spaying and neutering. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZnG5SOC51fq2vgQBNr3XZhiTimTTIfptQ5iwan6rv_7RVcKuJwM6loiym-UqECvI1r82X95VKGIiy2A0BzUHRQc6JTtRTpv9p04UWqs-OMr6NQUFL4QEQNcWIE08CztNQcxnn34lz2U/s1600/imagesCATK3JA6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" fba="true" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZnG5SOC51fq2vgQBNr3XZhiTimTTIfptQ5iwan6rv_7RVcKuJwM6loiym-UqECvI1r82X95VKGIiy2A0BzUHRQc6JTtRTpv9p04UWqs-OMr6NQUFL4QEQNcWIE08CztNQcxnn34lz2U/s200/imagesCATK3JA6.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">And here’s the most striking fact for our own ulterior agenda (you knew we had one, of course, you didn’t really think we were writing this article out of a scientific interest in dog testicles, pity the poor bastards though we might?): pet owners and veterinarians, but women especially, insist there are no adverse side effects to castration, or side effects whatsoever, despite all evidence to the contrary. We could cite various studies for this, but you can informally confirm it yourself by googling “dog neutering male”<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisbauA2bUd7bcAM5x_SexA4r4-XasSAdFw1MCXzaMaYIFnsfHVeFv7PPzfZGDV7oBAt8LO-c_Z3A8LFd-iTL6PrrTeWr0zwYuJng9W43eDq37-p-QYuc3XdrbQQUcxDTvUgJhOlygUuAk/s1600/imagesCANSO5KD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" fba="true" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisbauA2bUd7bcAM5x_SexA4r4-XasSAdFw1MCXzaMaYIFnsfHVeFv7PPzfZGDV7oBAt8LO-c_Z3A8LFd-iTL6PrrTeWr0zwYuJng9W43eDq37-p-QYuc3XdrbQQUcxDTvUgJhOlygUuAk/s200/imagesCANSO5KD.jpg" width="200" /></a> and counting the responses in favor of neutering. Results will vary, but we think you’ll find something similar to: 80% of all responses period (on the first page of results) come from women. Over 90% were in favor of neutering, but an even more striking fact, over 70% of women claimed there were no negative side effects to castration or the side effects were minimal and unimportant. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-KNU7YSB3sB51-9YiBztW6GsaKueu2SFvYVtYX99uVHeqoBmbMRvHjtBLPe58puariAx5N2rps3PXwydjoPmnMUwMy9K9Uvuq4jriUWKlC-PXaQK8vuWJjxvSBJYXtUWKOE8CMy5rPI/s1600/imagesCAD1VMO7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" fba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-KNU7YSB3sB51-9YiBztW6GsaKueu2SFvYVtYX99uVHeqoBmbMRvHjtBLPe58puariAx5N2rps3PXwydjoPmnMUwMy9K9Uvuq4jriUWKlC-PXaQK8vuWJjxvSBJYXtUWKOE8CMy5rPI/s1600/imagesCAD1VMO7.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">For the record, any serious veterinarian, and any scientific literature on the subject will confirm the following: castrating a male dog has the following side effects (aside from making him unable to sire puppies): 1) he will likely be unable to have sex, and is very likely to have very little interest in sex period, 2) he will fight less and be much less aggressive with other dogs, 3) he will be much less likely to roam or run away, 4) he will be much more likely to gain weight and lose muscle tone. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZe2dawBqNpOmi-_fV5pAAMYtNOm95vjQGBnhRhiaeEcmBe_9GOPWU0cIDBBrqAeUlh6jhkkMVkqEL_Xs7bsbIro_R3Zckj_QT3hCBBRREtsGNY63phbUucDv6FBN17wgpFTSsJNBHuM/s1600/imagesCA5UJ7PT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" fba="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZe2dawBqNpOmi-_fV5pAAMYtNOm95vjQGBnhRhiaeEcmBe_9GOPWU0cIDBBrqAeUlh6jhkkMVkqEL_Xs7bsbIro_R3Zckj_QT3hCBBRREtsGNY63phbUucDv6FBN17wgpFTSsJNBHuM/s200/imagesCA5UJ7PT.jpg" width="132" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">All of these were considered either great improvements or unimportant side effects by most women. The attitude can best be summed by one chipper pet owner, “All of the best things about your dog will still be in place, he’ll be happier, he’ll still love you, and he’ll be a far less troublesome and livable pet! Most dogs don’t even notice they’ve been neutered!”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(<em>Editor’s Note</em>: We confirmed this on a recent trip to the suburbs, they were all sitting around still wagging their tails as if nothing had happened, still fat, dumb and happy. The dogs, of course, we mean). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Visit us at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> and join us at <a href="http://www.war-reform.com/">http://www.war-reform.com/</a>.</span></div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-26051753766973462862010-05-04T14:24:00.000-07:002010-05-04T16:14:39.977-07:00Prince of Swine’s Jerry Farber: A Man for Our Time?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8oUK7C5-_lS72qsfQ6NszQaBeQjBB4e-I3kGRwOAtq_Muxo70DiqvMJ9pkxAQqhvqYbPHsbYL_ZdoK6JYsB64_mbzYrJth2YOk7rU1FiFfDmg6UbvFSqsQMTOHi-KjWPVneO8SBSWXpA/s1600/FarberDevil-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467532460853911538" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 288px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 145px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8oUK7C5-_lS72qsfQ6NszQaBeQjBB4e-I3kGRwOAtq_Muxo70DiqvMJ9pkxAQqhvqYbPHsbYL_ZdoK6JYsB64_mbzYrJth2YOk7rU1FiFfDmg6UbvFSqsQMTOHi-KjWPVneO8SBSWXpA/s320/FarberDevil-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>Q: Now Jerry Farber is a metaphor for our time, for the banking collapse and Wall Street scandals in your view? Corruption at high levels dragging the country down?</strong><br /><div><br /><strong>MT (<em>writer/director</em>):</strong> He’s the Hollywood version of that (partially based on Don Simpson) the same psychology that led to the collapse, an era going down in flames and good riddance, which is probably the best way to see <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>. Something old and corrupt dying, and something new and pure being born, a phoenix rising from the ashes. If you accept a canary in the coal mine theory of the arts, these things show up artistically before they do in the country, and that whole cult of high concept Simpson created, it’s the same culture and mindset as the rot on Wall Street.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Explain.</strong> </div><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467545898948641794" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 286px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 159px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJpzV3QFdR19f2fkCaS_TChRp5FwgVh4ndjjRv3UPRsqMRj3BjdhlpGkFJ0x4xO2-pbrWvuKTmjBXkmIbw8tEX-5VhYvRrm0yp4RuS1xUspDltqHyXXGQudr_q0898Ie8kiIOzpG73myk/s320/FarberInStudio3-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /><strong>MT:</strong> Well, you get away from academia, and actually visit and work on Wall Street, so you know the players and the mindset, and beyond the eggheads who enable the crooks, there are guys who proudly say, “I’m about the money, money talks, losers walk.” In their world everything is for sale, and weirdly, they’ve got the same naïve mindset as the academics, even the worst sort of hustlers often don’t see themselves as hustlers or evil, they rationalize it. They could take a cancer patient’s last dime selling them bad health insurance and consider it a productive day like they’ve done good for the country. These guys are salesmen, they can’t afford to doubt themselves, doubt reads as weakness, there can be no self-reflection or science in their world. They come out of the womb selling, they know very little about the world except how to sell, and that they want to be rich. Their actual ideas about the world are laughable - </div><br /><div><strong>Q: What do they tell themselves?</strong><br /><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKAL_UJhHs2XF8qUpOOmRQg9ruWDnAaBT6MH6E7mlQuusoJq5DJiLmMEjO473hbJR_fuPk_URWmmTuG6iiYlhXPJ363rBDX4ZVPMXXmeFGp5XPkYcN_go1l-9h1nx0HSHvC5q7iSTdZV0/s1600/church+of+greed.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467535751392594402" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 196px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKAL_UJhHs2XF8qUpOOmRQg9ruWDnAaBT6MH6E7mlQuusoJq5DJiLmMEjO473hbJR_fuPk_URWmmTuG6iiYlhXPJ363rBDX4ZVPMXXmeFGp5XPkYcN_go1l-9h1nx0HSHvC5q7iSTdZV0/s320/church+of+greed.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjukMrX2LxMCX1HUvL8PHLzT3C281tTaMXZ6VmLUoFfkc1SQ_v4ZloiughgYvfTJ3gjJIwxmwSDY7egthnNmUfEzlQWb8Ceru_pVHG0zxNbumKBpg3xprE_miyL27K-nm4AsCaCkxShQdQ/s1600/uncle+milty.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467535550064850722" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 113px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjukMrX2LxMCX1HUvL8PHLzT3C281tTaMXZ6VmLUoFfkc1SQ_v4ZloiughgYvfTJ3gjJIwxmwSDY7egthnNmUfEzlQWb8Ceru_pVHG0zxNbumKBpg3xprE_miyL27K-nm4AsCaCkxShQdQ/s320/uncle+milty.jpg" border="0" /></a>MT:</strong> Basically, any kind of business is good for the market, even if you’re completely ripping somebody off, lieing, and selling a product that’s pure crap, still, it’s economic activity, so it’s good for the market. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: And how is Jerry Farber a metaphor for this?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> He’s the Hollywood version, which I think is more accessible to people than Wall Street. You really can’t understand the madness and widespread fraudulence of Wall Street unless you understand math and economics. There’s been a few good documentaries on Wall Street, but it would be hard to capture it in feature film form, because it’s so complex and esoteric. I’d rather do it the way we did and put it in an arena people can understand. The psychology is the same and any monkey can understand Hollywood, it’s like watching Entertainment Tonight – </div><br /><div><strong>Q: You dumbed <em>Prince of Swine</em> down for a general audience?</strong></div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> That’s cynical. I would say instead a general audience can enjoy and understand it, but if you want to look deeper, that level is there too.</div><div><br /><strong>Q: Jerry Farber is partially based on Don Simpson?</strong></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggq74Ry8O8PcakN_ex00Ou8-F0n3MK4xosN6hrExw5jTS-UjZ9VHLbU6bW94Rr4qY9jZJNzSVB7zcFLQaKrfJi1vSQjos_RetiO3_PyIlSc9RTpGgFiyAZWy87NLmm2hNY7bO1i46ti00/s1600/usforsale.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467542185376219698" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 116px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 116px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggq74Ry8O8PcakN_ex00Ou8-F0n3MK4xosN6hrExw5jTS-UjZ9VHLbU6bW94Rr4qY9jZJNzSVB7zcFLQaKrfJi1vSQjos_RetiO3_PyIlSc9RTpGgFiyAZWy87NLmm2hNY7bO1i46ti00/s320/usforsale.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Yeah, that part is the same as Wall Street, this sort of dim, tasteless, aggression, “Money talks, losers walk” that’s something Don Simpson would say, that’s almost something out of one of his business talks, “We don’t make art, we make money.” They don’t know anything else about life except they want to succeed, at any cost. At the same time, he had this childish, deluded view of himself as a good guy and an artist, Simpson actually thought he was making good movies, and was something other than a drug addled pimp who cheapened the taste and lives of everyone he touched, including his audience - </div><div><br /><strong>Q: That’s a bit harsh.</strong></div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> No, that’s the literal truth actually, go talk to the hookers he turned out and abused if you doubt it. I don’t understand why people defend and make excuses for him, it’s as if we’re afraid to have good taste or ethics nowadays, it’s too painful given the climate. Defending Simpson is like defending Bernie Madoff. </div><div><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXLKCLCit8hxw4YQ3EwezziNEPNgQiiIDFUOT3Yc7HFhIzN-l6jyYihUCfyBX0NHiZtOaPqErSNVkNrspfMOR4tGvRi_mrqLoHcaMxj47_guQBylaSs3g76paxoJ8vaFW7OORk-qPJMLk/s1600/jackassnumbertwo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467552920588158754" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 96px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 142px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXLKCLCit8hxw4YQ3EwezziNEPNgQiiIDFUOT3Yc7HFhIzN-l6jyYihUCfyBX0NHiZtOaPqErSNVkNrspfMOR4tGvRi_mrqLoHcaMxj47_guQBylaSs3g76paxoJ8vaFW7OORk-qPJMLk/s320/jackassnumbertwo.jpg" border="0" /></a>Q: Well, Americans have been repeatedly traumatized in the taste department - </strong></div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Yeah, I mean, when you can cheapen the taste and lower the values of a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyIj1icVwwnUYyzLBHeWbn6KV1Xh6JXNb1kXfwxN4Zm2P7X8G8qFCO12lcNkGhsSZIZJnsKmGYwVBssE0kRPmiAguRdkvOYJpe2gh8CGak9IbMg8m4_KACofjVDLU6YLnId1ouitrotM0/s1600/stallonecobra.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467553422765225266" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 128px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 162px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyIj1icVwwnUYyzLBHeWbn6KV1Xh6JXNb1kXfwxN4Zm2P7X8G8qFCO12lcNkGhsSZIZJnsKmGYwVBssE0kRPmiAguRdkvOYJpe2gh8CGak9IbMg8m4_KACofjVDLU6YLnId1ouitrotM0/s320/stallonecobra.jpg" border="0" /></a>Hollywood studio, that’s cheap, that’s taking tacky to a whole new level - </div><div><br /><strong>Q: Let’s just say you’re not a fan of the high concept school of thought - </strong></div><div><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfOFed-5q4-38Khf3uS0kpYLmJhoIfgYSdsyAE4ueCB1XFHefTq1VFGZHkdrcpGC8nfNaA6hkYaVkrfNW5_ml4r4_eyCCsXqARsxePgv_QKLuQm0Egydlob7DD3Vn7ry-SupvXc58DSOY/s1600/camdiaz.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467553668962263954" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 128px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 86px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfOFed-5q4-38Khf3uS0kpYLmJhoIfgYSdsyAE4ueCB1XFHefTq1VFGZHkdrcpGC8nfNaA6hkYaVkrfNW5_ml4r4_eyCCsXqARsxePgv_QKLuQm0Egydlob7DD3Vn7ry-SupvXc58DSOY/s320/camdiaz.jpg" border="0" /></a>MT:</strong> Well, not being fifteen, no, I don’t think it makes very good movies. I don’t even think fifteen year olds think they’re good movies, it’s just they’re more prone to having their buttons pushed while someone picks their pocket at that age.</div><div><br /><strong>Q: Well they obviously sold.</strong></div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> So what? So did mortgage securities. I’m so tired of that mindset, especially from people who want to be taken seriously as artists, or seriously as Americans for that matter. It’s basically saying, “Well, why not pimp the kids? There’s good money in it.” Yes, surprise, surprise, you can sell crap to suckers, thus cheapening both them and you. Guess what, you can also make something great, make it a hit, and do something that actually deepens and uplifts people –<br /><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJbswxcQUDvdNHcUSh3lVGNqbpsf8y40WvqjWry2yUOUix5Mqa1EM56sMJ62ZPbrwU58-xXx8SK_tk1ZnAXAcUybiYMAtE7VNkydvwoSThsFACSUeTXrLAu4jD6d8kbZJywnucg1suG_o/s1600/avatar_movie_promo_screenshot.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467543441486261474" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 304px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 165px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJbswxcQUDvdNHcUSh3lVGNqbpsf8y40WvqjWry2yUOUix5Mqa1EM56sMJ62ZPbrwU58-xXx8SK_tk1ZnAXAcUybiYMAtE7VNkydvwoSThsFACSUeTXrLAu4jD6d8kbZJywnucg1suG_o/s320/avatar_movie_promo_screenshot.jpg" border="0" /></a>Q: Name one movie – </strong></div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> I didn’t like the cheap shot Cameron took at the troops, but <strong><em>Avatar</em></strong> is brilliant otherwise, stunningly imaginative. <strong><em>American Beauty</em></strong> made an s-load of money, the <strong><em>Sopranos </em></strong>was wildly successful, so is <strong><em>Mad Men</em></strong>, it can be done, maybe it takes more time, more work, its <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuEf9yQNZgNaZoLq8HCBtjk3MiRyI2k-j8vNL2RP1ZOTc0QTFqpc_YtKTW7Y484PPeX1X5jlP_3IZEMnkBTpNfRIsXLswonl_Uq5lQGMyR6BW1vABRkuk9sdoHS_CTIGGxB_WJ_VGO1UI/s1600/abeauty.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467544491732877570" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 147px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 104px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuEf9yQNZgNaZoLq8HCBtjk3MiRyI2k-j8vNL2RP1ZOTc0QTFqpc_YtKTW7Y484PPeX1X5jlP_3IZEMnkBTpNfRIsXLswonl_Uq5lQGMyR6BW1vABRkuk9sdoHS_CTIGGxB_WJ_VGO1UI/s320/abeauty.jpg" border="0" /></a>harder – </div><div><br /><strong>Q: Now Jerry Farber and women – </strong></div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> If you believe, deep in your soul, that everything is for sale, and you base this belief on yourself, because you’re for sale, and aren’t about anything but money and power, how can you see women as anything but whores, and thus hate them? Of course when you believe that you attract that sort of woman to you. I believe that’s true of Don Simpson, it explains his behavior with women perfectly. I know it’s true of Jerry Farber. It’s a pretty ugly, damned and doomed place to live. I hope the country is coming out of that mindset now, and we’re ready for something new and better.</div><div><br /><strong>Q: Keep hope alive?</strong></div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> There’s hope and beauty in our lead actress’ face, in that character, once you get past the scowl, the pain and the anguish, I’m stunned by what’s underneath, it’s redemption and rebirth, those are the most beautiful images of the movie, and the most beautiful things in the world to me, seeing that in a woman’s face. That can be a symbol for our time too. People will fight for that, for redemption and rebirth, as much as they can be swayed, ruined and sold out by a cheap pimp. Once you see the real thing in fact and know what it is, your standards go up and you’re pimp proof. She’s triumphant in the end and Jerry Farber is brought down, seen for what he is at least. Evil never goes away but once you can see it, then there’s hope, you can be something else. We can take another way in our time.</div><br /><br /><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </div><div><br />Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><br /><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a> </div><br /><div>Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.</div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-79601712005283044492010-04-29T11:44:00.000-07:002010-05-04T23:31:45.377-07:00Prince of Swine's Flawed Heroine<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBsdPkPAcwoJOW73j831gyF9CJYgTqYUY5m93PZCXvuqqR9BkaJDKdQBkTCXR3KIkh7aePV_SeGE-ZTcKLyIpKziENKYS1uWYOCrDEhxqnGrs0ldKAhGrc5aHbc6VY2nvXc0lypmS7O7o/s1600/NellinBar2-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 282px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 147px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465635567835465730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBsdPkPAcwoJOW73j831gyF9CJYgTqYUY5m93PZCXvuqqR9BkaJDKdQBkTCXR3KIkh7aePV_SeGE-ZTcKLyIpKziENKYS1uWYOCrDEhxqnGrs0ldKAhGrc5aHbc6VY2nvXc0lypmS7O7o/s320/NellinBar2-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" /></a><strong>Q: Your lead actress said earlier that her character, Julie, is a “good person with a hard past, whose anger prevents anyone from being close to her”. Expand on that.</strong><br /><br /><div><div><div><div><strong>Mark Toma (writer/director, <em>Prince of Swine</em>):</strong> Nell had an extensive back story, she knew Julie's past, I threw out my own ideas, so we both knew her past, but we deliberately don't go into it in the movie.<br /><br /><strong>Q: Why not? </strong></div></div><div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> We wanted to make Julie universal. It doesn’t really matter how she got to that point in her life which the movie depicts. There are a million ways to get to that place. </div><div><br /><strong>Q: Name some. </strong></div><br /><div><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 272px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 160px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465637261553495874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIHGxfL3-IEAI8_XxD3K1LgHkenSX6w7CO3cFDuvifE8b477IZvWJOKQEiL7I4pmgm_K4UD75geerk1S2bvGCNG3tQJMDHTJKZ1fcKTSLtXCqHPj_rP5OKJA1yhPyu0Z-t7Q33uLlRHLw/s320/2inBed7sad-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" /><strong>MT:</strong> Just a person witnesses tragedy or injustice, on a personal level, it effects them personally, and that happens to everyone sooner or later, if that doesn’t happen to you in your life I don’t know what planet you’re living on. It happened to her fairly young. And she’s in that stage of that where she still takes that very personally, she has to make sense of it or she can’t go on living. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Well what is the tragedy or injustice she witnessed? </strong></div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> We don’t go into that because then it would be all about her and not universal. It wouldn’t be funny either. <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> is a comedy, and Julie is coming out of that when we meet her, she’s not headed into tragedy, she’s coming out of it. She’s triumphant, not defeated. </div><div></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><br /><strong>Q: But you both knew what the dark thing or tragedy was? </strong></div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Of course, we discussed it extensively. Nell's a very brave actress to go to that place. I don't know what exact history she finally settled on, it's not important, but we went over every square inch of the psychological territory she's coming from. </div><div><br /><strong>Q: Which is what? </strong></div><div><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH59r1BILvWYmfWfr_zda1vAoqYGIcrOtXYV7kukrfACIL0gdM_p61xjw9qucEf8lzzGE9_YmRnSJNZblZhpebau4hNS37_SQC6FcvxvhN33Hc7aE1lPoknUz2Uao06bdyKIIZAF_0sF0/s1600/NellVerdict-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 299px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 171px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465688264772835570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH59r1BILvWYmfWfr_zda1vAoqYGIcrOtXYV7kukrfACIL0gdM_p61xjw9qucEf8lzzGE9_YmRnSJNZblZhpebau4hNS37_SQC6FcvxvhN33Hc7aE1lPoknUz2Uao06bdyKIIZAF_0sF0/s320/NellVerdict-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" /></a>MT:</strong> The actual history is not important, there's a thousand ways to get to the same place, this is a universal thing people go through. It’s not as if Julie’s mortally wounded, suffering like this to grow is the law of the universe. It could be someone close to her died, she’s still grieving, they believed in something very strongly, this is her way of honoring them. Or maybe a parent had their career or life destroyed by someone that reminds her of the Defendant in this case. Or maybe she failed to protect somebody she felt responsible for, they came to a bad end, so now she’s doing some sort of penance. We don’t need to know why, the point is, she takes it very personally, this is a personal matter of honor to her, we just need to know that she’s an honorable person, working through a personal demon. </div><div><br /><strong>Q: She’s somewhat of a flawed heroine in your eyes? </strong></div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> I think she’s fighting the good fight, she’s a good person. Most of her anger is spent flagellating herself more than anyone else. She doesn’t really hurt anyone who doesn’t deserve it. She’s a bit much to take for the people who care about her, it’s difficult to be her friend. I don’t think you want to go through life eternally angry like that. </div><div><br /><strong>Q: Will she do that? </strong><br /><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465688882956882290" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRYT_mh7oOaIB21nLTk6vvJPukFS5LHRxR8paFVGm1HBHzAkDrQR00M7t5OCEiL9Bc9xkU1ts0kaoqhaZfhoBNMvJNhks4Adv-D6wUzLg_PMVxjWz0-pNft5py6GqdWq42Li6a4qJYSc/s320/NellConfused-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Well, a lot of the anger is exorcized in just the time we know her. Still, I don’t think she ever laughs once in the movie. Sometimes she’s ironic or acerbic, but never quite laughs. This is a multi-dimensional, layered character, she’s as deep a character as you’ll see on screen, at the same time she’s the archetypal humorless feminist! She cries a lot, in a strange way that might be a precursor to laughing in the future, being able to feel joy again. That might be the sequel hopefully: “<strong><em>Prince of Swine II: Julie Laughs</em></strong>”. </div><br /><div><br /></div><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd.<br /></div><br /><div>Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><div><br />Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a><br /><br /></div><div>Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.</div></div></div></div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-42871541219429703542010-04-27T14:30:00.000-07:002010-04-27T18:33:29.516-07:00The Real Life vs. the Onscreen Lawyer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyV74TCWnkh4ltdn1UK2MTlbapRE10pfY7MtgS11bT1VRX72s8f_mSZaXG4iQFCDzbN4E9Gr5pbbtllcY8MYjUROZxnksrW4uixbS-FbwL3b0rC_iUn3x464pxqwABsEJO8lqxRVadOu4/s1600/tony.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464956703597717410" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 184px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 124px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyV74TCWnkh4ltdn1UK2MTlbapRE10pfY7MtgS11bT1VRX72s8f_mSZaXG4iQFCDzbN4E9Gr5pbbtllcY8MYjUROZxnksrW4uixbS-FbwL3b0rC_iUn3x464pxqwABsEJO8lqxRVadOu4/s320/tony.jpg" border="0" /></a>(<em>Tony Luti is a California superlawyer, and founder of The Luti Law Firm, which serves as the setting for the fictional firm in <strong>Prince of Swine</strong>).</em><br /><strong></strong><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong>Q: How did you become involved with the movie <em>Prince of Swine</em>?</strong></div><br /><div><div><div><strong>Anthony Luti (<em>founder, Luti Law Firm</em>):</strong> Mark Toma, the writer/director walked into my office one day and asked if he could shoot a movie at my firm during our off hours.<br /><br /><strong>Q: (<em>laughing</em>) Just like that?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>AL (<em>laughing</em>):</strong> Pretty much.<br /><br /><strong>Q: Why did he come to you?</strong></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8H0jNcXOG4cBriSpyQZofcin03tBT9nu2v-V0YQ9SDe_V_Ggcujh3d-w5DJ12sMQacMf19BHSbN50Rtvtpy65M6X_4W9ABxTrtyRjT_xbF8GMNqObQN6FJjeueW97xnrlTW_k_JTTf4I/s1600/malcolm.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464942187684875074" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 186px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 136px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8H0jNcXOG4cBriSpyQZofcin03tBT9nu2v-V0YQ9SDe_V_Ggcujh3d-w5DJ12sMQacMf19BHSbN50Rtvtpy65M6X_4W9ABxTrtyRjT_xbF8GMNqObQN6FJjeueW97xnrlTW_k_JTTf4I/s320/malcolm.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>AL:</strong> We practice the same sort of law as in the movie, Title VII, employment litigation. We’re a plaintiff’s firm, just as in the movie, and as Mark said when he first saw our offices, “This is the coolest looking law firm I’ve ever seen! Check it out! Malcolm X is on your wall!”. I guess we’ve got similar taste in décor too, he loved the color scheme for Hi-Def. Maybe not many lawyers would want a movie crew shooting in their firm or for their firm to be up on the big screen. I thought it was a blast.<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: So give us your professional opinion, how much is the movie <em>Prince of Swine</em> like your real life practice?</strong><br /></div><br /><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUIDJnxy2E5RXs9G_LInQXYwGAUrfhoqunt7-pixyU8vVBPJuaK9rICLdpE000sdY-LSmQ8r1K5iZntqylwUStKCnsLJOb_4BYhq6T_vCIY6oT30YM3j2m6Fwr2KedxTP3l5vG0nkaKpA/s1600/BiggsHeadphones-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464942430462067314" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 281px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 148px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUIDJnxy2E5RXs9G_LInQXYwGAUrfhoqunt7-pixyU8vVBPJuaK9rICLdpE000sdY-LSmQ8r1K5iZntqylwUStKCnsLJOb_4BYhq6T_vCIY6oT30YM3j2m6Fwr2KedxTP3l5vG0nkaKpA/s320/BiggsHeadphones-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>AL:</strong> Well, I haven’t actually seen <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> yet, but as I understand it, the head of the firm is an African American attorney who wanted to blaze his own trail, his own practice, so that’s the same. They excel in a David vs. Goliath type situation, that’s the same. According to Mark, <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> has many meanings, and the characters in my firm are the Princes in the title, not the swine!<br /></div><br /><div><strong>Q: Who are the swine?</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfcaT0cxG5Aw0hFrGMrLPMo-EegWQrd-IVXU5ZJX4zOOasgV7j9108JeqmMYYWe_OPvpJXgc9MlGuQx4wFvn2oASVapq_4tlh3buu5AzSNfuf9VxEkFUpN_UzZKC6wjxew_g-UZX9FSVk/s1600/Amber+boob-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464947089588754434" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 288px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 159px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfcaT0cxG5Aw0hFrGMrLPMo-EegWQrd-IVXU5ZJX4zOOasgV7j9108JeqmMYYWe_OPvpJXgc9MlGuQx4wFvn2oASVapq_4tlh3buu5AzSNfuf9VxEkFUpN_UzZKC6wjxew_g-UZX9FSVk/s320/Amber+boob-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>AL:</strong> Again, I haven’t seen the movie, but I take it the swine of the title refers to very swinish behavior by powerful institutions or individuals, when they’re very far over the line, and think they’re above the law. They need to watch out for that, because that’s why we’re in business.<br /></div><br /><div><strong>Q: So this movie is your life story?</strong> </div><div></div><div><br /><strong>AL (<em>laughing</em>):</strong> No, not really. From what I can tell, I probably would not have taken the client in the movie, if she walked into my office!</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Why not?</strong><br /></div><br /><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zckTP6vpUx_WCarVdWtKY3WhH30ns5A8hM6a94EvvfJPhyphenhyphenqO7zgtQ5qt5lZ-bstkgGn9KMPdcNj43ifV2xiDQzA-JdWlSp1bCQyt9f6Gku6MqHf7i3e0oPE1AarpMiGZEvE75PiZ_Xg/s1600/tony2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464947733455976226" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 262px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 195px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zckTP6vpUx_WCarVdWtKY3WhH30ns5A8hM6a94EvvfJPhyphenhyphenqO7zgtQ5qt5lZ-bstkgGn9KMPdcNj43ifV2xiDQzA-JdWlSp1bCQyt9f6Gku6MqHf7i3e0oPE1AarpMiGZEvE75PiZ_Xg/s320/tony2.jpg" border="0" /></a>AL:</strong> We’re extremely particular about our clients. We only take a very few and in a very specific situation. The client has to have a very strong case. The Defendant has to be in the wrong legally, the facts must be clear about this, but the Defendant takes the stance, “This person is pennyless, they’re powerless, we can step on them with impunity. Go ahead, do something about it.” When I encounter that sort of blind, unethical, arrogance of power, I say to it, “Make no mistake, this case will go to trial and you will lose when it does.” If they don’t back off, my trial record speaks for itself. I’m not bluffing and they know it.<br /></div><br /><div><strong>Q: How did the movie client fail that litmus test?</strong> </div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vlaqtkh6Gvv-u6MsiGJuA7L6DYjGMHCudCB6LVk_dVw9N4YJDmFfss__JNFmyw9IXCnUoitRsSSyHv1BDg4ZS68-reWtqOh4EDK4N-dqtPhD2Fh3hAcu3BxXRRFy9g1UPAQehKN54A8/s1600/KellySmile002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464948047762599650" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 288px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 160px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vlaqtkh6Gvv-u6MsiGJuA7L6DYjGMHCudCB6LVk_dVw9N4YJDmFfss__JNFmyw9IXCnUoitRsSSyHv1BDg4ZS68-reWtqOh4EDK4N-dqtPhD2Fh3hAcu3BxXRRFy9g1UPAQehKN54A8/s320/KellySmile002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div><strong>AL (<em>laughing</em>):</strong> The Defendant in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> was way over the line, but the Plaintiff was sort of flaky and morally dubious too! Morally and legally, from what I understand, it somehow comes together in the end, but that wasn’t clear when they took the case. The facts weren’t there at the start of the case, something smelled fishy, but it wasn’t a clear enough case of wrongdoing. The young associate in the film, as I understand it, just had a very strong feeling, she pursued it and then uncovered the facts. That’s something you do if you want to make a movie that sheds light on the craziness of the system, it’s not the greatest way to win an actual lawsuit.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Your cases are more airtight?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>AL (<em>laughing</em>):</strong> Well, it’s not an interesting movie, if you know from the time the lawyer takes the case that he’s going to win, where is the suspense? It’s more than that, even though, on the surface, the movie takes place in the same legal arena, from what I understand talking to Mark, the message in the movie is something different, which, I think I might support, but in fact, it’s not my practice area in real life.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Explain.</strong></div><div><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFNIs675FQXmB6DtlJnucZGuuSCms5Ty7HKOjtQ04RFojY6RiFd1gDcucZ6BRbVpDLR2ltRpKjwMAOzLkkOG4CMKik7oc7-3Mc3X-Axtqa2zsG2qlb876ptH17mOo0IA9NNBnouKvhlo/s1600/obama2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464945528112887938" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 172px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFNIs675FQXmB6DtlJnucZGuuSCms5Ty7HKOjtQ04RFojY6RiFd1gDcucZ6BRbVpDLR2ltRpKjwMAOzLkkOG4CMKik7oc7-3Mc3X-Axtqa2zsG2qlb876ptH17mOo0IA9NNBnouKvhlo/s320/obama2.jpg" border="0" /></a>AL:</strong> I’m upholding a revolution that took place 40 years ago, I’m upholding the tradition of civil and human rights laid down by my heroes, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, amongst others. This is the law of the land now, there is no argument about it. We are living in truly miraculous times, we have an African American President now – a potentially great one, in my opinion. It makes you believe in miracles when you look back at our history, only in America. So if someone is going to treat that law with contempt, I uphold that tradition and that’s what I’m about.</div><div><br /><strong>Q: How is that different from the movie?</strong></div><div><br /><strong>AL:</strong> It’s the same in spirit, but I think he’s interested in a different area of law. I’m taking this from talking to Mark, not from seeing the movie, but as I understand it, the harassment case in the movie is just a device used to explore the psychology, decadence, and arrogance of power, he’s not interested in making some social statement about harassment law, because it’s already settled law, what’s the point?<br /><br /><strong>Q: The movie is more a metaphor for what’s going on with the country right now, or on Wall Street?</strong><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjN_7VFInMeILrVSr62v04_1cJDEY3Lrq0dwLP4_YyWSqhyphenhyphen9S0VoTD7e1dksa5PHCfivqTVNXwZZKcc1Qz505SZ14jGBpKyLxTSuvP9S15an8wAkjw_lOTk52DDUcyhxF1IgqlAsIE0mA/s1600/buddySHotTrial-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464948307672025826" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 292px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjN_7VFInMeILrVSr62v04_1cJDEY3Lrq0dwLP4_YyWSqhyphenhyphen9S0VoTD7e1dksa5PHCfivqTVNXwZZKcc1Qz505SZ14jGBpKyLxTSuvP9S15an8wAkjw_lOTk52DDUcyhxF1IgqlAsIE0mA/s320/buddySHotTrial-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>AL:</strong> That’s my educated guess. Metaphorically, artistically, that works for me as a movie, and I certainly see the same sort of arrogance of power that led to the banking collapse in my practice area every day. Maybe it’s easier to see it in employment law, because the issues are so human, everyone can understand the human dynamics and emotion of a harassment case. Part of the scandal on Wall Street, it’s so abstract, it’s so convoluted and specialized, no one can understand it in human terms, and that’s how the perpetrators got away with it.</div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrNBit765MT8mpF9FZzNvufkGqSH4HpqztqgHpIYe6F8Vjxx6Mlv5ZWRtLlXPZ6ZkEJEhn-OlCOp0XiQGthoBJap-Jy1SXIhhu12zz2dMbiBPibLEoMTDl4yCCv-Sq056BUr8dEaNNzWY/s1600/NellVerdict-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464948627043633010" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 287px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 146px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrNBit765MT8mpF9FZzNvufkGqSH4HpqztqgHpIYe6F8Vjxx6Mlv5ZWRtLlXPZ6ZkEJEhn-OlCOp0XiQGthoBJap-Jy1SXIhhu12zz2dMbiBPibLEoMTDl4yCCv-Sq056BUr8dEaNNzWY/s320/NellVerdict-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>If the movie is saying, “These forces are running out of control, they are lawless, they are destructive, they need to be brought to heel for their own good and the good of the country”, I would agree with that. When you talk about that, you’re talking about finance reform, the way the Obama administration is taking on Wall Street right now. I support that as a lawyer and an American, but finance reform is not my practice area. And it would probably make a less interesting movie too. Banking is pretty dry compared to a harassment case!<br /><br /><strong>Q: It’s the same dynamic psychologically, emotionally and artistically, just a different fact pattern?</strong></div><div><br /><strong>AL:</strong> Exactly. That’s not an argument I can make in court, it’s not specific enough, but it’s fascinating as a work of art. Hopefully <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> will hold up in the court of public opinion, which I think is the court we’re really trying for here.<br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd.<br /><br />Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><div><br />Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a><br /><br />Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-75728565625425062562010-04-26T19:31:00.000-07:002010-04-27T11:05:50.549-07:00Sandra Bullock: Do Women Pay a Price for Power? Prince of Swine Roundtable<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464645247186212274" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 124px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 157px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtSVqjNRY-HzdFA_bquM7mAs9QkestGMAutSFhKgjThytgqn_EAbQfDIHc_f6uAyaLF5xMpX6n4vM0xUZugrhfgPGy58I8qEa_6kfvFA5Y9mG1EBJKbum10uizpQorMluL9OBrkATIrAQ/s320/sandrab.jpg" border="0" /><strong>Q: Everybody knows the story by now, what do you think? Sandra Bullock, latest example of the price women pay for power?</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>MT (<em>writer/director</em>):</strong> It’s just like the movie, men are rewarded for money and power sexually and women get punished for it, that’s what the latest real life episode says to me. Most of the powerful women I know in Hollywood are very much socially isolated, whereas when a guy gets power, the world is his oyster.<br /><br /><div><strong>Dede Richardson <em>(UCLA coordinator/Prince of Swine)</em></strong>: I don’t know if that's true. A lot of women, powerful or not, have trouble with men, newsflash, the opposite sex can be trouble. It’s no different for men, look how much trouble surrounds women in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, it’s Pandora’s Box, I know that’s the first thing you think of when you<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc7hCMiIxW9-Gcb0UAxoIZATH09WfTjcBEc93v21MZsxmfRmSgxzBS3QRlMNM7Ow6kcCZFZ7Ip8nMS5YbasirkJ0YamV7NGD1fSBuDVIWWMkTlAGhrqHs7TkfxzRCBq2ifVZ6BoIUznOo/s1600/FarberAss-Look-Photo---JPEG-75-PAL-vignette-compress.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464647033528449346" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 306px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 164px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc7hCMiIxW9-Gcb0UAxoIZATH09WfTjcBEc93v21MZsxmfRmSgxzBS3QRlMNM7Ow6kcCZFZ7Ip8nMS5YbasirkJ0YamV7NGD1fSBuDVIWWMkTlAGhrqHs7TkfxzRCBq2ifVZ6BoIUznOo/s320/FarberAss-Look-Photo---JPEG-75-PAL-vignette-compress.jpg" border="0" /></a> think of women – </div><div><br /></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> Well – </div><div><br /></div><div><strong>DR:</strong> Besides sex. </div><div><br /></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> Yeah, trouble would be close to the top. That’s not a complete list though: sex and trouble, though it’s probably true, you can enjoy a lot of things about women and stay out of trouble as long as you don’t have sex – </div><div><br /></div><div><strong>Q: Getting back to Sandra Bullock – </strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong>DR:</strong> He would have cheated on her whether she was a Minnesota housewife or the Oscar winning actress that she is. The preoccupation people have with assessing what the woman did to cause her husband to cheat is laughable. When a woman cheats, no one looks at the man and assesses where he went wrong. It’s all on her, as it should be, but the double standard is that it isn’t that way when men cheat, especially if he cheats on a successful woman. </div><div><br /></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> But there’s an element of punishment to it too, men don’t like it when women are more powerful and successful than them – </div><div><br /></div><div><strong>DR:</strong> That’s an excuse. If you have a problem with her success then it’s your problem. </div><div><br /></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxqGxPRWwthesoszZG0e81C44jrmNykFcXcVl8SpyDG-U-_CvqJPGhA9EzXLvRYizP-N3AXHmDRsMDSsW0VWEaaKdl8dRtGkkyRLwCZedWpZv6up-qlLOOIRAcEk5yNolkkOWczpOAtw/s1600/TieMeUp4-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464648429855409826" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 295px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxqGxPRWwthesoszZG0e81C44jrmNykFcXcVl8SpyDG-U-_CvqJPGhA9EzXLvRYizP-N3AXHmDRsMDSsW0VWEaaKdl8dRtGkkyRLwCZedWpZv6up-qlLOOIRAcEk5yNolkkOWczpOAtw/s320/TieMeUp4-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>MT:</strong> Chill thyself woman, it is not my problem, I didn't cheat on Sandra Bullock. And the women in my movie are very powerful, I’m surrounded by powerful women, they run my life, I prefer that actually, women are better managers. This is just something that happens to powerful women, I didn't say it was their fault. Look at Madonna, she’s the most powerful woman in the world, and you constantly see that, guys treating her like crap, that’s very common, I know so many successful women in Hollywood, utterly powerless in their personal lives –<br /><br /><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>DR:</strong> Guys treat powerless women like crap too. Cheating is something men do if they think they can get away with it –<br /><br /></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> That is actually true, you’ve got to speak to your guy firmly, like a dog, leave no room for doubt, no wiggle room, “Bad! Bad dog. You will not do this.” </div><div><br /></div><div><strong>DR:</strong> Cheat, and no treat for you. </div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUL2rHqOciANWe-OoSlmfQbQgvbnQm7TYjzOyrLk0pCJValerBIyF7xHQdmo6tsBL87dzHgEEh9Cgxeq43IUR_4KQIISw2g134xTl1-5yrcvOF8reIovQaX-ZfS2q6Wq9gkWjsEs_MTR8/s1600/menaredogs.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464649209393516658" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 162px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 120px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUL2rHqOciANWe-OoSlmfQbQgvbnQm7TYjzOyrLk0pCJValerBIyF7xHQdmo6tsBL87dzHgEEh9Cgxeq43IUR_4KQIISw2g134xTl1-5yrcvOF8reIovQaX-ZfS2q6Wq9gkWjsEs_MTR8/s320/menaredogs.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>MT:</strong> That’s what I tell my sisters about men. Lose all this romantic horse manure and realize men are dogs, and then you’ll be happy, and so will your guy. If you train and reward your dog right, he will obey – women love dogs, I see women out in Runyon Canyon all the time, walking their dogs, they seem very happy. And they’re learning lessons on how to handle men too.<br /></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><br /><strong>Q: The moral of this story: Ladies, invest in obedience training. </strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> And you have to give him a treat too - </div><div><br /></div><div><strong>DR:</strong> Can’t be all whips and leashes? </div><div><br /></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> I’m not even going there. </div><div><br /></div><div><strong>Q: For the sake of diplomacy, let’s say it’s best to use a carrot and stick approach. </strong><br /><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </div><div><br /></div><div>Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><div><br /></div><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a> </div><div><br />Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.</div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-50848190353124067982010-04-22T15:08:00.000-07:002010-04-23T12:41:47.026-07:00Q & A with Prince of Swine's Wild Child Carly Cylinder<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbIMlX8F28_H8_J-t1M2sKW8z_jXo5ApmgMO2ykV8TGKBt7A-0qi8Q4EKHjEy0ZqnbR_pBrxMQmmO0AuCqAcMEJN3kkX7Ja6mQX9eDrZbn-sKtP73X-l4aM1JrcWQKdn4AHIVdmyYo_q0/s1600/v3+Prince+of+Swine+Online+9-5-07+FOR+DAN-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463094550041619218" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 274px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbIMlX8F28_H8_J-t1M2sKW8z_jXo5ApmgMO2ykV8TGKBt7A-0qi8Q4EKHjEy0ZqnbR_pBrxMQmmO0AuCqAcMEJN3kkX7Ja6mQX9eDrZbn-sKtP73X-l4aM1JrcWQKdn4AHIVdmyYo_q0/s320/v3+Prince+of+Swine+Online+9-5-07+FOR+DAN-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>Q: What was your role in <em>Prince of Swine</em>?</strong><br /><br /><strong>Carly Cylinder: </strong>I played Robin, she's a teenage prostitute/actress.<br /><br /><div><div><strong>Q: Did you um, well, putting it delicately, research the role?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>CC:</strong> Honestly, I didn't have to look far, you can find Robin in any club on any street in Hollywood.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Explain.</strong> </div><div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463099472994150258" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 141px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQxh5O_hA688tHm3ctng0XOWvpzipi9SonmrwxiC1UNa8WnqyBPlhNVldLBTfdnYMeot5x7HMiOE2UomxzLacn7eoI_o6syLlgM3hXmjtE6wxtMt2hv6vQiOqSNMQZuGyqtkBJ84Sjt8/s320/brittney.jpg" border="0" /></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEZ3ebG0wz2JGbWJg-o6AyAuwSBzMW2WSmONOI1HBAyXLMIAvyomZRVHdPtZaECUkLAtfDnzSX_6mAzD9IeuXhkXb5Ep59blftpUBxUK1U-OcZuQTFQq9193RavokgIeVsAFpl6tvv1DE/s1600/lindsaydrunk.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463099668549435602" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 129px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 134px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEZ3ebG0wz2JGbWJg-o6AyAuwSBzMW2WSmONOI1HBAyXLMIAvyomZRVHdPtZaECUkLAtfDnzSX_6mAzD9IeuXhkXb5Ep59blftpUBxUK1U-OcZuQTFQq9193RavokgIeVsAFpl6tvv1DE/s320/lindsaydrunk.jpg" border="0" /></a>CC:</strong> Well, she's her own character, distinctive, unique, has her own voice, mannerisms. At the same time, I don't think she's that far removed from an average teenager in Hollywood. Which is kind of scary. We play it comically in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, but that’s comedy, you better laugh because otherwise you’d be crying.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: How is she different than your average American teenager?</strong><br /></div><br /><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXdfLAWtMd6Jjvw8naCt1hFrwIEIqnCosaoU-5JrFwx62NbvPs_fM4uYwmQ-_AQ2SB2_Qc-hcai3DkdnHDLNSoKGV6cMCWX6YJ0PxBDU9TA3A_tWMn9jB_r8McZIOgqicY57Y3lQqsenY/s1600/CarlyWalk-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463098649146025986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 289px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXdfLAWtMd6Jjvw8naCt1hFrwIEIqnCosaoU-5JrFwx62NbvPs_fM4uYwmQ-_AQ2SB2_Qc-hcai3DkdnHDLNSoKGV6cMCWX6YJ0PxBDU9TA3A_tWMn9jB_r8McZIOgqicY57Y3lQqsenY/s320/CarlyWalk-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>CC:</strong> She's just more wild than most, a wild child, a little savage, not particularly cruel or anything, it's just she's not civilized, nobody's broken her, or even tamed her, she's going through life like a wild animal. Now that's almost true of most teenagers, at least in Hollywood, except most teenagers, hopefully, still have parents or a school or a job, or hopefully at least one person who loves them, trying to protect them, keep them in line. With Robin there's nothing, she's living off her looks, off her body, living off the streets. She actually has the same dreams though as every other teenager in Hollywood.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Wants to be a star?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>CC:</strong> Exactly.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: You don't see her as a victim?</strong><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463102465460166258" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 113px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 117px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP6qO6dz2dFsByoNtGkwJPlblM95pVWm1N_4SWsmewQxmFDitMzLffUYNSsrRsVxEzBSqArLm75PjpXxK6eZdLp9d29EF_-Rrr6X5p3n_qisiJGylfsbGCDfc0819SGxzO3n5JIjIdgfc/s320/blackpanther.jpg" border="0" /><br /><strong>CC:</strong> You can't judge her through civilized eyes. She's a wild animal. Sex to a wild animal, even if it's what a civilized person would consider rough, it's not something that traumatizes her because she doesn't have any illusions to begin with, and she’s already been so hardened and savage at a young age.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Rape has no meaning to her?</strong><br /><br /></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn0dMhYKfMb7iBg_LFhiFK3A5k1GLc4BZQlkdBgmGAmrhq7zrOdS3bDq8uehek0V2aInQuit8iRpM_0Oy82rdXpK0LWHagNH-rBZhtIYXaZP-gkOldvM7EhWOS4aPneywX6xvh1XM1gIE/s1600/HollywoodBlvdLaura-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUk24bBeHipyTaF4GQvwNb6dhJMgN6SBaeAEzOa01E7nh__ikdr2hzuagOwtCIdCMtc26WN66vZFyaqtMf5E7ncRqy4C1oA1M3hjBejdH3nmRD5uGDnxiwznf4Cl-qZGVQqlCBzXGJkio/s1600/LauraPalmTrees-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463106194457050626" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 309px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 173px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUk24bBeHipyTaF4GQvwNb6dhJMgN6SBaeAEzOa01E7nh__ikdr2hzuagOwtCIdCMtc26WN66vZFyaqtMf5E7ncRqy4C1oA1M3hjBejdH3nmRD5uGDnxiwznf4Cl-qZGVQqlCBzXGJkio/s320/LauraPalmTrees-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>CC:</strong> She could be overpowered by someone. She hasn't been yet, she's tougher than almost anyone she meets, not physically stronger, but mentally tougher and fiercer, takes control of any encounter, shows no fear or weakness that would attract a predator or a bully. She controls powerful men two and three times her age, two and three times her strength. She's probably been smacked, but nobody's really beaten the crap out of her or raped her. That would change her, something like that probably would really humble her, but it would have to be something severe like that to get through her thick skin.<br /></div><div><br /><strong>Q: Do you like her?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>CC:</strong> There's some things I like about her, sure. She's tough, she's fearless, she's ambitious. I wouldn't want my daughter to grow up to be Robin.<br /></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><br /><strong>Q: Because -</strong><br /><br /><strong>CC:</strong> Because she's an animal, she's not really close to anyone. She has likes and dislikes but no<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcWW6PDI8th4BmpTa5jLSzGVK3MlSjLX0r_khHYMx0SV98F7ndqvaqWNvntlmQiJ3e_HUFQOJD7tXL9uBQ1MfzzI6JTo_BgRBVRnqyrxOYxpHGLMZUQJILvPp41XJI3FtQTBJaI-VfNg/s1600/HollywoodBlvdLaura-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463106330378125170" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcWW6PDI8th4BmpTa5jLSzGVK3MlSjLX0r_khHYMx0SV98F7ndqvaqWNvntlmQiJ3e_HUFQOJD7tXL9uBQ1MfzzI6JTo_BgRBVRnqyrxOYxpHGLMZUQJILvPp41XJI3FtQTBJaI-VfNg/s320/HollywoodBlvdLaura-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a> loves, no one that cares about her or that she really cares about. She could come to a bad, violent end any day. She’s much more prone to disease and/or violence than a man doing the same thing. Those are just the stats, that’s just the way women are shaped, we’re sort of basins or repositories for the pain, sickness and violence of the world, that’s just the price of having a womb. </div><br /><div>And if she ever does fall in love with someone, she'll probably have to hide her past life or just have a lot of explaining to do. If she were to become sensitive like that or care about someone, her current life would come to horrify her. There's a part of her that gets hardened and maybe even lost before she ever knew it existed. She's not really in any pain but that part of her can't live doing what she's doing now. If she were ever to awaken it, then she would feel pain, so she might never awaken it her whole life, because to do so would be too painful after the life she’s lived. That would be tragic, in my opinion, but Robin would be completely unaware of the tragedy, that part of her it would horrify is numb, hard as steel by the time she’s sixteen.</div><br /><br /><div></div><div>See Carly in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </div><br /><div>Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><br /><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a> </div><br /><div>Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.</div></div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-32017191210579655862010-04-18T15:48:00.000-07:002010-04-18T18:16:42.193-07:00Real Life vs. Show Biz Law; Obama’s Finance Reform and Prince of Swine<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD5mj_j6SWTETLzjS4J_C5k9dm1m2ybnS8kQC4ty7hviWxrcr7Fj_C_AuANT7dYBtyLHBW8toxZdvzoGGimCdcWwVPDV3tZ0iJA3bsyhNdKOL4YyQtexK2S5678tAAUYdi7Q3Ct5V7rGk/s1600/LobbyCardTrial001-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461636387264066914" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 164px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD5mj_j6SWTETLzjS4J_C5k9dm1m2ybnS8kQC4ty7hviWxrcr7Fj_C_AuANT7dYBtyLHBW8toxZdvzoGGimCdcWwVPDV3tZ0iJA3bsyhNdKOL4YyQtexK2S5678tAAUYdi7Q3Ct5V7rGk/s320/LobbyCardTrial001-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>Q: <em>Prince of Swine</em> shows law as theatre. A lawyer can have the facts on their side, they can be on the right side of the law, and they can still lose if they give a bad performance or employ a bad strategy in court. </strong><br /><br /><strong></strong><div><div><strong>MT <em>(writer/director)</em>:</strong> That’s correct. On the other hand, they can tell whopping lies, be on the wrong side of the law, and still win also, if they give a great performance in court, both as writers and actors, and as legal strategists. </div><br /><div><div><div><div><strong>Q: And you see the Obama Administration doing something like this now with finance reform?</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzs2UNF3sBZxx0QxhPKlYgd-sMl8p75K3xtYTukzsYi3pDoglxT2nVw8uTtgdec6D0pTHCHoJykdVQ4lMs9Y4OGBGIGcWkJRezQ7BpEAoTtXFt3-PmtyRSMqFRsWcta00hPSRmZ2mkjE/s1600/obama.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461636696316677042" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 123px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 131px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzs2UNF3sBZxx0QxhPKlYgd-sMl8p75K3xtYTukzsYi3pDoglxT2nVw8uTtgdec6D0pTHCHoJykdVQ4lMs9Y4OGBGIGcWkJRezQ7BpEAoTtXFt3-PmtyRSMqFRsWcta00hPSRmZ2mkjE/s320/obama.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>MT:</strong> In a good way, they’re fighting the good fight, proposing the right law, the facts could not be any more on their side, and I like Obama’s legal strategy so far. Plus he's a very charismatic lawyer, knows how to use the spotlight. But he still might lose because the other side’s got more money than God, and can afford the best lawyers, not to mention they’ve bought both houses of Congress, and most of the key employees within the beltway in the past 30 years. </div><br /><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Q: Wall Street has more money than the US government? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> The finance sector is twice as large as the next biggest contributor to campaigns (trial lawyers, and the highest paid trial lawyers work for the finance sector). Of course, the US government is the largest financial player in the world, but Wall Street’s lawyers will be more highly paid, I can assure you. Beyond this, the Wall Street firms will use taxpayer bailout money, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrjWB4B3GACtZiOwWX72yFKV6BwyUN1Jp3EzlXWx4vVTyPmdvjPQm99BZPNzKAGa8Bu5SOmHqw97RUKMlZBNz6pa449gRjYhMBy958Oc1ftJpdC1eY0pOnG5kVZqNyaI1wRjCf7_NDynE/s1600/next-bubble.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461637283156468482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 270px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 193px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrjWB4B3GACtZiOwWX72yFKV6BwyUN1Jp3EzlXWx4vVTyPmdvjPQm99BZPNzKAGa8Bu5SOmHqw97RUKMlZBNz6pa449gRjYhMBy958Oc1ftJpdC1eY0pOnG5kVZqNyaI1wRjCf7_NDynE/s320/next-bubble.jpg" border="0" /></a>to fund a legal defense, to prevent Congress from changing the laws, which brought on the collapse in the first place. They’re using taxpayer money to defend and continue behavior which forced us to bail them out in the first place, just as they originally bribed Congress to change those laws which enabled the collapse in the first place. They do this through lobbying, campaign contributions, and legal defenses. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: What is Obama’s strategy? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> From what I can see he’s taking no prisoners, and God bless him. It’s not a coincidence this wave of SEC indictments has occurred hand in hand with the public unveiling of his plan for finance reform. He’s saying to Wall Street, “You want to play power games with me? You want to play hardball? Here’s your choices: reform, which is good for the country, or jail. Which do you prefer?”. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: You think the SEC indictments are a pretense, a stick to make them take the carrot of finance reform? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> God no, they haven’t even alleged half of what Wall Street does. What they’re charging is the tip of the iceberg. I can tell you what they’re alleging is the number one shape of the cons on Wall Street, so it makes me believe they’re true. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: What’s the shape of the con? </strong></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihx5ChjtqIDhJrn4dFQrRah2BMSHAYa6eQZR8L_JjZ-amNZvftTa9j4YvOd7vhJ0JKX5eSZYcpf6xlSwUPB0JSFz_HJwK_ci5MgHvBPSLQwiHpn9XzaoIeCL9syXsDVHRibtydv0or038/s1600/madoff.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461637734880924594" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 158px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 108px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihx5ChjtqIDhJrn4dFQrRah2BMSHAYa6eQZR8L_JjZ-amNZvftTa9j4YvOd7vhJ0JKX5eSZYcpf6xlSwUPB0JSFz_HJwK_ci5MgHvBPSLQwiHpn9XzaoIeCL9syXsDVHRibtydv0or038/s320/madoff.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>MT:</strong> Blind investors with science so to speak. Create investment vehicles so complicated, then pitch them with pseudoscientific, highly mathematical gibberish, which makes them seem sure things (AAA rated in this case), which, if you put it in plain language and were honest, nobody would ever go for. But when you’re pitching to the mark, you imply they’re stupid or nutless if they don’t understand. Then you show them a bunch of completely bogus numbers to virtually insure a profit, and guard yourselves legally by getting them to sign some complex agreement which they’d have to spend a lot of money to argue about in court if anything goes wrong.<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: Sort of makes you want to put your money in a mattress. </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> You just need to find honest people who understand the market. Is Warren Buffett worried about these indictments? Are his investors screwed? Warren Buffett is supporting Obama with everything he has, he wants an honest market, as do most investors, but Wall Street has fallen into the hands of complete scum, who are going to clutch their last dollar and drag the rest of the country down with them if they’re not reformed. Their ideology is a lie (that regulation is bad for the market) and they’re liars and crooks on top of that. They lie to their own investors, that’s what these SEC indictments are about. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: What about the lawyers in <em>Prince of Swine</em>, which sort of lawyers are they?</strong></div><br /><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-dZZKdlWDb0uEUAMgvTrZVoEKPNYZXqIn8nsD3wuNODHAqQd9o3H2E8YeM8EUsXubWy5wLkfTKqRdF8ZirKapKm8p2sf2skjT0WhZAmoJtW8O9SPOoDpUDK1QK7xflxZUv1wEw_6cFSk/s1600/LobbyCardTrial002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461638347578464578" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-dZZKdlWDb0uEUAMgvTrZVoEKPNYZXqIn8nsD3wuNODHAqQd9o3H2E8YeM8EUsXubWy5wLkfTKqRdF8ZirKapKm8p2sf2skjT0WhZAmoJtW8O9SPOoDpUDK1QK7xflxZUv1wEw_6cFSk/s320/LobbyCardTrial002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>MT:</strong> My character, the Biggs character, and the Julie character are fighting the good fight. They’re on the right side of the law, the facts support them, their client, on the whole, is way more innocent than the opposition. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Do they win? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Well, you have to see the movie for that. The case in the movie is trivial, but the movie itself is meant to be a metaphor for the state of the country, and we’re definitely going through a trial for our souls and our future right now. </div><br /><br /><br /><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </div><br /><div>Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><br /><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a> </div><br /><div>Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.</div></div></div></div></div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-48884282878408465812010-04-16T18:32:00.000-07:002010-04-17T11:29:48.390-07:00CENSORED: Fear and Desire for Men in the Sopranos, Mad Men and Prince of Swine<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460949737403395138" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 181px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 127px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiCTqC8O3bnHRC_rI0-34pHqtH0gxq6CXJzASMGyFpu2be2sTUpilFz6MWZ9iOtPVO0k0ibP3TjIzhAYdCB4QaEnPZE_QQovSLlzm21OduBFXtTHUxqqCFff6hWOeNsw0jdztz2wmNygU/s320/prop82.jpg" border="0" /><strong>Q: You’ve been censored from both the far right and far left for <em>Prince of Swine</em>? The far left tried to ban <em>Prince of Swine</em> from the <em>Indie Fest.</em> At the same time, you feel the movie trailer was unjustly restricted by a ratings system and social norms which lean far to the right - </strong><br /><br /><strong>Mark Toma (<em>writer/director</em>):</strong> And both rationales, left and right, are a pretense, they present it as morality, but really it’s fear of sex, sexual repression.<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: Explain.</strong></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaoWnkDNRmjJ90i_BVjrRDFcknjZU9l0B4sC-oOTisiJCm3CXM4Q2Ppbq5lZwMjP7q_1QBgqLPEC5xZqTuhoVIwxnOWkovKU33moc4Fr9npWAHMCMAuZXbXe50VC6lKkvmC2jZLTe08-Q/s1600/soprano.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460950448154296482" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 129px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 174px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaoWnkDNRmjJ90i_BVjrRDFcknjZU9l0B4sC-oOTisiJCm3CXM4Q2Ppbq5lZwMjP7q_1QBgqLPEC5xZqTuhoVIwxnOWkovKU33moc4Fr9npWAHMCMAuZXbXe50VC6lKkvmC2jZLTe08-Q/s320/soprano.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>MT:</strong> It’s funny, there’s almost no difference between the far right and far left on this issue, this is basically the lunatic fringe, from both directions that’s making all the fuss. But it’s the lunatic fringe that tends to make law and control policy in this area, left and right, the 10% of morons who ruin it for everyone else. Most Americans can’t be bothered and are just living life, going about their business. The middle 80-90% of Americans watch <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> and are no more offended than an episode of the <strong><em>Sopranos</em></strong>. A little more sex, a little less violence, but they enjoy the edge to it, just like people enjoy the <strong><em>Sopranos</em></strong> so much and for the same reason (and isn’t it the most hilarious thing that, whatever his looks, Tony Soprano is a sex symbol, the combination of violence and power so many women find attractive, as well as so many men enjoying that character).<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: I don’t understand were you banned for sex or violence?</strong><br /><br /></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> We were attacked from both left and right for violent, passionate, consensual sex, whether it was an expression of love or an expression of rage. We got zapped from the right, given a Hard R for the trailer, which means it can't play in front of most R-rated movies, and also from the left for being an “affront to feminism” those are the words of the people who tried to have our festival award revoked, not mine. These are the same monkeys who s<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKlU3fRr0IcurfBPd2k63a5cm9CrwRaZCYSy_77hbuaYZ6NkOUSJYaaJY2mht65mIVx1bZ-cisa_lc5bF9WRWkTwl967KlQXPMQSaYl0yo0v3L5FBUcQKKQPT_a6jh9AHEPpFlp0QWR4/s1600/madmen2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460950908531624018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 152px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 111px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKlU3fRr0IcurfBPd2k63a5cm9CrwRaZCYSy_77hbuaYZ6NkOUSJYaaJY2mht65mIVx1bZ-cisa_lc5bF9WRWkTwl967KlQXPMQSaYl0yo0v3L5FBUcQKKQPT_a6jh9AHEPpFlp0QWR4/s320/madmen2.jpg" border="0" /></a>ay <strong><em>Mad Men</em></strong> is anti-feminist. The content of <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> is also almost exactly similar to <strong><em>Mad Men</em></strong>, same theme, same subject matter, but <strong><em>Mad Men</em></strong> is a perfect snapshot of history, whereas <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> is happening right here, right now, totally cutting edge. That’s the first thing that pops out at you watching <strong><em>Mad Men</em></strong>, “Have these guys never heard of harassment law?”, whereas a harassment suit is the central action of <em><strong>Prince of Swine</strong></em>. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: <em>Prince of Swine</em> is a little harder edged than</strong> <em><strong>Mad Men</strong></em> <strong>–</strong> </div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> That’s a concession <strong><em>Mad Men</em></strong> had to make to play on AMC, the ratings code is a little tighter there than it would be for HBO, which is pay cable, so they had to take a little of the edge off. I guarantee you, left to his own devices, the creator of <strong><em>Mad Men</em></strong> is a <strong><em>Sopranos</em></strong> disciple, he’d push it to the edge just as hard as the <strong><em>Sopranos</em></strong> does –<br /></div><div><br /><strong>Q: Why do you say it’s sexual repression? <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiemx_H9e35V8UsFs5Qb5a_kggrW8pjMHEOeUYhH8ToFTnnPACS_XIgbD7sQAA9Kof9yUHddpoEmUQDJyrGVlvyw75YVFFl7gPBMpTyPjCoXmAVNovm4K0XADlGiqr_kY2pfKlcb13L85Q/s1600/femmen3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460951361750262978" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 139px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 109px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiemx_H9e35V8UsFs5Qb5a_kggrW8pjMHEOeUYhH8ToFTnnPACS_XIgbD7sQAA9Kof9yUHddpoEmUQDJyrGVlvyw75YVFFl7gPBMpTyPjCoXmAVNovm4K0XADlGiqr_kY2pfKlcb13L85Q/s320/femmen3.jpg" border="0" /></a></strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Because there’s no violence in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, or rather, the violence is there, but it’s completely repressed, just like society, the passions only come out as sex and rage, nobody shoots anybody, like they do in the <strong><em>Sopranos</em></strong>, not a single beating, maiming, nobody rapes gay men with a pool <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvAB29ah2x0uGLO07mYq0R9ZmVq0PY1trqj-z1stbdlp20YvdLVoCWyFgbT4Z_1Rrnfen5OpnAZJ63Tp0LW6qe3CVoPwHBeZw6xNajFqKoM1L-S-YhagckZW6FkTbHeUCoI-BeTWe7fY/s1600/Madmen.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460951683542263298" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 312px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 125px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrvAB29ah2x0uGLO07mYq0R9ZmVq0PY1trqj-z1stbdlp20YvdLVoCWyFgbT4Z_1Rrnfen5OpnAZJ63Tp0LW6qe3CVoPwHBeZw6xNajFqKoM1L-S-YhagckZW6FkTbHeUCoI-BeTWe7fY/s320/Madmen.jpg" border="0" /></a>cue, but it’s just as intense, it just all gets channeled into sex and lawsuits in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, and that’s what freaks children, on both the right and left, out – <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha3rPIUjHD7Sw3jW8FPhkRrna8CyVUd_hp6xvdvuVc13GcaGovlpPABWPy3AbM7C0mEbAXpS8OXXlt-vDsJeO_IKmkfW2gvoeSy3ZweOtJnegUXayo2cT0hfgo8ziLSWgm4-Nwa5a9u6Q/s1600/prop8.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460953343396359586" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 83px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha3rPIUjHD7Sw3jW8FPhkRrna8CyVUd_hp6xvdvuVc13GcaGovlpPABWPy3AbM7C0mEbAXpS8OXXlt-vDsJeO_IKmkfW2gvoeSy3ZweOtJnegUXayo2cT0hfgo8ziLSWgm4-Nwa5a9u6Q/s320/prop8.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div><strong>Q: How do you know? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Because their objections are bullshit and not the real reasons. The left says it’s anti-feminist. Pure crap, I consider it a feminist movie. Again, these are the same monkeys who say <strong><em>Mad Men</em></strong> is anti-feminist. The right says its immoral about sex. Again: pure horseshit, from the people trying to ban gay marriage during an AIDS crisis, they’re just afraid of sex - </div><br /><div><strong>Q: So bullshit from the left, but horseshit from the right - </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> We’re taking it from both sides because we show both sides, sex as an expression of rage, dominance, power – which we make very clear is monstrous, but also sex as an expression of love, redemption, which is the most beautiful, moral and sacred thing in the world, exactly what American art is lacking. I honestly think it’s way more harmful for a teenager to watch <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong> or some pornographic drivel like that, whose subliminal message is “girls, trade sex for money, hold out for Mr. Big”, or these little teaser shows about sex you see on Network TV, that trivialize it, than it is to watch something real like <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Explain. </strong><br /><br /></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jjYfCsjQ08M29jDmWPrytoF4xbl1I1PpCGkNH4baljDzmN7h1fC-wInwRvM2Czeg-Fx7bdiQ9gPgd0TU1zr-pFXAs3rj6ZCzNSfSlKDiaJvAJWFxSvrm5-9QH7DiYM65ygjLCkYyhvw/s1600/GirlKnife-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460954064717841058" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jjYfCsjQ08M29jDmWPrytoF4xbl1I1PpCGkNH4baljDzmN7h1fC-wInwRvM2Czeg-Fx7bdiQ9gPgd0TU1zr-pFXAs3rj6ZCzNSfSlKDiaJvAJWFxSvrm5-9QH7DiYM65ygjLCkYyhvw/s320/GirlKnife-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>MT:</strong> It’s like showing a teenager depictions of war, and there’s no blood, there’s no guts, the good guys always win and are just, that is truly pornographic and child abuse in my opinion, infanticide, if those kids later go into the infantry and get killed without knowing what they’re doing, or just if their mothers send them off to war ignorantly, without knowing what it really is. My feeling about this is every kid, when he’s sixteen (not to mention the parents), you should show them the opening sequence to <strong><em>Saving Private Ryan</em></strong>, in full all out gore. Actually show them 95% of that movie, just lose the lame ending, not on grounds of morality, just an artistically bad ending. Show’em <strong><em>Glory</em></strong> too, that’s a good one for war. I don’t even think kids should be allowed to go to war, regardless, I mean, if you’ve got to send somebody, send me, I know what I’m doing, and am still in shape to fight - </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Getting back to your movie - </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> My point is it’s the same thing with <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, but about sex, not war. Show kids it at 16, so they know about sex, and know how to be moral about it, that’s way, way better than this soft porn crap like <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong> or all this network teaser drivel.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </p><div>Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><br /><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a> </div><br /><div>Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.</div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-11369154444889607982010-04-14T16:29:00.000-07:002010-04-20T00:24:12.261-07:00BANNED: "Feminists" and "Men" Attack Prince of Swine<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmvHRpTcNomlVI2_b9baNURbLOsCMuJwnwLolqtIGslUbCVCrCKug212VqocpGicRwAlQyFBlH7zfa_wFMqoq1oI-NMECzLgf36IIOJxXowR8MsJtiEo9E3a4Q0KvFGKDIfpGjFb_Jivo/s1600/angryfem3.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 127px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 188px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460147209875750770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmvHRpTcNomlVI2_b9baNURbLOsCMuJwnwLolqtIGslUbCVCrCKug212VqocpGicRwAlQyFBlH7zfa_wFMqoq1oI-NMECzLgf36IIOJxXowR8MsJtiEo9E3a4Q0KvFGKDIfpGjFb_Jivo/s320/angryfem3.jpg" /></a> <strong>Q:</strong> <strong>There was an attempt to ban <em>Prince of Swine</em> from the <em>Indie Fest</em>, to revoke its award? I’m quoting from the director of the festival here, Thomas Baker, in an official release, who received complaints that <em>Prince of Swine</em> represents an “affront to feminism”?</strong><br /><br /><div><strong>Mark Toma (<em>writer/director</em>):</strong> Yep, the thought police are out in full force.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: What happened?</strong><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQwBu7QJrOHJ4nOSaZFAidDzvZcKcN86ZXLF89Qe4KDoxDPVHYUi6quGNVYlV5UKzerCa-FXRe1HBDUYbDrA0nig0HPjjmk5YQsAqzJi6zsu8ahpfhy7XQprLrQ4Uvs3cVTX-Nj5rtYk/s1600/angryfem4.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 107px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 143px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460147462040364130" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQwBu7QJrOHJ4nOSaZFAidDzvZcKcN86ZXLF89Qe4KDoxDPVHYUi6quGNVYlV5UKzerCa-FXRe1HBDUYbDrA0nig0HPjjmk5YQsAqzJi6zsu8ahpfhy7XQprLrQ4Uvs3cVTX-Nj5rtYk/s320/angryfem4.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNi-UboykU0T-4Hwq-h2ElrP8LJCU9sbO10Q58WC8GcS1DwKKOXJnSBFyzItuqtFVBbVaM_Y3I-_ThtTWMJFUiU9L_vGhohNvbR_df4cZTyxnfh-c757Ukr4bRk-uoXnc9eY3BXf5OErg/s1600/femmen5.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 99px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 132px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460150849476895858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNi-UboykU0T-4Hwq-h2ElrP8LJCU9sbO10Q58WC8GcS1DwKKOXJnSBFyzItuqtFVBbVaM_Y3I-_ThtTWMJFUiU9L_vGhohNvbR_df4cZTyxnfh-c757Ukr4bRk-uoXnc9eY3BXf5OErg/s320/femmen5.jpg" /></a> <strong>MT:</strong> I guess some of these shrews, and I’m using that term in a non-sexist manner, they could be either men or women who made the attack (in my experience it’s just as likely to be some henpecked guy who thinks he’s impressing women by “standing up” to us. Of course, they made the attack in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4v8YqK3IfpC06XCWWdutZebflFU5uRilvl-8CvYSiXrnHa6UQwnORK220yhYMnoVYn8ctHcP-bx-jxPggX8Z-pfXh0BVZapvYxukspdhms8TB93SQo_9eO8Ft-sqDT7r5vJprKrZIJI/s1600/femmen2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 93px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 140px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460149734371071394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4v8YqK3IfpC06XCWWdutZebflFU5uRilvl-8CvYSiXrnHa6UQwnORK220yhYMnoVYn8ctHcP-bx-jxPggX8Z-pfXh0BVZapvYxukspdhms8TB93SQo_9eO8Ft-sqDT7r5vJprKrZIJI/s320/femmen2.jpg" /></a>private, not to our faces, so <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdq1zGg2vd6ElOU4Yi_wQaV-Fe0wq1nK0oFw4M6rGDtG2OyAWbeD34AflxyYj1pMmHiXYAJeN65rnQ_dR39Lmq2mSUWBETDfOdJ57ZW4kW3YD_6oJcWUMotqxsROh3ARuZLVL_Z8QcIz4/s1600/femmen4.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 97px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 126px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460151090699047570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdq1zGg2vd6ElOU4Yi_wQaV-Fe0wq1nK0oFw4M6rGDtG2OyAWbeD34AflxyYj1pMmHiXYAJeN65rnQ_dR39Lmq2mSUWBETDfOdJ57ZW4kW3YD_6oJcWUMotqxsROh3ARuZLVL_Z8QcIz4/s320/femmen4.jpg" /></a>there’s no way to know). If the use of the word “shrew” offends some people, I can replace it with “nutless bitches”, but again, I’m using that phrase in a non-sexist manner to refer to both men and women. Whenever I use the phrase “nutless bitch” or even the more graphic . . . I will bend to public pressure and all children in the audience and say C-word here, but 90% of the time I use either of those words I’m referring to men. That’s the sad state of American masculinity.<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: So you were banned?</strong></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHkUXIFzMSy2pwQL0QN1DjigKf-7qrVD07FmX89xsjEJtHt2lI84RK9mlOjMOAlAbzefp-D-_PNdg7GpjUC-pG40ggWxxM-qdGA7Ota7DCCiFHmfeI9OKz4i0n5qhKOzwjMyDphS_l2mU/s1600/femmen6.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 111px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460150594380057970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHkUXIFzMSy2pwQL0QN1DjigKf-7qrVD07FmX89xsjEJtHt2lI84RK9mlOjMOAlAbzefp-D-_PNdg7GpjUC-pG40ggWxxM-qdGA7Ota7DCCiFHmfeI9OKz4i0n5qhKOzwjMyDphS_l2mU/s320/femmen6.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDMGi1qGXXERLfRZCQN2fsnEui1tbNarJtaAy2fgL40Qba2uXnn_6Ngt_xRuFdJOlq4VeRKrt4IcLsWa9DSarP_m5IAPF2tftxOAD9AU2ZptPEtwjU6QHpO7NGQOOCWDjXalMHsKbSdgA/s1600/angryfeminist2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 120px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 111px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460149978696728370" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDMGi1qGXXERLfRZCQN2fsnEui1tbNarJtaAy2fgL40Qba2uXnn_6Ngt_xRuFdJOlq4VeRKrt4IcLsWa9DSarP_m5IAPF2tftxOAD9AU2ZptPEtwjU6QHpO7NGQOOCWDjXalMHsKbSdgA/s320/angryfeminist2.jpg" /></a><strong>MT:</strong> Not yet, and thankfully, I’ve talked to Thomas Baker, the head of the <strong><em>Indie Fest</em></strong>, and God bless them, they didn’t cave, even under pressure. But this is not the first time we’ve been attacked, we were banned out to the outer edges of an R rating, a Hard R, that means we can't play the trailer even in front of most R-rated movies, when there’s not a shred of violence in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, all of the sex that’s portrayed, whether its meant to be beautiful or an expression of rage, all of its consensual. It's just a part of life, the very opposite of pornographic, that's exactly the dictionary definition of pornographic, "sex taken apart from life". <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> is just the opposite, it's sex welling up as a part of life, messy, dangerous and beautiful. In the real meaning of pornographic, <strong><em>Sex and the City 2 </em></strong>is pornographic, because it's a complete fantasy, sep<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiKamUMFYqQm27_kiEwycvQpHNjPgvNVPGmcfLgjBrPtG3GtzLbPYwUIaafou2ICrIheJIDyTyXUDUNcdLbGABJHBR0kq3BDzKw4yDUzKcx06Yp2vYvHePnJcfj-EYq_Tue6KFdRHVrHw/s1600/femmen6.jpg"></a>arate from life, however <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUpOyueB8wr29ffS1Bb__cxj_-x0YPcvqTrwZA9ap6fUq6qwW3TDqdlHXV0lHc_iIsuzffo11h1z1NSeoidyi6sqvJ59XpVPhfL1xHiMZkL2OM_zwid7iTS7V2x1gBVb0GPv7ihedC8E8/s1600/angryfem.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 75px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 126px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460152599297882610" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUpOyueB8wr29ffS1Bb__cxj_-x0YPcvqTrwZA9ap6fUq6qwW3TDqdlHXV0lHc_iIsuzffo11h1z1NSeoidyi6sqvJ59XpVPhfL1xHiMZkL2OM_zwid7iTS7V2x1gBVb0GPv7ihedC8E8/s320/angryfem.jpg" /></a>limp and lame the actual sex is in it, but <strong><em>Prince of Swine </em></strong>is the farthest thing away from porn. It's too real for some people, the strenuously passionate sex and strong emotions of love and hate that come along with that are too intense, that's why they can't handle it, they prefer their sex to be repressed and delusional, like these Anti-gay marriage rednecks or their femnazi counterparts on the left, or in the case of <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong>, if sex is not greed-based, if it's not shallow sex with a vacuous millionaire you're only screwing for the money, then it's dirty and brutal, and something that belongs in the gutter.<br /><br /><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 217px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 285px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460154542625146386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ53c3J9UBNBiKSmqcU3u7qJEaFP5SQPlWNdo0MlhQdI3ZLj4ppvW1iY5mBXF04C_Za43LiaSjYJAXXXG1T-N_o0OunILwwB2iNDrictVkbVMH9AsW5uPWyXH511yQXSipIYfdZnfhh4w/s320/henpecked.jpg" /><strong>Q: What did the festival say?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYpTJryvTkpBimtEsbpdYerGx432viHqS16O9mqZarbNSSUwut6b4v9IPfi0U1AuZ4j8dAwDfdqw6irMKPlJgPNb80wtdHoxoJR_akjH59kJFvj6ETsmxFqHPkjS1bJlJFTVQNVZaay1k/s1600/henpecked.jpg"></a></strong><br /><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I’m quoting from the letter Tom Baker released after the complaints, “At the <strong><em>Indie Fest</em></strong> we think filmmakers have the right to create films that challenge assumptions, whether politically correct or not. <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> won our Award of Merit based on high quality storytelling and superior filmmaking craft.”</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Is <em>Prince of Swine</em> an “affront to feminism”?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I’m starting to wonder if I might want it to be, I mean if this is what feminism has become, this sad parody of what it’s supposed to be, who needs it? Who wants to be friends with these people if this is where they’re coming from? It’s a work of art, so even my opinion is not definitive, but I considered it as glorifying a certain sort of woman, whom I see as a feminist. My lead actress considers herself a feminist. My publicist considers herself a feminist. These are very strong-willed, independent <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBRYKRsAgwndUQT9W3LdcBycbW3ZuCYrrtJgXUruHTQefqdkbbhafcqQswS4TATGCkjHPjcSfnYueqX5eGj4OwbY7hFyVmqZlK36E9FTBVpKSHeOdByc5rO30hZfObDzWRLiBII5W1co/s1600/henpcked+2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 179px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 118px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460155800698812882" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBRYKRsAgwndUQT9W3LdcBycbW3ZuCYrrtJgXUruHTQefqdkbbhafcqQswS4TATGCkjHPjcSfnYueqX5eGj4OwbY7hFyVmqZlK36E9FTBVpKSHeOdByc5rO30hZfObDzWRLiBII5W1co/s320/henpcked+2.jpg" /></a>women, they never listen to me on anything else, so I doubt they’d support the movie if it were anti-feminist or misogynistic. Beyond that, Thomas Baker, at the <strong><em>Indie Fest</em></strong>, is an old civil rights hand, very active in that movement, so I very much doubt he’s going to support a sexist movie.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: But some people see <em>Prince of Swine</em> as an anti-feminist movie?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> So what? Even if it is anti-feminist, that’s not grounds for banning it. First of all it isn’t, and second of all, feminism isn’t the law of the land, and in fact, episodes like this are exactly why it’s held in such contempt nowadays, has become so irrelevant. The people who want to ban it for being anti-feminist are raving fascist idiots - </div><br /><div><strong>Q: I didn’t mean your enemies, I meant your friends who consider it anti-feminist?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> That’s different, I see their point and understand them, though that’s not my view. It’s usually large brained conservatives who see it that way, I don’t mean these right wing monkeys out trying to ban gay marriage, whom I doubt can even spell <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, or the chimps who got us into Iraq and totally botched it, or the banking whores against any kind of regulation or reform, even if its good for the market. I mean thinking, articulate conservatives, they see <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> as being highly critical of feminism, as feminism having started off as a good, revolutionary movement, now gone off the tracks, led people astray, and now a lot of hypocrisy has crept in, a lot of bad thinking. I actually agree with that view and there’s a lot of evidence for it. Exhibit A in support of it: these fascist chimps trying to ban us.<br /><br /><br /><strong><em></em></strong></div><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </div><br /><div>Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><br /><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a><br /><br />Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.</div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-457779913617436602010-04-08T11:18:00.000-07:002010-04-11T17:17:51.538-07:00Sex, Violence and Rock'n'Roll; Music in Prince of Swine<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiembkZnV-owogv6B2OjiZO5TcmUJZjkz1e2heUAZU1gjacFM0hGFVg8TYbQGXIh4ij2kiqCpwlW4IfVbNt4VjZCLwkqgZyDtE8oHKjl2uPGhrPqAqoacRLChKh3izvXo1RjvedC1Q0aVI/s1600/FarberGirl-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457840150255096498" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 276px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 146px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiembkZnV-owogv6B2OjiZO5TcmUJZjkz1e2heUAZU1gjacFM0hGFVg8TYbQGXIh4ij2kiqCpwlW4IfVbNt4VjZCLwkqgZyDtE8oHKjl2uPGhrPqAqoacRLChKh3izvXo1RjvedC1Q0aVI/s320/FarberGirl-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>Q: Why do you call <em>Prince of Swine</em> a Rock'n'Roll comedy?<br /></strong><br /><strong>Michael Rogers (music supervisor, <em>Prince of Swine</em>):</strong> Because in the usual sense of the words, it's a comedy that rocks, it's got a beat to it, <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> moves from first beat to last, and you can just enjoy the movie on that level if you want. But also on a deeper level, which is, unfortunately, not much associated with rock music any more -<br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Q: Delve, maestro. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIHexaNJLuRpXt6kFX_A7v4i2O24KQeIbjPrNDGLde__R4HQNq3X5YcTn_GoIGXIisQQ_8jrFolc_imoEbqYfDM4WwoeE2_eTthYj8asUvPWZ0c62TE-Yu_BQ8Uf5JqwsnmrClr-0HHVg/s1600/mushroom.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457841270805005602" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 146px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 174px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIHexaNJLuRpXt6kFX_A7v4i2O24KQeIbjPrNDGLde__R4HQNq3X5YcTn_GoIGXIisQQ_8jrFolc_imoEbqYfDM4WwoeE2_eTthYj8asUvPWZ0c62TE-Yu_BQ8Uf5JqwsnmrClr-0HHVg/s320/mushroom.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></strong><br /><strong>MR:</strong> The reason rock was a revolutionary force in world culture is it reaches into the unconscious. After WW II we'd been thrust into this technological cage, with no outlet for the passions. War was not an option any more for greater and greater numbers of people, people were sexually repressed - the passions had to go somewhere. They went into rock music. We tend to associate rock with children, but it's actually an ancient view: music is the barbarous expression of the human soul. <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> is a rock'n'roll movie on this level because its writer, director and composer are very aware of that musical level in every beat.<br /><br /><strong>Q: Animality lurking beneath the veneer of civilization?<br /></strong><br /><strong>MR: </strong> The subject matter and musicality reminded me of <strong><em>Blue Velvet</em></strong> in that context, and also <strong><em>Full Metal Jacket</em></strong>, though <strong><em>Full Metal Jacket</em></strong> is more a dissection of violence and the male mind, it's defined by almost the complete absence of or abolition of women (which also makes it less musical). The common theme is, music or animality are right below the surface in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, sometimes breaking through, just as it does in real life, what an actor would call "subtext", and that's what gives <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> its musical beat. <br /><br /><strong>Q: Where does it break through?</strong><br /><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbvVEAQqiXFSKiBYtXN6zs1667Kn8LdGOz8dAEXUJq4L8qK9biOHscKuSoLInYltMNGzrvxA2_4fsKu5Tbx_uwc-mN1SbYzmk-rXtIl-AybuE4YpLPYD7Js3jr70DpZp6ok1TrDpAGb4/s1600/horsenfox.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457842853105304306" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 288px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 227px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbvVEAQqiXFSKiBYtXN6zs1667Kn8LdGOz8dAEXUJq4L8qK9biOHscKuSoLInYltMNGzrvxA2_4fsKu5Tbx_uwc-mN1SbYzmk-rXtIl-AybuE4YpLPYD7Js3jr70DpZp6ok1TrDpAGb4/s320/horsenfox.bmp" border="0" /></a>MR:</strong> Well, obviously in the sex scenes. There's also a level of violence, menace, certainly hatred, present in the Farber character, that looms over everything. The Witt character is animalistic but not hateful. Women have power in the movie, and women are the first to become powerless when a movie or a society are sexually repressed, repressing women is literally repressing music in my view, or repressing music is repressing women, either way -<br /><br /><strong>Q: So -<br /></strong><br /><strong>MR:</strong> So what?<br /><br /><strong>Q: (<em>laughing</em>) In so many words, it's been awhile since rock music had anything to say to me, I mean, so what, animal passion? The Nazis had animal passion, anyone can have animal passion, especially men, it's as easy as breathing for you guys.<br /></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3o0CjfJ34KoANxWSrrga8uf43J7jeHdxauDq3ocDURaEHGNTqBTQpyNzqxxZkKY9HrcQCfeJH6_gPujI2qpNSL-ESy7ccjEVcE-RoBZwbSUZZQ5WsB2dyhOWVR9f5DfabQyYLA4zhYHA/s1600/nazi.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457843502234666370" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 123px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 158px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3o0CjfJ34KoANxWSrrga8uf43J7jeHdxauDq3ocDURaEHGNTqBTQpyNzqxxZkKY9HrcQCfeJH6_gPujI2qpNSL-ESy7ccjEVcE-RoBZwbSUZZQ5WsB2dyhOWVR9f5DfabQyYLA4zhYHA/s320/nazi.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>MR:</strong> Anyone can, I think most people lose it as they age, there is no outlet for it in modern life, if it's not awakened it dies, we can't harness it for anything, it tends to get frittered away or lost in the machine. That's what I like about <strong><em>Prince of Swine </em></strong>- you could end up a tyrant or a monster, destroy yourself, that's one possibility. You're stirring energies which could lead down the path of ultimate evil. The night rallies at Nuremberg with the fire and music, whipping the crowd into a frenzy. The parallels and precursors to a modern rock concert are obvious. So obviously, that's a misuse of that power and shows how deeply it can be misused, as the Farber character does. At the same time, you could harness it in an equally passionate, but beautiful, benevolent, and meaningful way, I think <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> shows that too, the couple that might make it, they're blazing a trail in the wilderness, as are most modern marriages. A childish understanding of rock can take its toll on a marriage, relations between men and women. But I think there's a chance for rebirth, renewal this way -<br /><br /><strong>Q: Renewal of what?</strong><br /><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQdRwpk7HmOU5gOoQlK9ZNQOmc-N6hW4AWbW0u64uqS40u6zJefruPa9gvo7xnAl3iBkrO_7PHlRIzWjmP9tgVmw1uFnS9csDcBCDzEZLHlKuNgH-51730LwWGSTPU-nV_4cSPPmGGQUA/s1600/2inBed5scared-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457844584339098578" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 276px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 149px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQdRwpk7HmOU5gOoQlK9ZNQOmc-N6hW4AWbW0u64uqS40u6zJefruPa9gvo7xnAl3iBkrO_7PHlRIzWjmP9tgVmw1uFnS9csDcBCDzEZLHlKuNgH-51730LwWGSTPU-nV_4cSPPmGGQUA/s320/2inBed5scared-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>MR: </strong>Renewal of a lot of things, Mark sees renewal and rebirth of a lot of the things he cares about on a political level, and art as a means to accomplish that, not so much that you can preach in art, or can be too specific, but it brings you power, brings you the spotlight, and you can then use that to change things. I see that too, but it's more elemental to me, <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> is a musical movie, it doesn't have boundaries. I guess renewal of music, or rebirth of relations between men and women, the love scenes say that very strongly to me, the heroine is essentially going through a rebirth, they're redemptive, for both him and her, and, of course, the movie aims to be redemptive and renewing for both men and women.<br /><br /><br /><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd.<br /><br />Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers).<br /><br />Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a><br /><br />Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-23939915881182271362010-04-05T22:13:00.000-07:002010-04-05T23:12:13.362-07:00Sex in Prince of Swine – Good Sex vs. Evil Sex<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8uJGLS_Vte3TKGyvABt4Du1cHI6_F45n5hs2PTTmXgr27ishzftS_pb23435FpRKgf1gb4JFdnXMYPT_O8FG92B_PPehO_yHpua8tf0PoEFnafjGEDvDx3Dpr_I57DIWxdu4FKafByT0/s1600/sex001-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456893181402174034" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 289px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 163px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8uJGLS_Vte3TKGyvABt4Du1cHI6_F45n5hs2PTTmXgr27ishzftS_pb23435FpRKgf1gb4JFdnXMYPT_O8FG92B_PPehO_yHpua8tf0PoEFnafjGEDvDx3Dpr_I57DIWxdu4FKafByT0/s320/sex001-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>Q: You had quite an adventure with the rating for just the trailer on <em>Prince of Swine </em>because of the sexual content? </strong><br /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Yes, the movie itself is not yet rated, but it would be rated R. But when we went to screen just the trailer the theatre said, “Well, this is a Hard R for the sex, we can only play it in front of certain R rated audiences.”<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: You thought that was unfair? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> That our trailer would shock so many people is what I find bizarre, but that’s not the Laemmle’s fault, that’s society’s hang-up. They’re just very aware of their audience, they know what will rattle their audience, and they can’t show a trailer like <strong><em>Prince of Swine’s</em></strong> in front of an audience it would shock. But the Laemmle have been absolute angels to me, they’re a real friend of the indy filmmaker and a mecca for revolutionary indy films like <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>. The Sunset 5 is the best theatre for a cutting edge revolutionary film like <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, probably in the whole country. </div><div></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><br /><strong>Q: What exactly was the theatre concerned about?</strong> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNTSRPFu92ZDZvVBoRKwibhsT8BEEWWpoL8AYgm71TzvNkdQdEdICqZesi2BKAk5JbCH8c9eWJLTy5luBWfcZ4gErp6rHNHYKHLPJqjfOFt1XhpoStLJCOjnE78MhED0Z_4omN5233BeE/s1600/2inBed6sex1-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456893623549020050" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 307px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 167px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNTSRPFu92ZDZvVBoRKwibhsT8BEEWWpoL8AYgm71TzvNkdQdEdICqZesi2BKAk5JbCH8c9eWJLTy5luBWfcZ4gErp6rHNHYKHLPJqjfOFt1XhpoStLJCOjnE78MhED0Z_4omN5233BeE/s320/2inBed6sex1-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Wild sex, in two words. And the theatre is just doing what the MPAA would do, I absolutely understood their reasoning and agreed with it. They have to operate by social norms. It’s those social norms I think are insane and corrupt in this case. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Like what? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Well there’s practically no violence in the movie. In law terms it never leaves the civil realm. But movie wise, a hard R is equivalent to the criminal realm, <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> has been pushed out to the edge where the hard violence is, that’s what a hard R means. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: But you were restricted for sex, not violence? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> We were restricted for wild and rough sex, if it were just the amount of sexual content we would be a soft R. There’s a lot of sex in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, there’s very little nudity, but you can have a lot of sex and still get a soft R. It’s when the sex becomes intense or hard that you get the hard R. That’s what really blows my mind, something like <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong>, or <strong><em>Sex and the City 2</em></strong>, with all its frivolous crap, to my mind that’s portraying sex in a way that’s really harmful to society – </div><br /><div><strong>Q: How? </strong><br /><br /></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJrZsET-h41u4eww1sYeI-ifxwBlxSIDEymrYWkDs6RC14RuuQjMdFlupt5RQEHIk2skZu_vpecwXf3f_6ETi8GkWZ9miGivijkWCHZyq-ZG69UV21X-3gW_nI__mgHm-gwFwdEbKAyA/s1600/KellyParty002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456894980480952818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 294px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 159px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJrZsET-h41u4eww1sYeI-ifxwBlxSIDEymrYWkDs6RC14RuuQjMdFlupt5RQEHIk2skZu_vpecwXf3f_6ETi8GkWZ9miGivijkWCHZyq-ZG69UV21X-3gW_nI__mgHm-gwFwdEbKAyA/s320/KellyParty002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>MT:</strong> Enabling gold-digging, associating sex with money in a woman’s mind, especially unconsciously, that makes it even more powerful. That's not what feminism is about, it's not what we should be about. Also, just the frivolousness of it, I’m actually not a huge fan of frivolous sex – </div><br /><div><strong>Q: How is <em>Prince of Swine</em> different? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Well, there’s two veins to the story that got us in trouble. The first is the love story, and that’s just two people in love, having passionate, all out sex, like two animals who mate for life. There’s nothing sleazy about it, on the contrary, that’s the most beautiful and moral thing in the world in my opinion. Maybe it’s not for children, maybe you have to be an adult before you can appreciate that, but honestly, I think it’s a healthier depiction of sex than all this soft porn<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0L-1hftPTv-Cr9AOOKEVcQsY8H-k2Ozg73gXgc8umvsB2GEXTuty-9-k7fHj-2GgRBZ1rMHrdiSukaSthodhBHVO7a921l7bIACXUx-_LaAqGf_nS1IvR3GvaogKVbbBJHRTfQOCnHE/s1600/sexTears002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456895432889225346" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 289px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 154px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0L-1hftPTv-Cr9AOOKEVcQsY8H-k2Ozg73gXgc8umvsB2GEXTuty-9-k7fHj-2GgRBZ1rMHrdiSukaSthodhBHVO7a921l7bIACXUx-_LaAqGf_nS1IvR3GvaogKVbbBJHRTfQOCnHE/s320/sexTears002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a> titillation you see on TV, the teasers, cheap innuendo, and all the packaging of vacuous, vapid sex<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWgs3MM6l2ukG-JIGSX_cfrGJTx1hBfLvFWNCwg9kNf76hVs2RZBV-J60b2RnrVAryhDewydqhQvf0tJn-X6hC8P35BOQvNDFEWLLRwfRwFbp3bTar1ZQRYC0Nf7KA_714SXhmpAkgYR4/s1600/sexTears001-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"></a>, like it’s some new car or lipstick or something. We show sex and love as what they are – something that rocks your world, something worth fighting for, something that changes your life, is transcendent and redemptive and sacred. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: And that got you in trouble? </strong><br /><br /></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiObMrUuidcljR2RFM4G_TgoHMBPgn2HpqQk3r7xpqGJLUmiUKQIxVrefPEx_DDPoILyHUIz1FBM4MLA-_fO6_1RcFxQ0k6Ky-0XwXDs9s4gGMCx8ZYN6amSuO0RrWcE5SWeDhdMDFYIDI/s1600/v3+Prince+of+Swine+Online+9-5-07+FOR+DAN-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456896486579789730" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 162px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiObMrUuidcljR2RFM4G_TgoHMBPgn2HpqQk3r7xpqGJLUmiUKQIxVrefPEx_DDPoILyHUIz1FBM4MLA-_fO6_1RcFxQ0k6Ky-0XwXDs9s4gGMCx8ZYN6amSuO0RrWcE5SWeDhdMDFYIDI/s320/v3+Prince+of+Swine+Online+9-5-07+FOR+DAN-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>MT:</strong> Well yeah, that and all the prostitutes. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: I’m genuinely afraid to ask. </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Well the other vein is this monstrous producer who genuinely hates women, having sex with a teenage prostitute. It’s entirely consensual and that’s what’s so horrifying. The producer is unloading all his hatred of women on her and she’s already so jaded it ha<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRASTrD79og9rz5_aby_1A3YSo1MvqaBdqj5URcb778CpCuCB6jdvyEtknjcfG7nQ3e8abpkfxl9Ov5aB77P_oevz-Hgct1OhG_ITvyWgMLiB5TTfvxhTLE-B0qGkrJEVtJppYu5-kwmE/s1600/FarberHips-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456896679897883586" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 299px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 170px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRASTrD79og9rz5_aby_1A3YSo1MvqaBdqj5URcb778CpCuCB6jdvyEtknjcfG7nQ3e8abpkfxl9Ov5aB77P_oevz-Hgct1OhG_ITvyWgMLiB5TTfvxhTLE-B0qGkrJEVtJppYu5-kwmE/s320/FarberHips-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>s utterly no effect on her, she could be listening to MTV (which she often does during sex). </div><br /><div><strong>Q: So that’s the one that got you banned? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> The point is both of them got us banned equally – there is no difference from a ratings perspective. Jordan and Greg at the Laemmle, these are very sophisticated guys, they’ve seen it all artistically, they know the difference, but at the same time they know society will make no distinction – so what does that say about American society? </div><br /><div><strong>Q: What? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> That we’re a bunch of F’ing children about sex, if you ask me. I mean, grow up. And this is West Hollywood, one of the most sophisticated places in the country. Can you imagine how bad it is in Orange County? From the country that brought you Proposition 8 and impeached Bill Clinton for cheating on his wife. Good God, Clinton ran a budget surplus twice, anyone who runs a surplus even once, they can cheat with the whole country for all I care, I'll still vote for them. We are so screwed up as a country. I mean, ya' know, Bush Jr., never cheated once I bet. Lot of good that did us this decade. I mean, please, I beg you, cheat on your wife, if it'll keep you from invading Iraq and trashing the economy. We beg you, go F an intern, it's a small price to pay, for the good of the country.</div><br /><br /><br /><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </div><br /><div>Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><br /><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a> </div><br /><div>Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>. </div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-2762294029270191612010-04-04T11:39:00.000-07:002010-04-04T15:15:00.696-07:00Indy Film as Bushido (The Way of the Warrior): Q & A with Prince of Swine’s Julian Starks<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-Xtd6Hf-g1uZDZ9VVa3sbVwmVCLXcQMZPCxGi1FFzr_CHuNp-3FzRAOz8znrLwWQeYup0f_iVjnJcfTqX7gzhCfOPxX5j3Q4SuUfArSesOOKXJBpE3qWEiMHSmYZZKKIDF_z3wx8kD0/s1600/juliandirector.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456361027900558114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 198px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 303px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-Xtd6Hf-g1uZDZ9VVa3sbVwmVCLXcQMZPCxGi1FFzr_CHuNp-3FzRAOz8znrLwWQeYup0f_iVjnJcfTqX7gzhCfOPxX5j3Q4SuUfArSesOOKXJBpE3qWEiMHSmYZZKKIDF_z3wx8kD0/s320/juliandirector.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>Mark Toma:</strong> Over the long course of <strong><em>Prince of Swine’s</em></strong> production, you were on a similar quest, making your own movie, <strong><em>Journey to Sundance <a href="http://www.journeytosundance.com/">(http://www.journeytosundance.com</a>)</em></strong>.<br /><br /><strong>Julian Starks:</strong> Yes, that movie is complete now, and making its way around the globe. It picked up representation, it’s going to live, and <strong><em>Journey to Sundance</em></strong> will be coming soon to a big or small screen near you.<br /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Tell us about it.<br /><br /><strong>JS:</strong> It's like the line says, “They’re Off to See the Wizard”, three neophytes from Kansas (well, we may as well have been from Kansas) get swept up in the tornado that is Hollywood, and set out on a quest to see the wizard to find our way –<br /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> The wizard being Robert Redford at the Sundance Film Festival? <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtalqEQsJTRuuQqdKc3k6cF9x_C7hjYdXbLE-6XukMvi494c7ihLJjxpYf63Sh62OcIQrR04clMbF-MmZHT8Ibi3H6hrFJ2IGZpDSv2dTAA7g50jomtA41Om0qrNFeyRUmomsMyRWnzJI/s1600/redford.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456371524551945682" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 156px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 122px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtalqEQsJTRuuQqdKc3k6cF9x_C7hjYdXbLE-6XukMvi494c7ihLJjxpYf63Sh62OcIQrR04clMbF-MmZHT8Ibi3H6hrFJ2IGZpDSv2dTAA7g50jomtA41Om0qrNFeyRUmomsMyRWnzJI/s320/redford.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>JS:</strong> Yes, Redford is the wizard.<br /><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Redford is the wizard! What did the wizard tell you?<br /></div><br /><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrVFmK0Hqe4Vjno_GCp2aDnjhyphenhyphenO9XIIaMGhQv237c5Br8fLo0gsoGW25jV1yz5434fYozPfgCy6eYVsNKZgUQ0JYZPs9TVEwTequ4cTAz-KY7qO1mABcr7te680sOPXdme5RAIyp3V_Xo/s1600/dorothy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456363161206862738" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 90px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 120px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrVFmK0Hqe4Vjno_GCp2aDnjhyphenhyphenO9XIIaMGhQv237c5Br8fLo0gsoGW25jV1yz5434fYozPfgCy6eYVsNKZgUQ0JYZPs9TVEwTequ4cTAz-KY7qO1mABcr7te680sOPXdme5RAIyp3V_Xo/s320/dorothy.jpg" border="0" /></a>JS:</strong> You have to see the movie for that! What do I look like, a wide-eyed girl from Kansas, lost in Oz? I’m not just gonna give something like that away after what I’ve been through. Learned a thing or two on the <strong><em>Journey to Sundance</em></strong>!</div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I can see.</div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> What can you see?</div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I can see you’re crazy!</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhblTfpo0IGvdmy1OHH9luqL4-eAtUVODMo7gl2yVlPNW5AZ1GXXFtwCsJpczL2OhEuZ0kMD_kLZecGmMmmh1zEprI3iQEihmKLYsI3jf59yIZlXVe0dT2ohxiJ9dc7XpB1BKEOYT4ovHY/s1600/BiggsHeadphones-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456363827717175794" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhblTfpo0IGvdmy1OHH9luqL4-eAtUVODMo7gl2yVlPNW5AZ1GXXFtwCsJpczL2OhEuZ0kMD_kLZecGmMmmh1zEprI3iQEihmKLYsI3jf59yIZlXVe0dT2ohxiJ9dc7XpB1BKEOYT4ovHY/s320/BiggsHeadphones-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> You step behind that camera and you better be crazy! If you’re not crazy you’ve got no business being an indy filmmaker.</div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> The only question is – </div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> Are you crazy enough?</div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Yes! </div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> Yes! (<em>high fives</em>) </div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> That is the only question.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZoflXXjqsG1k7rvvxg68bahVwvB8oNmNBubm71w1ILYkuEBCY0ZDaDGWlf2n_J2C1ToAMXig0w-m8oGgocsLas1ITqhT3lkJilCZK3ctt82Z6armHOR43XYoaywV3tRGEOsG8BgitY8/s1600/buddySHotTrial-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456365971987502882" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZoflXXjqsG1k7rvvxg68bahVwvB8oNmNBubm71w1ILYkuEBCY0ZDaDGWlf2n_J2C1ToAMXig0w-m8oGgocsLas1ITqhT3lkJilCZK3ctt82Z6armHOR43XYoaywV3tRGEOsG8BgitY8/s320/buddySHotTrial-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>JS:</strong> Somehow I knew you would understand.<br /><br /><div><strong>MT: </strong>Now you start the movie, and here I must confess, that, like a lost little girl from Kansas, Julian violated the first law of indy film and actually did let me see the movie for free – </div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> I feel so used. You smooth talked me into it. So did that damn Redford at Sundance, that’s the main thing I learned off that gu<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJX457BVe0mnm5iWNomrVjx5LUfWqeI6aleRkjhFLjxLrKCHDfVrpj3RpoA7y2BdYdYLz3VQWFNrYVvwhTgq_EdZ9q1976dktgQ1UlBeBg_L-vIPk1Cc_EUQrw3dr8bfE6uzFm1Gpg5w/s1600/dorothy2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456366800332939602" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 156px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 215px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJX457BVe0mnm5iWNomrVjx5LUfWqeI6aleRkjhFLjxLrKCHDfVrpj3RpoA7y2BdYdYLz3VQWFNrYVvwhTgq_EdZ9q1976dktgQ1UlBeBg_L-vIPk1Cc_EUQrw3dr8bfE6uzFm1Gpg5w/s320/dorothy2.jpg" border="0" /></a>y, never show your movie for free, or for someone who can’t help it.</div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> You start <strong><em>Journey to Sundance</em></strong> with a quote from Joseph Campbell, making the metaphor that the indy filmmaker is like the hero on this spiritual quest – </div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> Yes.</div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> That’s always been my view of indy film – </div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> Yes, we all know you think you’re a hero, everyone on the cast and crew knows that – I’m sure when you’re done with your PR campaign, everyone in Hollywood will know it.</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4-KJwcid94hlb6Zi8ubCz_wkxsicvvBo-c1u406Bj0C-RkI1CK14GuVX5awtt66-8-yaOEu5pikvonRo-gFLS5e6a0kbL_HBSTQQIKmpeeSyQF3fylMJXTV4WjHaPxLaFfgBzuB_rAoY/s1600/3shotinBar-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456367488428549458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4-KJwcid94hlb6Zi8ubCz_wkxsicvvBo-c1u406Bj0C-RkI1CK14GuVX5awtt66-8-yaOEu5pikvonRo-gFLS5e6a0kbL_HBSTQQIKmpeeSyQF3fylMJXTV4WjHaPxLaFfgBzuB_rAoY/s320/3shotinBar-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong>MT:</strong> Totally, you have got to have such big balls to even attempt this –<br /><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> And the insanity and megalomania, don’t forget that, you need that to –</div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Dude, I am so covered like that! That’s like breathing to me – </div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> But it’s more than that – </div><br /><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> I’m getting there, I’m getting there, let me say it – </div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> But this is my interview –</div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Can I ask the question?</div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> You’re not asking a question, you’re just talking about your own movie again, this is supposed to be about <strong><em>Journey to Sundance</em></strong>, not <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> – </div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Are you going to deny that the main theme of <strong><em>Journey to Sundance</em></strong>, is that the journey is the thing? </div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> Yes, I deny it, that’s just your view, which is fine – </div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> It is very fine, thank you – but that’s what I took from <strong><em>Journey to Sundance</em></strong>, the life of an indy filmmaker, it’s like Bushido, the way of the warrior, and just to live this way, close to the bone, all out, like a warrior, doing what you believe, your art is its own meaning and way of life, relentless and strong, come what may, come success, come failure, to the death, the way is the same and beautiful, meaningful, it's own meaning, the only way for guys like us to find satisfaction and meaning, this is what it’s about –</div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> That’s what you got from the movie? Wow, you’re not as shallow and self-absorbed as I thought. But that’s not what <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> is about – </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9HjHoBVCIoOyg_5u2Kdt1pbzQqbwYVkYStQcFA6OlTBovj8YsqdPvK3Hrb3Y7frtBzAAd8r5R_SAJ_OAZV6Eh9zjigfngbMl_DmfkDuMmwAkWgwOcW5XVQ5Hqby2qAxJoND6fjPO4HA/s1600/dorothy-3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456368546081853442" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 208px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9HjHoBVCIoOyg_5u2Kdt1pbzQqbwYVkYStQcFA6OlTBovj8YsqdPvK3Hrb3Y7frtBzAAd8r5R_SAJ_OAZV6Eh9zjigfngbMl_DmfkDuMmwAkWgwOcW5XVQ5Hqby2qAxJoND6fjPO4HA/s320/dorothy-3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> You haven’t even seen <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>.</div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> You haven’t let me see it.</div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Well, you’re not the only little girl from Kansas whose learned a trick or two about Hollywood.</div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> I’m not paying to see <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, good God how cheap can a man be? Even an indy producer, even you, I was in the goddamn movie, you’re comping me and a date, opening night – </div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> We can discuss that later, work something out. Now I actually do have some <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> questions. Are you a feminist?</div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> Do I look like a girl?</div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I believe we’ve already established, that you’re Dorothy from the <strong><em>Wizard of Oz</em></strong>, as are all indy filmmakers – </div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> No, I am not a feminist.</div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Do men or women rule Hollywood?</div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> Unfortunately, men rule Hollywood. If it was women, maybe I could sleep my way to the top.</div><br /><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> On that note, I will reveal one indy film secret here –</div><br /><div><strong>JS:</strong> You slept with a rich woman for your budget? How old was she and how much did you get?<br /><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpItojPveZcS2qIpanmPu8RCNCEffkfoZnWcNqmqlHYhl80rCV7d5ewWgWtznLSbg2fSQlgLmrkskLFMXzRaVu_O0dOr3WPEPLAQ6_3erb92aK4sL24Nm09tyeN2EmkKe68vNBvm4eIJY/s1600/oldlady.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456374531515601762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 106px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 112px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpItojPveZcS2qIpanmPu8RCNCEffkfoZnWcNqmqlHYhl80rCV7d5ewWgWtznLSbg2fSQlgLmrkskLFMXzRaVu_O0dOr3WPEPLAQ6_3erb92aK4sL24Nm09tyeN2EmkKe68vNBvm4eIJY/s320/oldlady.jpg" border="0" /></a>MT:</strong> It’s not so cheap and sleazy as you’re making it sound, Ruth was a lovely woman, well under a hundred, and “slept with” is really not accurate, she was more interested in a spiritual connection, not so much sex, but we’re out of time here anyway, so that story will have to wait. See <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at the Laemmle Sunset 5 on the Sunset Strip, starting Memorial Day Weekend – </div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><br /><strong>JS:</strong> And look for <strong><em>Journey to Sundance (<a href="http://www.journeytosundance.com/">http://www.journeytosundance.com/</a>)</em></strong>, coming soon to a screen near you.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </div><br /><div>Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><br /><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a> </div><br /><div>Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>. </div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-2412096048603015312010-03-29T14:28:00.000-07:002011-10-13T11:28:14.923-07:00Ari Gold Joins the Fight Against Prop 8? Q & A with Prince of Swine Actor Stanton Schnepp<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZmx9dTYAXmmBOIprJb8daYoUiyyR-WUzD37Inn5VXXEMPfSbAgODfb7rRg7enQF53-L3M_AhfdXFddLemKI4yUy3G9CjWjmTZrLvZAOT-lffdQWkT7ULpwkhyx60eB0MrcL3zLAN41Y/s1600/stanton.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 238px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454173729818501490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZmx9dTYAXmmBOIprJb8daYoUiyyR-WUzD37Inn5VXXEMPfSbAgODfb7rRg7enQF53-L3M_AhfdXFddLemKI4yUy3G9CjWjmTZrLvZAOT-lffdQWkT7ULpwkhyx60eB0MrcL3zLAN41Y/s320/stanton.bmp" /></a> <strong>Q: You’ve taken flack from all sides for your depiction of Barry Goldman in <em>Prince of Swine</em>?<br /></strong><br /><strong>Stanton:</strong> Oh God, from the right and left. There’s the right wing that just recoils in fear for their lives at any depiction, even the light comic one we did in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, of any sort of physical gay contact, or even the modest skin we showed in this movie, you know, we’re up on charges before the council on family values or something –<br /><br /><strong>Q: But from your own home base too?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFv5dmwVxDLF8b6LkvF12oI4C3lEpzvCku1F4r48H05Jfeel5M-JTKmrSjTXNgl7INPaokXuFYHIs8xo19ZcFouX05xmVZJy3Q-z51bFh0ZCaPRtibLRwpN-RqR-rb6t3tmXYDDYoSDa4/s1600/GOldmanRUbDown-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454174173508227570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFv5dmwVxDLF8b6LkvF12oI4C3lEpzvCku1F4r48H05Jfeel5M-JTKmrSjTXNgl7INPaokXuFYHIs8xo19ZcFouX05xmVZJy3Q-z51bFh0ZCaPRtibLRwpN-RqR-rb6t3tmXYDDYoSDa4/s320/GOldmanRUbDown-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU9Gk9bGglO_EFjK6qDJ6zPwD3FjI7KzV3NS3vHEFh37YfN0-ltPFvTkWrcq9wFFeLRbmzO1dekqBTok_P-smFfGzL4Mzp_LMpxPZDn4NR8OGrlfgrjJuhs2KuEbmkhCKMkXP8mn479wg/s1600/StantonHumpers-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"></a><br /></strong><br /><strong>Stanton:</strong> Well, most with a sense of humor get the joke in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, but Mark got some flack initially, which I thought was hilarious! First of all, Mark didn’t even create the final character, that was entirely my spin. The character as originally written came off as Jewish--Barry Goldman. It’s the same way with the Farber character, who has a Jewish name, but in fact is played as a Simon Cowell taken to the dark side type Brit by a British actor. Mark wasn’t trying to make a point like that, he’d just lifted the names off an IMDB listing from the sort of show these characters do in real life. But all the actors who auditioned for Barry, immediately ran with that and were doing this strong Jewish used car salesman type schtick – which Mark didn’t want. So he came to me and pleaded, “Do something with this! Work your magic!”. I barely changed a word of dialogue, a few ad libs that’s it, the interpretation was entirely my decision as an actor -<br /><br /><strong>Q: And?<br /></strong><br /><strong>Stanton:</strong> Well, I had a choice, do I offend the Jews or the Gays? I opted for the gays, ‘cause we’re so much more fun! And we get better press!!<br /><br /><strong>Q: Do you find Barry Goldman offensive?<br /></strong><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6z4KUfZ4A7fGDktVfVvTBnWolB6WUqu6uoYncr-xBo3PGE9zaVPFDAFUxqX9GijXDKcRyIBrZ0p2XuiUSjAkxST1aJ7lue4HoHihA8ZtMh23ATpY07uBPhQWPUzYqZP_620jRBEgaPQw/s1600/StantonHumpers-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454174429004227362" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6z4KUfZ4A7fGDktVfVvTBnWolB6WUqu6uoYncr-xBo3PGE9zaVPFDAFUxqX9GijXDKcRyIBrZ0p2XuiUSjAkxST1aJ7lue4HoHihA8ZtMh23ATpY07uBPhQWPUzYqZP_620jRBEgaPQw/s320/StantonHumpers-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" /></a>Stanton:</strong> Of course he’s offensive! Is Ari Gold offensive? He’s the biggest most pretentious double talking asshole in Hollywood that’s why he’s so fun! That’s like saying Ari Gold is a Jewish stereotype, which he is, but absolutely that does not lessen the fun of that character for me, and I know a lot of Jewish people (with a sense of humor!), it doesn’t lessen their enjoyment of that character – stereotypes become stereotypes because they’re so common in real life. What’s beyond the stereotype for me is how glibly and quickly Barry believes his own lies – at one point he’s even trying to convince judge and jury he’s straight. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7o2XkxK_wnbAmZc3uK2vatxgmtVhluGf2l5fCPqFnq7mZ1oSOdIMXLZZGz1CRJz6uZnzfgWoul6NOJZv4EXV0wf9Ugid_DwWe36dBWar9-k0S3ApHbsnQruNF9n2903EUwxcjsHzTI8/s1600/GOldmanonStand-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454174760574962354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7o2XkxK_wnbAmZc3uK2vatxgmtVhluGf2l5fCPqFnq7mZ1oSOdIMXLZZGz1CRJz6uZnzfgWoul6NOJZv4EXV0wf9Ugid_DwWe36dBWar9-k0S3ApHbsnQruNF9n2903EUwxcjsHzTI8/s320/GOldmanonStand-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong>Q: OK, but there’s one gay character in the movie, and that character is a complete asshole – </strong><br /><br /><strong>Stanton:</strong> There are two gay characters, the other is fired for taking a moral stand against the major swine of the movie. And honestly, I’m glad that there’s at least two gay characters in the movie! That’s better than the national average. As far as being an asshole, half the people in the movie are assholes, there would be no movie without assholes, and P.S., I’ve heard a nasty rumor that life may be 50% assholes too. So the gay community gets left out of the fun again? I mean, get real, he’s an agent. Now my agent, personally, is an angel, but good God I ran across plenty that weren’t before I found him –<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: It’s not the same, it’s a more delicate area, Jews are understandably sensitive, but they’re not being banned from marriage right now in this country -<br /></strong><br /><div><strong>Stanton:</strong> Really, I think if we’re gonna win this fight, the gay community has got to develop a thicker skin, more confidence, and just own it, just, excuse me, no pun intended, get a pair of bigger balls, get out there and balls out own it, in the mainstream media, not just the gay media, take it into enemy territory and make it known where they live, not just where we live. Something like <em><strong>Will and Grace</strong></em>, you know, I enjoy that, it’s light, it’s nice, it’s about as much as we can<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj68WfM1bxNxRH9mmO_T1f8dvrCh2RjtPfwwuMwnQ5IY4Oe9_Co17eSi1pKWljVexZiSbbfanLzGUO7YAkwHHbT90MdM_fa63KgCOtF7X5AieDhFMksMQrIJnC4jsa8qKw_YLgKn04wWg/s1600/arigold.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 158px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 184px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454175799816315346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj68WfM1bxNxRH9mmO_T1f8dvrCh2RjtPfwwuMwnQ5IY4Oe9_Co17eSi1pKWljVexZiSbbfanLzGUO7YAkwHHbT90MdM_fa63KgCOtF7X5AieDhFMksMQrIJnC4jsa8qKw_YLgKn04wWg/s320/arigold.jpg" /></a> do on broadcast TV right now, but those characters are too safe to really change things or stir things up. This is not <em><strong>Sex and the City 2</strong></em>. This is an R-rated, intentionally incendiary, provocative movie. I like <em><strong>Sex and the City</strong></em> fine, but the gay men depicted in <em><strong>Sex and the City</strong></em> are just so harmless, safe and docile. You’re not really comfortable with a person and at ease, if you only let them be a nice, non-threatening, likeable character. You’re not really friends with a person in that case, and this movie is a friend to the gay community, I know that, I worked with the writer/director very closely, and would never allow myself to become a pawn of a bigoted director like that. He bent over backwards, no pun intended, to get me into this movie. I mean, who would you rather play as an actor, some milk and cookies do-gooder or Ari Gold? It’s a form of soft bigotry that I don’t get offered Ari Gold. I live to play Ari Gold!<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: But that attitude is exactly what’s provoking so much opposition, that we’re not content to stay in West Hollywood, we’re trying to enforce our values on Orange County –<br /></strong><br /><div><strong>Stanton:</strong> I don’t know what to say to that. That argument makes me so furious I can’t see straight. You’re telling me I can’t get married if I want to and I’m the one enforcing my values upon you? The family values people discouraging monogamy, making it seem like we’re not somehow morally worthy of it, during an AIDS crisis? Have I gone through the looking glass? What is not right with this picture? This is just the epitome of evil and hypocrisy in my opinion and we can’t let it go unchallenged.</div><br /><div>That’s not just some harmless opinion of theirs off in their own dream world. That has now been<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsrqBFQCFFxBRa5CZOt6z4Iyzfeh0fb9MThgxIZJekbM9EugWpEcmgRkp7x0gWbTfVcjtJiLi8g92OXRrfxy9B6oaFXY7K1-xc5e9lEpJ3so_MICUluA-AIOe5Lk5cPUXvmjoVUAlOz1A/s1600/milk.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 168px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 126px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454176814611800818" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsrqBFQCFFxBRa5CZOt6z4Iyzfeh0fb9MThgxIZJekbM9EugWpEcmgRkp7x0gWbTfVcjtJiLi8g92OXRrfxy9B6oaFXY7K1-xc5e9lEpJ3so_MICUluA-AIOe5Lk5cPUXvmjoVUAlOz1A/s320/milk.jpg" /></a> passed into the law of the land and is effecting the way I live, curtailing my freedoms. It’s nothing less than institutionalized bigotry, just like, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. Why the hell shouldn’t you ask and why shouldn’t I tell? There’s nothing wrong with me, there’s something wrong with you, in your mind, that’s your hatred and ignorance that’s going unexamined. That’s your issue, your hang-up and when we tolerate it and appease people like this, when we don’t confront bigotry and evil thinking like that at every turn, let alone when it’s passed into law, we ourselves enable and condone it. So my advice is, ya’ know, get out there, engage your friends and your enemies, you might find more friends and allies, in the least likely places, than you imagine. And you might bring some of your previous enemies around. But our friends can’t help us unless we lead ourselves. We have to lead this fight, and then people of good will will support us and follow.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em> opens at the </strong><a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2"><strong>Laemmle Sunset 5</strong></a><strong> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd.</strong> </div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><strong>Get tickets for <em>Prince of Swine</em> online at the </strong><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2"><strong>Laemmle Sunset 5</strong></a><strong> or the <em>Prince of Swine</em> website </strong><a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/"><strong>http://www.princeofswine.com/</strong></a><strong> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </strong></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><strong>Join the <em>Prince of Swine</em> revolution on </strong><a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong> and </strong><a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189"><strong>Facebook.</strong></a><strong> </strong></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><strong>Visit <em>Prince of Swine</em> at </strong><a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/"><strong>http//www.princeofswine.com</strong></a><strong>. </strong></div></div></div></div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-19530062213534955642010-03-28T18:21:00.000-07:002010-03-31T19:33:37.796-07:00Mr. Big Hates You and Wants to Dance On Your Grave; Anti Feminism and Prince of Swine<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJNi2kc0VSnId8N195JV-HWll8XaRgxvkmo_gg9SSa_jzkfEZqR_bkds8s-LhFRhasp-Dudto8GWkVUKEpvmnzy8z1pJRNnmy4qv4K0iAgAqm3yzmP3AuiJna9lNlQLGINerXXH7CkCDs/s1600/mr.+big.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453860608176084754" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 125px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 125px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJNi2kc0VSnId8N195JV-HWll8XaRgxvkmo_gg9SSa_jzkfEZqR_bkds8s-LhFRhasp-Dudto8GWkVUKEpvmnzy8z1pJRNnmy4qv4K0iAgAqm3yzmP3AuiJna9lNlQLGINerXXH7CkCDs/s320/mr.+big.jpg" border="0" /></a> I’ve been <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWfrgbb2yURssslUhEQ3FMqPwEtsaJB9SRlp36rAVQC_V5FHWweee5KzURulRUDCsXD4FP7muJHvhlvJnUt44CYR2T_RhFw41VNRU9kOODRbACbHyLOqyI3fKtu35mQbJASOM51rK51rk/s1600/mr.+big.jpg"></a>trying to get in the spirit of the occasion since Big and Carrie’s wedding but something keeps holding me back. I don’t know, I guess it’s the nagging feeling that, perhaps not in <strong><em>Sex and the City 2</em></strong>, but certainly by <strong><em>Sex and the City 3: Collision With Harsh Reality</em></strong>, Big is seeing a hooker who bears a striking resemblance to Carrie Bradshaw, and beating her senseless while screaming, “Take that you golddigging ____! You think I don’t know you’re not in love with me!”.<br /><br />I believe this has been going on behind closed doors for a long time in the <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong> universe (the one in the world, not on screen), but all of those dark episodes never make it to the screen for fear of damage to the franchise.<br /><br />But still, the evidence for them exists. How could Carrie Bradshaw be in love with Big? He’s an utterly two dimensional character, he doesn’t exist in reality. Troubled millionaires who secretly worship you from afar and are only waiting until you get on the north side of forty to propose (without a pre-nup, of course) exist only in the fantasies of desperate middle aged women who long ago stopped going to the gym in favor of staying at home and narcotizing themselves senseless with such unlikely masturbatory <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV1Q2fh-Ed0MLr3lEwKIx6IZslJbYjbDwTti9LOKg6QLBxMGCBt8GotW-u4DTGsnFkyHzQlXMtXnFwXi9rxeYQYdjOORMDaD_dwDONTuDq6Ao14tHaRP9LO4dXPuFe-G75Y2QZpUR0sNQ/s1600/bunnies.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453861488297311506" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 207px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 151px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV1Q2fh-Ed0MLr3lEwKIx6IZslJbYjbDwTti9LOKg6QLBxMGCBt8GotW-u4DTGsnFkyHzQlXMtXnFwXi9rxeYQYdjOORMDaD_dwDONTuDq6Ao14tHaRP9LO4dXPuFe-G75Y2QZpUR0sNQ/s320/bunnies.jpg" border="0" /></a>fantasies. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjalJC2dsGWpuOEXpb35epJVXI0Qh28xBi-VjRwGVKfgE8j5Arh5QR6Jlfhze9Ky3HPwy9Vx7t3DxpyEFo1H_FFPc6liX0yQRcCsnREml6bHudRx0oCg45wGxXAMZ8gAzZvYRcQUZEuJ2E/s1600/bunnies.jpg"></a><br /><br />He has no more reality than the Playboy centerfolds teenage boys religiously relieve themselves to, and honestly, a lot of these women might be better off getting back to the gym and bagging a few of those kids, instead of shall we say, beating themselves to sleep each night with this sort of pathetic pipedream. God knows the pimply faced little bastards could use the release, and where the hell else can they get it in this recession, already being at the bottom of the foodchain with chump change to spend on a date every Saturday night?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8MjK6Me1O0Tg7Nu2kiM2ty0L8Dsh007VA_epP5Mo9_QQRAxtHeVAY6A3XtA5fNwjYywNCQXD74RvsK-oqrrkNj5M16re-qpxM6lKnFk5PUWWncshMDfXc-yiERj2706_XjNGPesnPMQ/s1600/cosmo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453862652817776546" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 109px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8MjK6Me1O0Tg7Nu2kiM2ty0L8Dsh007VA_epP5Mo9_QQRAxtHeVAY6A3XtA5fNwjYywNCQXD74RvsK-oqrrkNj5M16re-qpxM6lKnFk5PUWWncshMDfXc-yiERj2706_XjNGPesnPMQ/s320/cosmo.jpg" border="0" /></a>And even if Big did exist, how could he love Carrie Bradshaw? Yes, ladies, at least you of the <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong> type, your deepest fears are true: you are in fact unlovable. Hard as it is to believe, men, rich or poor, black or white, find it impossible to so much as respect, much less adore, someone who masturbates to our credit cards each night, knocking themselves oblivious, and completely without a clue as to why we dislike them so much. Someone whose values in life don’t extend behind being a good shopper or doing brunch well and gossiping with their idiot friends.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYAO75ERXmD0FLHA9Ws6G3CJJy2IZyR3oCPSpy6b5yJb3sP7MIEoL8Is5anRBH4waD9n6YR-VzEh0Nr9LnJyq4TaWToER1_m1W7P60TXU-IIx6XKvIQqhyAkFCRUa3IU55PGToXv8S-nE/s1600/taxpayer2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453862137276358770" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 78px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYAO75ERXmD0FLHA9Ws6G3CJJy2IZyR3oCPSpy6b5yJb3sP7MIEoL8Is5anRBH4waD9n6YR-VzEh0Nr9LnJyq4TaWToER1_m1W7P60TXU-IIx6XKvIQqhyAkFCRUa3IU55PGToXv8S-nE/s320/taxpayer2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Is there anyone naïve enough in the universe to believe Big retains his charms over Carrie even if his bank account hits zero? As real life New Yorkers know, because it’s happening every day now, women like her disappear as fast as you can say AIG, mortgage securities, or taxpayer funded bailout. The two phenomena are not unrelated and the <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong> craze is not as entirely frivolous and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3rpjzu2PNsNMNbuxm3FymVJRSqzzsORWLhzec9rlECI8ahVrQO6UlaCPtBm8ucx9LNO0cG95lRvb1s14t4uIggYh19NXieAi1sd0WZsEAf5YkhMZpVXgxaQGss92oK1vzaEu4vCOWXTg/s1600/taxpayer.jpg"></a>harmless <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH5LHFxa3l10SHPmtanOEx91jvEItak1f61qEzATYCkgYiPEq9uMcq0O4YLz4HJGnf7BeWN7QRCgBGMj_pTQ_GFip25_4ZMf-ISkMFbjZcpPavLgdRwXu4RIaUcL_u1w8om7A8GLkr2bE/s1600/taxpayer.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453862390052199890" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 203px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 154px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH5LHFxa3l10SHPmtanOEx91jvEItak1f61qEzATYCkgYiPEq9uMcq0O4YLz4HJGnf7BeWN7QRCgBGMj_pTQ_GFip25_4ZMf-ISkMFbjZcpPavLgdRwXu4RIaUcL_u1w8om7A8GLkr2bE/s320/taxpayer.jpg" border="0" /></a>as it seems either. It’s women like this, impressed by nothing but money, that encourage the same sort of male behavior – being an empty suit, willing to do anything for a cheap buck and an even cheaper fuck.<br /><br />Next up: even gay men hate <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong>.<br /><br />After that: at least 50% of women hate <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong> too. And God bless them, all hope is not lost for America and the human race.<br /><br /><br /><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd.<br /><br />Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers).<br /><br />Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a><br /><br />Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-75324782303045261172010-03-27T14:38:00.000-07:002010-03-31T19:30:26.288-07:00Ruck in the Muck: Gloria Allred vs. Tiger Woods, Round One; Is Gloria Allred a Good Feminist?<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453448468442807922" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 221px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 107px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG42HSrKExZBdS1GBjcemLIsCu23ocDikRbz12PwCsehBFTuTNUDDeaagOWNCUdHA6G6FtYhwgzoUPAOyFsn0FPjQep-OcnFvYPKle4nDC0jPKqWrtooIIqXFqdj5K3o2z5HpGsyE6ycs/s320/allredwoods3.jpg" border="0" /><strong>Q: Now your position is that someone like Gloria Allred is a mockery of a real feminist, or has become some sort of public menace now?</strong><br /><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I only know what I see on <strong><em>Entertainment Tonight</em></strong>, but generally when a lawyer even gets on <strong><em>Entertainment Tonight</em></strong> it’s not a good sign. It means they’ve become addicted to fame, power and conflict. From what I understand Gloria Allred actually did socially meaningful work at some point, defending underdogs who’d been actual victims of injustice. I don’t know if that’s true, but if it is, she’s become some sort of mockery of that now. On the other hand, you've got someone like Gloria Steinem, who seems to want to stay out of the spotlight for a long time now - she won't say anything even when it seems she wants to. At the start she called Madonna anti feminist, but then she sort of backed off, as if she didn't want to get in some sort of frivolous media war. Now you can't even get her to say anything bad about <strong><em>Sex and the City</em>, </strong>though <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong> seems pretty much like the heir to <strong><em>Cosmopolitan</em></strong> - so if there's no difference between the two now, how can anyone take feminism seriously?</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1YMtuG9PTaADW8MEaPsXT9U9711SiiqagsNGThN8lYKIRZuqzhWxkGxmabS_eIpPGqE5nqHuHUBdNNyPnQqHqrW-v1zywCB-CFq42pnzvqlcRUh4g8eKQ_2UCl5Oauz6t4hT1I3sNrw/s1600/allred.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453448933818249986" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 128px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 96px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1YMtuG9PTaADW8MEaPsXT9U9711SiiqagsNGThN8lYKIRZuqzhWxkGxmabS_eIpPGqE5nqHuHUBdNNyPnQqHqrW-v1zywCB-CFq42pnzvqlcRUh4g8eKQ_2UCl5Oauz6t4hT1I3sNrw/s320/allred.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong>Q: You didn't really answer the question, how is Gloria Allred making a mockery of feminism?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> She's making it something frivolous, like an episode of <strong><em>Sex and the City </em></strong>or something. When you do that, or you're conspicuous in your silence, like Steinem is, you allow these women to get all the press, most men don't make any distinction between women and feminism, so it looks bad for all feminism. I mean, Allred taking on Tiger Woods’ mistresses as clients? Please. She’s not even alleging that he’s done anything illegal (and he hasn’t – cheating on your wife is not illegal. It might get you soaked in divorce court, but she’s not Woods’ wife lawyer, it’s none of her business). It’s not clear if she’s asking for money from Woods or will do so in the future, but whatever she's up to it's nothing socially useful. It's ambulance chasing, literally, that ambulance shows up at Woods' home and Gloria Allred is not far behind.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiavA7KSbxrpXKAK7xMcUuOdpGXWN4DBc2ami_YzQo5EJnBTFRFG8UiLdm4vyUFS7JVAo2NYkXrjJHoayVPyq6oXk6ARQOEPI1HtcqH7F_VxRFKTq_5PBVxXZy4mlUhGj0VPCnuy-T9U5c/s1600/allred4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453449236251637810" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 121px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 129px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiavA7KSbxrpXKAK7xMcUuOdpGXWN4DBc2ami_YzQo5EJnBTFRFG8UiLdm4vyUFS7JVAo2NYkXrjJHoayVPyq6oXk6ARQOEPI1HtcqH7F_VxRFKTq_5PBVxXZy4mlUhGj0VPCnuy-T9U5c/s320/allred4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>Q: All she’s asked for that I can see is a public apology to the mistresses. </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> The entire episode and all parties are as frivolous as an episode of <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong>. Really, what is this about? What’s in it for her? Healing some injustice? Really, these women are as guilty as Woods. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Guilty of what?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Guilty of being intensely annoying and frivolous like <em><strong>Sex and the City,</strong> </em>just like all feminism has become. Unfortunately, that's not illegal, and cheating with a married man, not exactly laudatory, but Woods and his mistresses deserve each other legally and morally, and it’s nobody else’s business, except Woods’ wife. So I don’t know if Allred is doing this just for publicity, or she does want money from Woods – whatever it is it’s a mockery of her old image.<br /><br /><strong>Q: Can’t both images be true?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Maybe. Maybe she’s someone like Johnny Cochran, who’ll defend an OJ, but then take the fame and money he got from that, the blood money, and do some decent pro bono work to make up for it. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Bringing flimsy harassment suits for the money, if she’s done that, or associating with I don’t know – cast-offs from the Jerry Springer show in order to get publicity, the OctaMom, these Tiger bimbos, that’s hardly the same as defending a murderer, getting fame and money out of it - </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Yeah, that’s true. Honestly, I don’t know that much about Gloria Allred and I don’t want to know. I see someone like that coming and I cross to the other side of the street, she’s just bad news for any guy in the country. If that's what feminism has become, then feminism has become bad news. You get an email from her, and you don’t even have to open it to know you’re gonna have a bad day, maybe a bad year. She’s a one woman war zone and a destructive force as far as I’m concerned, promotes fear and distrust between the sexes.<br /></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3y6qSDiJnKGlixadK6iYpfVvyL59-6xHYbA7DpFxlTDAjzeerBPrNp2K2hog38xVd1iCGUHayRxX5d_iY1efg0BC_0-kO-XZsiPeWSGgAMTdb7JEkVDy4h5sN0pcjoz77uzqDUO-IqM/s1600/LobbyCardTrial002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453454442750426594" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 301px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 165px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3y6qSDiJnKGlixadK6iYpfVvyL59-6xHYbA7DpFxlTDAjzeerBPrNp2K2hog38xVd1iCGUHayRxX5d_iY1efg0BC_0-kO-XZsiPeWSGgAMTdb7JEkVDy4h5sN0pcjoz77uzqDUO-IqM/s320/LobbyCardTrial002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Q: How is she any different from the character you play or the woman you glorify in <em>Prince of Swine</em>?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT: </strong>Not even close. The Julie character considers herself a feminist, and may have been like her when she was young - she genuinely believes she's fighting injustice, and she is in this case. This is an actual case of harassment in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, which are very rare, usually it's about money or power, and the charges are trumped up. Here, this actress cries wolf, and no one believes her because feminism has become so discredited and is looked at with such suspicion and dislike, because everybody is always crying wolf falsely these days. But Julie will probably stop being a lawyer or change to some other form of law,<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3YWdvGlGclxc50sdK4za5ezmk5FOSI1o9ZxRrzCv7G5y9PERenWh06OEc3r7V5olyEMTucTDlbHJF3LR2q6XQlI2Igd8-mZW_s-H4pr7K0V2x7Ti_9neFRsIJKzUyyfcWm0Md9BZczJM/s1600/NellVerdict-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453454783760792274" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3YWdvGlGclxc50sdK4za5ezmk5FOSI1o9ZxRrzCv7G5y9PERenWh06OEc3r7V5olyEMTucTDlbHJF3LR2q6XQlI2Igd8-mZW_s-H4pr7K0V2x7Ti_9neFRsIJKzUyyfcWm0Md9BZczJM/s320/NellVerdict-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a> now that she no longer believes in it. Julie is very much changed by the lawsuit. She wants to do something meaningful with her life and help other people. Maybe she'll become a Kathryn Bigelow type feminist, a real feminist, she's of that stock (though I have no idea if Kathryn Bigelow would even call herself a feminist). Witt is just taking the case because he's in love with her, he doesn't really believe in it, he just thinks Farber's more of a pimp than Kelly is a whore. Welcome to the modern American legal system. Hard to find innocent characters or a cause you believe in.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: So you just go through life not believing in anything?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I hugely believe in what I call the Democracy of Aristocracy (<a href="http://princeofswine.blogspot.com/2010/03/revolution-will-be-televised.html">http://princeofswine.blogspot.com/2010/03/revolution-will-be-televised.html</a>), something that turns on the nexus of law and economics, I believe it's the only thing that can bring us safely through this economic crisis to a better tomorrow (<a href="http://princeofswine.blogspot.com/2010/03/hollywood-makes-first-contact-with-real.html">http://princeofswine.blogspot.com/2010/03/hollywood-makes-first-contact-with-real.html</a>). I hugely believe in reform of the law of war in this country, and the United Nations, I've committed my life to these causes. I was horrified by Iraq, every time an American soldier dies overseas I feel guilty, like it's an unnecessary tragedy I can prevent. I'll fight to my last dieing breath to change that (<a href="http://princeofswine.blogspot.com/2010/03/iraq-general-reviews-hollywood.html">http://princeofswine.blogspot.com/2010/03/iraq-general-reviews-hollywood.html</a>). These are the most important legal and revolutionary fronts in our time. They're just not something you can make any money at like Allred is doing, by sueing people or embarrassing them in public. I'll make my money and fame honestly, as an artist, and then I'll use that fame to change the law to help people, without hurting anyone, on the contrary, they'll be protected, empowered, and liberated, that's what I'm about, and that's what <strong><em>Prince of Swine </em></strong>is about.<br /><br /><br /></div><div><strong><em></em></strong></div><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </div><br /><div>Get tickets online for <strong><em>Prince of Swine </em></strong>at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers).<br /><br />Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a> </div><div><br /></div><div>Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.</div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-44242066530400940332010-03-25T15:28:00.000-07:002010-03-31T19:02:18.088-07:00Prince of Swine's Real Life Femme Fatale<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7fGQJSx8wS1VuXEIqZvZRotich2Vy3ojECrrxEt-Hwovnd-_GUIAi0q_we4vPuAZaq_M9jjrB6LV-HqGHggwiLq-J0ATWc50ubJpzqAhSo3EYTcBzKiiGwe309WSAH3lUK-uG5fjotEw/s1600/sandy1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453059348140649746" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 207px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7fGQJSx8wS1VuXEIqZvZRotich2Vy3ojECrrxEt-Hwovnd-_GUIAi0q_we4vPuAZaq_M9jjrB6LV-HqGHggwiLq-J0ATWc50ubJpzqAhSo3EYTcBzKiiGwe309WSAH3lUK-uG5fjotEw/s320/sandy1.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>Q: Tell me a little bit about yourself, your background, highlights of your career so far, how you got into this crazy business, and how you became involved with <em>Prince of Swine</em>.</strong><br /><br /><strong>Sandra Nutt:</strong> I’m an actress, producer and a lawyer who has owned and operated a licensed California production company since January 1, 1999 (<a href="http://www.riprapentertain.com/">http://www.riprapentertain.com/</a>). My company has owned its own 60-seat playhouse, where we produced many reviewed stage plays and a television series that ran for 52 weeks on independent television station KVMD, reaching all of Southern California. We also produced several film shorts and one full-length motion picture. I’m also an award-winning screenwriter. My professional career started in New York City on stage with John Amos, Samuel L. Jackson, Charles Fuller, Douglas Turner Ward, Charles Weldon and on and on. I served as a consultant for sexual harassment in the entertainment industry on <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>.<br /><br /><strong>Q: In your own words, what is</strong> <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> <strong>about?</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KaxnxrBk_lAVBzimK41ky1NRuvqTm1Sz_FIj2FJuD1I8t417vT-qQAofBTXF7X3qLr5rLvDsb6f1bths_HQVnekRCa2TIgiX6ysbu79iBi0k8D9MquiX5qytXZY242VX25TtjZveRiQ/s1600/allred2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453060155445049570" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 127px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 91px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KaxnxrBk_lAVBzimK41ky1NRuvqTm1Sz_FIj2FJuD1I8t417vT-qQAofBTXF7X3qLr5rLvDsb6f1bths_HQVnekRCa2TIgiX6ysbu79iBi0k8D9MquiX5qytXZY242VX25TtjZveRiQ/s320/allred2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh859JedsakzAiAM9EgfJYLvsM18BVaYNzDJBVDU66hIBls0QUijVlCp7nS6vpqIj4m5ioDwUQJrh-FyldtPlPDQhN5FI2lH5iV9ktPZEmXooLGtATxytPGZAHb7xcRcdzae5Vsk6TnOtc/s1600/allred1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453060058115430610" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 123px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 94px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh859JedsakzAiAM9EgfJYLvsM18BVaYNzDJBVDU66hIBls0QUijVlCp7nS6vpqIj4m5ioDwUQJrh-FyldtPlPDQhN5FI2lH5iV9ktPZEmXooLGtATxytPGZAHb7xcRcdzae5Vsk6TnOtc/s320/allred1.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>SN:</strong> Well, I haven’t actually seen all of the film yet, only bits and pieces, and I read the script, but as nearly as I can tell <strong><em>Prince of Swine </em></strong>is sort of hell with the lid blown off on entertainment, law and I guess just women and feminism – i.e., on any given day in the system between men and women, this sort of lunacy is happening. I’d say Mark’s making it up, but you can’t make this sort of stuff up, nothing could be loonier than what’s actually happening in real life.<br /><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuB15QI2cV13H194wcPv0UDXiwYY_WEsN38fO2Ji87eoE0BEfKNVKuykJqPjV6jqilZl_JvPPD-_FA3otd6yPyWB3FsBobnx9RbgxES_b9Uwm5179VbS8FDCeEVwooquANLb_yM4_zzE4/s1600/AliciaNastyMouth-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453061592141452818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 282px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 160px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuB15QI2cV13H194wcPv0UDXiwYY_WEsN38fO2Ji87eoE0BEfKNVKuykJqPjV6jqilZl_JvPPD-_FA3otd6yPyWB3FsBobnx9RbgxES_b9Uwm5179VbS8FDCeEVwooquANLb_yM4_zzE4/s320/AliciaNastyMouth-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>Q: Like what?</strong><br /><br /><strong>SN:</strong> Honestly, as a producer, business owner, lawyer, woman or even a feminist (if I were a feminist), I live with the reality of the eventual sexual harassment suit from a woman against one of my employees or associates. Something like that can completely destroy a business. Today’s society demands that we have harassment laws, but I think the climate, more often than not, is about revenge, power, or shaking down a company, not saving the underdog from real harm.<br /><br /><strong>Q: Are you a feminist? </strong><br /><br /><strong>SN:</strong> I don’t consider myself a feminist, and that's one of the main reasons I don't consider myself a feminist. But, if I were a feminist, I’d make damn sure I was there to help all women. Not just the ones who agree with me or passed some feminist litmus test. I think real women just need men with enough balls to let them be women. Does that make me a feminist? I don’t think so. I think maybe I just flashed my hole-card. The word feminist means so many different things to so many different people, most people assume I'm a feminist when they meet me, but honestly I'm not even sure what feminist means nowadays.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisf966o-vz97HFCVHMtNqQZJWiGYayrFsfxnWDI5qLtsTRfX7NEf0sBfZL2Cmc9kFas72FQY9xufwBT9VySWRI22Nxl37YCRFoM3wllb_dy2TVa7yjtgggxW87OkhKcECcvh54hZe5L80/s1600/sandy5.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453075886992780978" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 280px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisf966o-vz97HFCVHMtNqQZJWiGYayrFsfxnWDI5qLtsTRfX7NEf0sBfZL2Cmc9kFas72FQY9xufwBT9VySWRI22Nxl37YCRFoM3wllb_dy2TVa7yjtgggxW87OkhKcECcvh54hZe5L80/s320/sandy5.JPG" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMMBy0wlbfpdhmommBP-vyC4eR7v5IDxvTrjJjSg0Zn4ITyzBQMdv5marIAXHS_EKWcG2NxzQpiyMEKgJwvtYn5pyQ8q8QGuL6fVjPdjNhjEeMXQ2Vx8EaPy4QdlDCOPWiA4MX3LBtzA/s1600/sandy4.jpg"></a><br /><br /><strong>Q: Is it men or women who rule Hollywood?</strong><br /><br /><strong>SN:</strong> <strong><em>Please</em></strong>. Men are merely our messengers. The smart ones don’t forget that and live to please us. Only then will they be happy.<br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Q: Do you believe in the battle of the sexes?</strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgygIgbkAfwZ9MO7Dsk0R9S-v2F-bcXLwYpXlqbQp0T_5ZzaNE4fm_YTUE_DNihPfhjcwlHwHwrotrU7V1jtSg1c3BSz38k0cWb1R3L_gLIScTG3kwLXNyFmExLK2ZvAq15K_YX6RH7s-s/s1600/metromen2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453062034375001922" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 127px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 89px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgygIgbkAfwZ9MO7Dsk0R9S-v2F-bcXLwYpXlqbQp0T_5ZzaNE4fm_YTUE_DNihPfhjcwlHwHwrotrU7V1jtSg1c3BSz38k0cWb1R3L_gLIScTG3kwLXNyFmExLK2ZvAq15K_YX6RH7s-s/s320/metromen2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>SN:</strong> Some of these guys aren’t putting up much of a fight, I gotta tell ya’. It’s sad. They’ve really been whipped.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijSUYPAkRJH4mNhaiF7IjdEjTyS7yFxQkz5AVJbIfcymoP5EjHoCvDga7ByH1Ypiw9EixCsWncD7aHfm94hBq0jXFt_utsnglLgx3aY4MgSzbZMFprEB5OPzIngQky_lh5QJoh1pTwPj8/s1600/metroman3.jpg"></a><strong>Q: Is <em>Prince of Swine</em> a movie about men or about women?</strong><br /><br /><strong>SN:</strong> What I’ve seen it’s pretty evenhanded and illustrative, blowing <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju50s4e5_mQ-VTqMIbEFQMtIl2lzWgFxoamvC5UiucK2swWomEEGc5Et2X-smiNKetzzdq7sWLhgmv7ZL__YdFB2dhiZN-kwLFifUBWfUTtq08nIkdaQOo276e8a7g0aMBR__WRSMLgVc/s1600/TieMeUp2-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"></a>up a lot of sacred cows, but weirdly romantic in a cracked sort of way about feminism. I think Mark Toma more wants to make a fun movie, and at least knows what the most beautiful thing to write about is. Women! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27Z6_8mk42EdOiTMTZHaTBnE19Htcw9YRW8NnTjBmbxoLfuiA8vOMAg_17VgWDz6M9BT5SZamYm5u_67Cj93j5EeDpv2NhoSJ3ffFaXdWI-RRlvxqeDCOh4n8_Ux4-hvkhsFk-4rlXlw/s1600/NellWittBlue-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453062997129407074" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 287px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 148px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27Z6_8mk42EdOiTMTZHaTBnE19Htcw9YRW8NnTjBmbxoLfuiA8vOMAg_17VgWDz6M9BT5SZamYm5u_67Cj93j5EeDpv2NhoSJ3ffFaXdWI-RRlvxqeDCOh4n8_Ux4-hvkhsFk-4rlXlw/s320/NellWittBlue-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>Q: How was the casting process?<br /></strong><br /><strong>SN:</strong> Well he made a movie like this without getting sued once, that means he’s either completely ethical or completely asexual. I’m sure there’s a couch in a shrink’s office somewhere with Mark’s name on it. I know mine’s out there somewhere, just waiting to be found. If you want to be in either law or show business, or deal with men and women (or both together!) that’s my advice: get help, you’ll need it.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Rp9wnF48VrI-ruUJXEaOnKuvRicvkdtGIG57K4e9DEqEY3Dbm1abbTtASrX57FmDQwsEZlV_IpJI3u2fuaZLrf58ev6Htq-WBAdXj0bBrOY_lttOxN7dZG7c4IFFd6RWQlS0RlJHQg0/s1600/TieMeUp5-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"></a><br /><br /><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd.<br /><br />Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine </em></strong>online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers).<br /><br />Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a><br /><br />Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-52662750533570519612010-03-24T19:11:00.001-07:002010-03-31T18:46:29.557-07:00Hollywood Makes First Contact with Reality; Q & A with Economist John Noer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0VTjOTd0GiJYTq__cnYr6uEW6zT6q7TPU8eivpQEkxoegmpkyTq9gzymP6ee63VVZy6MV-OnTan5hlsc2fSCP7qRVBhjP8gnBhWjC25p5tpv1wbW_2NfKa4El1e3Mxg7ZixfIsJAonY/s1600/jnoer2.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452406213958986354" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 263px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 192px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0VTjOTd0GiJYTq__cnYr6uEW6zT6q7TPU8eivpQEkxoegmpkyTq9gzymP6ee63VVZy6MV-OnTan5hlsc2fSCP7qRVBhjP8gnBhWjC25p5tpv1wbW_2NfKa4El1e3Mxg7ZixfIsJAonY/s320/jnoer2.bmp" border="0" /></a> <strong>Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, highlights of your career so far, how you got into this crazy business, and how you became involved with <em>Prince of Swine</em>.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>JN:</strong> Good God, I’m not in the movie business at all, I’m an economist. I co-wrote a book with Mark, the maker of the movie, about the potential for the modern economy, where we’d like to get to in our time and what’s possible. We’ve known each other for about 20 years and have had this running dialogue about law, art, science, and economics, ever since he was a student at the University of Chicago. A few years back our dialectic got to the point I thought we should publish.<br /><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong>Q: What happened with the book?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>JN:</strong> We didn’t want to go the academic route. For the ideas in it to have any impact they must be understood on a wide popular mainstream level. Re publishing, it's just like the movie business from an economic standpoint: we’re in the middle of the dynamic described elsewhere – the media buys and sells fame, not so much content, just as the meta level of Wall Street, in my view, when you get to a dangerous level of investing, where it’s not really serving much social purpose and the risk is not worth the reward, is when Wall Street starts buying and selling greed, like they were doing with these derivatives, instead of substantive investments that serve a social or business purpose (the psychology is pretty well examined in the movie <strong><em>Prince of Swine, </em></strong>from what I can tell). The publishers are only interested in content secondarily, first and foremost they have to stay in business. The book will sell when either of us is famous enough that a publisher feels they can sell us, to answer your question. So I have a rooting interest in <strong><em>Prince of Swine's </em></strong>success, even though I wasn’t part of its production.</div><br /><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Q: Does the book in any way relate to the movie, <em>Prince of Swine</em>?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEIO24KNjX73hxYBAUvBYtZBpsdCVDreycdQr_mb0uLdX8IfxffPSfJqTep_l4XmAuc9WuKul1nGLfd1t5JzqNrfxNiwmpxlCh1fC9ii3WHJkeBGvAe0k0NmUFvxPX9p_qlP7YGxxlGkY/s1600/Bailiff-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452408161247050626" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 272px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 154px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEIO24KNjX73hxYBAUvBYtZBpsdCVDreycdQr_mb0uLdX8IfxffPSfJqTep_l4XmAuc9WuKul1nGLfd1t5JzqNrfxNiwmpxlCh1fC9ii3WHJkeBGvAe0k0NmUFvxPX9p_qlP7YGxxlGkY/s320/Bailiff-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a></strong></div><br /><div><strong>JN:</strong> Well I’ve only seen bits and pieces of <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, but from what I can gather, and if I know Mark, it’s got the same cracked sense of humor and moral content – it’s sophisticated, intelligent, and probably hilarious, about law, business, money, power, and human nature from what I can tell, if it’s anything like the book –<br /><br /></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHyS3YiUb1mirVmaotWKVzmjuo_EsORSB6s70cp-YthDnXWDv98uTaOUgNSbBkyB7ERXG-0qg7SC0zplZkPfqfZnPdvpaR_PNjcJ6qQIu8Sp6GNz9FOVNEnIz6cCdLgnwbk-k-FcQh748/s1600/coverartfinal.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452410045770455346" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 248px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHyS3YiUb1mirVmaotWKVzmjuo_EsORSB6s70cp-YthDnXWDv98uTaOUgNSbBkyB7ERXG-0qg7SC0zplZkPfqfZnPdvpaR_PNjcJ6qQIu8Sp6GNz9FOVNEnIz6cCdLgnwbk-k-FcQh748/s320/coverartfinal.bmp" border="0" /></a>Q: What about women?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>JN:</strong> No, afraid not, none of us knows anything about women. And we’ve been studying our whole lives. I'm going to leave that whole feminist or anti feminist or new feminist versus classical feminist argument to Mark, if he's fool enough to get into it.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: A book on economics with a cracked sense of humor and moral content?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>JN:</strong> Economics is at least half art, and anyone who really understands it, especially on the highest, revolutionary, cutting edge level we’re talking about, knows there’s nothing loonier or more hilarious on earth, though it’s difficult to see that behind the façade of science. It’s a dismal science, imprecise, but extremely creative, constantly taking crazy turns because its based in h<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEnq8y52hqXhevcGhYUtXOar5B6qBtZw9GoPnkfkaAp1bN8unPx7sVCwaadCUtKUYxUxmrXWPOKCkn22hFwWD3ZhaRTPexgMjAF4wMDtUQ41yxWAfDyKJ-ipz8VwxKaA2HndClun7NIvA/s1600/freakanomics.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452410285962807938" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 130px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 75px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEnq8y52hqXhevcGhYUtXOar5B6qBtZw9GoPnkfkaAp1bN8unPx7sVCwaadCUtKUYxUxmrXWPOKCkn22hFwWD3ZhaRTPexgMjAF4wMDtUQ41yxWAfDyKJ-ipz8VwxKaA2HndClun7NIvA/s320/freakanomics.jpg" border="0" /></a>uman behavior, human folly, and there’s nothing more important to understand in order to help people in my view – </div><br /><div><strong>Q: How do you do that in the world?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>JN:</strong> I’m a post-conflict reconstruction economist, amongst other things, I’ve worked for the UN, the World Bank, USAID, the State Department – we go into devastated, war torn countries and try to rebuild them as quickly and soundly as possible, before people really begin to suffer. Some of the worst human suffering occurs not just during wars, but directly after them, when everyone is tired, the population is exhausted, the infrastructure devastated, and the world or global media turns its back. We try to stem that and turn the tide of suffering as much as we can. In the past few years I’ve been concentrated on Iraq and Afghanistan – </div><br /><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Q: Tell us about that?</strong><br /><br /></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA34TuEtXfJg_P5lf-iLbR1rU1HgkMVeElQ8JcMA_MvRt1X6JcKhrwl7XdG9E0V6GjJqNpPWRiwUTbaru80wxBt143ir1lAy8j4Au0TX2vDYdBagmOC_2z103dMX9h6B6QmYyWvqb2vM4/s1600/angelinajolieiniraq.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452410533340537746" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 248px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA34TuEtXfJg_P5lf-iLbR1rU1HgkMVeElQ8JcMA_MvRt1X6JcKhrwl7XdG9E0V6GjJqNpPWRiwUTbaru80wxBt143ir1lAy8j4Au0TX2vDYdBagmOC_2z103dMX9h6B6QmYyWvqb2vM4/s320/angelinajolieiniraq.jpg" border="0" /></a>JN:</strong> Well, it’s hard. Thankfully it’s getting better. A few years ago I really thought all was lost in Iraq. Now, it’s still hard, they’re not out of the woods by any means, but the progress and pulling back from the abyss is nothing short of miraculous. Afghanistan, I don’t know – it’s worse now than Iraq, but nowhere near as bad as Iraq was at its worst, so don’t give up hope. But it’s very hard in both places.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Is it a dangerous job?</strong><br /><br /></div><div><strong>JN:</strong> It’s not as dangerous as being a soldier, though sometimes I very much envy them being armed and trained in places like these! These are war zones. There is no front. There are places of greater and lesser danger, and sometimes I have to be in both sorts of places. An American does not want to go out in either place without an escort from the soldiers, put it that way.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Well, good luck to you, and we pray for you, stay safe.</strong></div><br /><div><strong>JN:</strong> Good luck with the movie, if it hits it will trigger a lot of good, in ways you can’t even see yet. It can be a spark we really need.</div><br /><br /><br /><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </div><br /><div>Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><br /><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a> </div><br /><div>Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-25459820987082072112010-03-24T14:13:00.000-07:002010-03-31T18:40:35.970-07:00Q & A with Prince of Swine Composer Gerhard Daum<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2oSeQ9OTPvIXh2WZOrySvtQ7AVaZJm1UszyMK8bWHMhTEuOMtKBceNCHY-NrGI4qxTnLvaK9DvwGRow0nVlvxgCXmoTtJ23BZBCFkGT9o8-vaC7R4yeTgeguvhCh33qZpvVQMoYAjOg/s1600/gerharddaum.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452340193835622610" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 242px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2oSeQ9OTPvIXh2WZOrySvtQ7AVaZJm1UszyMK8bWHMhTEuOMtKBceNCHY-NrGI4qxTnLvaK9DvwGRow0nVlvxgCXmoTtJ23BZBCFkGT9o8-vaC7R4yeTgeguvhCh33qZpvVQMoYAjOg/s320/gerharddaum.gif" border="0" /></a> <strong>Q: Tell me a little bit about yourself, your background, highlights of your career so far, how you got into this crazy business, and how you became involved with</strong> <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em>.</strong><br /><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong>GD:</strong> I’m the composer for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>. I grew up playing guitar, making music in my own bands, like a lot of kids. I grew out into composing as I went deeper into music, felt limited by rock, wanted to integrate and explore music from all genres and all cultures of the world, music is really a universal language, where we can communicate emotion and meaning below speech. I came on board with <strong><em>Prince of Swine </em></strong>when the music supervisor, Michael Rogers, had me score the intro and played it for the producer.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: In your own words, what is <em>Prince of Swine</em> about?</strong></div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452331154789014546" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9GaklxV5qztfc99OOnDM67e3JFSccLL7QdZhOqP-PswNXT9I6zpSUdfL4inunvDfBzoskGaFCU0jKPcBXvywKmY98zWCHKm_QnMkWon4RuGt3aBUqgTxCPGtxhDGYMoq367fk8u6uaY0/s320/2inBed6sex1-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /><strong>GD:</strong> I think it’s a savage love story, a version of <strong><em>Beauty and the Beast</em></strong>. Beauty is the love story or women, and beast is I guess men or raw sexuality or life in Hollywood or America, maybe just how mean and lonely things have gotten between the sexes in post feminist America.<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: What was it like working on a low budget film?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>GD:</strong> I want to go on record right now as saying I deserve a hell of a lot more money. That’s the state of music and show biz right now, the bottom has dropped out of the music market because of MP3s and the net, and the same is now happening to indy film. You’ve got to be a guerrilla warrior and you better have a pretty strong love of your art to keep going because it’s a brutal economy out there.</div><div></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><br /><strong>Q: Where there any interesting obstacles or/and creative quick thinking on the set?</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZkZ2JOD5rRbQYWa6TVaneBFRTEcYX30xiOIoXzhWRKIJ1gmuby0JM-TqnGA7FDCMAOp9nHWXHUff-RvZGulMujM1nZZvVZaj-lwZzNxieiuIA6kUKW1eC_zeK_AASA5sTlCM4qcywBM/s1600/JenCU-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452331440815368578" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZkZ2JOD5rRbQYWa6TVaneBFRTEcYX30xiOIoXzhWRKIJ1gmuby0JM-TqnGA7FDCMAOp9nHWXHUff-RvZGulMujM1nZZvVZaj-lwZzNxieiuIA6kUKW1eC_zeK_AASA5sTlCM4qcywBM/s320/JenCU-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>GD:</strong> I wasn’t on set. Mark came to my studio, he would talk and I hope unwind, decompress, in a safe and beautiful, magical place, he would just relax with me after the war of production, tell me what was in his soul and what the movie meant to him, and I’d listen, much like a therapist, and translate that into music, just based on his ideas/feelings for the movie, what I saw onscreen and just how these things moved me in my own soul, my own musical landscape. There were some difficulties getting it out – if there are no difficulties why go to therapy? Music is the barbarous expression of the human soul, no? Takes time and talent to tame the beast, the beast is dangerous, sometimes it bucks, causes bumps.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Did you learn anything about yourself or others from the experience?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>GD:</strong> The best experience working with Mark was feeling his enthusiasm, he did a great job as a director and actor, turning his ideas into reality. He is very sensitive, is able to listen to other ideas and getting the best out of everybody working on the film.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: What was your favorite moment working on the film?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>GD:</strong> Getting into Mark’s head and finding a musical structure and beat that works well with the movie was a lot of fun.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW-SZ8mC03elw4hk3c9QQ_Q-boKh_Du9CcZ_x3bSiCbg3ha4bdw7UjwTqBIpD2LE-tJJJoHSB9KmP26gMKw7txTNwalRGzY5gsXgCh9zJkSssoXkAP_xeKd55HLjN2638UNk-lVCXMFtA/s1600/englishcountry.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452339178836098130" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 112px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW-SZ8mC03elw4hk3c9QQ_Q-boKh_Du9CcZ_x3bSiCbg3ha4bdw7UjwTqBIpD2LE-tJJJoHSB9KmP26gMKw7txTNwalRGzY5gsXgCh9zJkSssoXkAP_xeKd55HLjN2638UNk-lVCXMFtA/s320/englishcountry.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong>Q: Tell me about the English Horn?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>GD:</strong> He couldn’t shut up about that damn horn after I suggested it to him! He loved that thing. It’s not an instrument used much in modern music, it’s deeper and more authentically poignant than an oboe, tragic, it evokes Julie’s sadness and pain, like the English countryside in a romance novel, sense of being lost, a lost soul, her dark night of the soul and coming through that to the morning. There was another instrument I couldn’t get <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvMNN40EI8_HWTHDh-d2fqg4QAACR6BsCS3f39R3qURMY-CFVXkhhnftD3M_7IcXe9Xul3H6GANWXebQN3cZKCjD_NfB7OBSpfy7FSThe29DA12U6V03U4n7qoN0iUSND4cjMeH-4uFy4/s1600/2inBed5scared-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"></a>him to shut up about, it’s a hybrid I <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebPggeCOUEaZ6rhjYHVvFzz1HTW7OG9qPCfnOtNOF902-kdiHA461Sw3kMao-XwVPaR6wSp3Tv9gR4Z6IfLkIGY35_v2B2ydAJ7mn1IdNMZoRpvB1wj4hjro05G5mAic8raIxEPktJfE/s1600/2inBed5scared-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452339412747653362" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 304px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 169px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebPggeCOUEaZ6rhjYHVvFzz1HTW7OG9qPCfnOtNOF902-kdiHA461Sw3kMao-XwVPaR6wSp3Tv9gR4Z6IfLkIGY35_v2B2ydAJ7mn1IdNMZoRpvB1wj4hjro05G5mAic8raIxEPktJfE/s320/2inBed5scared-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>invented, using an African squash, a native instrument, we pass it over a wooden keyboard, or even a modern stainless steel one or through an electric keyboard, and you end up with an atonal, sort of mischeivous, joyous sound, very typical of African music, but brought into a modern context. He couldn’t shut up or sit down whenever I used that instrument.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Switching channels from the sublime and universal to the political, are you a feminist? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>GD:</strong> I don’t think in such categories like feminist or anti feminist, the relationship between the partners should be balanced out.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Is it men or women who rule Hollywood?</strong><br /><br /></div><div><strong>GD:</strong> Money rules Hollywood, whoever has it, rules.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Is <em>Prince of Swine</em> a movie about men or about women?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>GD:</strong> The vantage point leads in both directions. One can detect the dark side and prejudice in both sexes, but there is always hope. (visit Gerhard at <a href="http://www.gerharddaum.com/">http://www.gerharddaum.com/</a>) </div><br /><br /><br /><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </div><br /><div>Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine </em></strong>online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers). </div><br /><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a> </div><br /><div>Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-71600289244399673532010-03-23T19:09:00.000-07:002010-03-31T19:47:29.435-07:00Did Madonna Cause the Banking Collapse? Is Anti Feminism Bad for the Market?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2WW7aJMC8jaRDkyCgGZd8H-1a-WtYBI3iaLcq1QDA1lTfNXUTuqydeX1SIwgVzmvkbZdNqKe7gWlPpy14JxjtIdLe65P_5IidCBTbTW8rzvTZkx7xLAc3n1sPwKDBSEgU0ZP_iB31FzE/s1600-h/princeplay.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452077812531323378" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 276px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 192px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2WW7aJMC8jaRDkyCgGZd8H-1a-WtYBI3iaLcq1QDA1lTfNXUTuqydeX1SIwgVzmvkbZdNqKe7gWlPpy14JxjtIdLe65P_5IidCBTbTW8rzvTZkx7xLAc3n1sPwKDBSEgU0ZP_iB31FzE/s320/princeplay.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>Q: <em>Prince of Swine</em> was a play before it was a movie?</strong><br /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Yes, Off Broadway, almost off off Broadway at the Hamlet on Bank Street in the West Village.<br /><br /><strong>Q: How was the play <em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> <strong>different than the movie?</strong><br /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Well, it sucked for one thing! Not a word from the play survived to make the screenplay. I guess it was a fun play, it was well reviewed, people liked it, my cast was very talented (hey Hyleri! Rafael!), but I hadn’t really hit the highest or deepest level and broken through yet as a writer. It was set against New York finance instead of Los Angeles movie biz, still a harassment suit, but the plaintiff had New York smarts and bitchiness, she was a lawyer. When we moved it to LA and made her an actress - I don’t want to say Kelly is stupid - she’s dumb like a fo<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-7BCu25cE9WOVfeUYV34xVcuWO5YsrCWcu-76LO-3K1wQvhPfYG8KOu9tH1d93WaPQjFigFdgpKPvdvr0TbB6NQYGS2BRDrtgXNKjq_-yuDt27HlOXQXGLKBjCGl05OywkuI04bOt7Lc/s1600-h/hyleri.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452076262759068322" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 80px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 104px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-7BCu25cE9WOVfeUYV34xVcuWO5YsrCWcu-76LO-3K1wQvhPfYG8KOu9tH1d93WaPQjFigFdgpKPvdvr0TbB6NQYGS2BRDrtgXNKjq_-yuDt27HlOXQXGLKBjCGl05OywkuI04bOt7Lc/s320/hyleri.bmp" border="0" /></a>x. S<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3a8h1GIUyHOh0I6PgeQ_udq_6rfzKeRuq3Td4hPcgR7zTb9m4u4MNthZsmCzg0wnOn1GWrdGGkV3wP2Y6RksRJUbSVUTqDRrTU0ZTYa133sSPoQyGZPL1WiKflX9_9Ko9oyLd-Ns-Zxg/s1600-h/KellySmile002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452077070462129650" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 162px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 102px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3a8h1GIUyHOh0I6PgeQ_udq_6rfzKeRuq3Td4hPcgR7zTb9m4u4MNthZsmCzg0wnOn1GWrdGGkV3wP2Y6RksRJUbSVUTqDRrTU0ZTYa133sSPoQyGZPL1WiKflX9_9Ko9oyLd-Ns-Zxg/s320/KellySmile002-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a>he appears to be an idiot, but if you’ll notice she always gets what she wants in the end. Amber, the actress who plays her, is extremely intelligent, and you have to be to understand what Kelly’s doing, even if the character is only doing it intuitively.<br /><br /><strong>Q: Now you mentioned in an earlier blog that <em>Prince of Swine</em> prefigures the banking collapse?</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7-Qh7ZTLUO_Z840kj5D7EPZ_rnGoYuEOxs-IKcfRzZgYoa1iHYodyZFJ5-LfUy1wnr15BKVmiax1zuPnBBvaeGcJro-SxNhU67Ffp0msbZpZmLdJXX_X10Alhd1fD8Wt13WOnrVqHnMM/s1600-h/aig.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452078306059303090" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 159px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 134px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7-Qh7ZTLUO_Z840kj5D7EPZ_rnGoYuEOxs-IKcfRzZgYoa1iHYodyZFJ5-LfUy1wnr15BKVmiax1zuPnBBvaeGcJro-SxNhU67Ffp0msbZpZmLdJXX_X10Alhd1fD8Wt13WOnrVqHnMM/s320/aig.jpg" border="0" /></a></strong><br /><strong>MT:</strong> I was shocked going back and reading the play <strong><em>Prince of Swine </em></strong>how perfectly it captured the psychology that led to the banking collapse – money at any cost, this attitude of being above the law, money as an abstraction or object of worship, like the golden calf, divorced from any connection to making anything useful for people, that’s what led to the mortgage collapse, they’d created forms of securities so abstracted from any underlying value not even the experts could tell what they were worth. The con artists or monkeys who actually believed their own "greed is good" BS pitched this shit night and day, they conned even the biggest banks into bribing Congress into relaxing Glass Steagall, so they could end run the FDIC, being privately insured with AIG instead, thought they could build a glass pyramid to the sky -<br /><br /><strong>Q: So the root cause of this – </strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQi06adsLdav4uMa0AV4rt65I-JiM7iNWcd3sQa11fhEufTf_lqmfWe7yiI6G2ub5WSNkFKNXjfmBYfZW6unWoHHNZZjtNDbJrur7eg47EwZlDtri5knCG0GAHt541JIOxzAjU0TXOHI/s1600-h/madonna.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452078809845950226" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 125px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 188px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQi06adsLdav4uMa0AV4rt65I-JiM7iNWcd3sQa11fhEufTf_lqmfWe7yiI6G2ub5WSNkFKNXjfmBYfZW6unWoHHNZZjtNDbJrur7eg47EwZlDtri5knCG0GAHt541JIOxzAjU0TXOHI/s320/madonna.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Well you know the answer to that –<br /><br /><strong>Q: Oh fuck you, I mean really, fuck off, you cannot be serious – </strong><br /><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9SZ1P_UxtSKLzfdo6tCQdoLp3crK7nY-lqoW6M9DRjP84rURy4o-MhQfYzO1X72KGYaTMdr4MmQaxaGVlKHKXK2mf_ErAp14hSEIOrFRuN2WqMelosTtPfT81NE5fiD3wvvbYjdznY-I/s1600-h/madonna.jpg"></a>MT:</strong> Hey, if the feminists don’t want to take responsibility for women's power, that’s on the feminists<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz_9Wxo9AIY-4fHdI4V7-4_FaU6nxjUQyiIRB6ylBoJ3TgrVuj7fk3f5c_B5lRpgHpxRRoty-RGk4snIt99J-edDoA-Kgz1TSEbeC8C-jdUBv3GfMf3PKh49poveks6Q7GWsIkSCIqc6M/s1600-h/madonna.jpg"></a>, if you got a bunch of women acting like prostitutes, which I’m sorry, that was New York in the eighties and nineties, basically, “If you’ve got the money, I’ll fuck you” – and this goddamn Candace Bushnell of <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong> fame is a perfect example of that, she seems to have changed now that she’s older, but the monster that is her art, that whole <strong><em>Sex and the City </em></strong>franchise, <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong>, <strong><em>Sex and the City 2</em></strong>, all things <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong>, God help us, we'll have <strong><em>Sex and the City 22</em></strong> before they're done, just like Madonna, the art lives on, torturing us all, even if the artist has moved on –<br /><br /><strong>Q: You’ve really lost your mind.</strong><br /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> The truth hurts baby, don’t think I don’t know it. Men will always be what women want. And don't underestimate the power of art, for good or evil, even if you can't reduce it to a formula and measure it -<br /><br /><strong>Q: Women caused the banking collapse, that’s your theory?</strong><br /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Women cause everything, women are the root of all good and evil, women are the source of everything, women are the center of the human universe, and all human doings whether you realize it or not, we're just the messengers, women are both the source and destination. Feminism collapses with the coming of Madonna, and the banks soon follow, that’s a coincidence? If the women act like that, the men will too -<br /><br /><strong>Q: Honestly, I don’t see how <em>Prince of Swine</em> is a metaphor for the banking collapse – <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp0Z9MGrde45vlbU3JfCVvv3VgVrl4tHfD9S7YaSU38chdSPb68IpLHxKLRoqk8h5frikOxJmTb1PybmD_ujWDP3uJyk452E0uQPfUbMTv6dqTLPIApilIZXf47itAqMFnwtco5RZWQ-A/s1600-h/donsimpson.jpg"></a></strong><br /><br /><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEd2R1Ou5L6r2WsR84J2GAbgbmz40Ni9shKbztPIBNP-Sd09oJIcmmHBANDHzePOTlJxnEEyqI-KP9miS9eClbgXrzbpCBgo3jN0twAgTWyM70Nu940h7G-ahNZdx7bVaubjzw7zQxhFc/s1600-h/donsimpson.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452079070813533410" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 80px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 130px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEd2R1Ou5L6r2WsR84J2GAbgbmz40Ni9shKbztPIBNP-Sd09oJIcmmHBANDHzePOTlJxnEEyqI-KP9miS9eClbgXrzbpCBgo3jN0twAgTWyM70Nu940h7G-ahNZdx7bVaubjzw7zQxhFc/s320/donsimpson.jpg" border="0" /></a>MT:</strong> Admittedly, it’s not as clear as when <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> was a play in New York, but Don Simpson, one of the influences for the Jerry Farber character, he’s a perfect <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHjx0P_PHSe5pK5_tO5ee4RC1vUQAPwO-D_NLH6J9vM5RL3884J1UlR9VcYmXg66cYhEeYwSG5pIRrPLpQbpN994qp9eVrpi4gyzvscuyEZtEoz602FhC73hRCwZ7g8-FRN_xht19E7Z0/s1600-h/donsimpson.jpg"></a>metaphor for the banking collapse, he destroyed himself on hookers and drugs just like the bankers, Hollywood buys and sells fame, just like Wall Street buys and sells greed, at least when they go bad this is what they do –<br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Q: The bankers were on drugs, that’s your theory?</strong><br /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Gambling is a drug, money is a drug, sex is a drug, and just like Simpson, they were secretly very afraid and insecure and complete frauds inside, just like Wall Street, Simpson was on over 50 anti-anxiety medications when he died, he’s the one responsible for whoring Hollywood too, as if such a thing were possible, how big a pimp do you have to be to whore the biggest whorehouse on the planet?<br /><br /><strong>Q: Don Simpson whored Hollywood? I thought Hollywood whored Don Simpson, he was a preacher’s kid - </strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRadOMV4o4iX5tLCPrLIYD7tfL0ACeWuDDUP0ZGv7pDN-YQZgFM0mN_-7GqLwEYMgYeTQ6jw9p0U6UCpSjp_Vus7pgtPfPJKCD2yQTVGyW1RrfbGJmQLG7pJa9U8Ff9PX2m8xprrDUk_U/s1600-h/nevermakelove.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452079293418804850" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 157px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRadOMV4o4iX5tLCPrLIYD7tfL0ACeWuDDUP0ZGv7pDN-YQZgFM0mN_-7GqLwEYMgYeTQ6jw9p0U6UCpSjp_Vus7pgtPfPJKCD2yQTVGyW1RrfbGJmQLG7pJa9U8Ff9PX2m8xprrDUk_U/s320/nevermakelove.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIBsBCr8Dnhal4Tq8Wsxzt4bVuZ6B2ni_8Mg5rLrajM7B7RolMe_AnnMxtt3knsyX_imNjlvWyBzBNffR4-BaHEUEsUV7DKpYzrOzgZZcXwxCm-1hYAxvktWZSxBjrFrCXRC2Zt0W8CwI/s1600-h/nevermakelove.jpg"></a><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UPjIp6xHuPLUD5fncbWRO-5rm3S30gDKDXGv4e_8XdRs6HJVsXoWVPiDClHyPj5Na6JSn5-YxJAIqQFJ1rBEL4jCevbsAD-3wtkn6PLOZ_GT_Pt91H2Y61uURpaQkQ894AOLcjrwpUc/s1600-h/nevermakelove.jpg"></a>MT:</strong> Absolutely! He’s responsible for this whole cult of High Concept, that’s just made every movie in Hollywood complete shit, even the people making it are like, “I can’t believe people are going to buy this shit! It’s just insipid drivel!”, they’re just like the bankers with the mortgage securities, selling complete crap. Simpson was so shallow he actually believed he was making good movies, but some of his directors, like Adrian Lyne, were deep enough to know Simpson's movies were crap. There’s a really good book on that by Charles Fleming, called <strong><em>High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess <a href="http://www.charlesfleming.com/">(http://www.charlesfleming.com</a>)</em></strong>, Simpson got up and he said, essentially, I'm paraphrasing from memory here, but something like, “We’re not responsible for making art, we make money, fuck you if you don’t like it! How much money do you have, bitch? So bend over and smile.” He treated Hollywood and the public just like one of his hookers, and you don’t even want to know what he did to them. I mean, he said some of that stuff to the hookers and some to the studio and public, but you get the point - what's the difference between Simpson, the studios, or the pimps and hookers by that point? And really, this sort of awful high concept drivel he made so popular, lowers the standards of society, lowers our standards, and makes pimps and whores of us all on some level.<br /><br /><strong>Q: On that note – </strong><br /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Oh, I had one more thing: in a case of life imitating art, and this would seem to disprove my theory, but even though I was a pennyless, starving artist in New York at the time, my lead actress for the play did sleep with me, and this was a chick dating millionaires in her early twenties, even as a teenager, before she met me. She didn’t sleep with me for the part, it was after she was cast, I totally couldn’t have canned her even if I wanted to, the closer we got to opening night, the actress has the producer over the barrel by then, she has all the power –<br /><br /><strong>Q: A heartwarming tale – </strong><br /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> Well, she did drop my pennyless ass when the play closed and went and dated a gazillionaire or something. Ya’ know what that stupid bitch said to me when we were breaking up? The whole time she’s playing this idealistic feminist who utterly can’t be bought, she’s like, “Oh, this is so exactly like me, this is just exactly what it means to be a feminist, and you’re a creative genius for bringing her to life, let's make love like crazed bunnies in heat!”. Then, as soon as the play closes, she turns to me and says, “Ya’ know, I need someone who can afford to take me to the opera.” Welcome to the whacky world of actresses. And women wonder why we take feminism with a grain of salt these days.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd.<br /><br />Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers).<br /><br />Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a><br /><br />Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-5926773978194223242010-03-22T23:13:00.000-07:002010-03-31T18:14:39.759-07:00The Revolution Will Be Televised; Feminist Themes of Prince of Swine<strong>Q: W<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEImr0-zk3F3mw1iLlma97_acUAX-N4xJ43_Sh9wAB8x6qaPBZ48XmlvhyphenhyphenjnSFM6LQzLaSXDbeXlDQ24_78WZuSu_ImGh8dacrZlG5E8TT9InhlxIVt_vW1NxCElqcHyNAE6vOQK7Kt8Q/s1600-h/402px-Gloria_Steinem_at_news_conference%252C_Women%2527s_Action_Alliance%252C_January_12%252C_1972.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451715429105841954" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEImr0-zk3F3mw1iLlma97_acUAX-N4xJ43_Sh9wAB8x6qaPBZ48XmlvhyphenhyphenjnSFM6LQzLaSXDbeXlDQ24_78WZuSu_ImGh8dacrZlG5E8TT9InhlxIVt_vW1NxCElqcHyNAE6vOQK7Kt8Q/s320/402px-Gloria_Steinem_at_news_conference%252C_Women%2527s_Action_Alliance%252C_January_12%252C_1972.jpg" border="0" /></a>hat does <em>Prince of Swine’s</em> logo, “The Revolution Will Be Televised” mean?</strong><br /><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong>MT </strong><em>(Mark Toma, writer/director of <strong>Prince of Swine</strong>)</em>: It means we’re living in revolutionary times, you’d have to be blind not to see that, we’re entering a time of global revolutionary political and social change. It means we can use the media to bring about this change, it’s the most powerful weapon on earth.</div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><br /><strong>Q: And what does this have to do with your movie?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Our movie contains the right spirit for it, the right attitude, as well as being prescient about the banking collapse. <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> was written well before the collapse, but the psychology that caused it, this sort of arrogant, lost, desperate and addicted male psychology (and the greedy women behind them!), is pretty well dissected in the movie, in both the hero and the villain. Plus we cast our lot with successful American revolutionaries of the past, namely, the feminists in this movie.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: You’re a feminist?</strong></div><br /><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> I wouldn’t trust any guy who says he’s a feminist, he’s probably just trying to get in your pants.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: I don’t understand, are you mocking feminism or supporting it?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Both I guess, I treasure what the feminists can and should be, I mock what they’ve become.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Which is what?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I don’t know, trying to have it both ways, to be both a feminist and these <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong> types at the same time, that whole <strong><em>Sex and the City 2</em></strong> craze, anything <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong>. I guess Madonna clones and wannabees, and I don’t mean the actual person, she’s as contemptuous of her old image as I am, but once an artist creates these things they have a life of their own, I think she’d like to destroy her old image as much as I would in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> – </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Why?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Because it’s both powerful and poison, it puts a bad idea in women’s heads, and it says, “If you follow this bad idea, you’ll be rich and famous” and guess what? They do, her clones are breeding like flies. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Jb9FonJuM6ZU0h_5u2hVejgPh7esl07hlEifdaEI-fwiOoZ1hyphenhyphencCxvihdf5YWhCj9BwfK5YOridfteIPfc7H3VoPhZJ9zBzYDBOIKsouc_-yNHhvw6_aDkvnfFU5BTwvEurqmpnGQ_o/s1600-h/sexandc.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451722920601054706" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 220px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 171px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Jb9FonJuM6ZU0h_5u2hVejgPh7esl07hlEifdaEI-fwiOoZ1hyphenhyphencCxvihdf5YWhCj9BwfK5YOridfteIPfc7H3VoPhZJ9zBzYDBOIKsouc_-yNHhvw6_aDkvnfFU5BTwvEurqmpnGQ_o/s320/sexandc.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div><strong>Q: Like who?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I don’t know, Paris, Lindsay, Brittney, that whole mindset – I’m not putting down Brittney and Lindsay, I think they’ve paid personally for getting sucked into that delusion, and they know it now, they were just kids then. But these Sex and the City types – what’s their excuse? They’re not kids. That’s just real cynical drug pushing, enabling golddigging in my view, tacity accepting and encouraging it, which is what feminism is supposed to condemn. And if the women go bad, the men soon follow. You got a nation of greedy women, you’ll have a nation of guys of the sort who caused the banking collapse, sure as night follows day, men will always be what women want - </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Drug pushing?</strong></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Oqd1bdXMsrA47FUYZ-S_YDiAKvWnY7vt18jiiPUDiZdCxNG9Fm30VHLiyWh3stx2LUH61upouU9S8cu2wsJxu-VJwPzg8p0E0TNxQj2h5NuLokyVkTz9MFLcAY6yE62SVjGA7CH9Dds/s1600-h/sexandc2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451720280755656434" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 173px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Oqd1bdXMsrA47FUYZ-S_YDiAKvWnY7vt18jiiPUDiZdCxNG9Fm30VHLiyWh3stx2LUH61upouU9S8cu2wsJxu-VJwPzg8p0E0TNxQj2h5NuLokyVkTz9MFLcAY6yE62SVjGA7CH9Dds/s320/sexandc2.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>MT:</strong> That whole Mr. Big <strong><em>Sex and the City 2</em></strong> fantasy is really an unhealthy narcotic, like porn is for a guy. And Mr. Big is the type that caused the banking collapse by the way, money at any cost because he knows it’ll impress the women -<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: But – </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I don’t want to talk about those <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong> women any more, they disgust me, they’re not worth my time, they get too much press as it is, thank God that's not most American women whatever the media sells, however badly we're selling American women short. <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> is revolutionary on a lot of fronts, I’m starting with women, because women are the most important, they’re the center of everything, and if you can get them on your side, you can rule the world, and if they’re lost, everything is lost – </div><br /><div><strong>Q: What – </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT: </strong>See the movie if you want to know what I mean by that, that’s exactly what the movie is about, we can’t say it any better than we said it in the movie, we need a work of art to express the full meaning. I worship women like in the movie, and they exist in real life too. Katheryn Bigelow, she just won the Oscar, and I worship that type, warrior women like that who can't be bought, who love real men, Jane Campion, one of my favorite directors, I worship her, why don’t both these women get more acclaim than the <strong><em>Sex and the City </em></strong>types? I mean, feminism has achieved a lot of its goals, if you want the Presidency too, well, any woman who really understands <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong>, she’d win in a slam dunk – </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Hillary – </strong></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdX05uAJ0-nqN6BXlqxWLav4dKJAZANyY6BoHNzTKCItjtM1xZ-EzPUzQ20L5cJnvjkohDqdtfZzkUo0osX54MkfyunUR_fjq866oK_hplS_daxYRGRADBpNPITWZvR5kCXKLrX5_SP0U/s1600-h/hillary.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451720531945822546" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 146px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 167px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdX05uAJ0-nqN6BXlqxWLav4dKJAZANyY6BoHNzTKCItjtM1xZ-EzPUzQ20L5cJnvjkohDqdtfZzkUo0osX54MkfyunUR_fjq866oK_hplS_daxYRGRADBpNPITWZvR5kCXKLrX5_SP0U/s320/hillary.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong>MT:</strong> Obviously didn’t understand my movie, but I don’t want to talk about her either. I was really disappointed when Steinem supported her. The revolutionary fronts on our time are not women’s rights, they involve everybody –<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: Like what?</strong></div><br /><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj63ZSTtpEScvZMusmkexj92YJMp1HbsuZOjmIf3Jw4fRHw30beEYiCwckBwEyuE_ylw_sTa141hBcV2qMrkgYpxmxOzMDBVSSIF9m4eky-mzkscfFFN1Zx8mkea_7p4H2fCO0rQrSPFk8/s1600-h/greenspan.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451721196331028786" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 117px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 118px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj63ZSTtpEScvZMusmkexj92YJMp1HbsuZOjmIf3Jw4fRHw30beEYiCwckBwEyuE_ylw_sTa141hBcV2qMrkgYpxmxOzMDBVSSIF9m4eky-mzkscfFFN1Zx8mkea_7p4H2fCO0rQrSPFk8/s320/greenspan.jpg" border="0" /></a>MT:</strong> Well, clearly you can see, we’re living in revolutionary times in economics? When the Chairman of the Fed, not exactly a communist, stands before Congress and says, "Everything we've believed about the world for the past 30 years and made all our assumptions on, just turned out to be crap," that might be your first indicator something's up. The global economy is undergoing seismic change, it’s transitioning to something else, and if it doesn’t do it successfully – kapoof, you know what happens to the world when huge populations become economically desperate – </div><br /><div><strong>Q: What?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Hitler, Mao, Stalin – </div><br /><div><strong>Q: You think we’ll descend – </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I actually think Americans will find a way, I have huge faith in Americans when our backs are against the wall, I hope to play a big part in this, it’s my life’s ambition, but if we don’t, that could happen, fascism, widespread poverty, unemployment, and if America goes under, we’re still the leader, you know what happens to the entire global economy if the leader goes over the cliff?</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Global crash?</strong><br /><br /></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> Bigtime, global Depression, and the fascism and apocalypse that then result. But it’s darkest before the dawn, I think we’re transforming to what Keynes promised, but we have to make it happen, it doesn’t happen if we don’t make it, if we're not wise and worthy – </div><br /><div><strong>Q: What?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDlbxvsvsMIdojKhcYaE03thQmngd9boLyfZb03KuNo9mLoFxeT2b3DQ3sksFeatQKegFPHX2KRDd3AVMsg2HCS5jASO7TfZ6n2zNBqGH1CPbtZB8fUllwQdAfNGEh3cHUHaEYV8c4l-8/s1600-h/keynes.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451724142867421602" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 104px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 137px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDlbxvsvsMIdojKhcYaE03thQmngd9boLyfZb03KuNo9mLoFxeT2b3DQ3sksFeatQKegFPHX2KRDd3AVMsg2HCS5jASO7TfZ6n2zNBqGH1CPbtZB8fUllwQdAfNGEh3cHUHaEYV8c4l-8/s320/keynes.jpg" border="0" /></a></strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I’d need a book to explain that, and I’ve written that book, but here, the general idea is in this few pages by Keynes (<a href="http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf">http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf</a>), anyone can understand them, this goal is possible in our time –<br /></div><br /><div><strong>Q: You’re an economist?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> My co-author is a world reknowned econonmist, and I’m a lawyer too, admittedly a loony lawyer, I didn’t study anything in law school you could make money at, only stuff that fascinated me, and law and economics fascinated me, how they’re two sides of a coin. I started writing <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> during law school. We call where we can get to, where Keynes promised, the Democracy of Aristocracy.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Where can we get this book?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> It’ll be published as soon as I’m famous, that’s what the publishers told us. They don’t give a flying F what’s in the book, they sell fame, just like the movie studios, and they won’t even try to sell you unless you’re already famous, that’s the Catch 22 of all media.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: This is getting away from <em>Prince of Swine</em> –</strong> </div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Yeah, we just stay with women in our movie, because women are the source of everything, the source of all revolutions, women give the thumbs up or thumbs down for success, and we fight to please women, at least the good ones. Women are the source of all power and all our power comes from women, so we’re just starting with women and the rest will follow, once we get women on board, then the men will follow, in a stampede – </div><br /><div><strong>Q: And where will the stampede go?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> That would require another book, but don’t worry, I’ve got a plan. It won’t be into two freakin’ wars at the same time, when we’re already broke, I can guarantee you that much. I’m really gonna put an end to that shit if I get a chance. That shit is really pissing me off and was completely unnecessary, that’s just real bad leadership, that shit has about pissed me off enough to do something about it.</div><br /><div><strong>Q: What?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Well, we’re out of space. But the revolution is coming. And it will be televised. All I need is fame to pull it off, put the spark to it.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd.<br /></div><div></div><div><br />Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers).<br /><br /></div><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a></div><div></div><div></div><div><br />Visit Prince of Swine at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-89146716390316574242010-03-20T18:08:00.000-07:002010-03-31T17:55:14.985-07:00Q & A with Prince of Swine Creator Mark Toma<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiP2ROLPwlJ9iEi3x1R-zPsrIWYRktkIV6dQzP8bY5BF4jiCKjD-te9oKgjnxNsxg6PJEivseaHMzvFGZ4HoIgARNn6SZjLzp4J2Dw6SiuQCjzXegeka9vQFYbM5AEr-Yhj38rt7fODUk/s1600-h/hottub.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450895094374565522" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 159px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 169px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiP2ROLPwlJ9iEi3x1R-zPsrIWYRktkIV6dQzP8bY5BF4jiCKjD-te9oKgjnxNsxg6PJEivseaHMzvFGZ4HoIgARNn6SZjLzp4J2Dw6SiuQCjzXegeka9vQFYbM5AEr-Yhj38rt7fODUk/s320/hottub.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>Q: Tell me a little bit about yourself, your background, highlights of your career so far, how you got into this crazy business, and how you became involved with the movie.</strong><br /><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong>MT:</strong> I was minding my own business as a humble starving artist in DC. My girlfriend kept bitching at me that she didn’t want to marry a starving artist, so why didn’t I go to law school? I took the LSATs just to shut her up and ended up acing them, getting a full scholarship to NYU Law. While there I met some crook who later invited me out to Hollywood to write the script for his wife’s movie. They ended up butchering my script and I got my ass handed to me by those damn criminals business wise, but that’s how I learned production. </div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450899460151325010" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 108px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 88px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYo6CR0PUNmcgjs5-TXY6wBOWNnl-65S-QWkV8ygjtoKvIf6uhe5cc51M12bLmdGu0dEo_lreapk1U367udYRPPjpSVsdeOsL6WaE_xZxEqSlD7zcVdS5mAisPzrjpipeOEqdtQ51lYM0/s320/santiago.jpg" border="0" /><strong>Q: Tell me about your role (cast or crew) in the movie. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDW1YEodiIBNl7zDURyuGWWIBRKQvFeoX_0M_wMHTt4OJlTRjU1gFx2ZfThA8Nk0kOqCGVC64gP68RgBkVLtoFymh5WFUxUlpFSzS-0bdltON-fwu8xOYy3OyueddaAkyV1e0rSI_dOQA/s1600-h/mr.+cranky.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450899793572803762" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 104px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 94px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDW1YEodiIBNl7zDURyuGWWIBRKQvFeoX_0M_wMHTt4OJlTRjU1gFx2ZfThA8Nk0kOqCGVC64gP68RgBkVLtoFymh5WFUxUlpFSzS-0bdltON-fwu8xOYy3OyueddaAkyV1e0rSI_dOQA/s320/mr.+cranky.jpg" border="0" /></a></strong><br /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> I wrote, directed, produced and star in it, so don’t blame me if it’s crap. It’s not, by the way, it’s a lot of fun. How much fun? So much fun it rips the very fabric of space and time with the sheer overpowering force of its brilliance. So much fun, it’s proof Jesus did not die in vain. I’m stealing most of these jokes but the script is entirely original. Here, I'll give some props, I stole some of these jokes off these two guys above.<br /><br /><div><strong>Q: In your own words, what is the film about? </strong><br /><br /></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj82yaf2qUujQBO5qlb6q6cl4PVvHAJCTmSNUjOqtZFPiguSGkqn78LcDkdk9EDrgpiIkgC4vsa1N0T1gQ9r0DNlmbWA8RHWK1KGpjdIxg5qYRRHa0TideKd9jgyFgDBd2Z232_zrNOBZE/s1600-h/blueMoon-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450900582689701810" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 242px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 147px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj82yaf2qUujQBO5qlb6q6cl4PVvHAJCTmSNUjOqtZFPiguSGkqn78LcDkdk9EDrgpiIkgC4vsa1N0T1gQ9r0DNlmbWA8RHWK1KGpjdIxg5qYRRHa0TideKd9jgyFgDBd2Z232_zrNOBZE/s320/blueMoon-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> It’s about a 100 minutes. I never know how to answer that. A great movie, the entire universe and all eternity are reflected in its arc. <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> contains the cure for cancer, world peace, the rebirth of feminism, liberalism, and the resolution of the global economic crisis too. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: What was it like working on a low budget film? </strong><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450901869219644738" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 192px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 125px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-aCpIUUzxx8Z4SnGocQvvHAKo7JyqZoF-7l0Y3TGZG7_-yM9Wc9654PH-UOsCHHOwPEb3cFM2C04jz5JFL2rejRU9paeWDskW8a-lMpptwARkvGsBG4J3VG0WKVhXrTDgiqI566aMN3U/s320/rhino.jpg" border="0" /></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> Much like being anally made love to by a charging rhinoceros.<br /><br /><strong>Q: Where there any interesting obstacles or/and creative quick thinking on the set? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Other than sweet talking the rhinoceros to let me out of bed each morning, no, nothing. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Did you learn anything about yourself or others from the experience? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> I’ve got one tough ass. It takes a lickin’, and keeps on tickin’. </div><br /><div><strong>Q: What was your favorite moment working on the film? </strong></div><div><br /></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhycSsz7ulB2e6YBUiTC3rj193inLO67WgPRdy4ibNKSIeM0RJhqMGJQSVua7jPd5LUFBL-DRlSX3sRyC0ZmopojO9Rlu73ty3n9mzQVfoRwsmNrCh2-_HWAU8a7VBgBCJxO4BgvPp4cnk/s1600-h/2inBed8looking-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450903412176967810" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 233px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 142px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhycSsz7ulB2e6YBUiTC3rj193inLO67WgPRdy4ibNKSIeM0RJhqMGJQSVua7jPd5LUFBL-DRlSX3sRyC0ZmopojO9Rlu73ty3n9mzQVfoRwsmNrCh2-_HWAU8a7VBgBCJxO4BgvPp4cnk/s320/2inBed8looking-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> Once I fell asleep during a love scene. My lead actress was very understanding, and didn’t take it personally, I hadn’t slept in days. Plus the crew had bribed her not to wake me up, because they were tired of hearing me pontificate about art. That was about the only sleep I got that shoot so I really enjoyed it. </div><br /><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Q: Are you a feminist? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Which answer will get me sex? I hate <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong>, <strong><em>Sex and the City 2</em></strong>, and all things <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong>, does that count as being a feminist?</div><br /><div><strong>Q: Is it men or women who rule Hollywood?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> What you all don’t understand is that we lie and cheat and steal and rip each other’s throats out, and it’s all for you baby! We do it because we love you! </div><br /><div><strong>Q: Do you believe in the battle of the sexes? </strong></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450906269705673122" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 263px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 114px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpkYc8AvkYP5flFj6R_Zn6JvLRbHqO4nnTWvD489Efn-T2ZyThDZ6DKMCu8lMAq4jLhfHmtmJd2mTnDEVuCwqQ0QQ0JIU7Efb18G58s5InK0Vip3_EuUN9hxxbXixBvHajscqZUKHxC-A/s320/Amber+boob-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /><br /><strong>MT:</strong> I believe in peaceful co-existence, mutual respect and harmony between the sexes, where each gives the other unconditional love and acceptance for all eternity, without expecting anything in return, and neither sex, power, fame, nor money can ever get in the way of that or cause any sort of tension or conflict between us, ‘til death do us part. I believe such an ideal is expressed in every frame of my movie. I believe that Carrie Bradshaw and Mr. Big live happily ever after in the <strong><em>Sex and the City 2</em></strong> universe, and never once does he cheat on her with someone younger nor does she leave him or even think about it if he should ever lose his money. I believe real life is just like <strong><em>Sex and the City </em></strong>and if you like <strong><em>Sex and the City</em></strong>, you'll love <strong><em>Prince of Swine.</em></strong><br /><br /><div><strong>Q: Is <em>Prince of Swine</em> a movie about men or about women? </strong></div><br /><div><strong>MT:</strong> Nell, my lead actress, said it was my love letter to myself, since the young feminist idealist is sort of based on me at an earlier age. I prefer to think it’s my love letter to feminists and women in general. Totally, I worship real feminists, that's the message of this movie, a real feminist like say, Katheryn Bigelow or Jane Campion.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><br /><strong>Q: How was the casting process? </strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg83BDPPjTXOfsMsSoU9G-n7YuIzDvKTr846951SiXYUdH6zGnVso_nBjNFxq7NHUDhN_8D8Xnznz1gzg4OhvDPwusTJTLQnCAEZYBwCn6_e0q5T5CGOqwlXplT_ir4Dhpa-Nf-LphjZx4/s1600-h/GirlKnife-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450906791023688610" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 259px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 162px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg83BDPPjTXOfsMsSoU9G-n7YuIzDvKTr846951SiXYUdH6zGnVso_nBjNFxq7NHUDhN_8D8Xnznz1gzg4OhvDPwusTJTLQnCAEZYBwCn6_e0q5T5CGOqwlXplT_ir4Dhpa-Nf-LphjZx4/s320/GirlKnife-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>MT:</strong> I didn’t get laid once. How the F do you cast a movie like this, thousands of the most gorgeous women in the world, all lining up to please you, and still manage not to get laid? That takes some sort of talent and incompetence. Nothing. Not even a hand job. I'm the proverbial priest at the F'in orgy, even the PA's were getting more sex than me.</div><div></div><div></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><br /><strong>Q: How did you work on the arc of your character?</strong></div><div></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><br /><strong>MT:</strong> All the actors kept laughing at me, saying I wasn’t a real actor, I was just playing myself. They’re all a bunch of pretentious idiots – Witt is normal, I’m insane. You know how much acting talent it takes to behave normally, when you’re actually insane? </div><br /><br /><div></div><div><strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> opens at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd. </div><br /><div>Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine </em></strong>online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers).</div><br /><div>Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a></div><br /><div>Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a> </div></div></div></div></div></div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299206369812693235.post-10899846916734204562010-03-19T23:21:00.000-07:002010-03-31T18:01:17.211-07:00Q & A with Prince of Swine Lead Actress Nell Ruttledge<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450614227997790114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 187px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 202px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwtsPg1rIQVWZY0uf3HxRCVlIWQcfHzGB4s7avoB_GTQMCwUwnFqRHnBIXbi1vskQVyDa7dfedC4X-d4uKrCl5RrqBBhyphenhyphen2Rp79YK53nqkV0ZKmn2lG9yHQWGfJ2oTuaL76kRDIq2tIeMs/s320/Nell+Head+shot+-+grey+crop.jpg" border="0" /><strong>Q: Tell me a little bit about yourself, your background, highlights of your career so far, how you got into this crazy business, and how you became involved with <em>Prince of Swine</em>.</strong><br /><br /><strong>NR:</strong> I had been acting in theater my whole life but I had never been in a feature length film before. I knew that playing the lead in a film was going to be quite an interesting challenge. I was cast in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> my first year in Los Angeles.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKkPRVcYob7LeQTBXA50ln7Brl-guvG5M2HI2r2m3vM-XqzwX5io6hw1uUETKKvA-rr1Ns4Hxi-E4ZPXvVz5vp72OeI1Mo-WDck1do5s2AHE98MjKCwKOOanHgVx4e1VI0fMneh1cnjzU/s1600-h/2inBed7sad-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450614613764608770" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 235px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 120px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKkPRVcYob7LeQTBXA50ln7Brl-guvG5M2HI2r2m3vM-XqzwX5io6hw1uUETKKvA-rr1Ns4Hxi-E4ZPXvVz5vp72OeI1Mo-WDck1do5s2AHE98MjKCwKOOanHgVx4e1VI0fMneh1cnjzU/s320/2inBed7sad-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong>Q: In your own words, what is</strong> <em><strong>Prince of Swine</strong> </em><strong>about?</strong><br /><br /><strong>NR: </strong>Oh, many things. I think mainly about a trial that helps Julie and Witt find the good in each other.<br /><br /><strong>Q: Tell me about your role in the movie. </strong><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_E5A0vHmp2boobAirmapSFTnMwtIDKe452oxH6xOA6_psYO9731ikAA7NXwhqa9QvFUMwrg6rKT8H89uva8poPtZ_F9qo44h3a1YgHGSixnitkebP9sEPH2X6RF5wsSjfzMtgr1XmsCk/s1600-h/NellinBarFinger-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450604071852762338" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 224px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 120px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_E5A0vHmp2boobAirmapSFTnMwtIDKe452oxH6xOA6_psYO9731ikAA7NXwhqa9QvFUMwrg6rKT8H89uva8poPtZ_F9qo44h3a1YgHGSixnitkebP9sEPH2X6RF5wsSjfzMtgr1XmsCk/s320/NellinBarFinger-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div><strong>NR:</strong> Julie is a character with a hard past and a good heart. She isn’t afraid to take on a difficult case if it’s for a cause she believes in. The anger she has inside of her keeps her from truly connecting with the people around her.<br /></div><div></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><br /><strong>Q: Were there any interesting obstacles or/and creative quick thinking on the movie?</strong></div><br /><div><strong>NR:</strong> Obstacles are inevitable on any movie. They’re part of the fun. The biggest obstacle for me on this film was that I was completely inexperienced. </div><div><br /><strong>Q: Did you learn anything about yourself or others from the experience?</strong></div><div><br /><strong>NR:</strong> I was straight out of a liberal arts college where artistic exploration was infused with trust and collaboration. I learned a lot about working in film in Hollywood and that it’s a bit different. </div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj134a45RB5_8cc45mJlA1HXJDE9BbAe6D3fuPxZVQ3naYjTETZrmqYgLt8GbSfY46IGCTiSkFrW0y2RF4NWlDlLi8ipw_2-cb7XnAtw1B402ozkN-UQe8t88Fkbb8guo5wmEpmstqSzwk/s1600-h/2shotBlue+Room-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450603702022546178" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 271px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 127px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj134a45RB5_8cc45mJlA1HXJDE9BbAe6D3fuPxZVQ3naYjTETZrmqYgLt8GbSfY46IGCTiSkFrW0y2RF4NWlDlLi8ipw_2-cb7XnAtw1B402ozkN-UQe8t88Fkbb8guo5wmEpmstqSzwk/s320/2shotBlue+Room-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div><strong>Q: Are you a feminist? </strong></div><div><strong><br /></strong><strong>NR: </strong>Yes. </div><div><br /><strong>Q: Is it men or women who rule Hollywood?</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>NR:</strong> Men still have much more creative power and freedom in Hollywood than women. But it’s changing. </div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVW4eyubc4lmWdt2Af3YQxL3Bj16w_Cqj1ZjCZS_gYvy2ZX5K6toiqdB2nccois3dUAQYXbth0ftU5mTkVf2BExb1eb9P3JRM_lqQjLc26EnJpJXPlZ1y1GrDODXdWeJZQALrmHWWj4FI/s1600-h/NellWittinCourt-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450613758573847506" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 245px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 138px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVW4eyubc4lmWdt2Af3YQxL3Bj16w_Cqj1ZjCZS_gYvy2ZX5K6toiqdB2nccois3dUAQYXbth0ftU5mTkVf2BExb1eb9P3JRM_lqQjLc26EnJpJXPlZ1y1GrDODXdWeJZQALrmHWWj4FI/s320/NellWittinCourt-Photo+-+JPEG+75+PAL.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong>Q: Do you believe in the battle of the sexes?</strong></div><div><br /><strong>NR:</strong> Not as an inherent part of life.<br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>See Nell in <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at the <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2"></a><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights, Memorial Day Weekend, for a limited engagement, May 28th to June 3rd.<br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><br />Get tickets for <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> online at the <a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=05312010&thid=2">Laemmle Sunset 5</a> or the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> website <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http://www.princeofswine.com/</a> (discounts available for advance and group purchasers).</div><div></div><div><br />Join the <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> revolution on <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OF_SWINE">Twitter</a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(85,119,153); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-of-Swine-the-Movie/109828192189">Facebook.</a> </div><div><br />Visit <strong><em>Prince of Swine</em></strong> at <a href="http://www.princeofswine.com/">http//www.princeofswine.com</a>.</div>Prince of Swinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563012996919051159noreply@blogger.com0