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Recently, one of the co-authors of The Film Snob*s Dictionary, namely Lawrence “Looker” Levi, gave a rather unfavorable New York Times review to David Thomson’s book-length appreciation of Nicole Kidman. This prompted Thomson to write a peeved letter to the Times Book Review in response in which he actually makes a snide reference to The Film Snob*s Dictionary, a book Thomson admits he hasn’t read. Gentlemen, gentlemen! Please, why don’t you both drop this feud and focus on your common ground, namely that you, along with Levi’s co-author David Kamp, share a spirited enthusiasm for Douglas McGrath’s Truman Capote film Infamous, which at last is getting its U.S. release? October 12, 2006 More Film Snobbery »
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Nilsson, Harry. Brooklyn-born, powerfully piped singer-songwriter equally famous for well-realized retro-pop albums such as Nilsson Schmilsson (1971) and for being John Lennon’s drinking buddy/partner in crime during the latter’s “Lost Weekend” period in Los Angeles. Though his adept melding of Tin Pan Alley and Sergeant Pepper idioms suggested an artist of limitless possibility in the late ’60s and early ’70s, his increasingly sozzled state put him into a mid-’70s artistic decline from which he never recovered. (His tipple of choice was the Brandy Alexander, which the admiring Lennon referred to as a “milkshake”). Since his 1994 death, however, Nilsson’s oeuvre has acquired significant hipster cachet, with his oeuvre lavishly repackaged by BMG and his song “One,” as sung by Aimee Mann, used prominently over the credits of P.T. Anderson’s 1999 epic Magnolia.