Taken from: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2022/1/7/22871849/peter-bogdanovich-obituary-director-resume
The director, who died at 82 on Thursday, was a master craftsman who used his wealth of film knowledge to create singular hybrids of the old and new
“Comedy has to be built carefully,” Peter Bogdanovich told Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri in 2018. At his best, the New York–born filmmaker was a master craftsman, drawing on his love and knowledge of classic Hollywood style and conventions to create hybrids of the old and new. In a rollicking road movie like Paper Moon, about an experienced con man who takes a preteen apprentice on a cross-country odyssey, every moment feels familiar yet bereft of cliché; Bogdanovich didn’t just know how the comic mechanisms worked, but also how to keep them purring just below the surface. While rarely lumped in with the generation that reinvented Hollywood in the 1970s, Bogdanovich’s love of old genres—especially screwball comedies and musicals—yielded the same sort of postmodern pleasures as Francis Ford Coppola’s updating of gangster picture myths in The Godfather. (To wit: If Bogdanovich is to be believed, he was offered the adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel first.)
Bogdanovich was a raconteur and a gossip—in addition to the sterling books of film criticism he published during his 20s, he wrote and directed numerous behind-the-scenes books, articles, and documentaries, appearing in most as a vivid, polarizing character in his own right. Always good for a quote and gifted at intertwining narcissism with self-deprecation, he dined out on his ’70s successes while also owning the commercial failures (Saint Jack, They All Laughed) that led to his declaring bankruptcy by the mid-’80s. In time, there would be comebacks for this compelling fallen figure—retrospectives and late triumphs, including a killer recurring guest role on The Sopranos and the release of his friend and hero Orson Welles’s long-unfinished The Other Side of the Wind, a movie in which Bogdanovich brilliantly played a version of himself. He leaves behind not only several classics but a wide, varied, and almost uniformly idiosyncratic body of work—movies, performances, essays, books, and one-liners. Here’s our attempt at a Peter Bogdanovich syllabus.
The Wild Angels (1966)
As a young film critic, Bogdanovich hooked up with B-movie maestro Roger Corman, whose mercenary showmanship belied a similar appreciation for auteurism and aesthetics. (Among other things,
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Hey wastelanders.
I run a mutated, non-PA character. Specifically, I use Marsupial and Bird Bones (among others), coupled with a maxed out Adamantium Skeleton perk card.
For the longest time, this combo has let me leap off high places and land without damage and without staggering. Lately though, every time I fall from a great height, I take a tiny amount of damage and become staggered as I crash to the ground. The damage is usually negligible, but the stagger effect really interrupts the flow of play.
Yesterday, I visited a sky tile camp, and the owner logged off, pulling his camp out from under me. I plummeted to the ground and was nearly killed by the fall damage.
This never used to happen.
I seem to remember reading that sometimes perks can glitch off, and the remedy was to unequip all perks, then re-equip them. So, I tried that, but the problem persists.
Does anyone know how to fix it?
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Whenever I full hop to gun lock the person on the platform, the gun comes out too late and I shoot too high over them, therefore not gunlocking them.
Mine was the Joe Rogan Experience. It's what got me into podcasts but after two years and starting to discover other shows, it felt more like a chore than a must-listen to keep up with so many hours of content per week. Guests started repeating their stories and I felt like I had outgrown his take on life.
But enough about me. What are your podcast breakup stories?
Hi again! Not the greatest week.
I had a (second) VERO claim put on me on Monday (first was legit; second wasn't). As part of this 3-day suspension, my listings were hidden (that's a new one to me; thought you just couldn't list).
Today, I called and got the VERO/suspension lifted (about 11:45 a.m.)
At about 3:30, found that my items were still not searchable in eBay, so i called back. CSR on the line then went ahead and "unhid" my listings but said it could take up to 24 hours for them to reappear.
Which, obviously, is nearly as long as my 3-day suspension would've been anyway. This is all quite frustrating, especially in Q4.
As I said, I've called eBay back and messaged eBay for Business on Facebook.
Anyone out there have any ideas as to how I might expedite getting my listings back up and rolling?
Found a little easter-egg on how to do pratfalls.
Press X then when in midair. B (Xbox 360)
http://instagram.com/p/eSktismzl3/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb51glMqCrQ Any way to do this without hurting yourself
Hi...a few weeks ago I did an improv jam and I ended up doing a considerable amount of physical comedy during the scene (nothing major...for context I'll just say that the scene evolved into me playing a man with offensive hygiene). It had me constantly moving around the stage while my scene partners (2 others) talked to me while moving away from me to avoid this characters "odors". The scene got some huge laughs and after it was over, the host said that it was really great to see physical humor like that because it's often lacking.
How often is physical humor employed in improv scenes? Things like pratfalls and such? How would one do it? Anyone have any advice on this?
