Comments on: Mid-Week Round-Up: Brushes with Celebrity http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:39:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: rodger http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49165 rodger Thu, 22 May 2008 20:38:20 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49165 Well, perhaps you should have made the distinction between screenwriters and novelists; there is a distinction. Your employment of the singular noun <i>writer</i> invited my response and comments. Well, perhaps you should have made the distinction between screenwriters and novelists; there is a distinction. Your employment of the singular noun writer invited my response and comments.

]]> By: Annika Barranti http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49164 Annika Barranti Thu, 22 May 2008 20:34:31 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49164 Seeing as I wrote the post, and therefore defined the discussion in the first place, I really can't possibly obscure it. By the way, Diablo Cody and Jane Espenson both write for the screen. Seeing as I wrote the post, and therefore defined the discussion in the first place, I really can’t possibly obscure it. By the way, Diablo Cody and Jane Espenson both write for the screen.

]]> By: rodger http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49163 rodger Thu, 22 May 2008 20:32:25 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49163 BTW, on the "history and hindsight" argument, David, if one strikes London, Hemingway, and Kerouac from the list (momentarily and for the sake of debate only), you don't have to reach too far back in modern history to find the relevance of the other cited writers. Hell, Joan Didion is still alive and Mailer and Plimpton only left us recently. BTW, on the "history and hindsight" argument, David, if one strikes London, Hemingway, and Kerouac from the list (momentarily and for the sake of debate only), you don’t have to reach too far back in modern history to find the relevance of the other cited writers. Hell, Joan Didion is still alive and Mailer and Plimpton only left us recently.

]]> By: rodger http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49162 rodger Thu, 22 May 2008 20:27:57 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49162 <i>How many modern screenwriters can you name, let alone recognize by face</i>? I would say Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh and P.T. Anderson, off-hand, Markland, but this discussion is not about screenwriters; that was just a Barranti obfuscation. How many modern screenwriters can you name, let alone recognize by face?

I would say Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh and P.T. Anderson, off-hand, Markland, but this discussion is not about screenwriters; that was just a Barranti obfuscation.

]]> By: David Markland http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49156 David Markland Thu, 22 May 2008 18:44:53 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49156 Rodger: Are you serious? Your list is full of exceptions, not the rules. You also have the benefit of history and hindsight to make that list. How many modern screenwriters can you name, let alone recognize by face? Rodger: Are you serious? Your list is full of exceptions, not the rules. You also have the benefit of history and hindsight to make that list.

How many modern screenwriters can you name, let alone recognize by face?

]]> By: The 8 Track Kid http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49151 The 8 Track Kid Thu, 22 May 2008 18:16:39 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49151 Is the argument here that Cody is not a celebrity or that she's not as famous as Capote, Mailer etc...? I won't dispute that she's not as famous as the others you mentioned and will probably never be. Sadly the fact is that most writers will never achieve celebrity like the ten you've listed. Celebrity writers are the exception and whatever you think of Ms. Cody as a writer people know who she is. She is having her 15 minutes so I don't mind her being called a celebrity. Is the argument here that Cody is not a celebrity or that she’s not as famous as Capote, Mailer etc…? I won’t dispute that she’s not as famous as the others you mentioned and will probably never be. Sadly the fact is that most writers will never achieve celebrity like the ten you’ve listed. Celebrity writers are the exception and whatever you think of Ms. Cody as a writer people know who she is. She is having her 15 minutes so I don’t mind her being called a celebrity.

]]> By: Writer As Celebrity « Carver’s Dog http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49149 Writer As Celebrity « Carver’s Dog Thu, 22 May 2008 17:31:55 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49149 [...] Barranti can neither write nor knit her way out of this one: Yesterday, in a posting titled Mid Week Round-up: Brushes with Celebrity, Ms. Barranti [...] [...] Barranti can neither write nor knit her way out of this one: Yesterday, in a posting titled Mid Week Round-up: Brushes with Celebrity, Ms. Barranti [...]

]]> By: Annika Barranti http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49084 Annika Barranti Thu, 22 May 2008 02:15:09 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49084 No, I am not kidding. Very few writers are celebrities. Some of them are famous, but most are not celebrities. I absolutely agree with Truman Capote and Hunter Thompson from your list, and I definitely think Diablo Cody is a celebrity, but most writers are not, and very few of them achieve much fame. No, I am not kidding. Very few writers are celebrities. Some of them are famous, but most are not celebrities. I absolutely agree with Truman Capote and Hunter Thompson from your list, and I definitely think Diablo Cody is a celebrity, but most writers are not, and very few of them achieve much fame.

]]> By: rodger http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49073 rodger Thu, 22 May 2008 00:51:10 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/21/mid-week-round-up-brushes-with-celebrity/#comment-49073 <i>in as much as writers are celebrities</i> Are you freakin' kidding me? Or perhaps you've never heard of certain writers who became celebrities in their time: 1. Jack London 2. Ernest Hemingway 3. George Plimpton 4. Truman Capote (the man who virtually invented the writer-as-celebrity schtick) 5. Norman Mailler (Ditto) 6. Jack Kerouac 7. Jerzy Kosinski 8. Joan Didion 9. Charles Bukowski 10.Hunter S. Thompson in as much as writers can be celebrities? I think I'll let the list rest at 10 in as much as writers are celebrities

Are you freakin’ kidding me? Or perhaps you’ve never heard of certain writers who became celebrities in their time:

1. Jack London
2. Ernest Hemingway
3. George Plimpton
4. Truman Capote (the man who virtually invented the writer-as-celebrity schtick)
5. Norman Mailler (Ditto)
6. Jack Kerouac
7. Jerzy Kosinski
8. Joan Didion
9. Charles Bukowski
10.Hunter S. Thompson

in as much as writers can be celebrities?

I think I’ll let the list rest at 10

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