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March 01, 2006
Focus Features: a pup-tent do-si-do is a mighty dicey proposition, sez USA TODAY
In USA TODAY, Susan Wloszczyna begins one more peek at the clever ways of Focus Features by zooming in on her startling vision of the impracticability of co-president David Linde having sex on a mountainside, writing that he and James Schamus would never be taken for gay cowboys. "Schamus' sartorial taste runs to bow ties and J. Crew [and] Linde's considerable height would turn a pup-tent do-si-do into a mighty dicey proposition." The rest of the niche bit is more tactful and tasteful: :None of us here have any feeling like there is an Oscar in the bag," says Schamus, sitting behind his desk in a roomy if unpretentious office in Greenwich Village. Dominating the space: a poster of The Tingler, the schlocky 1959 Vincent Price [horror movie]... Schamus, a film professor at Columbia University who also has produced and written such [Ang] Lee landmarks as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [is described by Lee this way:] "He is so hip and quite the intellectual.. He's an artist and a good politician."
Posted by pride at March 1, 2006 08:15 AM
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