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March 16, 2006
Lumet: A Rich Pain in the Ass is Better Than No Pain in the Ass
If my 56 seconds with Sidney Lumet did not provide the comprehensive background you need to get behind his new film Find Me Guilty, you might consider dropping in on Lou Lumenick's more 10-minute-esque chat running today in the Post. It features not only complete sentences and token introspection, but also offers an ambiguous bit of "praise" to Guilty producer (and Crash also-ran) Bob Yari:
"I honestly don't know what the studios are looking for these days," says Lumet, whose new film was financed not by Hollywood but by Bob Yari, the controversial real-estate mogul behind the Oscar-winning Crash.
"It's a very peculiar financing time in Hollywood right now," the director says. "It's terrific there are people like Yari who made money elsewhere and find movies a very glamorous place to invest. But they're a big pain in the ass because they don't really know what they're doing."
Jesus Christ--first the Producers Guild, now Sidney Lumet. Look for Yari's doctor is double his patient's dosage right... about... now.
Posted by stvanairsdale at March 16, 2006 10:54 AM
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