his way ( film )
jerry weintraub in “his way, ” a documentary about the way of life and business of the veteran manager, promoter and producer .
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with the headline: producer who did it all, not in a shy way .
a self - referential film about a fictional attempt to make a grace slick biopic .
“his way, ” an hbo documentary on monday night about the veteran manager, promoter and producer jerry weintraub, is a nose - pressed - to - the - glass experience. it’s as if graydon carter — one of the film’s producers — has allowed you into the bar at his waverly inn just to gawk at the more privileged people being led into the back room .
oliver stone, the film’s director, was more diplomatic, telling the hollywood reporter that trump was “stunning” as an actor .
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the film, written and directed by douglas mcgrath, is a valentine both to mr. weintraub and to a way of life and business — the ring - a - ding - ding, rat pack, vegas - palm springs - l. a. rolling party — that grows more glamorous as it recedes in time. “not just as a producer, but as, sort of, a guy, ” george clooney says of mr. weintraub, his producer on the “ocean’s” movies, “he’s one of the last of his kind. ”
the film leaves little doubt that he earned his place, tracing a classic progression from delivering groceries to selling clothes (in alaska during world war ii, while he was also a full - time soldier) to the mailroom at william morris. then come the big breaks: promoting an elvis presley tour and a frank sinatra comeback concert, handling john denver and the carpenters, and moving into film producing with “nashville” and “diner” and “the karate kid. ” (other film projects like “oh, god! ” and “cruising” don’t receive as much attention. )
the film, wall street: money never sleeps —a sequel to the 1987 original—follows a reformed gordon gekko (michael douglas) who, after serving eight years in prison for securities fraud, attempts to warn banking bigwigs of the impending financial crisis. when his pleas fall on deaf ears, the douchebag - cassandra opts to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (carey mulligan) and help her fiancé (labeouf) exact revenge on a cutthroat investment banker in the gekko mold, bretton james (josh brolin) .
in both of the scenes, presented in split - screen, scaramucci is talking to clients by phone, and in the later one, at around the film’s 40 - minute mark, he even appears to channel his new boss, using one of trump’s favorite made - up words .
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film festivals may be raging from venice to telluride to toronto, but the biggest industry story this week had to be the box office dominance of andy muscietti’s stephen king adaptation “ it. ” the film raked in nearly $ 120 million opening weekend and looks to stay strong over the next week, ensuring a whole new generation’s fear of clowns .
it’s a better performance than his pouty, razzie - winning turn in the dreadful ‘80s rom - com ghosts can’t do it, but not by much. and though it didn’t make the final cut of wall street: money never sleeps, the trump - gekko scene did wind up in the film’s dvd extras .
there’s not much here about the wages of fame, beyond the occasional deal that went sour. both his wife, from whom he’s separated, and his girlfriend, with whom he’s lived for the last two decades, testify to what a great guy mr. weintraub is .
mr. clooney, bruce willis, brad pitt, matt damon, julia roberts, george h. w. and barbara bush: their unspoken but insistent fame telegraphs mr. weintraub’s own belonging. “his way” supports the notion of hollywood as a small town, but an even stronger image is that of the fraternity. as andy garcia puts it, mr. weintraub is “chairman of the men’s club. ”
the way
is a powerful and inspirational story about family, friends and the challenges we face while navigating this ever - changing and complicated world. martin sheen plays tom, an american doctor who comes to st. jean pied de port, france to collect the remains of his adult son (played by emilio estevez), killed in the pyrenees in a storm while walking the camino de santiago, also known as the way of saint james. rather than return home, tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son' s desire to finish the journey. what tom doesn' t plan on is the profound impact the journey will have on him and his
california bubble life
. inexperienced as a trekker, tom soon discovers that he will not be alone on this journey. on his journey, tom meets other pilgrims from around the world, each with their own issues and looking for greater meaning in their lives: a dutchman (yorick van wageningen), a canadian (deborah kara unger) and an irish writer (james nesbitt), who is ...
seven years ago, the president of the united states and his communications director lobbied to appear in an anti - capitalist oliver stone movie starring shia labeouf .
furthermore, the new york daily news reported that those involved with trump’s barbershop scene had to sign a contract stating that they would not touch his cotton candy hair .
a father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the
el camino de santiago ,
and decides to take the pilgrimage himself .
according to stone, trump was “good” but came with “two pages of prerequisites” for his scene. the list of demands, which were obtained by newsweek, read as follows :
every time i had a conversation with jerry weintraub, i felt like i was dialing back in time to ’40s hollywood and reaching the guy who had tinseltown at his feet. i look at the most successful young producers today, and they are so understated by comparison, afraid of offending anyone, and they sure don’t seem to have as much fun as jerry did. my conversations with jerry always started the same way. i’d call with some scoop on one of his films i wanted to splash in daily variety. i’d be met with that gruff “i’m in control here, kid” response, flavored by the raspy bronx accent he never shed. for the next several minutes he would tell me why i couldn’t write that story until he finally warmed to me and the topic and then it became how big i was going to make the splash. i always hung up thinking this was a guy who was enjoying a great, opulent life full of famous friends whose names often found their way into our conversation .
during the scene when the group is walking past a beautiful panorama of mountains, jack is telling tom about his dreams at trinity college dublin and they all share a laugh at sarah' s plan to lay her cigarettes at the feet of st. james - they' re actually walking the wrong way. the scene was shot in the town of o cebreiro in galicia and the wooded path they appear to be entering would actually take them eastward back towards the cruz de ferro, not westward towards santiago .
many said that weintraub got to play himself when he portrayed the tough character sonny capps for director sydney pollack in the firm opposite tom cruise, and hbo turned his story into a documentary. he never saw his real dream project come to fruition, but he seemed to have such a good time being jerry weintraub at warner bros that maybe that was good enough .
“they made everyone sign this contract that you couldn’t touch his hair, ” an insider told the daily news. “the two hairdressers and the production team had to sign this contract. ”
the viewer will probably come away thinking the same thing. mr. weintraub is a genial, garrulous interview subject, rattling off anecdotes about colonel parker, sinatra and pat morita, and mr. mcgrath supplies lavish film clips of 1950s, ’60s and ’70s new york, las vegas and los angeles. it’s not a vanity project, but it’s the kind of deluxe package jerry weintraub has spent his life working relentlessly to assemble .
for more, including skarsgard’s thoughts on the dangers of arbitrarily expanding the world of “it” beyond its breaking point, and his work on hulu’s stephen king - inspired “castle rock” series, listen to the latest episode of “playback” via the streaming link above .
in the deleted scene, trump (playing himself) runs into gekko at a barbershop in london (though eagle - eyed viewers will recognize it as tommy guns salon on the lower east side of manhattan). it came toward the end of the film, with gekko back on top again running a successful hedge fund .
actor bill skarsgard got the call to play pennywise the dancing clown in the film, the physical manifestation of an evil entity that has terrorized a small maine town for centuries. but it was a daunting prospect, not least of all because such an iconic portrayal of the character already existed courtesy of tim curry in abc’s 1990 miniseries adaptation .
not everyone was happy about trump’s diva - like demands. “it was absolutely absurd, ” the film’s producer, eric kopeloff, told newsweek. “you can look and see the movies i’ve made. [ i’ve worked with ] all these movie actors. never, ever, have i seen anything like this. not from the biggest movie stars in the world. ”
the mooch’s brief cameos, which amount to less than fifteen total seconds of screen time, didn’t come cheap. according to sources close to the production, in exchange for the cameos—and the skybridge capital logo being displayed prominently during a charity gala sequence in the film—scaramucci ponied up around $ 100, 000. former president george w. bush didn’t nickname him “gucci scaramucci” for nothing .
“you know, we did take one with michael and [ trump ] talking in a barbershop. and he jumped up after the take and he said, ‘wasn’t that great? ’ you know, he kept doing it. and we kept going because i was deepening the scene as we went. and he didn’t understand nine takes. he’d just done eight, nine takes, he’d never understand it. but every scene, he’d just jump up. he was the same way every time. he didn’t change. but i knew that, ” recalled stone .
a profile of entertainment - industry icon jerry weintraub, a onetime talent agent who moved on to promoting concerts for acts such as elvis presley, frank sinatra, and bob dylan before becoming a successful film producer (nashville; diner). included are remarks by george clooney, brad pitt, james caan, julia roberts, and george h. w. bush. ~ joe friedrich, rovi
if the half - hearted escape attempts aren’t filmed with any real tension by guigui, they’re less galling than the would - be defiance of expectations. get this: it’s the black guy, michael, who’s outwardly racist! luckily, gershon’s character is there to unironically lecture michael about not prejudging her hard - working billionaire almost - ex. to clarify, this is a movie co - written by one of charlie sheen’s producers on anger management wherein sheen played a hard - working billionaire who had no discernible character flaws apart from working too hard to support his family and loving his wife too much to divorce her .
skarsgard therefore felt the freedom to seek out his own take on the character, and maybe tap into some of the more abstract elements of the novel. in king’s 1, 100 - page tome, the entity known as it is a trans - dimensional being. that gave skarsgard unique layers to work with in the portrayal .
the oscar - winning filmmaker added that he decided to cut out trump “because it was a writing issue in terms of—it was too late and too little for where we were, at that point in the movie. and i wasn’t thinking about his future presidency or anything like that. i was just dealing with an editing issue. ”
unfortunately, in addition to the heaps of obnoxious pre - release press on the project—including labeouf’s outlandish claim that he turned $ 20, 000 into $ 300, 000 in two and a half months day trading and was prepping for the series 7 exam—the film failed to match the original’s enticing mélange of perverse luxury and corporate cynicism, with its plot marred by cnn - mimicking split - screens, distracting celebrity cameos, and an eyeroll - inducing denouement .
this tenacity suggests, puzzlingly, that the people behind 9 / 11 really believe in it. by invoking september 11th, this movie is announcing that it has something to say. new yorkers may recognize this confidence and the nothingness that follows; it’s the film equivalent of a guy loudly demanding the attention of everyone in a subway car, then refusing to even issue a compellingly strange rant. best to slip on some headphones and try to ignore it .
one of the more “organic” cameos in stone’s film comes courtesy of anthony scaramucci, whom president trump recently installed as white house communications director. back then, before he accused trump’s senior strategist steve bannon of indulging in autofellatio, the tough - talkin’ long island native was best known as the founder of skybridge capital, an investment firm managing billions in assets, as well as the “wall street guy” who posed a question to president obama at a cnbc town hall—and was subsequently eviscerated for it by jon stewart on the daily show (just three days prior to money never sleeps ’ theatrical premiere) .
“hey, is this the one and only gordon gekko? ” offers a very stiff trump, to which the conman replies, “hey, donald! what are you talking about? you’re the one - and - only! ” the two, apparently old friends, make small talk, with trump repeatedly referring to gekko as “gordo. ” near the end of the one - minute scene, trump even pokes fun at his inventive hairstyle, telling gekko, “has anyone ever told you that you’d look great—really great—in a combover? ”
sheen plays addled billionaire jeffrey cage, whose name and vague occupation have the distinction of sounding both like a nicolas cage character and nicolas cage himself (the cage - like overacting comes much later). jeffrey is at the world trade center to reluctantly finalize a divorce from his wife, eve (gina gershon) —so reluctantly that he attends this early - morning meeting at the famous building (where, the movie points out repeatedly but to little point, he used to own some office space, but doesn’t anymore) just to dick around, attempt to wistfully smoke a cigarette, and refuse to sign .
jeffrey and eve enter an elevator together in the south tower at just the right / wrong fateful time. the first plane hits the north tower, the power goes out, and the unhappy couple is trapped with three strangers: “janitorial engineer” eddie (luis guzmán), bike messenger michael (wood harris), and apparent trophy girlfriend tina (olga fonda). eddie and michael both have families waiting for them. tina, in a brief gesture that the movie somehow doesn’t spin off into a hacky explanation, indicates she does not. eddie manages some outside communication with his friend metzie (whoopi goldberg), who works down at the elevator control center but doesn’t seem to know a whole lot about elevators. (she also doesn’t seem to know how getting coffee to - go works; early on, she pops into a diner, gets coffee in a ceramic mug, and takes it with her onto the street. )
“the preferred camera angle is mr. trump sitting front face to camera slightly favoring his right side, while avoiding left hair part and back and sides of hair and head. camera eye level or above. if any angle shots need to be taken, please only use mr. trump’s 3 / 4 right side angle shot, while still avoiding the back and sides of hair / head. lighting, warm golden lighting (no red tones please). can you please include an eye light (if shooting in high definition, eye light needs to be even more powerful). also, we had more success with being front lit and avoiding strong lighting behind top of hair / head). the result is golden blond hair, warm golden (even tone) tan skin and a more defined jaw - line. a great reference for mr. trump’s look is always the boardroom scenes in celebrity apprentice. can you please provide a monitor for mr. trump to see the shot before he starts. ”
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mr. mcgrath opens with glamour shots of mr. weintraub’s extremely nice house, where we watch a long wall of floor - to - ceiling windows slowly roll open before a classic los angeles canyon view. then we see a succession of faces paying tribute to their friend and, in most cases, business partner. they’re not identified because they don’t have to be .
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the pilgrims visit the albergue casa santa barbara that they say is in torres del rio. there is no such albergue. you also hear tom say torres is the next town which is not correct. sansol would have been the next town as this is only 1km before torres, and the two are almost interlinked .
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great doc of promoter jerry weintraub, who put on elvis, frank, led zep, moody blues etc tours and produced films including nashville and diner. i love docs like this .
parker wasn’t an angelic figure to all. critics lambasted him for taking a large percentage of elvis’ earnings — once purported to have reached 50% — but some acknowledge that presley might not have become an icon if it hadn’t been for parker’s packaging and marketing savvy. at the time, weintraub made it clear who the star was in the colonel and me. “it’s not going to be the elvis presley movie, ” weintraub said. “it’s my story, mine and the colonel. … i think ron shelton’s one of the finest filmmakers in the world, and i think i’m pretty good, so the combination will be meaningful. he’s the guy i think can best write and direct the story, a story that’s very close to me. ”
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“there was a whole phase there where i was terrified, ” skarsgard says. “because i’ve never done anything on this scale before, and i’ve certainly never done anything where there were that many opinions of the character beforehand, fans of the tv show, fans of the book — there were so many people who had their opinions of what the character should be. and i never wanted to compete with the tim curry performance. i didn’t see a point in trying to emulate that because i don’t think i could do it as well as he did. ”
“there’s this thing that can take any shape or form, and it’s taken this shape of a clown, but there’s something wrong with the clown, ” skarsgard says. “there’s something off with it. it’s almost like there are glitches in the interpretation of it. i thought that was a fun thing to explore. so there was the wall - eyed look and at times it seems like pennywise disappears altogether, he shuts down and freezes in a moment and he’s lost. my idea was that was the entity, who lives in this other sort of dimension, tapping in and out of these spaces. ”
skarsgard also studied animal programs to help in developing the character’s physical behavior. he zeroed in on the energy of hyenas and the lower - lip scowl of bears as touchstones. then he went to work on the voice, which differs drastically from curry’s more vaudevillian interpretation .
“the voice for me sort of started out with a laugh, ” he says. “i was playing around with a laugh, but on the verge of a panic attack and crying at the same time. when i started doing it just by myself, i started to creep myself out. ”
he also got there with the help of a lot of soda water, a lot of belching, and a sudden stomach ache. but that’s an anecdote better saved for the actual conversation .
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scaramucci, who goes by the nickname “the mooch, ” pops up briefly in two interstitial scenes of money never sleeps as an unnamed short seller working for churchill schwartz, the investment firm run by brolin’s villain .
“churchill schwartz has a yuge position in this thing and i want to get you in that stock, ” he says .
the donald, then a real estate magnate turned reality television host, was fresh off the third installment of celebrity apprentice —a show where c - and d - listers such as gary busey and tom green (remember him ?) competed in tasks like “who can raise the most money auctioning off bling from ivanka trump’s upscale jewelry line. ” during the previous season of the show, trump infamously sexually harassed contestant brande roderick on national television, musing, “it must be a pretty picture—you dropping to your knees. ”
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several big - ticket hollywood movies based on real - life tragedies have imagined what it would be like if a fictional romance - novel plot were taking place amid all the disaster. befitting its smaller scope and enormous tedium, 9 / 11 imagines what it would be like if a bad off - off - broadway play were taking place amid the september 11th terrorist attack on the world trade center. the answer invites bad - taste jokes before even getting to its casting of charlie sheen in a lead role .
although it’s padded with cheap reaction shots of tearful families watching tv, most of 9 / 11 alternates between the low - tech mechanics of how to get out of a stopped, locked elevator and breakfast club - style locked - room conversation. both sections feature unnaturally long pauses between lines and unsuccessful attempts to solve the problem of shooting in a small, static space by pitching the camera forward. while it’s not confined strictly to the elevator, the only location shots come from real news footage, which director martin guigui lingers on shamelessly .
sheen spends the last half - hour of the movie promising jobs and riches to the plucky minorities who do most of the actual physical labor involved in prying open elevator doors, and then, finally, unleashes some sweaty scenery - chewing as their dire situation grows worse. but ultimately these actors don’t deserve much blame, apart from their bad judgment in signing on to a movie that seems to be willing itself into existence against all reason. the screenplay by guigui and steven james golebiowski is, as the intimate setting suggests, based on a play, apparently written by patrick carson as a screenplay and later converted into a play, only to have it re - adapted into a new script .
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his way is a 2011 television documentary film about jerry weintraub , an american film producer and former chairman and ceo of united artists . the film was directed by douglas mcgrath . the film features interviews with weintraub , jane morgan , george h. w. bush , barbara bush , george clooney , brad pitt , julia roberts , elliott gould , ellen barkin , james caan , matt damon and bruce willis . 
his way is a 2011 television documentary film about jerry weintraub, an american film producer and former chairman and ceo of united artists. the film was directed by douglas mcgrath. the film features interviews with weintraub, jane morgan, george h. w. bush, barbara bush, george clooney, brad pitt, julia roberts, elliott gould, ellen barkin, james caan, matt damon and bruce willis.
his way is a 2011 television documentary film about jerry weintraub, an american film producer and former chairman and ceo of united artists. the film was directed by douglas mcgrath. the film features interviews with weintraub, jane morgan, george h. w. bush, barbara bush, george clooney, brad pitt, julia roberts, elliott gould, ellen barkin, james caan, matt damon and bruce willis.