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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #275 - The Bad Article Extravaganza

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/57270569 The great thing about bad articles is: they don't stop makin' 'em. In this chill and jolly episode, we toss around some of our most beloved bad pieces of bad writing, including articles by such living legends as Jeffrey Wells, Jonathan Chait, and Jerry Seinfeld. PLUS: we discuss Toronto's most eccentric film exhibitor.

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0:00.0

We don't have a movie for you today, but instead we're just going to hang out.

0:03.7

We're going to have a bit of a jam session, and we're going to center not just local Toronto

0:07.5

eccentrics, but also just bad articles, favorite bad articles of ours.

0:12.8

We're going to read from just a few, kind of make fun of some low-hanging fruit, and just generally

0:18.2

have a good time.

0:19.4

Luke's got some.

0:20.5

I've got some. I think we're

0:22.1

going to have fun. Let's just hang out with the boys, folks. I'm going to go after a couple of

0:25.7

really easy targets, people who I am unlikely to meet. Well, actually, the first one I have Matt,

0:31.3

but he's somebody who I've talked about on the podcast before, but he is an inexhaustible source of

0:35.8

delight. He is Hollywood's greatest Oscar blogger,

0:39.4

Jeffrey Wells. Oh, hell yeah. The proprietor of Hollywood Elsewhere.com. Jeffrey Wells, I've said

0:45.8

this before, but many people will have understandably forgotten. He's been in the entertainment

0:50.3

industry for many years. In the early 80s, he used to be a movie publicist,

0:54.6

transitioned into a career as a journalist, writing for places like premiere and entertainment

0:59.0

weekly. And 20 years ago, he got his own blog, Hollywood Elsewhere. And on the main site,

1:04.7

there's a revolving banner that has various quotes from big-time Hollywood directors who have praised him over the years.

1:12.0

People like Alejandro, Inorritu, people like Guillermo del Toro.

1:16.6

There's a quote by J.J. Abrams, and he says,

1:18.9

There's Hollywood elsewhere, and there's everything else.

1:21.6

It's your neighborhood dive where you get the ugly truth, a good laugh, and a damn good scotch.

1:26.6

You know, this is like, this is like when

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