I have a dim memory of a BT conversation, I think after the migration but cannot be certain, about dingbat homes.
Pure guesswork here, but going on user patterns I think: spaced99(maybe) posted an image of a dingbat house with a couple columns for a carport beneath, with slight information, maybe of the "TIL" variety. I replied with something intelligent like "Yuck." Others liked dingbats. Someone from the Toronto area might have said they had some there. kristinbytes(maybe) commented that the movie The Slums of Beverly Hills abounded in mid-20th c. architecture and featured the dingbat. (Wu didn't comment IIRC, but I wish he would have posted an old Golden Horn post about dingbats, Googie architecture, and Eichler minimalism or something.)
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I'd seen The Slums of Beverly Hills back in the late nineties and remembered liking it, so when I was sick a few weeks ago, I watched it on HBO. It's still very good and has a great ensemble cast whom I'd largely forgotten. Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Carl Reiner, Rita Moreno, Jessica Walter, David Krumholz, Kevin Corrigan. Krumholz and Corrigan are both "That guy in that one movie" whose name always eludes you. 70s kitsch. Frank look at women's bodies and sexuality. The ending is a bit tidy and feels tacked on for some unwarranted optimism, but overall the movie holds up. "Sky Masterson is mine!"
Watched The Savages and Private Lives by the same director, Tamara Jenkins. The Savages was my favorite and Private Lives the least, but they're all good. They all center around vaguely unlikeable but very funny characters. Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Savages are totally convincing as competitive, wounded, fuckup siblings - too smart for their own good and emotionally arrested.
Tamara Jenkins has only three feature films since she started making movies. Seems to me she should be at least as well known as some of her contemporaries. She's not the only one. The filmographies of several women directors sometimes have years or a decade or longer between films. Not for a lack of ideas either. Finding backers is harder for female directors. Jenkins in a WaPo article said she can't get movies made unless her husband, a producer, or Alexander Payne help her get the backing. This doesn't happen as often to, let's say, Noah Baumbach, whose movies have a surface similarity to Jenkins's. Jenkins in the same interview said,
"I'm not going to say what it is but we know what it is." She paused. "It's systemic. It's gotta be systemic. There is something in the water."
Private Lives is on Netflix, and The Savages is on HBO til the end of the month. You should watch it so we can discuss why Hoffman's character cries whenever he eats eggs.
On with the Open Thread.
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