
Dear readers, I've been having quite a good week, doing my best to earn your patience with my infrequent postings of late. In the past week, I finally got an article accepted for publication at a
good journal and, even better, I scored a dream job as an assistant professor at a
college that I'm hugely excited about. I even pulled off a tenth-place finish in
my brother's Fantasy NASCAR League, which I wouldn't be caught within 500 laps of if it weren't a favor to his enthusiasms. (I can't even bring myself to link to NASCAR, y'all; you can bring NicksFlickPicks to a red-state sport, but don't worry, you can't really make him drink.) Maybe I'm gonna have to ask Nathan to cast a vote on Best Dressed at the Oscars this Sunday, just to even the stakes a little.
Anyway, I was feeling good about all of the above until the IMDb reported that Dakota Fanning turns 11 today. This girl has
thrown down with Sean Penn, Denzel Washington, Michelle Pfeiffer, Charlize Theron, and Robert De Niro, and she's barely in her double digits? What am I even
doing with my life, you guys? The fabulous Kimberly Snyder and I were just debating yesterday when we're going to actually get around to writing those Oscar-winning screenplays we've been housing deep down in us all these years, and here goes Ms. Fanning running laps around us, stealing our checkered flag. (Holy Batmobile, an unintentional NASCAR analogy!)

Since I'm a mature adult, I'm going to avoid the urge to begrudge the pint-sized Dakota her amazing movie career. Dakota, I hope Chuck E. Cheese is a blast tonight; say hi to Sean and 'chelle for me, wouldja? Meanwhile, here's a real-life grown up person whom I actually know that is also better than me, but in a terrific way. My former student Ariam Mogos just found out this morning that she earned a prestigious internship working under goddess/producer
Christine Vachon over at
Killer Films. Killer's
resumé of titles is stunning, and that's even before you count up those projects Vachon produced herself—you know, little nothings like Todd Haynes'
Poison and
Safe, Rose Troche's
Go Fish, Mary Harron's
I Shot Andy Warhol... Christine Vachon is like the one woman in America whom our current queer cinema simply wouldn't exist without. And now, my Ari is going to work for her! Ari is talented, adventurous, motivated, energetic, and totally fun, and she deserves every nanosecond of this internship—even if she winds up losing it because her ex-professor won't stop showing up at her desk begging to be introduced around. But I'll save those indignities for later. For right now: Ari, you're my new hero!
Labels: Academia, Queer Cinema
4 Comments:
You rock my whole world, Nick. Congratulations on the job.
wow...am officially on way to superstardom as have just been mentioned on Nick's Blog in same company with Dakota Fanning, Sean Penn, and the amazing Ariam! Since, according to the Dakota Fanning career trajectory I've wasted the past 20 years of my life, I added 1200 words to my novel today. Maybe I'll actually finish it by the time I'm 30 (2 years from now).
And less we lose hope, we just have to remember that Ben Affleck not only wrote a screenplay, but also won an Oscar for it. For that, he is my hero. (I know, I know...but I'm working on the theory that he did more than just type up Matt's wild ideas).
Alas, the dissertation is feeling neglected so it's time to give that some attention.
~~Ladyshazizzle (aka Kimberly Snyder, future Academy Award winning screenwriter though the only screenwriting credit I have is an abandoned 5-page screenplay from 2001 entitled, "Chasing Ben Affleck." d'oh!)
Oh Nick, what am I going to do without you next year? You better come down to Killer and vist me...
Ari
Would it be great if the prodigy writer Adora Svitak writes a movie script to have Dacota act out? Just like Dacota who has incredible talent, Adora Svita's story and poetry writing is really amazing, her first book was published at age seven (296 pages), it has been translated into Chinese and will be in Korean soon. Check out her site www.adorasvitak.com
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