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1. Jonathan B. says:

   February 12, 2010 at 2:47 pm

   Before I went into the Tropic Thunder movie premiere out in Los Angeles, some of the stars choose to walk by and through the crowd, rather than get ushered in secretly and quietly. I was just hanging out, sipping on a slushie, talking the my cousin and the ladies that were accompanying us, when Jon Voight comes through. A rush of people (including my cousin) go to take photos, while others are trying to look into the red carpet to see whoever they can.

   Then I see a gorgeous young lady and Kevin Pollack walking right by the crowd. Nobody seems to notice and he seemed annoyed that nobody noticed him, because, you know, he’s with a sexy young lady that he probably wants to impress. I mean, hello? Grumpy Old Men anyone? Even if I want to, I made it a point to try not to ever act starstruck, but I felt obligated to say something.

   “Kevin,” I said loud enough so he could hear as he walked by, and he turned to look at me. “You deserve better.”

   He smirked, nodded his head – the mutual understanding, a comradery – then he gave me a thumbs up, before continuing to walk on.

   That’s my Kevin Pollack moment.

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2. Kurt says:

   February 12, 2010 at 3:01 pm

   Love this actor. He kicks ass as the President of the United states in Rod Lurie’s DETERRENCE, and does a very, very mean Chris Walken Impression

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   • Andrew James says:

     February 12, 2010 at 4:56 pm

     Liked Deterrence
     a lot. He’s awesome in Usual Suspects too.
     “what? ya got a team of monkeys working round the clock for ya?”

     His Walken impression is great – it’s even better in The Aristocrats.

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3. Matt Gamble says:

   February 12, 2010 at 4:13 pm

   Pollack’s podcast is fucking awesome. Its must see eTV.

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5. Goon says:

   February 14, 2010 at 9:55 am

   watched We Live In Public. its absolutely nothing compared to DiG, the filmmaking is pretty poor, the way talking heads and music are mixed with archive footage is just a step above a VH1 program. The story itself isn’t really that interesting, the movie isn’t rubber stamp to this guy and his experiments and yet its style makes it feel like it way too often. near the end the narration talks about him being delusional and thats kind of like “huh?” because for the most part teh director seems to paint him as some artist/prophet.

   it is for the most part neither dramatic nor entertaining. the crash is mostly glossed over, and in general any point to the movie about the internet age is far past its date of relevance

   the only counter to all of this is the age old ‘its watchable’ line, which I would credit to the fact that the lead figure is a humongous douchebag, the villain of his own movie. the things that go wrong in his life aren’t the result of his experiments, they were all part of him to begin with.

   a better documentarian could have shaped this guys tale into some deeper lesson, tying it properly into the social media generation, rather than slapping it on at the end so lazily.

   in general DiG seems like a massive fluke now.

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