tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13799403.post114131662820296099..comments2023-10-19T13:01:39.731+01:00Comments on Confessions of a Film Critic: Web of Intrigue: Clooney on SyrianaJohn Maguirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06580990308415894733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13799403.post-1141771642529528982006-03-07T22:47:00.000+00:002006-03-07T22:47:00.000+00:00Great interview. I admire your style -- not talkin...Great interview. I admire your style -- not talking heads (on paper), but a kind of narrative that lingers between what I think of as "dry journalism" and fiction. I don't like the way most new journalists strive to increase the "human factor" in their stories because I think it makes cheese; but your type of "personal journalism" appeals to me. It draws me in, like well-told a story.<BR/><BR/>I might have said it before (about the Neil Jordan interview you posted a few months ago), but your interviews are "noir" interviews. Sam Spade with a pen!<BR/><BR/><I>He wants to open people’s minds, not have them open People.</I><BR/><BR/>I read that line a few times, and chuckled over each.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13799403.post-1141729224371805932006-03-07T11:00:00.000+00:002006-03-07T11:00:00.000+00:00Wonderful piece John.I think Clooney's Oscar (unl...Wonderful piece John.I think Clooney's Oscar (unlike Crash - ick) was well deserved.<BR/><BR/>He sounds like a charm. Those junkets with ridiculously famous people are bizarre. Adrien Brody (who is one of my favourite actors) told me I had a pretty name and it took every fibre of my professional journalistic being not to swoon and keel over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com