Thursday, January 17, 2013

Tim Reid Says

Tim Reid to Steven Spielberg at The Richmond Forum, on “Lincoln” and location shooting:

“Your decision to cast Richmond (VA) in the role of Washington, DC was, let’s say, ironic - to say the least - a few people are spinning...”

He is a remarkably funny guy for someone as impeccably elegant and dignified as he is.  I'm grateful he made up such a large part of my formative expectations of race and diversity, in a world which was, at that time, so very very white (flight).

Also, Spielberg apparently lost his pocket knife (we call them pocket knives around here, but he referred to it as a penknife) in Petersburg.  If anyone finds it, please let him know, it was his Boy Scout knife!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

In my experience with the citizans of Petersburg; Either he will get the knife back after it was used in a crime and processed as evidence or he will be offered a hug monitary offer for the knife. So good luck with that.

DLM said...

My closing sentence was a little joke, not actually the point of the post. I don't need any luck, and was something more significant than the stereotyping of an entire city's citizenship for no particular reason.

Anyway, I'd bet Spielberg doesn't require a huge monetary offer, even if what you did mean to imply was extortion.