{"id":9268,"date":"2022-07-09T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/?p=9268"},"modified":"2022-07-09T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T11:28:14","slug":"james-caan-26-3-40-to-6-7-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmcheltenham.online\/index.php\/2022\/07\/09\/james-caan-26-3-40-to-6-7-22\/","title":{"rendered":"James Caan 26\/3\/40 to 6\/7\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Normally I rely on Pamela to do my instant obituaries, but she’s gallivanting somewhere, so here’s a link to the Wikipedia page<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was tremendous in The Godfather<\/em>, of course, which everyone should watch more than once. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do have an anecdote. Here’s something just posted on Twitter by my old sparring partner Paul Myers, a showbiz writer and brother of Michael Myers (Shrek<\/em>, Austin Powers<\/em>, etc). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paul thinks this funny, and so do I. As a veteran of the interview wars, I was always amused by people being openly obnoxious. Passive aggression was much worse. If a ‘sleb’ is nasty to you, you have a story. If they just play a dead bat, you’re stuck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Predictably, lots of Twitter people have taken offence on behalf of the poor wage-slave Playboy<\/em> hack ‘who would much rather have been at home writing his novel’. This is nonsense. Playboy<\/em> writers make poor victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is a gross inequality in the interviewing role: if the writer had given as good as he\/she got (I don’t know who it was), he’d have been out of work, whereas Caan’s reputation was only enhanced by his comic obnoxiousness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like Caan and I admire his approach to dealing with contractually-obligated publicity. But All Men Are Created Equal. Celebrities or not. Perhaps that explains my short-lived career as A Friend To The Stars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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