Saturday, August 20, 2011
Barton Fink
Somehow I forgot to mention one of the most important things that has ever happened to me, namely that I saw the movie Homecoming starring Mischa Barton on Lifetime last Sunday. It's an amazing little feature where Mischa plays an insane woman who fakes the disappearance of her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend and then holds her hostage in her house. She drugs her, breaks her foot with her bare hands, and even chases her with an axe. It's sort of like Misery, but with a much higher caliber of acting, obviously. Oh, and it was directed by Morgan Freeman, which is maybe the weirdest thing of all. What exactly drew America's Favorite Crusty Old African-American Man to a teen melodrama starring the former bad girl from The OC? Were there no episodes of iCarly available to direct?
Anyway, after the movie I was doing some research about the cast and crew, as I often do, and I started to actually feel a bit sorry for Mischa Barton. I mean, all of the highlights of her career probably occurred before she turned 20. In the scope of a few years she went from being one of People's 50 most beautiful people to being someone who pretty clearly writes her own bio on IMDB. When she left The OC, she lined up a bunch of film projects, but they all ended up being box office giants like "Virgin Territory" and "Walled In." And then she tried to come back to TV, but The Beautiful Life lasted about as many episodes as that Nanny spinoff they tried back in the '90s. So what now? More Lifetime?
I do have high hopes for the upcoming Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, though. It just sounds like a lot of fun.
Somehow I forgot to mention one of the most important things that has ever happened to me, namely that I saw the movie Homecoming starring Mischa Barton on Lifetime last Sunday. It's an amazing little feature where Mischa plays an insane woman who fakes the disappearance of her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend and then holds her hostage in her house. She drugs her, breaks her foot with her bare hands, and even chases her with an axe. It's sort of like Misery, but with a much higher caliber of acting, obviously. Oh, and it was directed by Morgan Freeman, which is maybe the weirdest thing of all. What exactly drew America's Favorite Crusty Old African-American Man to a teen melodrama starring the former bad girl from The OC? Were there no episodes of iCarly available to direct?
Anyway, after the movie I was doing some research about the cast and crew, as I often do, and I started to actually feel a bit sorry for Mischa Barton. I mean, all of the highlights of her career probably occurred before she turned 20. In the scope of a few years she went from being one of People's 50 most beautiful people to being someone who pretty clearly writes her own bio on IMDB. When she left The OC, she lined up a bunch of film projects, but they all ended up being box office giants like "Virgin Territory" and "Walled In." And then she tried to come back to TV, but The Beautiful Life lasted about as many episodes as that Nanny spinoff they tried back in the '90s. So what now? More Lifetime?
I do have high hopes for the upcoming Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, though. It just sounds like a lot of fun.
