Grifters
December 29th, 2012 by Erik Loomis
I was thinking of watching The Grifters again. Instead, I just watched the Rick Warren interview on Piers Morgan. Might as well see the real thing.
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wengler:
December 29th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
Masochist.
Tehanu:
December 29th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Yeah, but the “real” thing doesn’t have Annette Bening or J.T. Walsh, does it?
commie atheist:
December 29th, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Annette Bening. Oh, yes.
Julian:
December 29th, 2012 at 10:27 pm
As in poker, so too in television/politics – if, after five minutes, you can’t spot the sucker, you are the sucker.
DrDick:
December 29th, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Somehow this seems an appropriate soundtrack for this thread.
Izzy:
December 29th, 2012 at 11:13 pm
More than a touch off-topic, but I hope I’ll be forgiven. Surely there are Football (Soccer) fans at LGM: it surely is entirely appropriate that Piers Morgan is an Arsenal Supporter, in much the same way one imagines Darth Vader supports ManU.
timb:
December 29th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Annette Benning gloriously disrobed? Oh, very much yes
jon:
December 30th, 2012 at 12:38 am
More dissembling than the reverse crawl of a Transformers scene.
Joey Maloney:
December 30th, 2012 at 12:39 am
Wake me up when Warren gets beaten with a bagful of oranges.
spencer:
December 30th, 2012 at 12:57 am
Or hit in the gut with a baseball bat.
demz taters:
December 30th, 2012 at 5:44 am
Or ends up with his head on a stick.
Too soon?
Thlayli:
December 30th, 2012 at 7:16 am
It’s quite amusing when Morgan tweets his reactions to an Arsenal loss, and the #tearsforpiers hashtag starts up.
J. Otto Pohl:
December 30th, 2012 at 7:44 am
I would definitely recommend reading Jim Thompson’s Now and On Earth which is largely autobiographical. Unlike his crime novels like the Grifters, the Killer Inside Me, or The Getaway, Now and On Earth focuses on workers in an aircraft plant in San Diego during WWII. Thompson had left Oklahoma where he was involved with the Federal Writers’ Project in a car provided by Woody Guthrie to go to California to take the job. Some how he managed to pass a security clearance despite being a member of the CPUSA. At any rate the novel is well worth reading.
Linnaeus:
December 30th, 2012 at 9:05 am
Is supporting Arsenal a bad thing? I suppose I could switch to Aston Villa (my great-grandfather’s team) if they don’t get relegated.
Matt McKeon:
December 30th, 2012 at 9:15 am
Piers Morgan is the object of a campaign to deport him because of his pro gun control stance. As was said of H.R. Halderman in another context, “you’ve got people feeling sorry for him. I didn’t think that was possible.”
Bill Cross:
December 30th, 2012 at 10:10 am
How can a Gunner fan be for gun control?
Speak Truth:
December 30th, 2012 at 10:45 am
One other variable that doesn’t bode well for Piers is he’s a snotty Brit with a heavy accent with radical European-style opinions getting involved in American politics.
Linnaeus:
December 30th, 2012 at 10:48 am
Well, the guns are cannons, not handguns or rifles.
BigHank53:
December 30th, 2012 at 11:29 am
That word radical you keep using–I do not think it means what you think it means.
DrDick:
December 30th, 2012 at 11:30 am
As opposed to your incoherent troglodyte gruntings?
DrDick:
December 30th, 2012 at 11:30 am
Words seldom do.
Xenos:
December 30th, 2012 at 11:40 am
Also, his getting driven out of the stats for his snottiness and refusal to get bullied by the US arms industry would probably do a lot to revive his career in the UK, where he is considered damaged goods.
Cerys:
December 30th, 2012 at 11:51 am
Hurrah! After all I got a website from where I
be capable of really take useful data concerning my study and knowledge.
Hogan:
December 30th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
I like Thompson a lot, and I haven’t heard of that one. Thanks for the tip.
Hogan:
December 30th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Yes, snotty Brits with heavy accents have never been accepted by Real Americans.
melior:
December 30th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
I enthusiastically agree, but would extend this to recommending most everything you can get your hands on by Jim Thompson.
J. Otto Pohl:
December 30th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
It was his first novel.
J. Otto Pohl:
December 30th, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Also well worth reading is the biography of Jim Thompson _Savage Art_ by Robert Polito.
Colin Day:
December 30th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Preferably, Florida oranges.
Bruce Vail:
December 30th, 2012 at 6:45 pm
I’m all for deporting Piers Morgan…and Wayne LaPierre.
arguingwithsignposts:
December 30th, 2012 at 11:50 pm
See also Andrew Sullivan.
The Dark Avenger:
December 31st, 2012 at 9:13 am
I’m all for deporting Speak Lies to MS or another southern state where his political grunts will be taken for rational speech.