Whoo, Nelly. The infamous fights between David O. Russell and Lily Tomlin on the set of I Heart Huckabees have finally found their way to the internet. No secrets in this modern age, guys, and definitely NSFW!
I find this clip to be a fascinating window into the often frustrating atmosphere that takes over film sets, and goodness knows that good art often comes from tension and stress. Lily Tomin's own response to the arguments is pretty classic as well. "...I don’t have to keep up some great pretention [that] I’m the most dignified, eloquent, elegant, perfect, smart-thinking, kind, generous person. I’m just a plain old human with a whole bunch of flaws." Amen! (Thanks to Little Jimmy Thang for putting that link in the comments)
Whee-oo!
I think I need to go watch that movie again. Something tells me the director's audio commentary during Tomlin's scenes is gonna come off in a whooooole diff'rent light.
Posted by: reverto | March 22, 2007 at 03:47 AM
What a fuckwit. And I liked that movie too.
Posted by: Art Rush | March 22, 2007 at 03:47 AM
I always hated that movie. Now I feel better about it.
Posted by: jake | March 22, 2007 at 04:27 AM
I like how the camera moves back a little to the left after David bursts through the door, making sure he and Lily are on camera during the tyrade.
Posted by: sjkd | March 22, 2007 at 05:29 AM
brutal. much better than that piece o' shite movie.
Posted by: Holland Oats | March 22, 2007 at 09:25 AM
Sweeeeeeeet. That's how it really is on a movie set or a theater production. At least every one that I've been involved with. Beautiful!
Posted by: Dan | March 22, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Why is this on WFMU of all places? It seems odd that you posted this.
Posted by: Aaron | March 22, 2007 at 10:35 AM
"Why is this on WFMU of all places? It seems odd that you posted this."
Uh, maybe because it's interesting?
Posted by: David T. | March 22, 2007 at 02:50 PM
It's because we are a Blog that covers all areas of cultural interest. Besides, I thought Russell & Tomlin's on-set rants tied in well with this Bill Hicks post.
Posted by: ResidentClinton | March 22, 2007 at 03:22 PM
this is part two (trapped in a car with lily, dustin, naomi and mark mark):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z-qOKF0jmg
Posted by: nawyecky | March 22, 2007 at 04:08 PM
>"Why is this on WFMU of all places? It seems odd that you posted this."
>Uh, maybe because it's interesting?
...and 'sides, that rushmore dude's in a band, sorta, right?
Posted by: Holland Oats | March 22, 2007 at 04:35 PM
Best scene associated with this movie. I could have done with 90 more minutes of this sort of thing.
Posted by: B | March 22, 2007 at 05:20 PM
In the Saturday Night Live oral history LIVE FROM NEW YORK, SNL writer Margaret Oberman recalled that Lily Tomlin was terribly condescending the week she hosted in the '80s: "It was like, you know, 'You should really write about something you know about, or something from real life.' It was one of those kinds of things. It was like, Oh my God! And she seemed so oblivious to the fact that she was being so insulting."
Posted by: Andrew | March 22, 2007 at 05:57 PM
"It was like, you know. . . . I was like, Oh my God!"
You sure that wasn't SNL writer Andy Breckman?
Don't get killed, indeed!
Posted by: Fatherflot | March 22, 2007 at 06:14 PM
imagine if someone videotaped your worst day at work and put it on the web for all to see? not cool. actors have to go into work and put themselves in terribly vulnerable positions every day. but i guess most people are "haters" and they get off on feeling superior.
Posted by: caz | March 22, 2007 at 06:28 PM
Lily Tomlin responds (sort of).
Posted by: little jammy thing | March 22, 2007 at 09:38 PM
I have an idea. Let's all employ the show business vernacular in conversation and behave as if projecting a successful showbiz image is the apex of human achievement.
Posted by: bartleby | March 23, 2007 at 12:03 AM
This is a amusing. Who wants only the brandished Academy Award/Movie image of Hollywood? Thanks for that link above, where Tomlin, rightly, puts these circulating clips into context/perspective.
Posted by: ja | March 23, 2007 at 01:07 AM
I think telling SNL writers how to be funny in most years since 1979 is extremely defensible. (especially the "real life" part, since most of the show's comedy for eons has been lame showbiz parodies)
Well, it's too bad film directors are assholes, unlike so many of the saintly musicians we all worship.
Posted by: Bill W | March 23, 2007 at 12:04 PM
It's a tad ironic that this article appeared in today's Star-Ledger which specifically mentions the only two "nice people" in Hollywood (thankfully, one of them is from New Jersey).
Posted by: The Contrarian | March 23, 2007 at 01:09 PM
OH YEAH … en terecht
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