Who reads the Oscar blogs and Jeffrey Wells?

OP, you cunt. The use of a word is not an "appropriation."

Peddle your incipient toxicity elsewhere.

But hello, Mr. Wells.

Wells is cuckoo. He's terrified of men's feet

Not me. Not clicking OP. Sorry!

Remember when he left a cowboy hat on his bed at a B&B and told the owner he'd be back to pick it up next year as his form of reserving a room for next year's Sundance in lieu of leaving his name and CC details?

And when he turned up the next year to find his hat had been turned in to the local police and he had no booking for the festival? And when he blogged repeatedly about the grandmotherly owner (probably 5-10 years max older than him) misunderstanding him leaving his human scent in the form of his hat as reservation as being like what happens in Westerns he was amazed she felt a touch harassed?

That was classic Wells.

Jeff Wells is a walking, talking bag of feces.

He crashed James Gandolfini's funeral. I would swear he also crashed a memorial service for the victims at Newtown but I'm having trouble finding the tweets about that.

Ah, here's a remnant of one series of tweets. Wells deleted everything after he sobered up, but yes, he was watching the Newtown memorial live and livetweeting about how people weren't acting sad enough.

I don't follow him but many of my film critic friends have stories of his epic douchebaggery

[quote]He crashed James Gandolfini's funeral. I would swear he also crashed a memorial service for the victims at Newtown but I'm having trouble finding the tweets about that.

I seem to remember something similar when "Philly" died, but I can't find anything online now. And who was the MRA who used to monopolize the comments?

It's been so long since I've been to that site, and I like it that way.

did someone say Oscars?

There is one sad sack in the comments who lays down the law on chicks like he's Beatty but whines about the raw deal nice white guys get and about how if he can't marry an 8+ his age or younger because his hookups leave him for rich, hot, successful, fun men. Gee, can't think why.

And there is one raging right winger but I have blocked them both.

That sounds like the same one, r10. I can't believe he's still around. At one point I think he was suicidal and every topic turned to what a shitty deal he was getting because teenage girls in slutty schoolgirl costumes wouldn't give him the time of day.

As for the "emotionally vivid" cowboy hat at r4, here he is wearing it (or one like it) in 2009....

And here's the headshot he's still using as of 2017...

He took this write up in a Vanity Fair blog as a huge compliment. Delusional.

[quote]Jeffrey Wells, proprietor of the website Hollywood Elsewhere, is a veteran journalist and long-time giver and taker of the sharp elbows and heated rhetoric of awards season. He has become perhaps the key figure in the push-back against Mo’Nique. In a seemingly endless series of posts, he has railed against her unstoppable stream of wins, asking if there is perhaps some other actress who gave a supporting performance worth lauding, while also taking umbrage at Mo’Nique’s apparently stand-off-ish attitude to the Oscar process. Wells has, in turn, weathered an increasing series of attacks himself, as commenters on his site regularly call him racist and misogynist, even pointing out that he “hates fatties.”

[quote]“Villain performances have won Oscars before with high-style, high-panache acting as the draw and the charm,” Wells wrote in an email. “Mo’Nique’s Mary has no pizazz at all—no flair to speak of. She’s just a low-rent hard-case rage monster in an easy chair. She’s quite good at inhabiting this creature—it’s a searing performance—but at the end of the day you have to ask, ‘To what end?’ Hers is the least enjoyable award-calibre performance I’ve ever sat through.

[quote]“As for Mo’Nique herself, she’s a genuine primitive,” continued Wells. “Or so I think. Did she pretend not to understand the financial benefits of an Oscar race during that talk-show chat or is she really that thick? I thought her GG acceptance speech felt acted and lacked class. I thought her ‘talk to my husband’ reply to Tom O’Neil was major chicken****. And the hairy legs thing was just astounding. Has an Oscar contending actress ever been on the red carpet with visible Yeti hair on her calves?”

It got even more embarrassing when he wrote a race-baiting piece trolling Mo'Nique at this time - the word ape was used, among others - which was even worse that his article entitled 'Genuine Primitive'. His readers gave him so much shit it was deleted, but not before he compared himself in the comments to Chris Rock.

[quote]All year long my Durango Dude outfit — cowboy hat, overcoat, gloves, black suede boots — sits in a closet, and then for 10 days in mid January I get to actually wear it. I love strolling around in this garb, and if it snows up there so much the better. Can you imagine going to Park City and wearing, I don’t know, some dorky day-glo orange down vest with a nickle-and-dime K-Mart scarf and some kind of knit cap…the kind of outfit that Girls costar Alex Karpovsky would wear if he attended? Famous last words if I get hit by a car on Kearns Blvd. because my clothing isn’t bright enough. The Southwest flight leaves Burbank at 11:30 am, stops in Pheonix, arrives in Salt Lake City around 4:30 pm.

This blogger is a nutcase. No wonder his son won't speak to him. He's so full of himself, there's no room for anyone else. Consistently weird.

For that matter, the whole concept of blogging is one long narcissistic rant. This is the first time in history when dull, uninteresting people have a platform to ramble uncontrollably. Verbal diarrhea on a massive scale.

The sad aspect is that enough people actually seem willing to wade through this muck, enabling the ranger to keep on doing it non-stop.

Yesterday I saw an older child, a little girl maybe 8, crying about something, while her young mother tried to comfort her, even carrying her, while the young father was trying on shades in a sunglasses shop. The mother offered the girl water from a plastic bottle, and the child promptly started throwing up.

The little girl, at least 3/4 the height of the mother, reminds me of this blogger. She's going to keep on demanding attention with infantile behavior well into adulthood. Besides, also like the blogger, why should she grow up, when she can get her needs met by continuing to act like a child?

After only reading a few paragraphs by this blogger, I'd had more than enough. But those photos were really nauseating. As a younger man, he looked like a posing Snagglepuss. The older fatty with his cowboy hat covering the thinning hair looked like he was wearing makeup, not to mention still swilling vodka..His delusional thinking is beyond comprehension.

So glad I won't be wasting any more time reading his offal.

I don't know if he still does it but a few years ago Glenn Kenny would excoriate Wells on Twitter and in comments. Wells would lose his tiny mind.

DL, encapsulated...

[quote]The following conversation about San Pellegrino sodas happened…oh, a couple of weeks ago at WeHo Pavillions. Myself and a short assistant manager. Around 9:30 or 10 pm. Our chat was measured at first, then it went downhill. Where do they find these guys? I knew much more about the San Pellegrino operation than he did. I’ve been to Eataly in New York. I’ve bought cans of the stuff in Venice and Tuscany and Rome. He knew nothing.

[quote]Let me explain something: I’ve walked around the streets of Rome, Milan and Florence on warm evenings, and white-haired Italian guys never, EVER wear comfort shoes. It’s a point of pride. They would rather be stricken with a heart attack and collapse on the street than wear those clunky things. I’m not saying old guys can’t wear comfortable shoes at home or while walking around the neighborhood or the mall, but when you’re out at night and hanging with the swells you have to wear classy, high-style, Cary Grant-at-El Morocco footwear, even if it hurts. Even if it shortens your life.”

[quote]I was hugely irked yesterday afternoon, sitting on a doorstep on Telluride’s Colorado Avenue as I berated those Booking.com bozos on a Skype line. I hadn’t eaten anything, the iPhone 6 Plus couldn’t be repaired (the thought of not being able to snap any photos during this festival distress me to no end), the iPhone rental was a no-go, and I’d missed the deadline to pick up my press pass. And then a pretty lady slowed and leaned down and patted my recently bought saddle shoes and gave me a thumbs-up as she kept walking. Thank you.

Honestly, the girl at R15 sounds like she was legitimately ill. Maybe it was mental illness but some kids turn into raving lunatic monsters when they get sick, and they're little kids so it's not their fault.

Wells isn't sick. He's just a goddamned asshole.

Good lord, what he wrote at r17 is astonishing. I gave up trying to follow him years ago (I can't remember what the final straw was, all I know it was yet another one of those situations where someone important died and he tried to take advantage of it) but he's still peripherally in my orbit. I hate that.

Isn't this the guy that got called out for emailing a director and asking for uncut footage of a love scene featuring an actress he liked?

LOL yes R19.

Speaking of, Wells is terrible at email, especially when he's drunk. A whole bunch of film critics got the private email addresses of well-known people in the biz a few years ago, because Wells, deep in his cups again, sent one email out to someone and then CC'ed everyone in his address book. Not BCC, but CC. You could see all his friends, relatives, some hookup sites, places where he bought products, and of course producers and distributors and other contacts he has.

This fuckin' guy, I swear.

I told ya he was terrified of men's feet @ R17

He's like a straight white David Ehrenstein.

Wells is a monumental douchebag. His views on films are strictly based on who he loves and who he hates and have nothing to do with the quality of a movie. He's an idiot.

[quote]I am on my knees, Mr. Mangold, saying thank you, thank you and thank you again for persuading Vinessa Shaw to do her first flat-out, boob-baring nude scene. I was in heaven as Crowe drew her on his notepad. Please tell me there’s somebody on the Yuma team who can slip me some stills of the shooting that day… please. I’m serious. I know you think like I do in this respect, so please … as one good hombre to another … you don’t have to be the guy who passes along the stills. Just tell the still photographer or the editor or whomever caught her as she posed. I’m not a sleazebag either — I don’t pass along stills to the Mr. Skin crowd or my friends. This would be just for my, myself & I. At the very least it would be great to grab some frame captures from the film itself. Or some unused footage of Shaw and Crowe doing whatever. Out-takes, perhaps.

Yup, massive piece of shit. His website gets a lot of traffic, which is how he's still able to get major interviews and go to festivals/award shows/etc. Sadly, I believe he only lost one interview (Carey Mulligan, I think?) over his comments. He's notorious for posting his problems with businesses/customer service and taking pics of employees he has issues with to shame them. There was one story about how he complained about the music at a cafe and didn't tip the waitress over it. A lot of other journalists/critics endlessly mock him on Twitter. He might be raking in money because of page hits, but no one respects him.

The hilarious thing is that Wells LOVES Carey Mulligan. Gushes over her like she's the incarnation of Audrey Hepburn and Greta Garbo.

He pushed her for an Oscar in An Education like no other outlet.

Then, right before he had an interview with her a year or two later, he blogged about how she had changed post-Oscar nom, complete with weight loss, blonde hair, rhinoplasty and sucking up to Anna Wintour like a champ. Mulligan cancelled the interview.

He is also ENTIRELY to blame for Amy Schumer's rise as a body image icon, as opposed to one of many not-conventionally-attractive comics, and her starring as Barbie and the like, after he blogged that she was too chunky and plain for Bill Hader. (Which was weird anyway they're pretty evenly matched on the physical score. Hader isn't fat but he's hardly Gary Cooper).

I feel dense because I don't recognise 90% of the names mentioned in this thread.

He sounds like he needs his ass kicked.

Here he criticised the United passenger for not behaving like Steve McQueen in BULLIT when he was ejected from the plane.

🙄

[quote]But suddenly a couple of security guys come up the aisle and tell Bullitt that his ticket is invalid, and that he’ll have to leave his seat and catch another flight. Bullitt argues, shakes his head, refuses to leave. The security guys finally grab him and yank him out of his seat, and this is how Bullitt responds. Two questions: If Bullitt had made these sounds when the security guys grab him, what would happen to McQueen’s super-stud image with moviegoers and how popular would Bullitt have been at the box-office?

Wells doesn't realise how elderly he sounds.

OMG the comments on his site are deliciously cruel. Riding his scooter with his scarf waving in the breeze, pretending he is Bullitt

He has sounded old as balls since his 50s. He must be pushing 65 by now.

I would say late 60s, maybe 71, r31.

His references of cool and identity are entirely related to Beatty and Nicholson. He's still stuck in that era.

R30, his readers consistently call him on his shit. It's great. How I wish the pre-Disqus comment system from the Emotionally Vivid Cowboy hat posts. And the racist Mo'Nique posts. And especially the time he took slices of 2-day-old foil-wrapped Dean & Deluca pear cake to an Italian restaurant that specialises in desserts and spat the dummy when they would not provide him with plates and forks to sample it. The comment section went off.

He is one of the better film writers, batshit hatreds and persona aside, in that he's actually critical and more aware of cinematic conventions and language than most other bloggers (who are tend to be 20-40 years his junior). That is why most of his readers stick around during the festivals and award season. That said he is not *that* much better than Jen Yamato, Moriarty and Sasha Stone, but still.

[quote]the time he took slices of 2-day-old foil-wrapped Dean & Deluca pear cake to an Italian restaurant that specialises in desserts and spat the dummy when they would not provide him with plates and forks to sample it

LOL WHAT

Sigh. Anyway, I've never found him to be useful as a film writer. Do you have any examples of his "good" writing? I've always had the impression that people stuck around because he was guaranteed drama.

At the same time, I agree he's about as good as Sasha. I really like Sasha (and I think I was the only one defending her on that thread about Awards Daily) but she's much better at awards analysis than she is at film writing. Then again, a lot of the bigger-name critics kind of suck. I don't know what's going on with Glenn Kenny for example but since he's been at the NYT, his reviews have absolutely sucked. He recently confused Blondie with Debbie Harry! You'd think Glenn of all people would know better.

Sasha has been a rage machine since 2015 before the election. She just about lost it when Stallone lost the Oscar. And she typed an open letter to Viggo, her "hero", about him skewing too far left politically. And she banned Susan Sarandon from Awards Daily saying in a tweet saying "shit flows both ways", like Sarandon knows or cares about who she is. I mean fuck, you're a business owner, woman.

She has this thing about TASTEFUL MIDDLE AGED WHITE MALE CULTURE and doesn't realise she's the female version of it.

And she fucked Wells back in the day.

I have noticed once a lot of writers move to bigger outlets, their writing turns to shit.

The critic I liked the most was Betsy Sharkey at the LA Times but she left to work on her career as a novelist.

[quote]I swear to God that a good third of Clinton’s problems would disappear if she would just drop a few pounds and have a little “work” done. Perhaps more than a third.

Re: Chuck Todd

[quote]Because the instant he appears on-screen my eyes go right to his follicles. And it’s an easy fix. A few sprinkles of light-brown Toppik (keratin fiber that attaches itself to the meager hair you have left) followed by two or three micro-plug treatments (500 to 750 plugs per session). Okay, so Chuck will have to wear a baseball cap for a couple of weeks…big deal.

R37 that's a cheap wig he's wearing.

Every few years he goes to Prague after Cannes to get hair plugs.

So, he's 70 and the fam thinks it's going too fast, but he's marrying a young blonde Russian whom he assures us is NOT to the Gerard to his Andie.

Marrying a Russian mail-order bride is SO Jeffrey Wells.

I hope it won't turn out like that Nicole Kidman movie.

R42 I hope it does. Nobody deserves to be humiliated by a Russian hooker hustler more than Wells.

[quote]Nobody deserves to be humiliated by a Russian hooker hustler more than Wells.

Well.....

Foil-wrapped pear cake sounds good.

[quote]I don't follow him but many of my film critic friends have stories of his epic douchebaggery

C'mon, spill!

R46 just check out twitter. They all regularly eviscerate him.

So, the wedding's off.

I feel bad for him.

R48 what an idiot asshole this douche is. He's pushing 70, ugly as shit and would bitch nonstop about Hillary not being hot enough to be President.

Russian blonde is 42.

He's giving her use of his apartment and car so she can cat-sit when he goes to Cannes, because she is now refusing to go to Europe with him.

This will end in tears.

Jeffrey "I hate fatties" Wells in the wild

The former Significant Russian Other.

Yeah.

She's beautiful, and I can't decide if it's despite that vagina on her head, or because of it.

Wells has gone full retard.

His press accreditation for Sundance has been revoked (his version: I'm The Only Free Man On This Train and the only liberal who fights against PC Wokesters!) and he is now reposting support from Breitbart columnist John Nolte.

Nasty, embittered, hideous and weird. I guarantee that there are legitimate reasons his son isn't speaking to him, we're only hearing about half of the story .

Upthread someone mentioned his cosmetic surgery in Prague.

It turns out he got a benign cancer due to him damaging the hair plug stitches behind his ear by yanking off his motorscooter helmet too roughly.. He is currently recovering from surgery.

I'm out of the film criticism game, but I still chuckled heartily at Jeffrey Wells and his Sundance accreditation woes.

Wish I hadn't read this thread though, because the last thing I needed was a mental image of Sasha Stone and Jeffrey Wells hooking up.

Jeff Wells accused Drew McWeeny and Scott Weinberg of tattling to Toronto and Sundance admin about his anti-Woke, anti-PC stances.

[quote]Three days ago I wrote Weinberg, McWeeny and one other critic and asked them point blank if they’d sent a letter of complaint to Sundance and/or Toronto. The fact that they didn’t respond doesn’t necessarily mean anything, but it might. Is there enough discoverable evidence out there to justify a libel lawsuit? Maybe, maybe not. But it’s worth looking into. Does anyone know a good libel lawyer who isn’t opposed to an occasional pro bono case?

McWeeny calls him a “delusional mummy”, informing him that since that time Wells told him “I hope you dies of that heart attack you’re working on so your kids grow up without you”, his emails go straight to spam.

Wells’ response:

[quote]I’m not a mummy. My skin is vibrant and supple. and I have more hair than you.

He is also receiving legal advice in the comments from a poster whose law licence has expired.

The internet has certainly given a haven to all the insane loons out there.

[quote]Amanda,

[quote]Mellow greetings, yukey dukey. I’m Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere columnist (www.hollywood-elsewhere.com) and longtime industry reporter going back to the early ’80s. I’m writing to convey a mild form of displeasure about a no-big-deal incident that happened last night at the Chateau Marmont, or more precisely at the outside entrance.

[quote]I don’t want to sound like an entitled asshole, but I’ve been attending industry parties at the Chateau for eons (mainly during Oscar season), and every so often I’ll pop by to meet someone for a drink at the restaurant bar, or maybe order breakfast or dinner or whatever. (Svetlana Cvetko and I met Guillermo del Toro there for dinner a year or so ago.) Or I might be with a visitor and just want to show them the Chateau’s to-die-for interior.

[quote]This was last night’s agenda — showing the interior to my wife Tatyana, who’s only been in Los Angeles for seven months and has never had the pleasure. But I was told by a polite young lady at the valet desk that we couldn’t enter without a room or dinner reservation. I said we were just looking to order a drink at the bar, no biggie. “The bar is filled,” she said. Obviously she couldn’t have known that. We went back and forth but her mind was made up.

[quote]What she meant, I presume, is that she sensed we were riff-raff, and so she was following an instinct to protect the hotel guests from people who might gawk or snap iPhone photos and otherwise generate un-coolness.

[quote]I totally get the “keep out the riff-raff” thing. If I was guarding the gate I would actually take pleasure in politely rebuffing any would-be visitors who looked like they’d just gotten off the tourist bus. Overweight types, noisy kids in tow, wide-eyed expressions, low-thread-count T-shirts, dorky sandals and a general approach to attire that’s more suited to a mall in Henderson, Nevada.

[quote]Your predecessor Phillip Pavel, who served as the Chateau’s managing director for a long stretch, said it succinctly a few years ago: “The Chateau Marmont has built its success on creating an environment where the privacy of our guests is paramount. Please know that the decision to not allow certain guests in our hotel is based solely on this concept.”

[quote]The problem is this: I’m not riff-raff, and I don’t look like riff-raff. I have the snooty cool thing down pat, and I was nicely groomed last night. I was wearing a dark blue Kooples shirt and white pants and shiny black loafers. The beautiful Tatyana was nicely dressed also. Nothing about us radiated “uh-oh…don’t let these chumps past the gate!” Granted, we didn’t arrive in a big black SUV and had just approached on foot, but still…what’s the deal here?

[quote]Call me presumptuous or entitled, but I have a long (if sporadic) history with the Chateau Marmont, and I feel…well, a certain comfort and investment in the place. It’s not “home” but I have been casually visiting since the Reagan era with no one saying boo or looking at me sideways, and so I felt…well, my feelings were kind of hurt when the door lady said “sorry.”

[quote]So is this the new post-Pavel Chateau policy — room or restaurant reservations or you can’t come in? I’ve been visiting top-tier hotels in all the great cities of the world for decades without anyone raising an eyebrow or aggressively addressing me as “sir”. You and I know that if Tatyana and I had been with Matt Damon or Jim Gianopulos or some WME agent that we just would have strolled on in.

[quote]Was it the white pants?

[quote]Next time I want to show the hotel to a friend I’ll need to make a dinner reservation in order to gain entrance, and then after we’ve had a drink or two I’ll politely inform management that we’ve changed our minds and have to leave…right? Is that how I need to play it?

[quote]I’ll be posting this letter in my column today. If you have any kind of explanation or response I’ll be happy to pop it in. Thanks & best wishes.

[quote]Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere

No it wasn’t the white pants. It was you and that Mail Order Red Sparrow you dragged in.

Behind a paywalll, whence Jeffrey Wells crawls up Greta Gerwig’s ass for not lying to her about loving Little Women, and tells her he’s looking forward to Barbie.