Will Ferrell has some pretty cool friends. That shouldn’t come as any kind of surprise to his fans. He appeared on “Saturday Night Live” for seven seasons and still keeps in touch with co-stars like Seth Meyers, Tina Fey and Kristen Wiig. Less familiar, but no less fascinating, is former “SNL” writer Harper Steele, who befriended Ferrell when he first joined the show, believing in the crazy cut-up when others were still skeptical of his talent.
Structured as an on-camera road trip between two longtime friends, fueled by laughs and tears and the occasional “Borat”-style stunt, “Will & Harper” gives the general public a chance to meet this incredible woman. Technically, Ferrell is meeting her for the first time, too, since Steele spent the first six decades of her life as a man. After receiving a long, vulnerable coming-out email from Steele describing her decision to transition at...
Structured as an on-camera road trip between two longtime friends, fueled by laughs and tears and the occasional “Borat”-style stunt, “Will & Harper” gives the general public a chance to meet this incredible woman. Technically, Ferrell is meeting her for the first time, too, since Steele spent the first six decades of her life as a man. After receiving a long, vulnerable coming-out email from Steele describing her decision to transition at...
- 1/23/2024
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Last week I extolled the pleasures of a new documentary feature focused on a very talented singer, Ms. Linda Ronstadt. And this weekend sees the release of another “entertainment personality” doc. Now, it’s not another singer or musician this time. No, it’s not an actress or actor. And it’s not a painter or a comedian (even her detractors would have to admit that she was very witty). As you’ve no doubt concluded, this film is all about a writer, not of plays or books, rather she toiled away in the “fourth estate”, newspapers. Yes twenty-somethings, just decade or two ago, folks got their news on folded paper, not this monitor screen or on an app. Some of the writers of columns (usually in the editorial section) became stars, with papers fighting over their services (this happened with comic strip creators in their heyday) and promoting them...
- 9/19/2019
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Recently another film, about a culturally important woman writer at the end of the 20th Century — Molly Ivins — reminds me very much of the doc ‘What She Said — The Art Of Pauline Kael’. I speak here of ‘Raise Hell — The Life & Times of Molly Ivins’.
Not only stylistically but also thematically similar, each film is about a woman writer who changed our thinking in the period of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Each was not writing particularly about women but about larger issues. Molly about the political scene, the parties, movements, direction. Pauline about the changes in cinema which of course reflected social upheavals and change.
Living through those crazy times — the Viet War, urban uprisings, civil rights, the women’s movement — formed us.
Molly Ivins
What perhaps is most strange is how these prophetic voices, such as these rwo outspoken, leading female thinkers have so long been silenced.
That...
Not only stylistically but also thematically similar, each film is about a woman writer who changed our thinking in the period of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Each was not writing particularly about women but about larger issues. Molly about the political scene, the parties, movements, direction. Pauline about the changes in cinema which of course reflected social upheavals and change.
Living through those crazy times — the Viet War, urban uprisings, civil rights, the women’s movement — formed us.
Molly Ivins
What perhaps is most strange is how these prophetic voices, such as these rwo outspoken, leading female thinkers have so long been silenced.
That...
- 2/19/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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