Happy Place: Steve Martin

4 Responses to Happy Place: Steve Martin

1. ricki says:

   August 22, 2006 at 1:39 pm

   I wonder if, several thousand years from now, archaeologists will happen upon that picture and come to a TOTALLY wrong conclusion about 20th century American religious rites…
2. red says:

   August 22, 2006 at 1:42 pm

   hahahahahahahahahahahaha
3. tracey says:

   August 22, 2006 at 9:36 pm

   I love him. So much.
4. red says:

   August 24, 2006 at 1:01 pm

   The Steve Martin of the 1970s is one of my true joys in life. It HURTS, the comedy. The old Socrates skit, the stuff he did on SNL, the King Tut, roller-skating on Johnny Carson – and his stand-up stuff – just … he was NUTS.

   But then, on the flipside, he has the capacity to put me totally out of commission for a couple of days by writing something like Shopgirl – which killed me. I felt NAMED by that book (and movie). I felt like: How did he know??? What an insightful person he is.

   I like him when he’s being subversive (1970s Martin – smoking pot onstage, etc.) than like most of his stuff now – when he’s trying to play a normal dad-type role. Martin is MEANER than that. More INSANE (I mean that quite literally) And I love the mean insanity about him.

   I don’t find him particularly likable – but likability is a dime a freakin’ dozen. To quote Tommy Lee Jones: “No, you don’t have to like a character. You have to want to watch the character.”

   Uhm – see photo for evidence of that.