Throughout film history, if you had asked filmgoers what they wanted to see, the answer would have come back almost exclusively – I want to see Audrina Partridge come back from the dead and going on a killing spree at sorority and frat houses.
Perhaps we’ve been doing something right as a nation and we’re being rewarded for it at last, or perhaps Hollywood just put two and two together, but based on the above trailer, this movie looks like a masterpiece; perhaps the only major film of this sorrowful decade.
So on the one hand – hallelujah, it’s here. But on the other hand – what took so them so long? I mean they’ve been making movies for 90 years now and it took them that much time to figure out to cast Audrina from the Hills as a resurrected…Seriously, how hard was that?
My Innuendo colleague Stacey Grenrock Woods has blown open the Universe of possibilities for a celebrity Q and A with her historic chat with Seth MacFarlane. Please read it here and stand in awe.
America is awash in vampires. And yet despite this flood of bloodsuckers, so many critical parts of the vampires experience get ignored or swept under the rug, as filmmakers and HBO seriesmakers use vampires as mere metaphors in their drives to tackles issues.
Now, from South Korea comes a film that shows America about the real challenges vampires face and the dilemmas they face in their day to day lives.
I enjoy “True Blood” as much as anyone, but let’s face it, the show is an entertainment. In the typical day (or night) of a vampire, they are as likely to come into contact with shapeshifters and maenads as you and I are to bump into General Custer waiting on line for a Godmother sub at Bay Cities.
You have found yourself at the website of Richard Rushfield, wherein we shall experience the Years of Richard Rushfield along with me.
First and foremost, however, we will encoounter all matters relating to my upcoming memoir spectacular, Don’t Follow Me I’m Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the 80’s (pictured left).
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“Richard Rushfield was a dick in college just ask him. DFMIL is a hilarious recanting of a unique, and often absurd higher education experience. Rushfield is a completely lovable ne’er-do-well bumbling through a do it yourself education. Required reading for anyone who went to college, lives near a college or owns a hacky sack.”
- Greg Behrendt, comic/Author -”He’s Just Not That Into You”
“Richard Rushfield has provided a worm’s eye view of one of America’s kookiest education experiments: Hampshire College. It was here that the idealism of the Sixties curdled into the nihilism of the Eighties — and ‘Don’t Follow me, I’m Lost’ isn’t merely about a troubled liberal arts school, but an entire generation’s nervous breakdown. It is by turns rueful, angry, touching and, above all, very, very funny.”
- Toby Young “How To Lose Friends and Alienate People”
“Richard Rushfield has written a smart, funny, fish-out-of-water love letter to the 80’s. Vivid settings plus memorable characters and wry humor equals one totally awesome memoir.”
- Moon Zappa
“Had Dorothy Parker been a teenage boy in the Eighties, she’d have been Richard Rushfield, whose bon mots fly from a roundtable set in dank stairwell parties around kegs of flat beer.” –Stacey Grenrock Woods, author of I, California
“Richard Rushfield recalls his college years as a loveable miscreant living among the P.C. police with unflinching humor and a generous appreciation for a group of wayward youths struggling to forge meaningful identities (and stay in college as long as possible). He finds humor in nearly all the players – from the hippie advisors who suggest skipping classes in order to encourage independent thinking to the over-privileged students who rise from their cocaine and cockroach-filled dwellings to perform purposely upsetting concerts. I can’t imagine a more unique or uproarious depiction of the post-Reagan, pre-grunge era.” – Anna David, author of Bought, host of “Attack of the Show!”
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About Richard
Richard Rushfield is a Contributing Editor of Vanity Fair and formerly the Entertainment Editor of latimes.com and West Coast Editor of Gawker, His book "Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the 80's" was published in 2009. He is currently at work on a history of American Idol, due out January 2011 from Hyperion Books.
