The Gary Kurtz link was his usual self-serving pablum and whingeings about how Lucas "turned SW into a toy factory," sneered about how the ending of ROTJ should have been bittersweet but instead was a "teddy bear luau," and implications that he was what made ESB great and ANH not-bad. The sycophantic bashers, of course, were just lapping it up, treating each word like a ruby dropped in their lap. I'm sure it will provide the losers Kurtz Kultists with material to worship him with for years to come.
Oh, and Kurtz tells a bunch of half-truths and outright lies about being "good friends" with Jim Henson (he was such an inept producer on "Dark Crystal" that Henson wanted to remove his name from the credits), and "bringing" Frank Oz to ESB to voice/work Yoda. In actuality, he was the middleman. Lucas wanted Henson, who he was actually good friends with, for the job but he was unavailable, so Oz volunteered.
The article coyly said that he "moved to England," but neglected to mention that that was most likely because no one in the U.S. wanted to work with him, because of his ineptitude as a producer and track record of letting films go badly off-schedule and over-budget. There was a mention of him working on some project with Weta, and an accompanying mention of them being the FX company that worked on LOTR...was that some kind of pathetic attempt to tenuously link Kurtz with LOTR to make him seem "kewl"? Lame.
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Date: 2010-08-17 09:14 pm (UTC)losersKurtz Kultists with material to worship him with for years to come.Oh, and Kurtz tells a bunch of half-truths and outright lies about being "good friends" with Jim Henson (he was such an inept producer on "Dark Crystal" that Henson wanted to remove his name from the credits), and "bringing" Frank Oz to ESB to voice/work Yoda. In actuality, he was the middleman. Lucas wanted Henson, who he was actually good friends with, for the job but he was unavailable, so Oz volunteered.
The article coyly said that he "moved to England," but neglected to mention that that was most likely because no one in the U.S. wanted to work with him, because of his ineptitude as a producer and track record of letting films go badly off-schedule and over-budget. There was a mention of him working on some project with Weta, and an accompanying mention of them being the FX company that worked on LOTR...was that some kind of pathetic attempt to tenuously link Kurtz with LOTR to make him seem "kewl"? Lame.