Swimming
in H'wood
Pic
makes bow at Variety screening series
By JOSH MARKS
WHAT: Variety
Screening Series unspooling of Focus Features' "Hollywoodland."
WHO: Helmer Allen Coulter, plus thesps Ben Affleck,
WHERE: ArcLight Cinemas, Hollywood
AFFLECK ON REEVES: Affleck, perhaps reflecting upon his own
"Bennifer" days in tabloids, said "There is a similar
typecasting which happens now and it's not about seeing somebody in a certain
kind of part. Celebrity coverage, in a way, is foreshadowed by Reeves' death
and the media fixation on his death as scandalous. There was that sort of
prurient interest in it that overshadowed the interest in him as an
actor."
LANE ON TONI MANNIX: "How can anybody ever try to recover from never
having the opportunity to ask for forgiveness or to say you want to forgive,
when something like this (Reeves' suicide) has occurred?"
COULTER ON BRODY'S FILM CHARACTER: "He's playing, almost like a child,
at being a detective. And he's essentially a middle class man. He has a wife
and a child in the Valley. He's not a typical detective,' " said Coulter.