Apes and Butterflies

What colossal arrogance for Otto Preminger to think that Jean Seberg caused the failure of Saint Joan (1957)!

Saint Joan was always going to fail commercially, because, quite simply, nobody going to the cinema wants to see George Bernard Shaw! And that includes his most popular piece: nobody wants to see Pygmalion - everybody wants to see My Fair Lady.

A. Rose & a Slash

A leading actor and an auteur are like a conductor and his first violinist, a singer and his lead guitarist, a bonehead and his edge.

John Wayne and John Ford,

Marcello Mastroianni and Federico Fellini,

Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder,

(or Jack Lemmon and Richard Quine),

Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock,

(or James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock),

Jerry Lewis and Frank Tashlin,

Woody Allen and Woody Allen,

Kyle Machlachlan and David Lynch,

Bill Murray and Harold Ramis,

Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson,

Jim Carrey and Tom Shadyac (well, times being what they are)

and now... Will Ferrell and Adam McKay.

Who is Adam Mckay? Only the genius writer/director behind Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Step Brothers, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and The Other Guys.

Whoever said the auteur theory was dead?