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First Look: Amber Tamblyn, Adam Goldberg in The Unusuals

BuzzSugar — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:30:34 -0800

ABC's The Unusuals wants to be a different kind of police drama. The show, which will premiere April 8 at 10 p.m., centers around a ragtag bunch of NYPD detectives, each of whom is, well, a little bizarre.

Like how? Well, Adam Goldberg's character, Eric Delahoy, is trying to get himself killed on the job. His partner, Leo Banks (Harold Perrineau), is insanely cautious and won't even take off his bulletproof vest. As for Casey Shraeger (Amber Tamblyn), well, her secrets weren't revealed in the 20 minutes of the show I got to see at TCA, but she does have trouble getting taken seriously when she starts working homicide cases after a couple of years posing as a prostitute in the vice unit.

When I first heard about the concept for the show, I figured the characters would be really unusual - like, say, Law and Order meets Heroes. Instead, they're just regular folks with quirky personalities and odd pasts. I'm hoping the show has a dark humor about it; among other things, that would give Tamblyn a chance to show off that great comic timing I liked so much in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants sequel.

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Link Time! 8/28

BuzzSugar — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:29:15 -0700

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TV Bloggin delivers a "CSI: Miami" drinking game, with several rules involving Horatio Caine's sunglasses.
Cinematical has an excellent interview with Adam Goldberg, the lucky guy who costars with Julie Delpy in 2 Days in Paris.
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Interview: Julie Delpy of 2 Days in Paris

BuzzSugar — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:30:00 -0700

Julie Delpy is almost frighteningly talented. She writes, acts, directs, and composes music - and she does all four in 2 Days in Paris, one of my favorite films of the year so far. Delpy and Adam Goldberg play Marion and Jack, a lovably mismatched couple who spend a disastrous two days with Marion's family. The movie goes beyond culture-clash humor and settles in the much richer territory of romantic relationships, which is what Delpy and I talked about on her recent trip to San Francisco.

You’re really all over this story: you’re in it, you wrote it, you directed it. I’m wondering where it came from for you.
Well, I wanted to do a story about something that scares me the most, which is - apart from death or losing someone I love physically, outside of the big, really horrible stuff in life - breaking up with people. I just wanted to approach it in a comedic way, because all my life, breaking up has been horribly painful - or being dumped, even more painful. But breaking up with someone is very painful too. It's almost impossible for me. I get too attached to people, I can't hurt people. I’ve done it a few times. I did it very badly too, because I don't know how to manage, so I disappear, like I could be dead, I’m so bad at it. And when I feel that someone doesn’t love me anymore and I can see that in their eyes, it's heartbreaking.

I went in thinking "Oh, it's going to be one of those culture clash things." But it's so much more about their relationship.
I mean, the culture difference stuff is fun, but it's mostly about conflict within a relationship and how to make a relationship work. Especially with two neurotic people. Psychotic and neurotic.

They’re so imperfect together, and then that’s kind of perfect.
Yeah, yeah, I know! Adam was always worried that my character was so unlikable. He kept telling me all the time, "She’s so horrible, your character" and "my character, I don’t want to make him unlikable." And to me it was much more exiting to make unlikable characters likable. He’s always grumpy, and he’s kind of an unbearable guy, but at the same time, with all the shit that happens to him, you start to really feel for him. She’s unbearable - I mean, she snaps at people, she's flirtatious, she’s like the worst nightmare - but at the same time, she snaps at racists, at pedophiles, you know and she's in a way protecting him. So to me it was a lot of fun to take these characters that are so anti-heroes and make them into almost likable people, or at least people you follow and embrace until the end of the film.

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Who was Jack in your head, and how did you find him?
I really wrote it for Adam, so for me it was very important that he was playing the part. Before I even wrote most of the thing, I had him in my head and I had a few meetings with him to talk about his character, talk about the relationship. I wanted him to be true to something, a quality [Adam] has, which is neurotic but at the same time kind of hip, kind of edgy, grumpy. I did inspire myself a bit on who Adam is, but also on very different people as well. Adam has not at all the jealous streak in him. He’s way too good-looking to be jealous of another man - I mean, that’s what he thinks of himself. But I like that, I think it's cool, because it's hipper that the typical kind of neurotic Jewish guy.

What is at the heart of them? Is it love? Or is it sort of resignation, like, "Well, I guess this is what we’re going to get"?
I think there’s love at the heart of it. It's not "as good as it gets," it's more "there’s love here, so should we let our environment and our neuroses and our anxiety destroy it? Or should we cherish and make it work, through all our differences and imperfections?"

Of course, I have to ask a Before Sunrise, Before Sunset question. What is it that you think has made those movies so enduring?
I think it's because it's the ultimate fantasy of love, which is meeting someone, you fall in love - love at first sight. In the second film, it's ... that person reappears into your life and it's right. So after all your little childhood fantasies about the person in your life, it's actually true. It’s a really deep fantasy in a lot of people's minds about the idea of the one that’s made for you is out there. It's really a very romantic idea of love, in an old fashioned way, almost.

Which seems kind of a different kind of love from the 2 Days in Paris love.
Yeah, this film is not the fantasy of romantic love. In a way, it's almost closer to my idea of romantic love, which is finding love in the everyday life with someone. If there was a third Before Sunset, that would be the reality of everyday life, you know, how do you keep the love good and going. Here, it's kind of like they make it exciting by arguing. But I think the end is romantic. It's about making the effort, and accepting who the person is - with all their sneezing and the obnoxious side to them.

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2 Days in Paris: Perfectly Imperfect

BuzzSugar — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:45:00 -0700

I'm almost afraid to write about 2 Days in Paris, as if somehow, by writing about it, it won't be a precious memory in my mind anymore. That sounds sappy and overwrought, but the fact is, I adored this movie more than any other movie I've seen in a long time. It's possible that the movie happened to hit all the right notes at all the right times for me personally. It's also possible that 2 Days in Paris is just a very good movie. I believe it's the latter.

Julie Delpy (who also wrote, directed, and composed music for the film) stars as Marion, a French photographer with an eye defect who goes on a vacation to Europe with her American boyfriend, Jack (Adam Goldberg), a hypochondriac with a jealous streak. In the movie's first moments, you see the couple asleep on a train, she wearing a silkscreened T-shirt with a picture of a gun that is, not coincidentally, pointing right at Jack. The two of them are on their way back from a trip to Venice that, while not exactly a disaster, was not a whirlwind of romance either. Before heading home, they need to pick up their cat at Marion's parents' house in Paris - and that's where things really get bad.

Jack, who speaks not a word of French, feels marooned in a foreign land where everything is moldy and everyone has dated his girlfriend. Marion is no saint, either, having dallied with her share of men; she plays right into Jack's phobias by stroking the sweater of a fireman who comes to the apartment one morning and taking Jack to a party filled with probable exes. They're already a bickering couple, but Jack's suspicions - and Marion's egging on - propel them to quarreling of world record proportions. The "crazy American in Paris" stuff is funny, but where the movie really hits home is in its portrayal of flawed adult love, so read more

Jack and Marion seem like such a mismatch; we can sense the love between them, but their insecurities and fears keep it from coming out. Marion is beautiful and smart and funny, but she's also deeply angry; when she picks a fight with a cab driver, Jack looks like he would rather just be stranded on the streets of Paris than have to defend this crazy woman. For his part, Jack is sarcastic and neurotic and jealous, though it's not without reason. I kept wishing for them to just cut each other a break, but instead of bugging me like it would in most movies, their arguments felt raw and real. You know those fights you have with someone you love, epic battles where you're just yelling and screaming and suddenly you realize you have no idea what you're even angry about or how the fight started? This movie is like one of those fights, but with the most tender outcome possible.

The movie has its missteps; Marion's parents (played by Delpy's actual parents, both French actors) are best when dealing with Jack and Marion, not pursuing story lines of their own. There also are a few scenes toward the end of the film where Marion's ugly side gets so outrageous that I wondered if Delpy had gone too far; they're awkward and uncomfortable, presumably on purpose, but they nearly undermined my belief that Marion was a good person underneath her copious flaws.

But I can overlook those problems, because 2 Days in Paris is, at its heart, a smart, sweet, and truly unconventional love story - the kind of love story we hardly ever see on screen. It's not a sweep-you-off-your-feet romance; it's not a fiasco. It's just two fundamentally screwed-up people doing their best to muddle through, being perfectly imperfect together.

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Movie Preview: Julie Delpy's 2 Days in Paris

BuzzSugar — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:34:41 -0700

2 Days in Paris first caught my eye back in April when it screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, and now that I've seen the trailer I'm salivating to see this film. I love pretty much anything Julie Delpy touches, and seeing as she wrote, directed, edited and stars in 2 Days in Paris, she's touched this project often and much.

The movie follows Marion (Delpy) who brings her American boyfriend (Adam Goldberg) on his first trip to Paris. There, he struggles with the language, encounters countless ex-boyfriends of Marion's and learns all about the differences in how Americans and the French view sexual relationships. Delpy seems gorgeous, adorable, smart and funny... as usual.

If you're a Delpy-phile like me - and even if you're not - you should check out the movie when it opens August 10. To watch the trailer in the meantime (and to see a picture that made me chuckle), read more

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