Chilling words: "Chevy Chase is trying to make a comeback." My hope is for all the "notable alumni of the Dalton School" who are more notable than I to slip into obscurity. What's Claire Danes done lately?
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The Comeback Kid
08 Jan 2008 01:38 pm
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Claire Danes has lately been doing what she has always done: looking fucking hot and attractive.
Oxymoron Alert!
Over at TNR, they had a blog post up today or yesterday entitled "Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead." That's two Chevy Chase-related blog posts in two days. Freaky.
What world we live in where Dean Wareham doesn't make that list.
I prefer to think of Chevy Chase as a quasi-Haverford alumnus.
I seem to recall reading an article recently saying that Chase will be hired on as a part-time contributor (acting & writing) for SNL's new season.
I think that may be my final reason for not watching SNL anymore.
All the Dalton alums I've ever run across always manage to sneak in some reference to the school. Hmmm . . .
BTW, I worked with Chevy Chase's father back in the 1980s when I was a squirt. Although a complicated person, he was super-smart and a passionate champion of true progressive causes, despite his high-WASP pedigree. And very, very, very funny. I bet some of his spirit and elan has rubbed off on Chevy.
Thank you very little.
Actually, the recent release (and my subsequent purchase) of the My So-Called Life DVD box set has vaulted her very much back to the forefront of my mind. Perhaps if there was a BloggingHeads Presents: The Very Best of Matthew Yglesias DVD box set....
I bet some of his spirit and elan has rubbed off on Chevy.
Not enough, apparently...
Re Matthew's question "What's Claire Danes done lately?"
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Given hot sex to the guy who will save the world from nuclear annihilation --only to see said guy fail miserably.
Ref: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/
How about you?
Actually, I'm a little embarrassed to say it, but Stardust was surprisingly good.
I had two cousins that taught at the Dalton School. Not sure if they do or not anymore.
If Spitzer gets re-elected and Chevy bombs, we'll call it Horace Mann's revenge.
I remmever reading an excerpt from a book about SNL a few years ago. Will Ferrell was talking about a time Chevy came back to host. To paraphrase, he said something like "I don't know what was wrong with him. Maybe he was all hopped up on back pills but he was a real jerk to everybody."
But my favorite Chevy memory is the time he almost walked off Politically Incorrect because Steven Bochco told him his movies sucked.
Can I use this somewhat frivolous thread to point out that your blogroll sucks. Crescat Sententia hasn't even existed for months now. What is someone supposed to do who thinks, "I like that Yglesias kid's blog, I wish there were a convenient list of other blogs that might consequently appeal to me too." Get on this please.
Bill Kristol & Chevy Chase:
Separated At Birth?
It had been a while since last pimping your Dalton Dayz, huh?
Anyhow, I guess you're unfamiliar with using the ol' internets to find answers to basic questions Matt?
"On October 19, 2007, Danes made her Broadway debut in the revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, starring as Eliza Doolittle.[8]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Danes
There was a book that came out the other year called Live from New York - an "oral history" of SNL, meaning it was essentially a collective memoir built out of interviews with whoever was left standing. One of the more amusing fruits of this approach was the fact that everyone who had any contact with Chevy Chase, in any decade of the show's run, independently described him as an insufferable asshole.
Dude, Wallace Shawn will never slip into obscurity.
you want the list to contain you and Andrew Zimmern?
I was going to point out she's currently on Broadway, but I see that's been done above. Cheers.
Can I use this somewhat frivolous thread to point out that your blogroll sucks.
It really does. I desperately need to do something about it.
You will never be cooler or more prominent than Jennifer Grey. Furthermore, you'll never put her in a corner.
It really does. I desperately need to do something about it.
Go forth unafraid.
Claire Danes? That's like the Knicks worrying about how they're gonna overtake the Celtics. Focus on Penelope Tree.
re: your blog roll - fix the link to Lindsay Beyerstein, would you please? Thank you.
Senescent,
That was a good book, co-authored by Tom Shales. My favorite bit was when Chevy came back to guest-host and was such a douche that Bill Murray got into a fight with him. Here are the excerpts:
http://ronmwangaguhunga.blogspot.com/2004/06/bill-murray-versus-chevy-chase-from.html
I know who I'd have been rooting for.
I play in a basketball league that sometimes plays at the facility on 200 E. 87th. The security policy and the guards themselves are really obnoxious.
jesus you're 26? you're only a year older than i am, and i read this blog for like, insights and shit.
The Dalton school list of "notable" alumni is highly questionable. By my count, there were only a dozen or so actually notable people on that list. Pretty disappointing. The Dalton School SHOULD have a long list of notable alumni. Maybe all the rich kids just go to Colorado to become snowboard instructors. I've observed that to be pretty common among a certain cohort of wealthy prep school alumni.
Regardless, you are never passing Fletch on the list. Instead, you should demand a higher standard of notability from Wikipedia.
re: your blog roll - fix the link to Lindsay Beyerstein, would you please? Thank you.
No, no, no. Not that I don't like Lindsay Beyerstein (I don't really ever read her), but that error's been there since day 1 of this version of the blog, even though it's been pointed out about a zillion times. I'd miss it if Matthew fixed it.
Chevy Chase has managed to parlay one brilliant year on SNL into a long career of financially rewarding mediocrity.
I still have The Best of The Chevy Chase Show downloaded on my Apple Newton.
Networking possiblilities notwithstanding, there are too many 23-year-old recent college grads teaching at Dalton to make it a genuinely excellent academic institution.
What's Claire Danes done lately?
Stardust? Been stalked by the NY Press?
Actually, I'm a little embarrassed to say it, but Stardust was surprisingly good.
Why embarrassed? It's adapted from a lovely Neil Gaiman novel (and graphic novel, although I've read the former but not the latter), and the cast is excellent--including Claire Danes.
Matt screws up his U2 post by being ignorant, now he screws up his movie creds by slamming 1) a very funny guy (at one time anyway) and 2) a reasonably hot babe (though never one of my favorites, despite being a Jodie Foster protege.)
Stick to Clinton-bashing, Matt.
At 58, I know more about what's going on than you do, KID.
"The Dalton school list of "notable" alumni is highly questionable. By my count, there were only a dozen or so actually notable people on that list. Pretty disappointing. The Dalton School SHOULD have a long list of notable alumni. Maybe all the rich kids just go to Colorado to become snowboard instructors. I've observed that to be pretty common among a certain cohort of wealthy prep school alumni."
It's weird, but this is the feeling I get when reading the alumni list of just about any prep school. A lot of people who graduate from prep schools and became famous instead of just successful in business, etc. get spread out among a lot of schools. A lot of schools that used to be known as Harvard feeder schools (at least to some degree) have seen the reputation plummet, such as Thayer. You also have a lot of academics, artists, etc. come out of prep schools who become successful in their fields but no one else outside the field knows who they are. For instance, John King Fairbank, who graduated from Andover, was basically the China scholar in the US for decades and has a school at Harvard named after him, but who outside of the field and the Harvard community know that? Ironically, when he was going to be called before Congress during the McCarthy hearings (he was known to hate the Guomindang/Nationalists because they killed some friends of his on the Chinese intellectual left), he was able to get away with not saying anything because he was an Andover guy like some of the people interviewing him beforehand.
On a weird note, apparently Chevy Chase's brother's across the hall neighbor at Harvard was the Unabomber. Maybe he sent a package to Chevy's career.
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Your hope should be for the fact that you went to the Dalton School to slip into obscurity. Not something you want to advertise, dude.
Posted by lemuel pitkin | January 8, 2008 1:38 PM