Paris (Not Texas) & Kerrville (Way Texas)

Apparently 'Murkuh is becoming a nation of limp-wristed fairies. All over.

No sign when we visited (1960).

And Woody Allen has sold out.

The film, which cost $30 million to make, is still in the top 10 box-office movies of the week after seven weeks of release. And even more surprising, it's doing business everywhere, even in small towns like Kerrville, Texas, the hometown of Sony Pictures Classics Co-Chairman Michael Barker, where the film has been playing at the Rio 10 Cinema for the last month.

"That's definitely a first for us," Barker says. "My stepmother is really happy, because she finally can take all her friends to see one of our films. But that's what makes this film such a pleasure. It's playing in theaters that have never played a Woody Allen film before. It's getting big numbers in theaters in Idaho and Montana, in Mississippi and Alabama."

Say good-bye to your Heartland, reactionaries.

Extra interesting/only reason we bothered: An ancestor owned the Mobil(?) station in Kerrville many yrs. ago. Maybe we could hit up native Sony Classics Co-Chairman Barker for a creative consulting gig on that basis.

Also on the cinema:

Barr: I hate movies. I hate the whole fucking movie business. I hate everything involved with movies. Producers. Moviemakers. Those people are freaking nuts and criminals. I can’t take it. They’re not like the rest of humanity. I’d rather hang out with plumbers. They’re so self-important. And everything they do is bullshit. Excuse me, but movies are bullshit. They’re tidy little fucking bullshit stories. They all have a rape thing in them. They’re all anti-woman. They’re all fucking bullshit. There isn’t one of ‘em that speaks to me or says anything decent. Somebody could go in with the best fucking script, like, Grapes of Wrath, and they’d come out and it’d star Kevin James. Nothing can happen good in movies and it never does.

Q. Grapes of Wrath with Kevin James!

Barr: Yeah! That’s the best that could ever happen in movies. And they all go and sit in the big building and congratulate themselves. I just hate movies. I hate the entire movie business.