Les Jones

East Tennessee > Go Read Matt Edens on Making Your Own Fun

From the latest MetroPulse:

I suppose you’ve heard by now of Knoxville’s brief brush with infamy thanks to the Oscar-nominated actress Kate Hudson’s appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.

In her interview, when the banter turned to the backwaters Hudson had visited while touring with her husband’s band the Black Crowes, it seems Kate characterized Knoxville as a strange place where one has to make his or her own fun. That translates, apparently, into the sad fact that Kate spent most of her brief visit bumming around her hotel room in the downtown Hilton, bored out of her skull.

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That brings me to my second movie quote. The line is from State and Main, a charming film about a movie production running amok in a small New England town. The lead, a struggling playwright turned screenwriter played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman (who, coincidentally, was also in Almost Famous) has just echoed Hudson’s remark about small towns and making one’s own fun, to which his love interest, a local bookstore owner answers: “Everybody makes their own fun. If you don’t make it yourself, it isn’t fun. It’s entertainment.”

I couldn't agree more with that quote. There's lots more worth reading.