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Title: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on February 07, 2018, 10:35:06 PM
Paul Thomas Anderson and Maya Rudolph Are the Greatest Celebrity Couple

https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/pta-and-maya-rudolph-are-our-greatest-celebrity-couple.html

QuoteAt first look, these two would appear to be from different worlds. Maya Rudolph is a comedy icon of the highest order: an SNL multi-hyphenate and comic genius with the soul of a 1950s variety star and a head that can pull off any wig. PTA is a controlling cinematic visionary who inspires more film-boy worship than Christopher Nolan and the Coen Brothers combined. Both are revered, yet for very different bodies of work. He comes across as intense and cerebral, she as goofy and warm.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: polkablues on February 07, 2018, 10:57:16 PM
And yet they don't even have a celebrity couple nickname.

My suggestion? Paya T. Rudolson.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on October 25, 2018, 09:30:24 PM
Just because it's nice seeing Maya back on the scene.   (Some decent FX for TV, too...)


https://youtu.be/t-wvXZiw16Q
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on November 05, 2018, 09:34:55 PM

WATCH Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson) Shows Off Baby (Paul Thomas Anderson)
How He Invented Cleveland Punk, The Cramps, et. al.
"Stay sick, knif"
PLUS Mad Daddy
Cleveland WHK



"The punk-a-billy band The Cramps, named their 1990 album Stay Sick! 
David Thomas, of art rock band Pere Ubu, said that the Cramps were "so thoroughly co-optive of the Ghoulardi persona that when they first appeared, Clevelanders of the generation were fairly dismissive."

Thomas credits Ghoulardi for influencing the "otherness" of the Cleveland/Akron bands of the mid-1970s and early-1980s, including the Electric Eels, and The Mirrors, the Cramps, and Thomas's own groups, Pere Ubu and Rocket From The Tombs, declaring:

"We were the Ghoulardi kids." (Akron's Devo aren't included on Thomas' list, but they were formed in the same era as the other groups and shared a similar esthetic.)

In 2002, Cleveland-area indie band Uptown Sinclair featured a Ghoulardi-derived basketball referee in the slapstick music video for their song "Girlfriend."

The most obvious Ghoulardi kid, Anderson's son, film director Paul Thomas Anderson, named his production entity "The Ghoulardi Film Company."


Video Link (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2zwlw)


[If this segment was produced in '78, the infant seen beginning at 3:54 would not be Baby Paul.  Possibly one of the kids around the pool table at 5:45, though?]


Source (https://visualguidanceltd.blogspot.com/2018/11/watch-ghoulardi-ernie-anderson-shows.html)



Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Fernando on November 26, 2018, 01:11:44 PM
Quote from: polkablues on February 07, 2018, 10:57:16 PM
And yet they don't even have a celebrity couple nickname.

My suggestion? Paya T. Rudolson.


PT May or Mayanderson
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Nails9 on November 26, 2018, 11:17:37 PM
Maul.

Then Darth Maul once you get familiar.

Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on April 22, 2020, 03:35:12 PM
The Reason Maya Rudolph Calls Paul Thomas Anderson Her Husband Even Though They Aren't Married

QuoteBut when doing a 2018 profile with The New York Times, Maya confirmed that she and Paul had been together for 17 years. On top of that, she revealed that despite the fact that they are not legally married, she calls him her husband. Labeling Paul as her husband rather than boyfriend started one day when she was at a restaurant and talking with a maître d,' who told a story about a man who labeled himself as "the unofficial mayor of the Valley." In reply, Maya blurted out, "I hope it wasn't my husband."

From then on, the label stuck. She told the outlet that she felt "ooky" to call Paul her boyfriend after the birth of their now 14-year-old daughter, Pearl (they are also parents to Minnie, 6, Jack, 8, and Lucille, 10). Maya likes to use the title husband because "people know what that means. It means he's the father of my child, and I live with him, and we are a couple, and we are not going anywhere."

I thought I'd heard from a semi-inside source that they'd actually had an extremely quiet legal ceremony in the past couple of years. [shrug]

Source (https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a32208970/maya-rudolph-paul-thomas-anderson-husband-not-married/)
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Pringle on April 22, 2020, 09:11:35 PM
Would this also be the appropriate place for any Fiona-related stuff?

There's a song on her new album that may be about him, and.... oh boy.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on April 22, 2020, 09:47:02 PM
No, at this point, take that crap to her thread.

Your faux concern posts are starting to read like vague trolling to me, BTW.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Pringle on April 22, 2020, 10:20:34 PM
I forgot how much any mention of this upsets you, Drill.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drenk on April 22, 2020, 10:26:31 PM
Quote from: Pringle on April 22, 2020, 09:11:35 PM
Would this also be the appropriate place for any Fiona-related stuff?

There's a song on her new album that may be about him, and.... oh boy.

I had this feeling too but it doesn't seem to be the case:

https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-songs.html

Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on April 22, 2020, 10:43:21 PM
Quote from: Pringle on April 22, 2020, 10:20:34 PM
I forgot how much any mention of this upsets you, Drill.

Uh...no? I said from the beginning that I never liked or got the fascination about their relationship. She said her piece. They obviously don't want anything to do with each other and she has nothing to do with his life or career now. I don't see the point in talking about her on his threads anymore. It's boring. If you're a fan of hers, she has her own thread on the music section where you can discuss her all you want.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Robyn on April 23, 2020, 12:53:03 AM
Which song are you guys talking about?
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Alma on April 23, 2020, 02:56:24 AM
Quote from: Drenk on April 22, 2020, 10:26:31 PM
Quote from: Pringle on April 22, 2020, 09:11:35 PM
Would this also be the appropriate place for any Fiona-related stuff?

There's a song on her new album that may be about him, and.... oh boy.

I had this feeling too but it doesn't seem to be the case:

https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-songs.html

The first couple of lines sound like they could be Phantom Thread references though.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drenk on April 23, 2020, 05:57:53 AM
Quote from: Robyn on April 23, 2020, 12:53:03 AM
Which song are you guys talking about?

For Her.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Pringle on April 23, 2020, 02:08:13 PM
The big line towards the end, as well — he's said in interviews that he delivered his first daughter at home during a home birth.

I'm not trying to muckrake or whip up outrage or show "faux-concern" with this. I think it's newsworthy and this whole thing (the album) definitely is PTA-related, considering the fact that the main promo article is entirely based around their relationship, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to make specific connections from that article to this album. This line, in particular, is already stoking controversy online, and this has become one of the most acclaimed albums in years — it's gonna get brought up.

The lines cited are just way way way too juicy and loaded to brush aside for me. I was relieved by that vulture article as well but, isn't "this happened to a friend of mine" the oldest answer-dodge in the book?
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: trytotell on April 23, 2020, 02:22:33 PM
I wouldn't be remotely surprised if Pringle is Fiona herself.

WTF are you even insinuating? BTW, they, meaning PTA and Fiona, lived in Los Feliz then both moved out of that house after their break up and he moved back to the Valley.

Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Pringle on April 23, 2020, 02:34:18 PM
I'm not Fiona Apple.

I'm implying that this song, which has direct allusions to Boogie Nights and Phantom Thread and which is directly about a Hollywood asshole snorting cocaine and pretending to be nice during awards season, which is featured on an album whose title track is about correcting the public perception of you as a crazy person based on the behavior of your ex (which is explicitly what her stories of PTA in the New Yorker article are about) ends with a line accusing this unnamed, anonymous, Hollywood awards season darling of raping her in a bed that his daughter was born in.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: trytotell on April 23, 2020, 02:37:50 PM
You're doing nothing but projecting. She literally told you what the songs are about.

She said he never hit her, yet you apparently seem to think she's going to turn around and indirectly accuse him of rape? Are you really that stupid?
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: jenkins on April 23, 2020, 02:44:39 PM
there's some heat in this

genuine curiosity can be roused in this situation but not concrete particulars. again: concrete particulars cannot be derived from the song, is the big picture here
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Pringle on April 23, 2020, 02:49:10 PM
Quote from: jenkins on April 23, 2020, 02:44:39 PM
there's some heat in this

genuine curiosity can be roused in this situation but not concrete particulars. again: concrete particulars cannot be derived from the song, is the big picture here

This is legitimately what I'm trying to get at. I'm not claiming that he absolutely abused her and he is cancelled or anything like that.

I don't want to get into arguments about the validity of this, especially considering what we're talking about, but unless this is just a straight up uncritical PTA fanboy page, I don't see why I'd have to be an idiot — or Fiona Apple — to start making these very obvious connections.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drenk on April 23, 2020, 02:50:55 PM
Pringle, your reading of the lyrics makes sense. Apple has also mentioned how hard these subjects are when you don't want to hurt the person. For Her goes from the third person to the first person before ending with a chorus of women. To write about the Hollywood man abusing her friend, she's probably used personal memories about a certain abusive wonderboy. After all, the lyrics become a story rooted in reality. That particular story is about shared experience.

The speculation is, then, just speculation. But there's no need to act as if it were absurd, folks.


Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: trytotell on April 23, 2020, 02:54:30 PM
Quote from: Pringle on April 23, 2020, 02:49:10 PM
Quote from: jenkins on April 23, 2020, 02:44:39 PM
there's some heat in this

genuine curiosity can be roused in this situation but not concrete particulars. again: concrete particulars cannot be derived from the song, is the big picture here

This is legitimately what I'm trying to get at. I'm not claiming that he absolutely abused her and he is cancelled or anything like that.

I don't want to get into arguments about the validity of this, especially considering what we're talking about, but unless this is just a straight up uncritical PTA fanboy page, I don't see why I'd have to be an idiot — or Fiona Apple — to start making these very obvious connections.

What part of "she explained what these songs are about" is too difficult for you to understand? So she's a liar now? Which is it? Not to mention actual facts I've provided that you deliberately ignored.

Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: trytotell on April 23, 2020, 02:56:22 PM
Quote from: Drenk on April 23, 2020, 02:50:55 PM
Pringle, your reading of the lyrics makes sense. Apple has also mentioned how hard these subjects are when you don't want to hurt the person. For Her goes from the third person to the first person before ending with a chorus of women. To write about the Hollywood man abusing her friend, she's probably used personal memories about a certain abusive wonderboy. After all, the lyrics become a story rooted in reality. That particular story is about shared experience.

The speculation is, then, just speculation. But there's no need to act as if it were absurd, folks.

Oh, shut the fuck up. That's not what he was doing and you know it.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: jenkins on April 23, 2020, 03:03:36 PM
Pringle doesn't need to keep explaining himself btw
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on April 23, 2020, 03:09:18 PM
I haven't listened to it and I really don't want to because I can't stand her music, but I guess I have to now.

I think Pringle has been trying to get a rise in their previous posts. Just the tone is irritating and a little trollish.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: jenkins on April 23, 2020, 03:13:40 PM
it's better to respond than react though
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: trytotell on April 23, 2020, 03:16:36 PM
Yes, it's totally cool to imply somebody is a rapist (and don't pretend that wasn't what they were doing) and not expect any pushback.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: jenkins on April 23, 2020, 03:18:24 PM
a response rather than a reaction

I think Drenk did a great job. i understand that it's a triggering issue
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on April 23, 2020, 03:26:02 PM
I'm going to go for a hot take here and say that all this just proves to me even more that Fiona's music is nowhere near as deep as people try to act like it is. At this point, she could record herself taking a dump and Pitchfork would have an orgasm.

This all sounds like sub-Yoko Ono dreck to me. I'm tapping out. Won't be making it to said song.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: polkablues on April 23, 2020, 03:41:52 PM
If everyone could move on and talk about something else, that would save me from having to lock this thread, so please and thank you in advance.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: ©brad on April 23, 2020, 06:43:46 PM
+1 to Polka because holy shit there are some terrible takes in here. And we wonder why our female membership isn't through the roof. 

Quote from: Drill on April 23, 2020, 03:26:02 PMThis all sounds like sub-Yoko Ono dreck to me. I'm tapping out. Won't be making it to said song.

Your loss. The album is incredible.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on April 23, 2020, 07:52:01 PM
Quote from: ©brad on April 23, 2020, 06:43:46 PM
+1 to Polka because holy shit there are some terrible takes in here. And we wonder why our female membership isn't through the roof. 

Quote from: Drill on April 23, 2020, 03:26:02 PMThis all sounds like sub-Yoko Ono dreck to me. I'm tapping out. Won't be making it to said song.

Your loss. The album is incredible.

Yeah, I really don't care lol. They always say that about her and it's always utterly tedious to me. I'm done trying to like her music. I don't think it's very good. *shrugs*
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on May 22, 2020, 11:27:09 PM
I've never seen these photos of Mrs. Anderson before.

https://twitter.com/fonziepodcast/status/1263634862596149248
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: modage on May 22, 2020, 11:51:15 PM
I've seen this one.

https://twitter.com/modage/status/1083536500938194946?s=20
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: ©brad on May 23, 2020, 02:11:10 PM
Mod!
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on May 23, 2020, 07:37:18 PM
Kind of hard to reconcile the kind-faced lady in those photos with the mom in Boogie Nights and the innuendos suggested about her. It's good that they seem to have a better relationship now. I guess having kids yourself makes you understand your parents better/forgive them.  I wish they asked him more about her during the PT press tour.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Rooty Poots on May 24, 2020, 12:36:00 AM
Quote from: Drill on May 23, 2020, 07:37:18 PM
Kind of hard to reconcile the kind-faced lady in those photos with the mom in Boogie Nights and the innuendos suggested about her. It's good that they seem to have a better relationship now. I guess having kids yourself makes you understand your parents better/forgive them.  I wish they asked him more about her during the PT press tour.

I'm glad they didn't. He should be able to keep some things private.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on May 24, 2020, 01:06:09 AM
I completely agree.

The Joanna Gleason quote from the Grantland oral history almost feels like it gets too close:

QuoteSo I sat there like she sits in the movie and I did the whole scene from a seated position. Read it just as it was written. It was powerful. And at the end of it, I asked Paul if this was based on his mom. He was so jet-lagged that his little eyes were watering. I thought, Never mind, we don't need to go there. I didn't mean to push a button. And he didn't answer, but I said, "If it is, you never have to forgive her."
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on May 24, 2020, 06:46:34 AM
Quote from: Rooty Poots on May 24, 2020, 12:36:00 AM
Quote from: Drill on May 23, 2020, 07:37:18 PM
Kind of hard to reconcile the kind-faced lady in those photos with the mom in Boogie Nights and the innuendos suggested about her. It's good that they seem to have a better relationship now. I guess having kids yourself makes you understand your parents better/forgive them.  I wish they asked him more about her during the PT press tour.

I'm glad they didn't. He should be able to keep some things private.

Of course. I meant more about her in general. Not necessarily their relationship/the problems they've had. No matter how much better things are, that probably will always be a touchy, painful subject. I can't help but be curious though, since I think it's the real key/engine behind his work and less so Ernie, whom we always hear about.

I guess he does drop more tidbits about her now. The Rocky story he tells, for one.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on May 24, 2020, 11:07:10 AM
I'm holding the thought that with age, parenthood, and grandparenthood that family dynamics have improved.  Paul continues to remind us thru his work that family is everything.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drenk on May 24, 2020, 03:28:14 PM
There was an interview where he talked about bringing his kids to his mom and how unfairly harsh he used to be. The scene from Boogie Nights is unprocessed anger from what was basically a teenager at the time.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on May 24, 2020, 03:42:06 PM
I don't remember now--did Eddie's mom appear in The Dirk Diggler Story?
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Alexandro on May 25, 2020, 12:06:02 PM
even by the time of the Boogie Nights commentary he mentions that his treatment of that character is unfair and superficial. but of course, that's what makes the scene so raw. it's totally from the POV of the kid.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on May 25, 2020, 03:39:10 PM
Even that Esquire article about his upbringing, everyone seemed a little frightened to talk about her, and so they don't.

Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on March 11, 2021, 10:09:38 PM
https://www.dirt.com/gallery/entertainers/actors/maya-rudolph-house-sherman-oaks-1203368436/

Maya spending that SNL cash.

(https://www.dirt.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MayaRudolph_SO_FI.jpg?w=681&h=383&crop=1)
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on March 11, 2021, 10:52:31 PM
I don't think anyone but Lorne makes big bucks off of SNL.

Help me understand why a couple would need TWO homes this close together?  Unless: Investment?
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on March 12, 2021, 12:00:19 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on March 11, 2021, 10:52:31 PM
I don't think anyone but Lorne makes big bucks off of SNL.

Help me understand why a couple would need TWO homes this close together?  Unless: Investment?

Maybe. I hope it's not the worst scenario.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on March 12, 2021, 12:12:33 AM
Yeah, I...  I'm going to hold good thoughts.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Yes on March 14, 2021, 07:30:55 PM
Divorce
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Rooty Poots on March 14, 2021, 10:16:58 PM
Quote from: BigSock on March 14, 2021, 07:30:55 PM
Divorce

Would be kinda hard for them to get divorced, I'd imagine.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on March 15, 2021, 10:14:02 AM
Yeah, they're not actually married.

It's odd only her name is mentioned but she clearly now (perhaps always) makes significantly more money than him. I guess the music videos are his main source of income these days. Her name is also on the Tarzana home even though he apparently got it before he ever met her. So. not necessarily a sign of a split...
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: d on March 15, 2021, 11:41:59 AM
Is it unlikely that they simply... bought the new house before selling the old one?
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Fuzzy Dunlop on March 15, 2021, 12:04:27 PM
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: ©brad on March 15, 2021, 05:52:13 PM
Quote from: Drill on March 15, 2021, 10:14:02 AMI guess the music videos are his main source of income these days.

Not many directors make money from music videos anymore, especially the kind he directs.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drenk on March 16, 2021, 04:21:04 AM
He co-wrote a Pinocchio script for Downer Jr, no? He probably got paid thousand of dollars for a month of work with the added bonus that it will never be made.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on March 16, 2021, 04:28:16 PM
Quote from: Drenk on March 16, 2021, 04:21:04 AM
He co-wrote a Pinocchio script for Downer Jr, no? He probably got paid thousand of dollars for a month of work with the added bonus that it will never be made.

I don't think so. I think he said that never got off the ground in any way.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Tdog on March 18, 2021, 05:13:40 PM
https://www.slashfilm.com/maya-rudolph-comedy-series/

Investment House?
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Yes on March 28, 2021, 01:40:35 PM
Maya lovingly shouted out PTA and their kids during SNL so all must be good <3
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Tdog on March 28, 2021, 05:49:21 PM
Quote from: BigSock on March 28, 2021, 01:40:35 PM
Maya lovingly shouted out PTA and their kids during SNL so all must be good <3

I only watched the opening monologue where she mentioned her kids but not PTA, did she mention him elsewhere?
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on March 28, 2021, 06:32:17 PM
Quote from: Tdog on March 28, 2021, 05:49:21 PM
Quote from: BigSock on March 28, 2021, 01:40:35 PM
Maya lovingly shouted out PTA and their kids during SNL so all must be good <3

I only watched the opening monologue where she mentioned her kids but not PTA, did she mention him elsewhere?

https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1376046385091518466
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Tdog on March 29, 2021, 03:39:37 AM
Ah I see, thanks.

Now can PTA write another part for Martin Short please!
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on March 29, 2021, 10:28:48 AM
It was at the very end during the goodnight and thank yous.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drenk on April 03, 2021, 06:36:19 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4jP_REbCGg
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on April 03, 2021, 05:42:22 PM
I'd never seen that before.  Jason Robards was perfectly cast.  I'd love to know when this interview was taped.

Wonder what kind of Dad he was.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drenk on April 03, 2021, 05:46:57 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on April 03, 2021, 05:42:22 PM
I'd never seen that before.  Jason Robards was perfectly cast.  I'd love to know when this interview was taped.

It says that it was recorded in 1995, two years before Ernie's death.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: jenkins on June 26, 2021, 11:54:57 AM
this is this thread's one day to not sound like a crazy person, cc told me about it

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQlk1p7j1z1/
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: nomorecoffee on September 25, 2021, 01:10:50 PM
Not sure that a watch is considered personal life, but does anybody know what wristwatch is Paul wearing in these pictures?

https://www.elcorreo.com/butaca/inicios-paul-thomas-20180202100710-ntrc.html

https://cinephiliabeyond.org/boogie-nights-paul-thomas-andersons-priceless-155-minute-film-school/

Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: polkablues on September 25, 2021, 01:43:57 PM
Not a lot to go on in those pictures, but I'm thinking something along the lines of a Casio G-Shock?

(https://i.imgur.com/xxT5RKj.jpg)
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Robyn on September 25, 2021, 01:45:35 PM
Beautiful boy, Beautiful clock
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: nomorecoffee on September 25, 2021, 01:53:30 PM
Quote from: polkablues on September 25, 2021, 01:43:57 PM
Not a lot to go on in those pictures, but I'm thinking something along the lines of a Casio G-Shock?

(https://i.imgur.com/xxT5RKj.jpg)

I think you're on the right track

Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on September 28, 2021, 12:04:20 PM
https://twitter.com/vnickyy/status/1442530830086127621
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: WorldForgot on November 22, 2021, 04:19:08 PM
https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1462875661421334528
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on November 22, 2021, 05:00:13 PM
Well, there's our explanation for the SOGGY BOTTOM catering.

Some of you will recall I was vegan for 18 years.  From a nutritional standpoint, it's not good...so I will light an extra candle on my altar for Paulie.

(As a friend waggishly replied when told of the vegan catering, "He should have just given up smoking instead...")  :lol"
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Shughes on November 22, 2021, 05:16:50 PM
Might explain why his legs are so skinny - they're like bone wrapped in skin when he crosses them over.

Gone are the days of steak and vodka in the CMBB editing room!
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on January 06, 2022, 09:36:31 PM
Maya Rudolph looks shaken after crashing her luxury Tesla into TREE while driving around her neighborhood (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10377135/EXCLUSIVE-PICTURES-Maya-Rudolph-shaken-single-car-CRASH-Tesla.html)  |  Daily Mail

:yabbse-cry:

Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: jviness02 on January 06, 2022, 10:11:13 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on January 06, 2022, 09:36:31 PM
Maya Rudolph looks shaken after crashing her luxury Tesla into TREE while driving around her neighborhood (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10377135/EXCLUSIVE-PICTURES-Maya-Rudolph-shaken-single-car-CRASH-Tesla.html)  |  Daily Mail

:yabbse-cry:

He's going to sign back on to Pinocchio to pay for that.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: mogwai on January 10, 2022, 09:58:31 AM
Quote from: jviness02 on January 06, 2022, 10:11:13 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on January 06, 2022, 09:36:31 PM
Maya Rudolph looks shaken after crashing her luxury Tesla into TREE while driving around her neighborhood (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10377135/EXCLUSIVE-PICTURES-Maya-Rudolph-shaken-single-car-CRASH-Tesla.html)  |  Daily Mail

:yabbse-cry:

He's going to sign back on to Pinocchio to pay for that.

Makes me think of the deleted scene in Boogie Nights where Dirk crashes his corvette.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: ono on January 12, 2022, 08:21:08 PM
Exhibit A for the origin story of PTA's early potty mouth.  LOL

https://youtu.be/bdT1YEtauAs

And then an Ernie Anderson bio on PM Magazine

https://youtu.be/FO61OQHzfZ0

I would be willing to bet that that's an 8 year old PTA in a tie playing pool at about 5 minutes 55 seconds in.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: jviness02 on January 13, 2022, 02:00:51 AM
He really did get the perfect person to play his dad, didn't he? Ernie and Robards have the same vibe big time.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: ono on January 14, 2022, 04:47:50 PM
Sure do!

Couldn't resist.  Here's another one:

https://youtu.be/e1ziD0v429E

Family photo with PTA and co in joke glasses with nose and 'stache at 4:08.  :)
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Yes on January 14, 2022, 04:59:19 PM
That's sweet. I hear so much of Philip Baker Hall, as well
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: nomorecoffee on February 08, 2022, 09:55:49 AM
Does anybody know anything about PTA's relationship with weed? Is he or have ever been a smoker?

Or is cocaine in the early days and cigarettes the only 'vice' that we know of?
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on February 08, 2022, 10:14:23 AM
Some would argue veganism...   :wink:
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: nomorecoffee on February 08, 2022, 10:44:51 AM
This answer is not very satisfying Wilberfan!!!
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Reel on February 08, 2022, 11:47:14 AM
I think he must do it, I've just never even heard him mention the subject of  marijuana, really. His hero Robert Altman was widely known as THE pothead director and maybe he noticed the stigma of that and wants to be taken more seriously.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on February 08, 2022, 01:51:02 PM
Quote from: Reelist on February 08, 2022, 11:47:14 AM
...Altman was widely known as THE pothead director...

I would have said Hal Ashby.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: ono on February 08, 2022, 02:12:56 PM
I could've sworn PTA has mentioned pot more recently but I can't seem to place where I heard it.  In the build up to LP I watched like every interview ever on Xixax TV, so it's easy to get time periods jumbled.  And yeah, Altman was a major pothead.
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Rooty Poots on February 08, 2022, 02:29:44 PM
During the promotion of Inherent Vice, he said "I don't smoke that much weed."
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Reel on February 08, 2022, 02:46:57 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on February 08, 2022, 01:51:02 PM
Quote from: Reelist on February 08, 2022, 11:47:14 AM
...Altman was widely known as THE pothead director...

I would have said Hal Ashby.

Potheado, Pothado...

Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on February 08, 2022, 03:15:07 PM
 :bravo:
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: HACKANUT on February 08, 2022, 11:18:33 PM
Wasn't there some screening of Inherent Vice Alamo drafthouse did that involved smoking weed with pta on a party bus?
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drenk on February 09, 2022, 03:28:47 AM
Quote from: HACKANUT on February 08, 2022, 11:18:33 PM
Wasn't there some screening of Inherent Vice Alamo drafthouse did that involved smoking weed with pta on a party bus?

Oh. The pre-Covid times...
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Rooty Poots on February 10, 2022, 01:21:08 AM
Quote from: HACKANUT on February 08, 2022, 11:18:33 PM
Wasn't there some screening of Inherent Vice Alamo drafthouse did that involved smoking weed with pta on a party bus?

That weed party bus is where he declined the offer of weed, though, saying he doesn't really smoke it much. (Then later said there was enough smoke on the bus anyway that he didn't need to personally smoke it to get the effects.)
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on June 02, 2022, 06:10:48 PM
This is a 3 (!) hour talk with Maya. The most PTA-heavy talk is around 44:00 and 1:58:00.

Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on June 15, 2022, 10:53:25 AM
Maya Rudolph Is Hiding in Plain Sight (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/maya-rudolph-loot-apple-tv-saturday-night-live-1235164944/)

QuoteSo Rudolph walked into an office and opened up the Mac SE/30 on the desk. The name of its previous user popped up onscreen: Paul Thomas Anderson.

The filmmaker, who'd broken out with the 1997 drama Boogie Nights, had been at SNL the week before. He was getting ready to make Punch-Drunk Love with former castmember Adam Sandler when Molly Shannon, with whom he had mutual friends, invited him to come see how the show came together. Before Anderson knew it, he was directing a short. Rudolph remembers catching a glimpse of him on show night; he remembers seeing her name listed as a new castmember on a piece of paper. He knew in that moment that his "life had just changed," he later told SmartLess co-hosts Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes.

As the story goes, Anderson went back home to Los Angeles, where he watched Rudolph on TV and was bowled over by how talented she was. On his way to London to work on his Sandler dramedy, he made sure to stop briefly in New York to come by the show and meet her. "Then I got to London and thought, 'Well, something doesn't feel right,' " he said, "and I just came back to New York [to take her out]." That was 22 years and four children ago. Rudolph says she knew only pieces of that story before she heard Anderson telling it on air, though she plays coy on which pieces.

QuoteRudolph's been known to pop up in Anderson's films from time to time, too, beginning with Inherent Vice, which she shot four days after giving birth. "The timing was a little intense," she acknowledges, "but I would do anything that Paul asked me to do." His latest, Licorice Pizza, included not only Rudolph but also all four of their children and many of their friends. The decision was born out of necessity, she says, since they were shooting early in the pandemic and wanted to be sure they knew and trusted everybody on set. "So, it was just our universe for that period, and it saved us because we all got to be together. Plus, my kids got to watch their dad make a film, from the ground up, and we were all part of it. Pearl, my oldest, she really loved it — all the kids did."
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on June 16, 2022, 01:39:35 PM
QuoteThe Hollywood Reporter learned that Harris and husband, First Gentleman Doug Emhoff, headed to the home of CAA's Bryan Lourd and husband Bruce Bozzi for a dinner described as "a gathering of old friends." The guest list included Lourd's CAA comrade Kevin Huvane, Barry Diller, Greg Berlanti and husband Robbie Rogers, Allison Janney, Disney's Kareem Daniels and filmmaker Paul T. Anderson with wife Maya Rudolph, who won an Emmy in 2021 for hosting duties on Saturday Night Live during which she portrayed the vice president. (No word, however, on what was discussed or whether they dished on her impersonation.)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/kamala-harris-hollywood-dining-bryan-lourd-1235164952/
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: WorldForgot on June 17, 2022, 01:33:11 PM
Quote from: Drill on June 17, 2022, 01:16:29 PMhttps://twitter.com/egeofanatolia/status/153773144013325107

Tweet got deleted - what was it? Was he holding hands with Maya and Kamala?
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: Drill on June 17, 2022, 02:10:06 PM
My bad. Here it is. Referencing the Tom Hanks thing.

https://twitter.com/egeofanatolia/status/1537731440133251072
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: itwasgood on June 27, 2022, 12:06:04 AM
PTA and family, 1984

https://twitter.com/jlknipper/status/1541197272431697922
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on June 27, 2022, 01:26:42 PM
Holy crap, for a PTA Nerdboy like me, that's an EPIC find!  :bravo:

[edit] And, oh my goodness, Elizabeth is in that photo (in the LA T-shirt and flower in her hair).  She was Paul's assistant on SOGGY, and she had a strong, um, opinion about me...  ;-)
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on April 16, 2023, 04:06:41 PM
Unless this was only recently uploaded, I have no earthly explanation for why I haven't seen this before today.


(It's within the realm of possibility that that young girl could be the sister from whom I've personally received more than one stink-eye.)  :shock:
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: wilberfan on April 16, 2023, 04:46:45 PM
Just shy of 15?   :ponder:

"Air date June 7, 1985. Thanks for watching! "
Title: Re: PTA Personal Life
Post by: ono on April 17, 2023, 07:07:39 AM
PTA got mad skillz.