From the Department of Anniversaries-You-Probably-Forgot: Four years ago today, Nov. 23, brought the release of Warren Beatty’s Howard Hughes film, Rules Don’t Apply.
Forty years in the making, the movie landed with a thud. Domestic box-office sales appear to have been under $4 million. Back in 2016, moviegoers—still coming to terms with the Trump presidency— weren’t in the mood to hear about another eccentric billionaire.
But that title was work of genius, years ahead of its time. Rules Don’t Apply. Who knew that Beatty’s picture, or at least its title, would set a theme for 2020, when the rules would pile up, but almost everyone would claim a personal exemption.
Coronavirus? California’s governor partied this month at Napa Valley’s French Laundry restaurant while prepping a fresh lockdown for 41 “purple” counties, including Napa, and reminding the rest of us to wear a mask between bites. Some California legislators went one better,...
Forty years in the making, the movie landed with a thud. Domestic box-office sales appear to have been under $4 million. Back in 2016, moviegoers—still coming to terms with the Trump presidency— weren’t in the mood to hear about another eccentric billionaire.
But that title was work of genius, years ahead of its time. Rules Don’t Apply. Who knew that Beatty’s picture, or at least its title, would set a theme for 2020, when the rules would pile up, but almost everyone would claim a personal exemption.
Coronavirus? California’s governor partied this month at Napa Valley’s French Laundry restaurant while prepping a fresh lockdown for 41 “purple” counties, including Napa, and reminding the rest of us to wear a mask between bites. Some California legislators went one better,...
- 11/23/2020
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
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