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Sam Amick: Quick side story: during the 2019 Finals, I was trying to be ambitious with story angles. This was when Kevin was waiting to come back from the calf injury. I sent him a note saying, "Hey, is there any chance you'd let me watch Game 2 of the Finals with you and write a story about what it's like to watch the game through your eyes?" The note I got back was: "You’d need Martin Scorsese with you to put a story like that together." He's just different with the way he sees things—in his lane and in his industry. He’s one of the GOATs.
"Gothic" is the adjective Martin Scorsese used with his director of photography when they wanted to re-create the Wilmington coast for the film "Cape Fear." The movie is composed so that the actual light degrades over time, to reflect the inner turmoil of the characters and to mirror the way the humidity and weird ocean currents can make the tidewater air shimmer sometimes. Black bears still hunt through these swamps. Vast woods of longleaf pine and 800-year-old cypress-tupelo trees tower over this landscape. Songbirds fill the air with sweet noise. Big whitetail deer, heads crowned with enormous medieval-looking racks, still move like shadows in and out of the forest. This is where five generations of Jordan men lived and died. "The kind of mystical ways that people have described Jordan over the years can be frankly connected to what it is like to be on ancestral land," Zandria Robinson says. "They are living on Southern ancestral land. It's rare that it's physical in this kind of way -- these multiple generations lived in this same area. Our ancestors walked their land, they buried s--- out here, worked out here, died out here, buried each other out here. ... This is ancestral land."
“I was like, ‘A grocery store?’” Aldridge said. “I had never done a deal with a grocery store before, but OK.” It didn’t take Aldridge long to learn that for a Spurs player, being asked to star in a round of H-E-B commercials is akin to being offered a role in the latest Martin Scorcese film.
Wood informed the public of his choice Wednesday night via video on Twitter, and after watching it, I wondered when he had become such good friends with Martin Scorsese. It was more mini-documentary than anything else, an impressive four-minute, 24-second clip that obviously took great thought and time and care and planning to produce. It absolutely wasn’t shot, edited and posted in a matter of hours. Probably more like days.
This isn't the kind of "steal" that made Dr. J a star. Legendary basketball player Julius Erving is being sued for allegedly cheating a wealthy Manhattan woman out of more than $420,000 in a deal with crooked money manager Kenneth Starr. Mary Gilbert's suit -- which charges Erving with breach of contract and fiduciary duty -- seeks payment of all her lost profits, along with "prejudgment interest" and punitive damages. Gilbert, 71, says she met the Hall of Fame hoopster in 1990 through Starr, who hooked her while amassing a roster of clients that included such celebs as Uma Thurman, Martin Scorsese and Sylvester Stallone.
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