The only thing that Bernie would be doing on his computer is gambling.”Ĭheck back tomorrow for our full interview with Brooks as it’ll be all about Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” and the buzz he’s getting for his supporting performance in the film. So I’m calling hundreds of thousands of buddies.”īut how would his “Drive” character, mobster Bernie Rose, take to Twitter? Brooks put a lot of effort into his backstory so he’s quick with a reply: If I wasn’t doing that I’d be calling a buddy and doing it on the phone. But Twitter, I like these ways of sort of commenting on, you know, the republican debate. I know what it is I just don’t have any desire to go on it. “I like it because it lets me comment on the news and the sort of day’s events. ![]() ![]() There’s a lot of people who just say, ‘Oh, watch me at eight o’clock tonight.’ ‘What do you think? You like it?’ I’ll call a friend. I put more thought into this than I should for a medium that produces zero income. In 2018, she liked a transphobic tweet accusing trans women of being men in dresses after which her publicist framed the like as a middle-aged moment, i.e. Here are his thoughts on entertaining the world, one Tweet at a time: (And, he tells me, he has an affinity for In Contention because the first Tweet he got in response to the film’s Cannes bow was from our own Guy Lodge, before he’d heard word one out of the fest.) It was launched ostensibly to promote his recent book, “2030,” but it has folded in nicely with “Drive” PR over the last few weeks. Whether it’s one-liners or humorous takes on current events, he’s using the platform well. With so many celebrities taking to the site for boring self-promotional outreach or opportunistic, blank-faced PR on behalf of this or that cause, it’s always refreshing when someone actually uses it for creative and entertaining means, peeling back the layers a bit to offer up a little personality.Īnd Brooks taken to it like a duck to water. Today, though, it’s all about his impressive presence on the social networking website Twitter.īasically, if you’re on Twitter and you don’t follow you’re missing out. ![]() Friday it was Brooks’s feelings on being a part of the Pixar family and his sequel pitch for “Finding Nemo.” Yesterday it was his take on Steven Soderbergh’s kinda, sorta retirement. We’ve been building to our big interview with Albert Brooks the last few days by dropping a few extraneous nuggets here and there.
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