Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 3:45 PM by Gene

Oh shut up, LAWD PUTTNAM. I seem to recall when you were working for Columbia Pictures (in the days Coke owned it -- remember those?) you were producing a film about a talking penis. Nothing ever came of it, but even so it's reason enough for you to keep your BOUCHE FERMEZED when it comes to VIOLENCE or MORALS or ANYTHING ELSE.

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The problem with pinning down Puttnam, though, is that what he says is very seldom what he means. His former boss at Columbia Pictures, Fay Vincent, says that David has no qualms about deceiving, proceeding to detail how Puttnam's compulsive lying led to a series of corporate embarrassments that ultimately resulted in his removal from the studio after just over a year into a three-year contract. It's clear that Puttnam, despite Andrew Yule's insistence on painting him as a flawed man of vision, is an almost universally despised and wholly insufferable egoist who got lucky on a couple of long shots, did a good dead [SIC] by introducing the world to director William Forsythe (Local Hero, Housekeeping), and made countless bad decisions as the head of a major movie studio that seem to suggest the road to hell (and bad cinema) is paved with good intentions.

Keeping in mind that people in the SHOW-BIZ MAFIA will form grudges at the drop of a hat, and keeping in mind it's FAY VINCENT (who's STILL ticked he's not COMMISH), it's something to keep in mind.