LATE NIGHT Worth Watching
Went to SIFF’s Centerpiece Gala, Late Night. A curious echo between the script (young savvy minority female writer helps aging comedian update her show) and the project (young hot savvy minority female writer writes script for a movie star on the downward side of the beauty curve). The camera gives us Thompson’s wrinkles as well as her flashing smile in a film that veers from comedy to drama in curious moments. Ate dinner after with a former TV PR person, a film historian, and the wife of an actor/comedian. Mindy Kaling’s script was judged to be spot on in its depiction of the sexist-corporate-ageist world of Hollywood. They agreed the only improbability about the whole story was that a woman would be part of the all-male late night TV club in the first place. #latenight