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The Real St. John Smythe » 2005» November

The Real St. John Smythe

Fast Exits

November 14th, 2005

IBS DiagramA number of you whom have already had the chance to see Come Fly With Me Nude wanted to know why I up and left so quickly at the end of the interview with Dom & Bella.

I hadn’t really thought that it was even slightly unusual, and I can’t help but start to see Dom & Bella’s point about the film’s negative representation of its subjects.
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Film Arts Festival

November 7th, 2005

Paton ChairOn Saturday, 5th November, I made yet another visit to San Francisco. This time it was for the a “work in progress” screening of the soon to be legendary film “Come Fly With Me Nude”. Not wanting to upstage my dear friends, I snook in after the initial announcements and left before the titles finished crawling by.

Much as I can see my friends’, Dom & Bella’s, point about being cast in less than serious light, I have to say that maybe OD TV’s editorial choices are not so far off the prescribed mark. For, though I did laugh until it hurt, I also felt moved to tears and a deep connection to the muses and their art.
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