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Penn Jillette’s Advice: Make Sure Your Manager is Filthy Rich
Disclosure: We think Penn Jillette is funny, smart, and entertaining. If you
don’t think the same way, that’s alright. That’s America. If you do, that’s okay
too that means we’ll soon have a better America where everyone thinks like
us.
BankRate .Com interviews Penn Jillette in their latest on-line edition. He
talks about his love of Magic, performing, creating, entertaining, and poker. He
does not profess or exhibit a love of money in his interview and thereby remains
true to the magician we love (along with Teller).
Most recently, he has released a wonderful book titled “How to Cheat Your
Friends at Poker.” You can read our review later on Quinlan’s Inside Magic. He
also embarked on an additional career as radio broadcaster for CBS.
We gave a glowing (and flowing) review of his outstanding film The
Aristocrats where top comedians gave their rendition of a bawdy, rude joke.
BankRate .Com notes comedian Sarah Silverman caused a stir over her iteration in
which she claims Joe Franklin acted in an improper but funny manner with (or
near) her.
If you didn’t have a chance to see The Aristocrats at the theaters – or you
didn’t want to be seen walking into the theater to view an NC-17 rated film –
you’ll have a chance to watch in the comfort and privacy of your own multi-media
room soon. The DVD version is due out soon.
Those who saw the theater version, recall the invitation to submit their own
twist on the twisted joke.
The response was apparently overwhelming and Mr.
Jillette says the new release could have overwhelmed purchasers. “The
Aristocrats” is insane, because the movie itself was an hour and a half, and the
extra features are two hours.”
Mr. Jillette is right to be excited by the response to his movie.
“This is the second best movie of the year on The New York Times list, and it
was done without any studio involvement whatsoever, zero. It was not rated by
the MPAA.
“I’m not saying every person in the country can come up with enough
money to buy two midrange DV cameras, a Macintosh and a Final Cut Pro — I don’t
want to be the way Hollywood is and act like, “Why doesn’t everybody have a
chauffeur?” But at the same, when your budget can be $50,000 instead of $5
million, you made a big change in what that art form is.
“The fact that “The
Aristocrats” was done as cheaply as it was is a huge breakthrough in film.”
Bankrate: Was $50,000 what it was done for?
Penn Jillette: Really hard to say. No one knows. It was my
money, and I wasn’t paying attention. – advertisement -Bankrate: But it was in that ballpark?
Penn Jillette: Yeah. And, huge amounts of money were spent
to clean up the sound and the video and make it so it could be released without
embarrassment. But I’m not counting that. I’m just saying, what it took to sell
it to Sundance was five digits. And it doesn’t matter whether it was $90,000 or
$20,000, five digits is the important number there….
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