Yes, Matt Damon Likely Will Be Your Neighbor

How long before someone starts selling “homes of the stars” maps, or offering walking tours?

We live in the Breukelen, with windows facing Pierrepont Place. My wife, the historian, has on occasion shouted out the window to correct tour guides. “No, Robert Moses did not build that playground….”

Or soon to be starring in “The Heights Identity”

I think just Manhattan here:

http://johnsstarmaps.com

I highly doubt he would be sending his kids to public school.

His kids were already turned down by St. Ann’s for being too “full”.

That’s because he applied too late. I’m sure he’ll have no trouble finding a place for them, if not at St. Ann’s, then at another tony private school.

You know, with every story/mention of “celebrities” living or moving here, especially from the film world, I am forcefully reminded that…there aren’t any more Gregory Pecks, Jimmy Stewarts, Gary Coopers, Cagneys, Garbos, Betty Davis, Ida Lupinos, Jean Arthurs, Melvin Douglas, Orson Wells..(and of course its now illegal to be John Wayne) But really, who are these people we now call “celebrities”-They’re NOBODIES!!! Let someone of Orson Wells’ or a Gregory Peck stature (I vote for Hedy Lamarr or Lizabeth Scott) move into the Heights…THEN that would be something…but what you have now? Why would anyone with any amount of discernment care?

Sure, BH has always had the freakazoids in the arts and letters. But the quality of even the crazies were light years above what’s today being passed off as celebs.

BTW The Standish will always for me and my neighbors be the events of Dec 30, 1966, late night…just the sight of that woman falling in flames…

Your comment sounds like a Hillary speech, anyone who is critical is at fault…..

First of all, Hollywood has ALREADY dehumanized actors to a huge extent. The
entire reason WHY you don’t have Stars of the towering stature of a Gary Cooper or a Garbo; distinct, and unique is that’s what the industry wants more than anything else today; replaceable parts. So actors and everyone else working in the industry is totally at the whim of studio bosses, the financial sector and focus groups. That kind of atmosphere is never going to produce the stature or quality of what we once had. Mr Damon may be a fine neighbor, and I think everyone (of good blood) should be treated decently, but is anyone of better cultural background going
to be taken back or recognize value in any of this?

I don’t exactly know, it’s just a figure of speech…its strange, for some reason that just surfaces in some of my talks at times.

Huh. Weird. Maybe it’s because you’re a white supremacist. Must be a coincidence.

And eddy, I’m very likely to plunk down $13.00 to see some yuppie garbage or CGI action feature…sure, I see perhaps 25 films a year but when someone wants to see something or at a guest. I always find myself going around the theater and popping into about 15 min or so of like 6 or more films. Many film have the germ of a good idea, but the level of production, direction and acting…..well, how far we in many ways have fallen….

Let’s be honest here Jeffery. That is exactly why you put the “three little words” there.

And for being off the subject, the subject is, Matt Damon moving into the neighborhood, not a critique of contemporary cinema.

Jeff, my initial comment to you (and Andrew) was in response to your charge that Matt Damon and the other celebrities with whom we share this neighborhood are “nobodies” (your word) and that we therefore shouldn’t care about them.

The only recognition you seem to have earned is within a niche of this community, mainly because of your outmoded political views. So your calling anyone else a “nobody” seems a bit hypocritical, especially when the target is an A-list film actor, producer, and director.

You seem to just be looking for opportunities to express your own tastes; your claim that Gary Cooper’s or Gregory Peck’s stardom somehow eclipses today’s celebrities is purely subjective and quite irrelevant to this discussion.

When someone moves into your neighborhood, the appropriate thing to do is to say “welcome to the neighborhood!” and maybe bring them a pie or something. Unless, of course, the new neighbor in question is some kind of known creep, or a neonazi or something, in which case they would arguably not be deserving of such welcome.

Normally I make a policy of not responding to you once you’ve managed to take a discussion sufficiently off the rails and dragged it down into your ideological gutter. But you’re my neighbor too and although I want to make it clear that basically everyone here finds your worldview as abhorrent as it is obsolete, this is our online discussion forum and I don’t think you’re an idiot, so maybe something of what we’re saying will reach you if we use calmer language.

Maybe one of these days I’ll work up the interest to greet you on the sidewalk and introduce myself. I’m naturally interested in the perspectives of others, even pariahs. So I’m curious to know what it’s like to be a white supremacist (either hated or ignored by basically everyone around you) in an enclave that for the most part prides itself on its multicultural inclusivity.