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Review: Kevin Smith at the Long Center
Yes, he talked about flying while fat. A lot. A whole lot.
Go see writer-director-author-comedian Kevin Smith (“Clerks,” “Chasing Amy” and ugh, “Cop Out”) do one of his in-person gigs, and you’ll see somebody who loves to talk. Dude is so garrulous he makes Quentin Tarantino seems like Calvin Coolidge. A University of Wyoming appearance Smith did a few years ago similar to his gig at the Long Center Thursday night lasted for five hours. Five. Hours.
I lasted three hours Thursday, but Smith got up early Friday morning to do a local radio gig. He still wasn’t done talking, apparently. And if you like the guy, you’re OK with that. For the record, I like the guy. I think he’s funnier than a lot of his movies. I share some of his geeky passions, as a lot of people in the Michael and Susan Dell Hall apparently did. “An Evening with Kevin Smith” was ostensibly a Q&A, but the A’s were sometimes 20 minutes long, rambling, digressive, profane stream-of-consciousness strolls through a very creative man’s mind. An answer to a single question could wander from “Twilight” to Comic-Con, Mitch Albom, George Carlin, Cannes, writing Batman for DC Comics and adapting the Green Hornet for film.
He’s approachable, he’s candid (to a fault), he’s indefatigable, he’s unpretentious, he’s comfortable with who he is. It felt like going to dinner with the guy. But, to paraphrase something my beloved said, I bet his wife is glad when he goes somewhere else to talk. You get the feeling you could ask the guy to run to the store to get some milk and his reply might last the better part of an hour.
And yes, he talked — at length, of course — about recently being booted off a Southwest Airlines (“the Greyhound of the sky”) flight for being too fat. But you knew he would.
Updated Sunday evening. Thanks for the cxes.
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By bobmcbob
March 7, 2010 3:09 PM | Link to this
Yep, I find three very odd typos: misspelling Cannes? Very uncanny.
By Thresher
March 6, 2010 12:15 PM | Link to this
I don’t know if you realize this, but there are enough typos and grammatical errors to make a 5th grader blush. Please have someone proof this stuff before it goes live. It’s embarrassing to fellow Austinites.