Hello, Nurse
Is what I'll say if the Bucks hire Nick Nurse as coach
Glenn Close first played the role of Albert Nobbs in a 1982 off-broadway stage production, and spent years trying to bring the character to the big screen. In 2011, she succeeded, gaining an oscar nomination for her performance in the process [Close’s total oscar W/L record: 0-8. More like Glenn Almost]
But her journey with Nobbs was not finished. 12 years later, Close is starring in a sequel, Steve Nobbs.
“I thought I was done after Albert, but a few years later I saw Danny Boyle’s film Steve Jobs, and found myself stunned. There he was again, the similarities were so striking. After co-writing the screenplay for Albert and having been so close to the character, I felt it. Steve was a son, a grandson, a descendent, what have you. He was a Nobbs.”
When asked to elaborate on the similarities, Close laughs. “Well, ignoring the obvious ones, to me, it was the complete lack of self pity. Both men had a vision, a drive, a determination. It’s one of the key ways I connected with the character.” For clarity’s sake, I run through my list of obvious examples: both were adoptees; business minded; had one lone but vitally close confidant who knew the real them. Close nods along, “Exactly. Their style; their ability to read people; the raw dominant energy they emit, when they enter a room everyone notices. You understand.”
So, is it a remake? Not of either film. Steve Jobs served as Close’s inspiration, but their stories differ, naturally. “Steve Nobbs is a character piece. It’s exploring what Albert would have been like in a different time, if the limitations of his era didn’t hold him back in the same way.” In a tip of the hat to Albert’s dream of opening a tobacconist shop, Steve is the inventor of the vape pen. “There are more small tributes throughout the film, and of course it wouldn’t be right by either film if there wasn’t a paternity suit involved!”
Steve Nobbs premieres this fall.
Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla has made no secret about watching the 2010 Ben Affleck heist movie The Town four times a week, describing it as “just a Boston mindset.” Since his upgrade from interim head coach following the suspension of Ex Mr Nia Long, Ime Udoka, in February, he has used his position to instil this mindset onto the team.
On May 14th, at the press conference following the team’s game seven win against Philadelphia, he wore a sweatshirt emblazoned with the quote “Whose car we gonna take?”
It’s a quote from Jeremy Renner’s character, after Ben Affleck’s character - his life long friend - tells him: “I need your help. I can’t tell you what it is, you can’t ask me about it later, and we’re gonna hurt some people.” Celtics guard Malcolm Brogdon explained that it’s become a mentality for the team, a ride-or-die rallying cry.
Mazzulla’s obsession runs deeper, however. The coach wore sweatshirts with different quotes to two of his Larry Bird Sponsored Eastern Conference Finals post-game press conferences, but the movie remained the same.
“Some of his messages get a little ambiguous,” said Celtics center Al Horford. “Or just weird. He had one that said ‘don’t talk about my father’, which I wasn’t going to do. And then ‘remember who clipped your nuts for you’. Weird stuff. Definitely some r-words thrown in there too.”
The first year coach is currently facing an uphill battle to try and keep his team’s playoffs hopes alive, but he used the game 4 post game conference to assuage fears. “I bought a nun mask. I’m ready.”
That’s it for this week! I leave you with this image of you telling me it’s too much to hope the Suns might hire Doc Rivers as coach and me telling you to shut the fuck up and we’re in costume because we’re at the ren fair at your insistence and I’m very tired from walking around in the sun all day. Thank you for reading!
