Amma Baad... ...Wa-Layla

So, the next night comes (amma baad: 'and so, onto the next thing'); another night.

'La' equals 'no;' 'Lay' equals 'light.'

'Heylel...' The Devil. 'Lah-'Heylayl...' One of the 'divine' lights.

...So the next night comes, and the Ruler of Lights of the World, is about to spend his last night with the beautiful Scheherazade, after which he must cut her head off, because of his oath to kill all his wives after spending just one evening with each of them.

Now... I happen to know that there are a couple of well-connected 'Industry people' who stop by here or have their girl-Friday's plow through all of this nonsense because this is effectively one of the places that goes into the Vigneron & Johnson Brand Index analytics, though not for any reasons I wish to disclose right now.

When I say 'Industry people' I mean Hollywood. People actually in Hollywood call it 'the Industry,' they don't call it 'Hollywood.'

GUCCI - Park Avenue NYC

Anyway, as far as luxury brands, the erstwhile current top listing order is: Porsche, GUCCI, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Chanel, Hermes, Ferrari, Rolex.

Rolex, for one of them, has said they cannot say if or even whether they will really be holding 'Basel World' in February of next year, when it had been postponed to from this year's dates.

The Masked Ball at Versailles, however, I have been assured will definitely be going ahead...

Complex hybrid Iris species flower...

This event is 'masked' in more ways than one, though - it is impossible to discover who really is behind it, and superficially, it is the Versailles Museum Trust with its vast array of global sponsors and the simple fact that it is a marketable brand in its own right with a massive commercial demand for its venue capabilities and many other 'selling points' that the place possesses. However, one can penetrate a little to see people like the commercial backers of Australia's Kylie Minogue and then from there there are 'thin strands' which trace back into French Arabic and French Egyptian billionaires whose names I shall not mention. There are oil sheikhs participating, certainly. But they are not alone in it all.

Well okay, it's not 'impossible' but not advised to go too far down that rabbit hole.

We probably have the old one-time TAG owner and McLaren Racing identity Mancur Ojeh's money in there somewhere in the mix... You remember him.

Anyway anyway, I'm going too far off to the side.

I wanted to mention to the 'friends' that without question at all, the number one top female actor in the mainstream full-length feature part of the Industry - is Kristen Stewart. 

It's all very well to have a family in the Industry but that doesn't make a whole lot of difference if you can't 'carry it off' in the first place. Kristen Stewart can, though.

Something there in the Iris flower patch,
anyway...

She has the enviable reputation among directors of being 'easy to work with.' OMG

For me, she is a born-and-bred big screen actress - you can tell right away from how her body has only micro-movements in front of the camera with its 'red light on.'

She doesn't flail her hands or limbs -, or throw her head about like so many do these days who never listen to the training that someone tried to give them.

You can't let her slip away into 'retirement' just because she is no longer going to be the Ingenue. Okay, so, y'all have absolutely no idea what a good script or screenplay is...

I'm sad for you.

LOL

You still think you know though, right? 

You have no idea.

A new property has to have the quality of making people's jaws drop and you just ain't got it!

So sorry. 

What are you gonna do? I know, go chop your girlfriend's head off. No wonder she's gay (that Kristen).

I will be spending a lot of time going on and on about the stylishness and acting ability of Kristen Stewart over many many coming articles here.

'A hot-house flower that blooms in a day, is gone in just as short a time.'

Kristen Stewart is no 'hot-house flower.' Both her parents have extensive careers in the Industry, and they both know what they are doing and the kid knows too.

Not a kid of course now, in most people's eyes though not in mine. Still a kid. Theoretically, her best acting moments remain ahead of her - but that is now all up to 'the Industry.' If that Industry wishes to even exist into the future from here they need to start getting their own 'act' together. All of the top chiefs - including Barbara Broccoli and Kathleen Kennedy - imagine it is other people's heads on the chopping block of history down there. It isn't. It's theirs. Their 'Industry' itself is on the chopping block and without the magic - without the Jinn powers - they are nothing.

And they can slap their arms and feel the 'tingles' all they want, it isn't going to matter. Without the true Jinn force the carpet will not fly, without the 'Chi' power, the cinema goers will not go through the ticketed doors, much less through the walls.

You see but if you make bargains with the Heylayl, you will end up 'seeing lights' all right, but they will be the ones that fall onto egos, and spotlight those, and make out the ego has the center stage - and then no one else cares.

And that light is always just positioned on the biggest ego - which is usually the producer or the combined 'producer/director' and especially the director who thinks he is the producer.

Kristen Stewart down here in Oz,
in Sidney. She's actually more or less
from Australia, I suppose you knew...

Most of the non-fiction and biographies about this part of the industry almost always make a big song and dance about the producer who thought he/she was the director - but the issue is the other way around. Directors regularly have absolutely no respect for the money.

And so for me, and it should be so for everyone in the Industry production side, it is that those actors - George Clooney, Tom Cruise, Samuel L. Jackson, John Malkovich, Gong Li, and Kristen Stewart - are the ones who are working for the Industry and for the making of good films, and not working simply for themselves or working against the Industry. Say what you like, Tom Cruise makes successful films.

These people are entitled to some decent material every now and again. And guys (and gals) out there in Industry-land, you just ain't got it, have y'all?

...Here (below) is an example of how to write a song. You have to be patient for the first couple of minutes in, and turn the volume down while the thump thump does its thing.