Aaron Eckhart’s been all over everything explaining his new Frankenstein isn’t like that old cranky tin can Boris Karloff — but is nice, cuddly. So how did such a creepy character turn into this cutesy adorablesky Frankensteinlite?
“Every day it took three hours in the makeup room putting the stuff on. Making scars and stitches. Sticking wigs on. Looking in the mirror, you’d think, ‘Oh, God . . .’ then you’d rip it all off in 10 seconds because you wanted to get home.”
A sociopath in Neil LaBute’s “In the Company of Men” and baddies in “The Dark Knight” and “The Black Dahlia,” he once decided “to play no more villains.” So what’s his new cutesy Frankieboystein? A lover?
“Listen, I can’t be responsible for what I say. Acting those rough roles means research. I stayed in that place of animalistic rage for years. Life is not all black and white. It’s complicated. We’re complicated human beings. Even if Aaron’s a good person, all that other stuff is part of being alive. Anyway, in any case, I reserve the right to contradict myself.
“Listen, I’m just trying to do my thing.
“Question is, why are we in this world? We’re damaged, flawed and trying to learn from it. No rhyme or reason to many things we do. It’s part of what happens after you’re born. Sometimes one part comes out, sometimes another and you put that other part back in.
“On Earth, everyone needs someone. We all want to be included. And so does this particular character I play.”
Right. So, cutesy cootchy-coo Frankensweetie, how many times have you seen yourself in this movie?
“None. I haven’t seen it yet.”
Strange spousal coincidence
Kathleen Rice, Nassau D.A. who lost the A.G. race to Eric Schneiderman, may run for retiring and ailing Carolyn McCarthy’s congressional seat. It’d be a Democratic primary against Malverne Mayor Patricia Norris-McDonald.
Oddly, both McCarthy’s and McDonald’s husbands were crime victims: Carolyn McCarthy’s husband was the victim of Dec. 1993’s massacre ending in Colin Ferguson’s conviction of murdering six and injuring nineteen on the LIRR in Garden City. NYPD detective Steven McDonald, shot July 12, 1986, left a quadriplegic, is NYC’s most seriously injured officer to survive his injury.
Told you so
Sunday’s Bergen Record reported Port Authority chairman David Samson, New Jersey Gov. Chunky’s close pal and devoted crony, had hired close pal and devoted crony Michael Chertoff as his lawyer. Last Wednesday I reported Samson earlier hired this close pal and devoted crony to review “security at the tunnel, bridge and airports.” It was a $300,000 “no bid” contract to oversee security for the GWB, the state’s most important access road. It was extended for a second $300,000.
Friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship.
Koch book due
Elaine Lafferty, former Ms. magazine editor, 25-year journalist who’s interviewed all from Siamese Twins to Taliban commanders, is doing a Random House book on Charles and David Koch. The brothers are liberty fighters to some, evil billionaires to others. Granted total access, Lafferty promises a front-row seat inside their living rooms and board rooms and we can judge for ourselves.
Vday ready
Decorator Mario Buatta sent Valentine friends the Studmuffin Desserts Love Bucket cookies . . . Don’t know what Mick Jagger’s sending but I know he makes pals his homemade jam.
OCT. 2013 Vito Giallo asked his cataract eye surgeon: “How long will this take?” Doc: “About 10 minutes. I have a very short attention span.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.