![]() ![]() And to learn about what Lurie has been up to since the series was made–his struggle with the neurological effects of Lyme disease, his hiding out from an alleged stalker, his new focus on painting–be sure to read Larson Sutton’s 2011 interview with Lurie at . Tad Friend is an American journalist working for the New Yorker as a staff writer. In addition to the Waits episode, you can watch the Jim Jarmusch segment online or own the entire series (six episodes, 147 minutes) on the Criterion Collection DVD, which includes commentary by Lurie. “It’s the most absurd thing I’ve ever done in my life.” “I dunno why I ever let you talk me into this,” he grumbles. Tad Friend was born in Buffalo, NY on September 25, 1962.Writer who became a staff writer with The New Yorker in 1998 and is best known for his Letters from California. In the episode above, Tom Waits doesn’t believe his ears when a Jamaican fishing guide tells him what time to get up in the morning: “ Five o’clock?” Waits reportedly didn’t speak to Lurie for two years afterward. It’s like watching Marlin Perkins or Curt Gowdy wander into a SoHo performance art happening. As a reviewer for the Los Angeles Times said, Fishing with John is “like Waiting for Godot on water.” The pleasure is in observing people so utterly out of their element. Now in his mid-50s, sliding down the neck of the hourglass, veteran New Yorker staff writer Friend updates his memoir Cheerful Money by once again examining his childhood and young adulthood, education and aspirations, and reflecting, in intimate detail, on his marriage to food writer Amanda Hesser and parenthood to twins. Fishing with John, as the series is called, builds on the deadpan, journey-to-nowhere sensibility of Stranger than Paradise: nothing much happens.īut that’s the point. ![]() With backing from Japanese investors, he assembled a film crew and invited some famous friends–Jarmusch, Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper and Matt Dillon–on a series of improbable fishing trips. In 1991 Lurie ventured outside that universe, into the middle-American realm of the TV fishing show. As writer Tad Friend put it in a 2010 New Yorker article, “Between Fourteenth Street and Canal–the known universe, basically–he was the man.” He’s also a horrible fisherman.Īs saxophonist and leader of the punk-jazz group the Lounge Lizards, Lurie emerged as a cult figure in New York’s downtown arts scene in the 1980s, and the deal was cemented with his surly, straight-faced performances in Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law. John Lurie is a musician, actor and artist. ![]()
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