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The Colorful World of Andy Jones
by Richard Horgan |
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6/22/2007 at 5:54:57 PM |
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Anderson Jones was taken from us last night while in attendance at the Arclight for a press screening of Angelina Jolie’s A Mighty Heart. He died soon after in the care of EMTs of an apparent heart attack, but make no mistake: Andy had a mighty heart.
Yes, he could be incredibly exasperating to deal with from an Editor’s point of view, coming up with excuse after excuse as to why he was late with copy. In fact, he cried wolf so many times with E! Online that when he finally really did have a humdinger of a dog-ate-my-homework-scenario – robbed of laptop and all personals while on holiday in Mexico – they didn’t believe him. Or, did, but just couldn’t deal with it anymore.
This is the main reason why there are only a half-dozen editions of the FilmStew column S.W.A.G. – See Where Andy Goes – in our archives from 2004 rather than 150 plus to this day. But those missives, chronicling everything from his Pioneer Chicken disaster in Silver Lake to his run-in with Jennifer Love-Hewitt at the infamous Taco Bell in Burbank across from Warner Bros., are the best possible way I can offer to remember the spirit of Anderson Jones. I dare you to read one or more of these and then tell me he didn’t have a truly original voice, one that perhaps never found its real home.
Andy’s S.W.A.G. roamings have yet to be transferred from the old FilmStew website, so please bear with the smaller font size. But here there are:
April 9th, 2004
May 7th, 2004
May 28th, 2004
July 2nd, 2004
October 29th, 2004
December 17th, 2004
Another one of Andy’s more memorable contributions to FS was the January 2006 post-mortem blog item A Brokeback Brouhaha. It was all about the fallout that came from an article Andy had written in Fade In Magazine accusing Focus Features of seriously fumbling the gay cowboy PR ball.
So there you have it. The always outspoken, proudly gay and often infuriating world of Andy Jones. He tried his best on the TV show AMC’s Movie Club with John Ridley, but the four-critics-and-one-host formula tended more often than not to cut Andy off or limit him (and the others) to the straightjacket of a pre-clip synopsis and post-clip star rating. I only wish Andy could have guest hosted opposite Richard Roeper; you can bet the balcony would have never closed...
P.S. Andy had in fact asked me earlier this week if he could review A Mighty Heart for FilmStew, but it was already assigned. However, he was slated to write up critiques of both Hairspray and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. The last thing Andy wrote for FS was this op-ed piece about the indie film Waitress.
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