Why I love Oliver Platt

I have been following Oliver Platt on the big and little screen the past couple months, some newer projects such as Showtime's The Big C and HBO's Bored to Death as well as an older Showtime series Huff. His most recent movie which I loved was, Please Give which was a great go no where but mean a lot movie.

In Huff Oliver Platt co-stars with long time friend and college buddy Hank Azaria.
Platt majored in drama at Tufts University, where he met and became close friends with Hank Azaria. He spent three years working in theater in Boston, Massachusetts, where he said he had a "wealth of serious amateur theater at that time…I played many roles, and it was the best training I could have had."

His role in Huff as Russell Tupper made him my favorite addict character on television and favorite of creator Robert Lowry, who said, "Oliver plays an alcoholic, drug-addicted, sexaholic, workaholic, womanizing misogynist who is adorable. I don't know any actor who could do that. I originally saw Russell as a blond stud, but when I saw what Oliver could do, I realized how much better, richer, and less predictable he was than my idea of the character...Oliver is very committed to the idea that story and dialogue be character-driven and unique."

Huff sadly was canceled after two seasons on Showtime leaving a lot of unanswered questions.

His next and favorite project of mine is Bored to Death, where he plays Ted Danson's arch nemesis/ buddy as a dueling New York Publisher. They ironically each have the same Chuck Close portrait in their offices showcasing the awesome narcissist that they are.

Platt brings bag the loveable fat guy unlike how Jonah Hill does it in his style, or Seth Rogen for that matter. He has legit background in acting and has brains to back it up.

In The Big C Platt is a silly husband who rides a Vespa around Minnapolis unknowning that his wife played by Laura Linney has cancer at stage 4. It takes mearly half the season for her to tell him and you just keep wanting for more. The series has been renewed for a second one to accompany the other complicated women in the Showtime franchise like Nancy and Nurse Jackie. Oliver's sweet nature and goofyness is so loveable once again. The fact that he plays adult rugby is endearing and finds laundry as relaxing as most mother's do is kind.

So yeah I love Oliver Platt and so should you.

Inline

I used to really be into this inline skating when I was in middle school and high school, I had these cool K2 skates that were the talk of the neighborhood, and me and the boys from the hood would skate around our condo complex jumping over speed bumps and making home made ramps on the tennis court, sometimes we would play music and show off for the neighbors, grinding on our waxed steps outside.

When I skated there were 4 wheels and a space in between two for grinding, now they have adapted the skates to only have 2 wheels.

This documentary was shot in my home town of Boston and extremely well done by a inline skater and art student. Enjoi....and skate till you die.....

In The Dark from kyle couture on Vimeo.

Rollerblades are no longer a easy way to tell your parents your gay...these fruit boots fly high!
This documentary shows the brotherhood and comrade of the underground inline skating community. The bails are harder; but the bonds are stronger. The sport has been tossed out of the mainstream and even exiled from the X-Games leaving the streets as the source of showcase.

Transplants

I realize being from Boston is a privilege and people who are blessed enough to come here for an education have no idea what they have. I have been around a lot of transplants around this city in the past couple weeks of summer. Mostly students who seem to be "stranded" here over the summer when the majority of the other students are at there designated homes. Well this is my home and when you come into my territory and dish it like your home is better its annoying. Home is Home nuff said about that, but seriously, so what if this place shuts down at 3am. If you want 24/7 go to NYC, when you came to Boston you get what you get. History never sleeps and thats what we got. I love California but Californians here are annoying! Open your eyes to what this city has for you. Maybe I have a better affinity for it because I grew up here and lived and breathed here. I saw death here, and Life. This place is amazing and if you don't think so then theres bound to be something wrong with you.