Dr. Peter Weller
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668 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Dr. Peter Weller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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for whatever his later life sins were, I think as a hero, because he went in and basically said, this is a social democracy, people, and all you Guardia Civil guys got to get the F out, right? And so Picasso, so it was returned. But before it was returned, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, had a five-floor exhibition of the biggest exhibit of Picasso, pardon me, known.
And, you know, so Ali said, you got to go, you got to go. Ali and I are hanging out then. Ally's friends are not movie stars and not model around that. She was a stylist, you know, for a stylist is like the person who sets up the situation for photo shoots.
For Sikorsky, for Vogue, whatever. She was chosen by Diana Rieland of Vogue. It was a girl of the year. So it was Sylvia Plath. Great poet. I love Sylvia Plath. Diana Rieland would go walk around his Ivy League schools and pick some chick and say, okay, I'm going to groom you as a sophisticata. And so Allie was one of those. So Allie's knowledge... of language, of art, whatever.
She's very humble, but she talks a mile a minute, and she is incredibly good-looking, and you're hard-pressed to find a smarter dinner cafe. And I would go to these dinners with her, man. I'd be sitting next to Martha Graham. What the hell am I going to say to Martha Graham? You know, I'd take dance. Hey, Ms. Graham, yeah, I've gotten on the floor and done your exercises, you know?
You know, Alvin Ailey, I'm sitting next to George Plimpton, I'm sitting next to Truman Capote, I'm sitting next to Warhol. Those are her pals, you know? Wow. So, you know, and I say this over and over again because my mother spent a lot of time in New York and she was loud. She had read in the page three of the post, I see you're hanging out with Ali McGraw.
I said, it's kind of fun, Mom, but I feel like a real dummy. She says, why? I said, you know, because I go to these things, and we're talking to Calvin Klein about, like, skirt design, and, you know, I meet Gore Vidal, who later became a great friend. You know, he's talking about this, like, you know, the theories of education that are folding. I said, I can't follow it, and... And she says, so?
My mom said, well, I feel like the caboose at the end of the train. She goes, okay. I said, yeah, but I got nothing to say. My mom says, oh, don't say anything. Just shut up and listen. I go, duh, duh. If you're with some smart people. But my thing is, my ego always wants to intersect. Of course. You were talking about his history. I want to throw it in. So Ali takes me to this Picasso thing.
I don't want to go to Curly Q's and look at the, no, this guy's a figurative realist. You start in the basement when he's 12 years old. And then he paints unbelievably, draws. It's not like a guy just started off doing the Guernica. with abstract impressionistic horses being blown up. You know, the guy's a realist. Then the guy's a cubist. Then the guy's an abstractionist. Abstract impressionist.
The guy goes all the way through it. I go, okay, where do I start? She says, okay, pick up a book on impressionism. Monet. Monet, Monet. Those are the easiest guys to do. So I do that. I study Ford, Cezanne. I go through all these guys I like. Then you start going backwards. You end up with the Renaissance, man, and you don't know what the Renaissance is, brother. That's some history.
This is history for weirdos. You get back to the Renaissance. This ain't just the Ninja Turtles.
No. This is war, politics, taxes. This is accounting. This is intellectual history. This is humanism. It's the rebirth of. of Cicero, Marshall, that's the rebirth of science. And you go, I don't want to read this shit. Obviously you did, though. But you did, yeah. No, but I was embarrassed into it, man, because of your anniversary. This is to bring us around. We're all coming back. No, man.
I know Rauschenberg. I've had a beer with him. I know Warhol. He's taken my picture eight times. I'm a grease lightning with hanging out in New York, man. And all of a sudden, I'm at the International Film Festival of Japan with...
I was telling Mark this with the great Jean Moreau and Truffaut's actress and the great Mike Medavoy, producer extraordinaire, born in Shanghai, no less, and Vittorio Storaro. I was telling several people, I've got to remind people that Vittorio Storaro is, if I say films to you, like... The Last Emperor, Sheltering Sky, Apocalypse Now, Dick Tracy, Last Time Gone Paris.
The first guy to filter Technicolor. I was allowed to filter Technicolor because Technicolor, it was the mafia. You had to do your three-bath thing, and they checked your movie, and if they liked it, fine. If they didn't, no good. Well, they sold the lab to Rome, and Dario Argento, the great expressionist horror film, does a couple films with Vittorio, and they're off and running.
And Vittorio's a game-changer. with cinematography. He's a game changer with color. And he's born on my birthday, I'm happy to say. Really? He's 10 years older than me.
June 24th.
It's coming up. Not March 25th. Not March 25th. I'm not that lucky. I'm not as lucky as you guys. But June 24th. And so anyway, Vittorio always wears Versace. Always wears Versace. Good taste. It's just so great that Francis Coppola, who's celebrating... a big picture thing at the Academy Museum and AFI. And he's a great dude. I don't know him well, but he's such a great dude.
But Coppola said that Vittorio Storaro was the only guy who could spend two years in the jungles of the Philippines. in a white suit.
Yeah, and that's how elegant Vittorio is. Really? Wow. Vittorio is elegante, elegante.
And he is, you know, an artist, a designer, a cinematographer, all sorts of stuff. So I ask him, because I'm like Mr. Pretentious, I'm at this film festival. And I've had Kobe beef with the Japanese people. And so I say, and I speak in French and some Italian.
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