Dr. Peter Weller
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Plus, he's a violent dude. I have to give a paper on him at the Mediterranean Society in about two weeks. Oh, really? But the thing is that you go to Caravaggio, you can go to, you know, Rembrandt derives out of him. And then I go to, like, I said, well, look, man, you know, I told Vittoria, I said, really, if you want to ask, really, my favorite of favorites might be...
Hans Hoffman, the New York school guy, or Larry Rivers. Because I was deeply into New York school guys. And he just nods his head. He's like blowing me off. And I say, who's yours? He says, look, have you been to Padua? I said, no. I've never been to Padua at this time. 1991 or two, whatever that was. He says, you've been going to Italy for how long? I said, 10 years.
He says, you've never been to Padua? Padua. I said, no. He says, you've never seen Giotto? I said, who? He says, Giotto. And Giotto and Padua. I said, okay. So Metta Boy knew who it was. Because Metta Boy's school. Jean Moreau knew who it was. Because she's smart, right? I didn't know who the F he was talking about.
And he said the very first one, you know, by three, seven frames of narrative movie in depth, spatial height, width, depth, color. Feeling passion, tears, the first real attempt at spatial perspective in a narrative in a movie that goes around a 20-meter church, in front of which is Giovanni Pisano. You know who he is? No. No. He says, well, he's the first.
Him and his dad were the first realist medieval sculptors. They go to Siena. I go, yeah, once. He says, so you don't know Giotto, and you don't know Pisano, and you don't know. I said, no. He says, well, you know, then Peter, he takes his Versace scarf. If I could do an invitation, he flips it over his shoulder. He goes, we cannot talk about art. Oh, my God. What a diva. It blows me. Diva.
I chase the guy down to a corner. Oh, my gosh. He wanders away. And I say, se potenzioso. You're pretentious, man. He goes, no, tu se potenziosissimo. You're super pretentious. Como tutti americani. You know, to Rembrandt. And you can say Cy Twombly. You can say Jackson Pollock. You can drop, you know, all of the New York school guys. You can say Rothko. But all of these people source Giotto.
They all source Giotto. Picasso. All of them. Cara, Rembrandt, Caravaggio. They all say it, Peter. So if you do not know Giotto, you don't have any context. You don't know what you're talking about. Because you're like all the Americans I know, the movie guys who can drop all these hot names, you know, Warhol or whatever. But even Warhol knows who Giotto was and studied Giotto. So who are you?
And I'm thinking, damn, man. I feel like historical idiot. And so my buddy Brian Hamill, arguably one of the great poster photographers ever, brother of the, it's nice that Mark Mara, I know he, not only him and his brothers, Pete Hamill and John and Dennis Hamill, the Hamill clan of true artists. But Brian is one of the, you know, the poster, De Niro in Raging Bull with the sweat. Okay, yes.
Manhattan. Yes. Well, yeah, it was Manhattan. Oh, yeah. The bridge, man. Redford with the natural. Okay. Gifted, gifted photographer, photographic artist.
And a longtime friend. And we all celebrate yesterday, right? And all my friends... Because I go to Venice every year for Christmas Hanukkah. All Christmas Hanukkahs I spend in Venice for the last... Since that day. Since Vittorio. Really? Yeah, man.
Because from Japan, I went to... Venice, and I never looked back. And I told my mother, I said, I'm going to Venice. I'm in Venice today. I missed two out of the last 34 years. I missed two Christmases.
So Brian and I, we do that. We go to Venice, and we go to Padua. You know, we were initially not going to do it. We were going to go to St. Bart's. He broke up with a girlfriend, and I was doing a great movie, but it was a miserable time in northern Quebec. And he said, man, I don't want to go to St. Barts. I said, well, he says, let's go to someplace dreary, man. Yeah, Venice is horrible.
We hate Venice. We warn people. He says, yeah, let's go there, man. I'm feeling terrible. You're feeling terrible. Let's go to the worst place for Christmas. And that way, there will be no place to go but up.
Now, I wrote about this in Travel Leisure.
Yeah. Google it. Peter Wallace Christmas Adventist. I don't hype this to you out of the hyperbole of ego, although I do have a preponderance of attitude, as I say, like this current administration does. I'm burying under this preponderance of attitude. But I tell you this, I say this to you, Travelugia Peter Wallace, because I want you to go. I want to go.
But you write articles for Cigar Aficionado, articles for Travelugia, whatever, right? And usually they'll edit them according to how many tourists they are applying to or how many foodies are going to read this, how many whatever, right? And they wanted me to write that thing about your Christmas event. And they said, we'll do an app.
We'll follow around with a camera for a second and have a little 45-second app. I said, I don't really want to do it because I know you guys are going to edit it. And it's not going to be, you know, my thing. They promised to give us 1,500 words. We won't edit it. And I said, well, it's just going to be this experience of what happens this year.
And so I highly recommend it because it does discuss me and Brian going. And Brian and I meeting in the old airport in Venice, you know, in order to be depressed.
Right. Because he says there will be no place to go but up. We'll start at the bottom. Right.
Venice is like, we hate Venice. And Venice in winter is like really dreary. And it's Don't Look Now. It's Nick Rogue, you know, with Donald Sutherland with the little red girls and the knives are going to kill you.
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