I guess Joel and I, living in Nashville, I'd been there for nine years and I think Joel around seven, we were just kind of doing our own solo projects and he was in a band called The Effects.
Watching on TV, I realized that I hadn't really thought much about Joel in years, yet here he was on a bill with the Stones, the Who, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul McCartney, and, on this occasion, anyway, and with respect, he was better than all of them.
Thus BioShock Infinite's Booker DeWitt, a man who mechanically re-enacts atrocities he's unable to think about, and Joel from The Last of Us, a father turned wild-eyed father figure whose protective instincts spiral down into nihilistic violence.
"They thought we're making another Kiryas Joel," he said, referring to the Orange County village settled by Satmar Hasidim from Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Danny McGuire thought he had won it when he dummied through from Joel Moon's offload, but the try was chalked off for obstruction, as McGuire had run behind his own player.
JOEL I think people want me to recreate something that they liked before, say, "Scenes From," you know, "an Asian Restaurant" [laughs] or "Piano Man II".
THE NEW YORKER: Given that music downloading seems to be a runaway train, what do you think the solution is? JOEL TENENBAUM: I'm not saying file-sharing is wrong.
Joel: I think it's just sorta like something to be passionate about.
JOEL G. FINK Chicago As an actor I found that almost all the "bad" reviews, when read years later, weren't as bad as I thought at the time.
I think that's the reason for Joel's anger.
And he thinks of himself as a cabaret MC, a Joel Grey figure peddling escapism in times of, if not fascism, then ultra-conservatism.
