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Letters to the Editor: “I Too Have Made It Through All These Years with Generous Helpings of the ‘Blum.”

Erik HenriksenJune 29, 2016 1:12 pmJuly 12, 2022 9:34 pm

RE: “Jeff Goldblum’s Psychosexual Power” [Film, June 22], Megan Burbank’s erotic contribution to last week’s film section—a section that, for one beautiful week, was devoted entirely to the life and works of Jeff Goldblum.Yes. And I appreciate the commitment of the Mercury film section to Jeff Goldblum. (I might have also had a thing for […]

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Jeff Goldblum A to Z: The Ultimate Filmography of Our Greatest Living Actor

The Portland Mercury Jeff Goldblum Appreciation SocietyJune 28, 2016 10:59 amJuly 12, 2022 9:34 pm

Take a good, long look at those beautiful, beautiful fingers. Adam Resurrected (2008)“What’s that?” you say. “I’ve never heard of a Jeff Goldblum movie called Adam Resurrected!” That’s probably because in Adam Resurrected, Goldblum plays “the funniest man in Germany”—a circus performer who, after surviving a concentration camp, finds himself in an asylum for Holocaust […]

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Here’s That Jeff Goldblum Paper Doll You Ordered!

Jeannette LangmeadJune 27, 2016 10:14 amJuly 12, 2022 9:34 pm

JEANNETTE LANGMEAD Click the link below for a PDF that you can print at home and treasure forever.

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The Saddest Day in History: The Day We Thought Jeff Goldblum Died

Suzette SmithJune 26, 2016 10:14 amJuly 12, 2022 9:34 pm

Not only is Jeff Goldblum amazing in bed, but he’s also not dead. It was Friday, June 26, 2009. It was morning. We were all reeling from the previous day’s devastation—the death of Michael Jackson—when news outlets began to report that another cherished star had unexpectedly died: This time, it was beloved actor and “friend […]

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Jeff Goldblum’s Psychosexual Power Will Hold You in Its Thrall

Megan BurbankJune 25, 2016 10:14 amJuly 12, 2022 9:34 pm

Jeff Goldblum does not kowtow to intergalactic terrorists. I first saw Independence Day in 1998, during Christmas vacation. It was while watching satellite technician David Levinson save the world from intergalactic terrorism that I first became aware of the confusing allure of Jeff Goldblum. I was 10. Jeff Goldblum was a fortysomething nerd in Rivers […]

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Can You Talk Like Jeff Goldblum? Spoiler: No

Andrew WrightJune 24, 2016 10:14 amJuly 12, 2022 9:34 pm

Jeff Goldblum is a friend to all creatures. The problem with writing about Jeff Goldblum’s speech patterns is that the things that make them so distinctive—the spoken italics, the stutter-step changes in pitch, the sense that he’s parodying his own line readings, sometimes in the middle of said line—are almost impossible to replicate in print. […]

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Ian Malcolm Should Have His Own TV Show. Here Are Some Ideas!

Elinor JonesJune 23, 2016 9:44 amJuly 12, 2022 9:34 pm

Ian Malcolm is amazing with his shirt off. I miss Dr. Ian Malcolm. Another brainiac, Frasier Crane, lived a full second life after Cheers with Frasier. The biggest mistake ever made in the Jurassic Park universe (aside from that gymnast girl in The Lost World, ugh, she was the worst) was Malcolm not getting his […]

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Jeff Goldblum: Resurgence > Independence Day: Resurgence

Erik HenriksenJune 22, 2016 11:59 amJuly 12, 2022 9:34 pm

The wisest man. The mightiest hero. Twentieth Century Fox did not screen Independence Day: Resurgence for critics, probably because the film is so good it would annihilate critics’ ranking systems. For how does one give a film “five stars” when it deserves all the stars in the universe? How does one offer “two thumbs up” […]