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Did you catch George R.R. Martin leaping into the film industry fray last week? The author hosted U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham at his Jean Cocteau Cinema for a panel on the future of the movie business in the state.

Martin, like the other panelists, called for cap relief: The annual limit on rebate payouts to productions is stunting New Mexico’s film business, he said. He was echoed by Lujan Grisham, a Democrat running for governor, who said she’d make film a priority in her administration if she were elected.

El Mitotero, star-obsessed, fun-loving little goblin that he is, will say this: Anything that brings more movies to New Mexico and therefore more movie stars within El Mitotero’s peripheral vision is a very, very good thing.

Graves premieres tonight on EPIX. The return of the Santa Fe area-filmed political drama is covered elsewhere in these pages today — but allow El Mitotero one editorial comment: Nick Nolte is a national treasure, and even if you don’t think you’ll like Graves you oughtta give it a shot for the pure, uncut rush of late-stage Nolte. The man has aged like a peat-smoked whiskey: Rough and tough and delicious. Big fan of the Nolte, El Mitotero is. May he live a thousand years!

Ethan Hawke, in town to film The Kid with Vincent D’Onofrio and Dane DeHaan, will appear at a screening of his film Maudie at the Center for Contemporary Arts tonight. El Mitotero understands the showing is sold out, which is tragic, but if you stand outside with a neon-glowing sign that reads ETHAN HAWKE YOU’RE GREAT, hey, who knows, you might make a friend. (That friend is El Mitotero.)

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