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Tag Archives: Alex Gibney
merry pranksters: Joke on who?
The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Gibney, David Brooks, Dennis Hopper, gregory bateson, Irving Penn, Ken Kesey, Max Horkheimer, Neal Cassady, Noam Chomsky, pierre bourdieu, Richard Alpert, Richard Nixon, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin
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d.i.y. pranksters: staying on the bus
“Do your own thing.” Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” -The Diggers. Eventually, hippies were being attacked and vilified both in the media and physically by punks, skinheads and right-wing reactionaries and other youth sub-cultures. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alex Gibney, alison ellwood, charles a. laughlin II, david axelrod, harry gibson, hippie movement, hippie punching, Irving Penn, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, michael fallon, Neal Cassady, Owsley Stanley, red dog saloon, robert bootzin, susan madrak, the Diggers
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Jack in a box; fiddler on a casino roof
Jack Abramoff, at least superficially, appears like a contradiction.Its a fusion of political ideology and religion. He manages to brainwash himself. An ostensibly religious and devout man immersed in the world of political lobbying at the highest level or the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alex Gibney, Grover Norquist, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jack Abramoff, James Harding, James V. Grimaldi, Jessica Calefati, Kate taylor, Kevin Spacey, Newt Gingrich, Peter Stone, Sholom Aleichem, Tom Delay
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EVERYONE IS A STAR: Can I Buy or Lease Your Aura?
It may seem peculiar, annoying, disconcerting and disturbing when pop culture artifacts, including garbage and facial hair, material with no intrinsic value, sells for substantial sums of money. Why? Do they belong to the spirits that guide us through the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alex Gibney, Anne Smith, Britney Spears, Byron, Gilles Deleuze, Greta Garbo, James Thurber, Karen Shearer, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron, Marissa Doyle, Marlene Dietrich, Martina Scott, Mervyn F. Bendle, Pauline Kael, Regina Scott, Robert Fulford, Svetlana Alpers, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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