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Jackie : putting pins in the valley of the dolls
A product of her times. Or simply another variant on the white liberal Eastern establishment, make that neo-liberal and what appears to be appallingly ethno-centric and racist, filled with any number of twisted ideas as a defense mechanism in guarding … Continue reading
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Tagged Adlai Stevenson, andrew cohen, Billy Wilder, Bob Dylan, Elia Kazan, j.g. ballard, jacqueline kennedy, James Stewart, JFK assassination, joe hyams, katie holmes jacqueline kennedy, Lee Remick, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Luther King, otto preminger, Stephen Sondheim, tom sachs artist, wendy leigh, William Faulkner
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road weary
It is the triumph of capitalist rationality. Call it Fordism. The dark side, apparent from the beginning, is the dangerous temptation of an inhuman but very rational drive toward profit. Fascism. There is no doubt that the landscape created by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, Andrew Graham Dixon, bianca mugyenyi, Billy Wilder, charles sheeler, diana dors, Filippo Marinetti, Georgia O'keefe, giacomo balla, italian futurism, james j. flink, John Sloan, Max Horkheimer, Reclaim the Streets, Rick Salutin, Theodor Adorno, yves engler
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recycle the ideal: chasing the “it”
Certainly Coke would not be the global brand it is without the Americanization of the global psyche.Coke is it. An artificial unfulfilled promise. After all, the product of the Coca Cola company is advertising and its creation of desire. “Coca … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Wilder, carmen garcia, coca cola advertising, dimension 6 advertising, Henry Miller, Jean-Luc Godard, joseph heath, Michel Foucault, muhtar kent, muhtar kent coca cola, Naomi Klein, roberto cavalli coca cola, Roberto Cavalli Design, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, the coca cola case, thomas frank the baffler
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FRANKLY MR. SHANKLY: I’d Rather Be Reified
Frankly Mr. Shankly, I’d rather be famous than righteous or holy, any day….. and so Morrissey sang with the Smiths. Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position I’ve held it pays my way and it corrodes my soul I want to leave … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Wilder, Byron, Erik Estrada, Hegel Philosopher, Ian Fraser, James Ensor, John Keats, Karl Marx, Keats, Linda Evangelista, Lord Byron, Lukacs, Marxism, Maurizio Cattelan, Morrissey, Robert Fulford, Stefan Edlis, The Smiths, Theodor Adorno, Tom Cruise, Walter Benjamin
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OH DEMON ALCOHOL: STRAIGHT UP
Here’s a story about a sinner, He used to be a winner who enjoyed a life of prominence and position, But the pressures at the office and his socialite engagements, And his selfish wife’s fanatical ambition, It turned him to … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Wilder, Bing Crosby, Blake Edwards, Dudley Moore, Edward Copeland, Edwin S. Porter, Frank Sinatra, Fred Topel, Grace Kelly, Hays Commission, Jack Lemmon, Jack London, Jackie Gleason, James Cagney, Lee Remick, Nicholas Cage, Norman K. Denzin, Peter Mullan, Ray Davies, Ray Milland, Robert Hays, Steven Porter, Susan Hayward, W.C. Fields, Walter Matthau, William J. Felchner
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BLONDE AMBITION & SEDITION: THE WHITE VEIL
The woman’s legs seemed to go on forever. It was hard to tell exactly whom they belonged to, or what she was thinking, but their purpose was clear, dominating a billboard for a new condo…. drawing the eyes of admirers … Continue reading
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Tagged Aphrodite, Betty Grable, Billy Wilder, Bruce Hainley, Debbie Reynolds, Edmund Spenser, Feminism, Francois Rabelais, Gender and Politics, Holliday T. Day, Homer, Isak Dinesen, Jacques Derrida, Jane Mansfield, joan riviere, Joanne Pitman, Laini Michelle Burton, Leni Riefenstahl, Lucrezia di Borgia, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Masaccio, Menander, Mikhail Bakhtin, miranda devine, Pamela Anderson, PETA, PETA Dan Matthews, Raphael, Sandro Botticelli, sara ahmed, Seneca, Sigmund Freud, Simon Houpt, Spenser, Sue Williams, Sue Williams Art, The Robber Bridegroom, Theodor Adorno, Travis Gertz, Vanessa Beecroft, Zoe Brigley
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WILD BILLY'S CIRCUS STORIES
Life and Art Not while the fever of the blood is strong, The heart throbs loud, the eyes are veiled, no less With passion than with tears, the Muse shall bless The poet-sould to help and soothe with song. Not … Continue reading
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Tagged American Cinema history, Andrew Sarris, Arthur Koestler, Billy Wilder, Cameron Crowe, Damian Cannon, Dave Thomson, Ed Sikov, Edward Bernays, Emma Lazarus, Ernst Lubitsch, Herman Melville, Holliday T. Day, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Laurence Maslon, Marilyn Monroe, Paul J. Karlstrom, Paul Karlstrom, Philip Kemp, Richard Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Tim Dirks, Victor Morton, William Holden
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NOBODY'S PERFECT … HEAVEN KNOWS THEY TRIED
”…Problem is, the only open slots are with Sweet Sue and Her All-Girl Society Syncopaters. As if high heels, girdles, and falsies weren’t tsouris enough, “Josephine” and “Daphne” must keep those testosterone levels down while in the sensuous proximity of … Continue reading
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Tagged American Cinema, Andrew Sarris, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Charles Brackett, Damian Cannon, David Thomson, Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, F.W. Murnau, Greta Garbo, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Jerry Lewis, Laurence Maslon, Mack Sennett, Marilyn Monroe, Philip Kemp, Pierre Schaeffer, Richard Armstrong, Robert Portfino, Sigmund Freud, The Marx Brothers, Tim Dirks, Tony Curtis, William Shakespeare
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