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Celebrity:Somewhere anywhere and points unknown
Somewhere is the new film written and directed by Sophia Coppola. She is considered an artist, though stronger on mood, and atmospherics than story. She has been branded that way, but in fact her story, her narrative is extremely sublime; … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew O'Hehir, Farah Nayeri, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Johanna Schneller, John Milton, Laurence Sterne, Leah McLaren, Lord Byron, Marcelline Block, Miriam Bale, Paul Swendsrud, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Scott Foundas, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Marche, Voltaire
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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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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
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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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THE SINKING OF NARCISSISTIC DELIGHT
For a thousand years Venice held “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. The Napoleon saw a bluff- and called it. … Napoleon himself commanded the French armies in Italy. But for five centuries … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alan Miller Venice, Allan Miller Berkshire Review, Elaine Pilkington, Gentile Bellini, Goldoni, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Lord Byron, Mayor Orsoni Venice, Philippe Monnier, Rick Steves, Vittoro Carpaccio, William Wordsworth
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REGAL MORTGAGE CRISIS: Princely Bling
This is the era of the Napoleonic Wars, of the Battle of Waterloo and the Battle of Trafalgar, and the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Nelson. The waltz was a scandalous new dance craze, and stylish women cropped their hair … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiral Nelson, Alan Bennett, Byron, Charles James Fox, Dorothy Marshall, Duke of Wellington, Francis Willis, George Cruikshank, Gillray, Henry Holland, Humphrey Repton, James Gillray, Jeremy Black, John Nash, King George III, Lord Byron, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Prince George, Prince Regent George IV, Regency Crisis, Robert Cruikshank, S.P. Cockerell, Sir Walter Scott, Stephen Schieff, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth, William Porden
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GRIMM TERRORS: PASSION FOR THE PRIMITIVE
“The consonants of primitive Germanic keep consistently to the same mouth areas as the corresponding consonants in the older Indo-European languages”. So said the Brothers Grimm in stating their famous law for linguists. Dull fellows? Hardly. Their terrifying tales have … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rackham, Beethoven, Brothers Grimm, Byron, Charles Darwin, Clemens Bretano, Coleridge, David Hockney, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Keats, Keats, Lord Byron, Margaret Hunt, Peter Webb, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, W.H. Auden, Walt Disney, Wilhelm Grimm, William Wordsworth
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ROCK HIS GYPSY SOUL: THE STORMY “CORINTHIAN”
“There’s no one more punctual than a woman one doesn’t love” ( “Kean” by Jean Paul Sartre ) From its declining fortunes Drury Lane Theatre was to be rescued, briefly, by the arrival of Edmund Kean, the most fiery and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Noble, Alan Badel, Alexandre Dumas, Antony Sher, Ben Kingsley, Byron, Catharine Savage Brosman, Charles Kean, Charles Kremble, Coleridge, Derek Jacobi, Edmund Kean, Ermette Novelli, George Clint, George Cruickshank, Graham Everett, Harold Bloom, Jane Austen, Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean Paul Sartre, John Keats, John Philip Kemble, John Stone, Jonathan Mulrooney, Lord Byron, Lucius Junius Booth, Percy Shelley, Pierre Brasseur, Robert Cruickshank, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Siddons, Théaulon, William Hazlitt, William Macready
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