Tag Archives: Marilyn Monroe

Jackie : putting pins in the valley of the dolls

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Dave

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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tony award

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Dave

Is painting like acting? According to Christopher Knight there is a strong demand for celebrity art. The idea of modern art lacking aesthetic content and that content being contrived to create a phantom depth does have a connection with acting. … Continue reading →

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sir knight: the chevalier’s home companion

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Art

Skin rags and girly mags….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Girlie mags, hootchie-cootchie, nudies, skin rags. i’m not talking porn here, I’m talking about those magazines that your dad hid at the bottom of his socks drawer, or under his mattress, or … Continue reading →

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spooked: after midnight

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Dave

getting spooky. And it all began with Helena Blavatsky and her spiritualist movement, then assumed a distinct identity within popular American culture… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): What do the Cramps, Gwar, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Blackstone the Magician, David Copperfield, penn … Continue reading →

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Fiction of celebrity: somewhere drunk with passion

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Dave

Dancing with the stars. Celebrity. What price? ……..Celebrity is not the same as being celebrated , but celebrity is often a precondition of being famous.The  concept of celebrity as study in itself, as in being a celebrity,is a modern invention, … Continue reading →

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will the circle be unbroken: the divine is immanent

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dave

James Frazer retold ancient myths in The Golden Bough in such a way that he re-intepreted them, renewed them and thus ended up creating a new version of the myth. A homogenized version that has been packaged and marketed ever … Continue reading →

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Clouds of celebrity:A fiction somewhere drunk with passion

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Dave

Dancing with the stars. Celebrity. What price? ……..Celebrity is not the same as being celebrated , but celebrity is often a precondition of being famous.The  concept of celebrity as study in itself, as in being a celebrity,is a modern invention, … Continue reading →

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CELEBRITY as COMMODITY FETISH: Recycle Those Tropes and Posers

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Dave

For better or worse….Celebrities are not diversions for our society anymore; they are the basis of our social and economic lives.The worship of celebrity, for many is a religion fabricated and patented piecemeal out of the hollowness of some foregone … Continue reading →

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MASKS OF PESSIMISM: MIRTH,MADNESS & MANLINESS

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Dave

Clyde boastfully, but shyly introduces them with a disarming smile, accentuating the bond they share with the country folk – while anticipating (almost as an afterthought) the course that they are committed to pursue – bank robbery: This here’s Miss … Continue reading →

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BEGINNING OF THE NAMELESS SOMETHING: PROMETHEUS for all

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dave

Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which Thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this Earth Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou Requitest … Continue reading →

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