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just like the first time
Just like the first time and we may be starting over…Appeal to the base, get the first time voters off the couch and into the booth. Mother Lena Dunham will give them a basic anatomy course and stimulate the viral … Continue reading
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Tagged Derrais Carter, George Orwell, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey Hunter The Searchers, John Ford The Searchers, John Wayne The Searchers, Joshua Keating Foreign Policy, Len a Dunham, Nicholas Yanes, Paul Klee, Pauline Kael, Rogan Kersh Wake Forest, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin angel of history
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coffee,cars and the communal experience
Much better than his television series. This is a wrinkle on a what seems a new sort of interview style reality program that takes face to face out of the confines of the studio and into new contexts. Seinfeld’s production … Continue reading
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live at snubbs: looking at kings without crowns
Meet the Fockers. Jewish? Hardly. The idea that Hollywood is Jewish can be seen as somewhat tenuous. That it is the entertainment complex, the mouthpiece of the industrial/financial complex is evident.Its secular, universal aspiring, atheistic or a best gnostic, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Hopsicker, Edward Bernays, Everett Sloane, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Hieronymous Bosch, James Naremore, Jeff Goldsmith, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael, Peter Bogdanovich, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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running from the glare of lights
Pop culture as a religion of poses, mimicking the empty religion that has normatively been disseminated to the common denominator. The counter empty gesture harking back to the pre-religious paganism, the sense of wonder in the grove at Alba and … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jolson, amy winehouse, Andy Warhol, c.c. sabbathia overweight, eva braun, Grace Kelly, Greta Garbo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jared Diamond, Leaves of Grass, madona wh, madonna hydrangeas, Marlene Dietrich, Pauline Kael, prince fielder overweight, Ricky Gervais, Susan Sontag, Walt Whitman
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no alternative to the empty
The assimilation of art into cold, hard cash, ripping out its character, heart and guts and exploiting the aura of glamour around it. Its high end commercial art. prostitution. Such a gloomy world when the individual is a commodity. People … Continue reading
surreal values: spiritually adrift in the value traps
In spite of recounting at length her zealotry for “trash” and “kitsch,” which she famously claimed to prefer over serious minded films, Seligman never calls Kael to task for disingenuously backing away from her clarion call of the 1960s. “When … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, Douglas Cooper, Harold Rosenberg, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Lawrence Alloway, Mark Tobey, max kozloff, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pauline Kael, Philip Coppens, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky
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Fiction of celebrity: somewhere drunk with passion
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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Tagged Andrew McConnell Stott, Cintra Wilson, J.C. Hobhouse, Janet Whitman, Johanna Schneller, John Cam Hobhouse, Joseph-Denis Odevaere, Lawrence Taylor, Leah McLaren, Marilyn Monroe, Michael jackson, Pauline Kael, Sophia Coppola, Tiger Woods
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Clouds of celebrity:A fiction somewhere drunk with passion
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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Tagged Andrew McConnell Stott, Bob Dylan, Calvin Klein, Cintra Wilson, J.C. Hobhouse, Janet Whitman, Johanna Schneller, John Cam Hobhouse, John Lennon, Joseph-Denis Odevaere, Lawrence Taylor, Leah McLaren, Lord Byron, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Michael jackson, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Ralph Lauren, Sophia Coppola, Tiger Woods
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CELEBRITY as COMMODITY FETISH: Recycle Those Tropes and Posers
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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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Britney Spears, Carl Jung, Chris Crocker, Daniel Finkelstein, David Sarnoff, David Willets, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Beck, Grace Kelly, Greta Garbo, Guillaume Reymond, Gwyneth Paltrow, Henry Jenkins, James Dean, James E. Combs, Jean Burgess, Jonathan McIntosh, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Buckley, Neil Cicerega, Pauline Kael, Pop Culture Hackers, Robert Fulford, Sigmund Freud, Susan Boyle, Tay Zonday, Tim Smith
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