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americans abroad: in search of “classical” education
The Henry James archetype of the American abroad: Generally painters, novelists or historians of the arts. Almost all of them idlers who live on unearned income and found in Switzerland an ideal tax haven; pensioners an elderly couples stretching their … Continue reading
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Tagged Caresse Crosby, Cybil Shepherd, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Henry James Daisy Miller, James McNeill Whistler, Leo Stein, Man Ray, mary cassatt, Peter Bogdanovich, Sinclair Lewis, Van Wyck Brooks, William Merritt Chase
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running on almost empty
It’s an interesting proposition. Getting rid of cars period would be a huge leap in changing our sense of consciousness. The debate has been quarantined and hi-jacked by discussion about national security and ecology, but smaller and more fuel efficient … Continue reading
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Tagged bianca mugyenyi, Chevrolet Spark, Ford B-Max, General Smedley Butler, James Woolsey CIA, marshall berman, Naomi Klein, Nathan Adlen, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Bogdanovitch, Reclaim the Streets, Reclaim The Streets RTS, The last Picture Show movie 1971, TomTom Congestion Index, yves engler
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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
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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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trial of a soapbox romantic
The problem with the prodigy, the adult prodigy, is the fact of dealing with once being great, and living perpetually in eclipse. Orson Welles was a romantic since birth, a romantic always outside, outside adapting to the narrow and canny … Continue reading
welles: frozen in the role of prodigy
Every discussion of Citizen Kane, or of any other Welles movie, is sure to bring up his camera sense. In Kane there is the brilliant pseudo newsreel of the great man’s death, the senate investigation scene that is modeled on … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Hopsicker, David Bordwell, Edward Bernays, H.G. Wells, Ivy Lee, James Naremore, John Houseman, John Huston, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles The Cradle Will Rock, Osron Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Bogdanovitch, William Wyler
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vaudeville: american culture is performance
Vaudeville has been dead for over ninety years.The wandering minstrel had been replaced by the electronic age. The acrobats, the animal acts, the dancers, the singers, and the old-time comedians have all taken their bows and turned stage left into … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jolson, alice lloyd, bert gordon, Constance Rourke, fred allen, gilbert sarony, gilbert seldes, H.L. Mencken, Jack Kerouac, june havoc, nancy a. walker, nathanael west, Norman Rockwell, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Halperin, Samuel Beckett, Van Wyck Brooks, vaudeville
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''F'' IS FOR FAKE AND FOOTBALL
Did he or did he not touch the ball with his hand? Of course he took a dive; it had to be fake. He was allegedly hit in the shin ,but was clutching his shoulder.A Pain in the butt, but … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Al Davis, Armando Galarraga, Brazil's Rivaldo, Claude Manet, Clifford Irving, Cristiano Ronaldo, Diego Maradona, Edouard Manet, Elmyr de Hory, Football dives and fake injuries, Football World Cup, Gary Graver, Howard Hughes, Manet, Neal Gabler, Orson Welles, Paul Cezanne, Peter Bogdanovich, Picasso, Rivaldo, Robert Houdin, Simon Johnson, Soccer diving, Steve Hodge, The Matrix, umpire Jim Joyce, World Cup South Africa
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