Tag Archives: Peter Falk

way out east : serpentine serpentine!

Its tough to find a decent tailor in the Tuva heartland. Picture that caught my attention, given the incongruity of their appearance within the context of Washington fashions and the overall chic of Western garb. Here Medvedev, Svetlana and Armenian … Continue reading

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genet: delaying the punch-line

Jean Genet:”A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness” Genet’s stage is a space where politics and metaphysics collide, and partly fuse.Some of it sticks to the wall. Like … Continue reading

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some things you just can’t improvise

In Alan Arkin’s role as Singer in Carson McCullers’s screen adaptation of The Heart is Lonely Hunter, he plaus a deaf-mute whose silence was an articulation and metaphor for all the lonely life impaired citizens in a southern town whether … Continue reading

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What is real: where the rubber hits the road

It was never meant to simply go from A to B. The automobile is the symbol par-excellence of the consumer society. For most, it is a measure of our standing on the social and economic scale and the strongest indicator … Continue reading

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circumstantial angels

It was the art of circumstantial speech. Mixed with the art of underestimation, with some irritating asides thrown in for good measure. Well, Peter Falk did act funny. This uncanny ability to start talking in one direction and going off … Continue reading

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an angel laughing through tears

Is the concept of progress a cruel illusion? Is progress a storm, getting pushed into the future into which our back is turned?. Do angels work without a script intuitively connected to the screenwriter on high. Angels have represented a … Continue reading

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Oscar and the academy specter of death: just drink it like socrates

Its a metaphor for orgasm. Sex and death. The French term it “le petite mort” or the little death, where sex and death are linked from the spiritual release that comes with orgasm. As the Oscars get handed out, are … Continue reading

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GRINGO DOGS: Pay Dearly for My Beautiful Muchacha

There are  no lack of visitors to Cuba from rich countries, including a disproportionate number from Britain and Canada who believe they have encountered a true alternative to capitalist democracy. Why?  It seems to be a way of keeping alive … Continue reading

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RADIO DAYS WITH AUNT JULIA: A Nobel In The Rye

Naturally, in the life of a great writer no significant love remains untold. In 1977, during a period when his work took a turn toward comedy, Vargas Llosa wrote Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, about a young man named Mario … Continue reading

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