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status system: picking through the wreckage
…With the Keynesian economy operating at full throttle, it can be said that idleness and wealth have been scattered with a generous hand, and everyone is condemned to be a consumer to some degree. The heady atmosphere of abundance has … Continue reading
argo: the boatmen cometh
Excerpts from an article by John Pilger, far lefty analysis that raises some good issues, but more meaningfully, the template he reports on is not a new phenomenon but an alliance between Hollywood as entertainment complex putting the good face … Continue reading
tower of celebrity
The tall boy. Robert Wadlow. Drwbacks to being the tallest man in the United States. At age five, he was 5 feet 4 inches, the same height as his mother… Wadlow was a popular student with both his teachers and … Continue reading
hollywood brotherhood: circle the wagons
I’s going to make a gobsmack of money. But its total crap.Disposable, forgettable and into the scrapheap of built in obsolescent consumer culture. The genius is how minute decisions are made to respect a violation in the spirit of the … Continue reading
moods of modernism… berlin to the bayou
Post war American movies were locked into a pattern that began when Shirley Temple saved Hollywood studios from completely going under and were “rescued” by Morgan and Rockefeller money and then the post WWII era saw the norm being movies … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Hathway, James Agee, Janice Loeb, Lloyd Nolan, Louis de Rochemont, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Flaherty, shirley temple, Sidney Meyer, Sidney Meyers
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sour grapes
There is a tendency to romanticize the past; to look back to an earlier epoch in America and the elusive “kindler, gentler America” that is referred to in such reverential tones. Truth is, the past was not so idyllic though … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Henry Fonda, john myles the grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck, Joseph Schumpeter, Lyle Boren, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, shirley temple, Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
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the live adventures of norman and normal
Norman Rockwell’s paintings are impossible not to recognize.The first inclination is to dismiss his work as kitschy, sentimental drivel of an earlier more naive time, which does tend to pacify our own anxiety by touching the chords of a false … Continue reading
back to stovall’s plantation
On the one hand, what could one possibly expect from the entertainment industry. Its “product” serving as the servile public relations arm of the financial/industrial complex. And its been that way since the Hays Code of the 1930’s which coincided … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaya Dawn Johnson, allison Janney, Bechdel Test, ben sidran dylan different, Bob Dylan, boris lurie, Charles Dickens, conrad black f.d. roosevelt, Daniel Craig, f.d. klingender, Feminist frequency, franklin roosevelt, george takei, jack warner, Louis b. mayer, Mae West, Oscar Awards 2012, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, robert e. howard, sam gompers, shirley temple, stieg larsson, The Artist movie, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, tree of life malkin, Winter's Bone movie, Woody Allen
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rubber stamp of approval
To place Franklin Roosevelt’s passion for collecting stamps and to a lesser degree him maritime collection in a meaningful context is not really possible without the backdrop of the depression. He worked on his stamp collection almost to his death. … Continue reading
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Tagged cheryl ganz, conrad black f.d. roosevelt, franklin roosevelt stamp collection, harry hopkins, james iredell wadell, james n. miller, minnie astor, President hoover, roosevelt library, shirley temple, smithsonian institute, The Great Depression, william green AFL
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