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May.12.2013
“Mama always said there's an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes. Where they're going, where they've been. I've worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard, I could remember my first pair of shoes. Mama said they'd take me anywhere. She said they was my magic shoes."...
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Apr.05.2013
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s screenplays did not scream, or even appear to make profound statements. The sorrow was matter-of-fact. It took me a while to understand the detachment.
“I want a happiness without a hole in it, I want the bowl without a crack” – (From ‘The Golden Bowl’)...
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Jan.23.2013
Why do we protect the freedom of literature and the arts and deny the same to others, even if they might use a similar creative medium or idiom?
Salman Rushdie said in an interview:
“I really worry about how it’s become so easy to attack books, movies, paintings, works of scholarship there...
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Jan.17.2013
Re-animate
I. Bones and gold and lilac, various freckled colors.
Three-year-old skeletons can taunt even after their heads are removed. Her story about what happens to the white stunt horse after filming makes you skirt the lake for a year. She says, “I see you” until your...
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Dec.03.2012
Inter-Disciplinary.net is sponsoring an international conference in February, 2013. Called Hollywood and the World, this research confab seeks to explore issues of cinema and its global influence across historical periods, and within cultural, political and social contexts; both in the US...
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Oct.01.2012
The casting couch is a reality few want to accept.
Her life is pornography. Even as their bare bodies are entwined for a few minutes of pleasure, Mahi Arora is capturing the scene on her camera.
I know a wannabe Mahi from years ago. Strange hands splashed whipped cream in her cleavage,...
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Aug.23.2012
People sit in an auditorium watching a wicked play. The jokes are vulgar; there is talk about the female anatomy and sex. What makes this one different? It is restricted to men only.
The reaction is that it is sexist. It is not. The director has not tried to hide intent nor the fact that “‘...
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Aug.17.2012
I met a hobbit years ago. It was unexpected. I stopped, stared. He was full-sized, I now know, though then I thought him short. I was charmed to the tips of my toes just by the sight of him. Was it because he was so fussily dressed for daytime in knickers, jacket...
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Aug.16.2012
Does knowledge of the artist affect the perception of the art?
Have you ever watched the superbly crafted horror film “Rosemary’s Baby”? Does your enjoyment of the movie change when you learn that the director, Roman Polanski, was arrested for and plead guilty to statutory rape? ...
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Aug.13.2012
For me, a plagiarist is not only someone taking your words, but a worm eating into you. The extent of such I-way robbery differs. In every field, there are dangers. But when it is something that you have created, it really amounts to intellectual, as well as emotional, colonisation. Whenever...
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