Argo: The Tough Answer to a Tough Question
012), 120 min, Drama, History, Thriller; Story: A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of...
Bestiaire. Is It Us or Is It Denis Côté?
Denis Côté is worried about his new film. He’s afraid that people think it is anti-zoo. Before the movie began, Côté, in his unnatural...
Schwarzenegger: Total Freefall?
In the 1993 action movie, Demolition Man, Bruce Willis’s character is thawed (after being cryogenically frozen in 1996) in the year 2023 in future...
Live from ThePotholeView: According to Us, Gore Vidal Is Still Having Fun
When you have Gore Vidal's irreverent wit and cosmopolitan nature, you cannot stop having fun. At random, I picked this quote to announce his...
La Femme et Son Image
MoMA brought to our attention Cindy Sherman's work this year, but what the New York's modern art crown jewel should also do is bring...
Madonna Does Florence
Amazing Madonna kept a very busy schedule in Florence. She performed in the evening, then spent the night with her 24-year-old French boyfriend Brahim...
Frozen Assets
New York is not much fun for the slow minded, especially at a time of depression, such as ours. Take the New York Public Library,...
Who’s Got Cojones and Who Don’t
On his March 15, 2012 episode, Steven Colbert ridiculed presidential wannabe and Alabama Republicans’ darling, Rick Santorum, for his Puerto Rico comments. Though not asked...
Watch, Don’t Think: The Case of “Top Secret” in Beijing
There is a profound distinction to be made between seeing and thinking, between witnessing something and unpacking it intellectually. Wrapped up in these concerns,...
The Reprieve
You flew
in my room
I'd left
the door
cracked against
the autumn air
A wren you were
no bigger
than a latchkey
Lucky for you
it was only me
in residence
The cat was
gone
just dreaming
perhaps
of...
Of Gods, Charlie Hebdo and Tasseography
This past week, the satirical French newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, had its Paris office firebombed. Its website and Facebook page were also hacked and remain...
Derivative Works Better!
Derivative is usually the curse of small cultures. George Enescu, the greatest Romanian composer, is rather too Dvorakian in his compositions, so few outside...
WEST 18th
We ended
on the floor
on West 18th
She said
I can only come
in one position
I said
I’m glad we
got that straight
George Murphy
Hair. The Next (to last) Generation.
Unless hyped, hair is such a non-issue, that one would be baffled to hear that Hair makes for a less repetitive musical than Mama...
