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CARSON PREVIEWS OSCARS IN GQ
February 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via WikipediaFor serious movie fans, the shaky concept of "Best" as defined by the Oscars is invalidated from the get-go by a separate category for best foreign film--one that somehow never finds room for, say, Korean master Chan-Wook Park, let alone French master baiter Gaspar Noé. In good years, the Academy ends up saluting a reasonable combination of profit, reputation (who's overdue?) and genuine cultural impact. In bad ones, it just chomps down on Oscar bait like a depressed walrus, and when was the last time you … [Read more...]
EGGERS ON SALINGER
February 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia...To me the question of whether or not he continued to write strikes at the heart of the nature of writing itself. If he indeed wrote volumes and volumes about the Glass family, as has been claimed, it would be such a curious thing, given that the nature of written communication is social; language was created to facilitate understanding between people. So writing books upon books without the intention of sharing them with people is a proposition full of contradictory impulses and goals. It's like a gifted chef cooking … [Read more...]
