{"id":335,"date":"2003-11-26T03:12:17","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T08:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2003\/11\/quick_to_the_slow\/"},"modified":"2003-11-26T03:12:17","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T08:12:17","slug":"quick_to_the_slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2003\/11\/quick_to_the_slow\/","title":{"rendered":"QUICK TO THE SLOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b6 My kids totally loved <a href=\u201dhttp:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0312528\/\u201d target=\u201d_blank\u201d>CAT IN THE HAT<\/A>, and there are two gags that tip it into the plus column for me: the infomercial (\u201cAnything\u2026?\u201d), and the petition dude who says \u201cOkay, I have trouble with the term \u2018dog\u2019\u2026\u201d<BR><BR><br \/>\n\u00b6 So here\u2019s the Beatles <a href=\u201dhttp:\/\/www.here-now.org\/shows\/2003\/11\/20031124_17.asp\u201d target=\u201d_blank\u201d>story<\/A> WBUR\u2019s HERE AND NOW ran yesterday, I\u2019m already getting mail on how I refer to the \u201cSpector\u201d \u201cGet Back\u201d incorrectly, when what I tried to say was the \u201cradio\u201d version of \u201cGet Back,\u201d the SINGLE, the version with the fake ending we\u2019ve been hearing on the radio for 30 years. Do check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog\/MCKMAG.html\" target=\"_blank\">Magic Circles<\/A>, wonderful read. <BR><BR><br \/>\n\u00b6 Christgau posted his new <a href=\u201dhttp:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0348\/christgau.php\u201d target=\u201d_blank\u201d>Consumer Guide<\/A> yesterday, and it really made me wonder: is he still writing for STONE? How can that be possible after stuff like this, on Lisa Marie: &#8220;The first surprise is that the Glen Ballard AOR isn&#8217;t worse. The second surprise is that she wrote the intense if clumsy lyrics herself. The final surprise is that seven months after its No. 5 debut nobody remembers it ever existed except Elvis fan clubs, the Church of Scientology, the president of Capitol Records, and maybe, just maybe, Jann Wenner.\u201d? Or does he just assume that Wenner doesn\u2019t read his VOICE column?<BR><BR><br \/>\n\u00b6 There\u2019s a movie that\u2019s been on my mind lately, we rented it a couple months back: Vince Vaughn with Julia Ormond and Ed Harris in <a href=\u201dhttp:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0223954\/\u201d target=\u201d_blank\u201d>THE PRIME GIG<\/A>. A real sleeper. The ending is weak, but those performances have stayed with me. <BR><BR><br \/>\n\u00b6 And one last thing: due to divided critical opinion, and the fact that we figured it would make a good \u201cbig screen\u201d choice, we caught MASTER AND COMMANDER, and I liked it more than Sara. She decried the length, the pace, the number of clich\u00e9s in relation to the amount of pretense, and the complete lack of subtext. I took my usual musician\u2019s exception: as long as they\u2019re chasing down all the historical particulars of detail in costume, shipping, ponytails and surgical procedures, can\u2019t they at least get the violin and cello outfitted with gut strings? The \u201cbig screen\u201d stuff was grand. But the more I think about it, the less it holds up. And Peter Weir is still going to have to do major time in a very dark place for DEAD POETS SOCIETY. <BR><BR><br \/>\nNow go: EAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b6 My kids totally loved CAT IN THE HAT, and there are two gags that tip it into the plus column for me: the infomercial (\u201cAnything\u2026?\u201d), and the petition dude who says \u201cOkay, I have trouble with the term \u2018dog\u2019\u2026\u201d \u00b6 So here\u2019s the Beatles story WBUR\u2019s HERE AND NOW ran yesterday, I\u2019m already getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}