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Jonathan Ames is a fiction writer, an avant-garde performer and a celebrity journalist who happens to be dating Fiona Apple. His new book The Double Life Is Twice as Good is a hodgepodge of stories, articles, diary entries and even a cartoon about the time he found a cockroach in his bathtub. The book's central narrative, an old-fashioned private-eye story with a film-noir-ish feel, has been turned into an HBO series that is set to debut in September and star Jason Schwartzman. TIME talked to Ames about writing, his new TV show...
...shower curtains and hospital intestine bags were strutting the catwalk, spraying sparkling wine and foamy shower soap into the audience. "The pressure of standardization, forcing people into line - we were totally against all those socialist diseases," says filmmaker Marco Wilms, a former model whose documentary about the G.D.R.'s avant-garde fashion scene, Comrade Couture, was recently released in Germany. "We just wanted to be ourselves...
...could imagine 19 year-old fellows thinking ‘this is better than some musky old attic in some other house.’” In addition to its cutting edge architecture, residents recalled the novelty of the House’s avant-garde art, which Busch characterized as “Picassoesque.” Yet in the November 28 edition of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Harvard alumni expressed disapproval of the artistic quality of the mural decorating Quincy dining hall. Gordon G. Sampson 1910 and Bernard A. Merrian 1909 agreed that...
...Find all things avant-garde at Cape to Cairo (100 Main Road, tel: (27-21) 788 4571), an interiors boutique specializing in unconventional objets d'art. Lose yourself among the driftwood, shabby-chic furniture, fireplace surrounds and chandeliers. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...cutting-edge troupe was too establishment for Swinton. She starred in a miniseries based on Shelley's Zastrozzi and did fringe theater, where she met the Scots playwright John Byrne, with whom she had twins and still lives. She also found a mentor, and soul-mate, in the gay avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman...