Word: barts
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That's one explanation for last month's jeremiad by Peter Bart, editor of the trade paper Variety, against movie reviewers. He couldn't understand why so many critics lambasted hits like 300, Wild Hogs and Norbit. "The situation underscores yet again the disconnect between the cinematic appetites of critics vs. those of the popcorn crowd," Bart wrote. "If the established media want to stay relevant, should their critics make a passing attempt to tune in to pop culture?" He suggested we take "a sabbatical until September," when Hollywood starts releasing artsy films in the pre-Oscar blitz...
...Jesus Dynasty by James Tabor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who also aided Jacobovici, enmeshes a plausible story of early church strife in speculative material suggesting that Jesus had a human father and hoped for an earthly kingship. Professors and best-selling authors Elaine Pagels and Bart Ehrman both have books out claiming to derive new insights from the rediscovered Gnostic Gospel of Judas--itself a best seller. Their logic is solid, but their topic is daring...
...Which is why seeing them on a museum wall is, as Bart Simpson would say, funny in so many ways...
...been directed by your husband [Bart Freundlich] three times, most recently in Trust the Man. I had read that he takes his notebook out and you say 'That's got to get in the movie.' How much of that film was autobiographical...
...Everything a writer writes is autobiographical. That's been my conclusion, living with a writer. And working with someone like David [Hare], David is clearly present in this play, what he thinks. What I've learned from Bart is that every character is the writer, they are just different aspects of them. For a character to work, there has to be some part of the writer speaking through each of them...