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...heart transplant from a woman who was in her 30s when she died. "By that calculation, you may have given me this award too early. I think I have 40 years on it, and I intend to use it." He didn't. A Prairie Home Companion, the uneasy blend of Garrison Keillor's folksy humor and Altman's corrosive take on human foibles, was his last film...
...tells you that the main story is just one of many that could be told-are being told, in shorthand, at the edges of the frame. The murmur of overlapping blarney isn't a carpet of sound; rather, it's swatches, hundreds of gorgeous samples to choose from. This blend of image and voice, meticulously designed, may seem like a glorious mess. But that is Altman's way of upending the hierarchy Hollywood lives by: star over extra, story over atmosphere, emotion over all. This is movie democracy; you the viewer vote with your eyes and ears. Keep them open...
...typical undergraduate fashion, frivolity and insecurity blend together in seamless fashion ("you're not by any chance my ex-girlfriend are you?"/ "cause if you are, I kind of miss being with you." (Nov. 12, 4:06 p.m.)). The site is also revealing on so many levels ("what work?.../ foucault, obvi"/ hot damn. history of sexuality me all night long"/ better than discipline and punish, ya know (Nov. 13, 2:54 p.m.)) that an outsider would be advised to read it to get a true picture of life at Harvard...
...prevalence of nature imagery, and its inversion, that earns this San Franciscan the tag “Appalachian,” which she shares with Will Oldham, Bill Callahan, and other members of the literary singer-songwriter caste. What separates her from those male counterparts, however, is her blend of folksy stories with the truly avant-garde, as much a call from outer space as a call from the wilderness. The tales of “Ys” ring like the stories of a parallel world, memories of a lost world, or the ghost stories of an imaginary kingdom...
...slim woman with strawberry blonde hair and piercing blue eyes, Roy, 29, says the decision to wear the traditional black veil is her own. "I could wear what a typical person my age would wear and blend into the world," she says. "But I wanted a constant reminder that every day I put on my veil, I am of God's service and I need to be about his work...