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...film that was made in the camera. No editing—a truthful film.” The short film is 16 minutes of pure silence, made with an 8mm camera that shifts dramatically, zooms in and out, and never focuses on its subject, a window that overlooks the Brooklyn Bridge. While this film might normally leave viewers perplexed, the audience last weekend received full enlightenment from the artist himself. Jacobs identified “Window” as an example of the unedited “jazz” thinking, which results in a film based solely...
...delivered was both affecting and genuine—and unlike “Notorious,” it expressed a heartfelt love for rap. “Notorious” clearly steals some shots from the video to “Juicy”—a Brooklyn stoop illuminated by streetlights, Biggie getting arrested on a street corner for peddling dope. In recent days, I’ve been re-watching the “Juicy” video a lot, trying to erase the taste “Notorious” left in my mouth, telling myself...
...four children. He continued to write novels up until this past fall, when he published his last, The Widows of Eastwick, a sequel to his famous Witches of Eastwick from 1984. By then he was living in a world that had transformed and transformed again; from a rooftop in Brooklyn, Updike, with his own twinkly eye, watched the Twin Towers fall, an experience that inspired his novel Terrorist, which focused on a young Arab American. (See the top 10 longest sequel gaps...
...legal career, Mortimer was as eloquent defending others' words as he was in choosing his own. He won obscenity cases for the publisher of Last Exit to Brooklyn and for Virgin Records, defending the Sex Pistols' debut album...
...applaud Marsha Linehan's methods and wish they had been used in my mother's case. It's too late for her, but I pray that future generations will benefit from Linehan's techniques and perhaps be spared the intense pain of this mystifying and debilitating disorder. Nancy Leggio, BROOKLYN...