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...Women love bums!' He took all the heavies; Bogey was a heavy; when he picked Clark Gable, Gable was playing a heavy . . . Richard Widmark . . . was the worst . . . heavy in the world . . . And it's still true. Look at the Burt Reynolds and the Clint Eastwoods and all of that crap coming up. They're all abusive to women." Howard Hawks (To Have and Have Not; Red River) on typecasting: Martha Vickers played a nymphomaniac in The Big Sleep, and the studio signed her to a long-term contract. "She started playing a nice girl, and they fired her after...
That, particularly, is when we came in handy to one another: we both, in different ways, like to make it clear that we don’t give a crap about the administration, or “getting ahead,” or being like everyone else. And we both support each others’ efforts thereto...
...Refusing to identify their members (though believed to be the brainchild of Auckland artist Merylyn Tweedie), et al. have courted controversy. Their 2004 installation of Portaloos, rapture, was labeled "crap" by conservative M.P. Deborah Coddington, and their studied anonymity enraged TV presenter Paul Holmes. Even Prime Minister Helen Clark weighed in, saying the country's representative artists should "be able to articulate what this work is about." But all was forgiven in October, when et al. took out the nation's top art award for restricted access, an installation that included footage of Holmes chastising the artists. The Walters Prize...
...does grow on you and soon finds a stomping middle ground between the Sugarhill Gang and Charlie Daniels. In the online-opinion maelstrom, about 50% of people seem to enjoy their first exposure to hick-hop; the rest can safely be described as horrified. "Can't spell rap without crap" and "NOT COUNTRY ... A SICK DISGRACE" are common threads, with even moderate dissenters saying that while they may like country and rap separately, they would prefer they stay that way. Some call on CMT to stop playing the video. "Rapboy Troy is not CMT. He's MTV and BET. Plain...
...drama critic John Simon, fired last week "from the post he long disgraced." But there's no way to search, and the bloggers share a cluttered home page with sundry news links. If you're not a fan, you can find company on blogs like HUFFINGTON IS FULL OF CRAP. --By Jeremy Caplan