Word: dark
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...upcoming Andy Kaufman film, to be directed by Milos Forman, will rub Carrey's nose in some of these issues. Late in his career, Kaufman orchestrated increasingly bizarre spectacles--onstage fights, misogynistic wrestling matches--in which audiences (not to mention friends and colleagues) were kept in the dark as to what was real and what was an act. "That's why he's such a comedian's comedian," Carrey says. "He never let anybody in on the joke. That's our sickness--the audience has to know we're kidding, otherwise they won't like us. That...
...lean on somebody else." But Sinatra in those years was natural tabloid fodder, doing the clubs with Ava Gardner (wife No. 2) and Juliet Prowse, and courting Mia Farrow, who became, fleetingly, wife No. 3. And scandal, spurious as it may have been, exerted its own fascination, deepened the dark edge of danger that Sinatra could use like a blade, to provoke when he wanted, to protect what he wished...
...Finnegan understands America, beneath the surface, as many countries and states of mind, some of them deeply disturbing and rotten in unprecedented ways. A staff writer for the New Yorker, Finnegan spent about six years hanging out among the young on the dark edges of postindustrial America. His technique is narrative journalism (formerly New Journalism, or later, Literary Journalism)--reportage as documentary storytelling. In Finnegan, the dazzling special effects of such founding fathers as Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer have given way to an admirable transparency. The author-observer, like a good scientist in nature, all but vanishes. Finnegan fleetingly...
...massacre at My Lai; of a heart attack while playing handball; in Metairie, La. Shocked by comrades' talk of the March 16, 1968, killings, Ridenhour investigated and sent a long letter to several Congressmen and President Nixon when he returned to the U.S. His account that "something rather dark and bloody" had transpired seared the nation's conscience...
...dark out now, and I'm grateful to be back in a car because it's getting cold...