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...know all this? Gossip, malicious rumor, purloined notes from a secret meeting? Actually, no. Just open the most recent issue of Perspective to page four, and read Sarah Song's Introspective entitled "Why Do You Have to Get All Racial Reading the Introspective is always a treat for postmoderns like us, given our love of self-referentiality. But Why Do You Have To Get All Solipsistic...
...family column. All I mean is that every movie viewer is used to behaving in certain ways at the theater, and those ways may not necessarily be appreciated by one's viewing partner. For example, do you talk during the movie? Your partner may feel that jokes and gossip are sacreligious to the cinematic ritual. Do you stay for the credits? Your partner may not care appreciably who the second unit assistant director is. Do you eat and drink during the movie? Your fellow viewer may be turned off by the thought of your stuffing your face during a tearjerker...
...movie makes an asset of its minimal budget by interpolating abstract footage and a few surreal "trial" sequences that both tease and pay homage to gay feminism. For the uninitiated, there are a few comic "inside" glimpses, as when Max and her clan gossip about lesbians in history, from k.d. lang all the way back to Eve. At heart, though, Go Fish is a chummy date movie about the mundane, urgent business of finding a lover. Max could be any teen on the Friday-night prowl, but with a nice bending of Hollywood theology: girl meets girl, girl gets girl...
...Straits of Florida, most Cubans struggle on, trying to patch together a normal life. Government workers returned to their desks last week from August vacations. Children put on their maroon uniforms and went back to classrooms lacking books, pencils and paper. In the streets of Havana, the gossip has turned from Castro's woes -- the bad sugar harvest, the new taxes, the problem of prostitution -- to the rafters...
Hollywood gossip surfeits John Gregory Dunne's novel...