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...only apt that For Your Consideration is premiering here. It relates the making of a small, indie film - Home for Purim, about a Southern Jewish family - that some showbiz blogger unaccountably tips as an Oscar contender. In a trice, the non-starry cast (impersonated by Catherine O'Hara, Harry Shearer, Parker Posey and Christopher Moynihan) gets dreaming of statuettes - an addiction that infects the film's director, sitcom veteran Jay Berman (Guest, funny) and the studio boss (Ricky Gervais) who now thinks the film could be big big big, if only everything were changed...
...Hara seat by Giorgio Gurioli for Kundalini Transform your backyard into a hip Balearic hangout with the Modigliana, Italy-based Gurioli's Hara seat, a retrofuturist study in fiberglass. Available in orange, red and white and coated with UV-resistant lacquer, it could easily have arrived in a pop-cultural 1960s time capsule. http://kundalini.it...
...Hara, 54, longs to return to her seaside home in Nahariya. Meanwhile, she tries to enjoy the Herzliyya beach and the mall nearby. But when she came across customers haggling over jewelry the other day, she couldn't stomach it. "Imagine, thinking about buying jewelry with everything that's going on. I don't want things to be normal." A visitor reminds her that she has just spoken of how much she longs for normalcy, for herself, for the state of Israel. "Thank you for reminding me," she says, and smiles...
...that would change in Cambridge. He joined the Advocate and fell in with a now-legendary group of young writers that included Kenneth Koch ’48, John L. Ashbery ’49, Frank O’Hara ’50, Robert Bly ’50, and Adrienne Rich...
...poets formed the fourth group. The one I never met was Frank O’Hara. My memory of Ashbery I’m afraid is tinged by an unfortunate encounter with his partner. Others I had met were Donald Hall, Peter Davison, Adrienne Rich, Phil Levine, Stephen Sandy, Robert Creeley (unknown to each other, we were judges for the 1987 American Awards and met at the reception), Robert Kelly, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky. “Howl” had just been published to be immediately banned in public and on the airwaves. Rumor had it that Ginsberg...