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...viewers who will be appalled by 8MM, and anyone who disliked Seven should steer clear of it. Even those who really like it may feel compelled to scrub their eyes with soap afterwards. But keep in mind what Morgan Freeman says at the end of Seven: "Ernest Hemingway once said 'The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part." Courtesy of Columbia Pictures DIRTY MINDS: "No, I won't be a surrogate mother for your triplets...
...Robert Jordan in Nicaragua" shows such a perspective with Boyle's consciousness of the contemporary political times. The famous Hemingway character finds that dealings with the contra-contras and the contras are not so very valiant or elegant as one would imagine. Much like the dealings of the government in the Reagan years with Nicaragua, Boyle points out that America is as unsuited for the revolutions in Central America as Robert Jordan. Unfortunately, America and Robert Jordan both tangle with Central America, and both times the result is disastrous...
...time hunting seemed heroic: a test of manliness, a mythic pageant, a recreational surrogate for war. Ernest Hemingway was savagely, sometimes childishly competitive for trophy animals. The '60s brought a shift, and Vietnam a sort of anti-Hemingway revulsion. Michael Cimino's 1978 movie The Deer Hunter ended with the hero lowering his rifle, declining to kill a good-looking buck that, before Vietnam, he would happily have slaughtered...
...Boston. The overture is rarely heard, and this performance marked its Boston debut. The libretto of The Uncle From Boston has been lost, but it is always refreshing to discover and hear a composer's lesser known works, much like finding more sonnets by Shakespeare or short stories by Hemingway. The beginning of the Capriccio Brillant, Op. 22, was more lovely than brilliant. Short and sweet, it was one of Mendelssohn's three single movement pieces for piano and orchestra...
American actors and baseball players had been this famous before and would be more so; Ernest Hemingway was, but no painter was or would be again--not even Andy Warhol. Eager to curate his own reputation, Pollock let photographers in and performed for them. Hans Namuth, Rudy Burckhardt and Arnold Newman saw a drama in Pollock's mating dance around the canvas on the floor that normally isn't present in a painter's address to his work. It was solipsistic and histrionic at the same time--broody like Brando, vulnerable like James Dean. Pollock's fate was pure stardom...