Word: instinctiveness
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...herd instinct is at work here, and eventually the herd goes wrong. When you invest this way, the bet you make is that you can run fastest when the jig is up. That's a tall order. Typically, the end of any trend is clear only in hindsight. Until then, every dip looks like a buying opportunity...
...great celeb pairing in "2000" is not the much publicized union in bed of Sharon Stone (making amends for offending gays in Basic Instinct?) and executive producer Ellen DeGeneres. It's the reunion of lesbian DeGeneres and funny DeGeneres. This romp about lovers trying to conceive with purchased sperm well exploits her sorely missed deadpan delivery and timing--though Stone daffily and unconvincingly prances through it, and the two click with all the passion of someone forced to pet a snake. Still, you have to like a story that makes a turkey baster into a token of endearment...
This killer instinct bodes well for the final weekend at home against Union...
...example, if a clone of comedian Don Rickles were to grow up and entertain a whole new generation of audiences by insulting them with the term hockey puck, would the Rickles estate be entitled to royalties? Or could Ricklebaby claim them as his own, since it was his natural instinct to use the term? And for that matter, can anyone at all claim ownership of the term hockey puck, including the National Hockey League...
...Academic instinct might suggest that the viewer compare each piece in the show with that of a well-known artist of the contemporary canon. A still life by Barnet Rubenstein can be likened to the work of Wayne Thiebaud, or an oil-and-wax painting by David Ortins seems like a disciplined Franz Kline. Yet this exhibit demonstrates that this is precisely not the point; the works are to be judged on their own terms, within their own visual languages. If anything, the most liberating aspect of the show is its unfamiliarity. It is the experience of thinking and seeing...