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Kimmelman doesn't have to climb mountains to find inspiration. A trip to the supermarket with his 5-year-old leads him to think about how art transfigures the commonplace, which puts him in mind of the hushed brown crockery in the still lifes of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and the pulsating gum balls of Wayne Thiebaud, which in turn bring him to a wise and lovely conclusion: "Artists who push us to look more carefully at simple things may also strike a slightly melancholic note. They remind us of a childlike condition of wonderment that we abandoned once...
...image of the unarmed British bobby took a hit last week after new details emerged about the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian killed by police when he was mistaken for a suspected suicide bomber the day after the failed July 21 terror attacks. In line with a shoot-to-kill policy put in place after Sept. 11, Menezes was shot eight times after boarding a London Underground train. Eyewitnesses said Menezes wore a heavy jacket, and that he vaulted over the ticket barrier. These observations seemed to tally with the limited information provided by police, who said...
Amid suspicions of a government cover-up, bloggers seized on documents leaked last week from an investigation into how London police came to shoot an innocent Brazilian seven times in the head a day after the attempted bombings on July 21. Contrary to initial accounts, Jean Charles de Menezes did not appear to have worn a bulky jacket or vaulted a turnstile. "We figured the police lied from Day One," crowed WIS[S]E WORDS. But a former British army officer pointed out on the CABARFEIDH pages that the police had said "very little regarding the entire horrific episode." That...
Lunar Park is about a novelist named, not coincidentally, Bret Easton Ellis. The fictional Bret has written the same novels the real one has. The fictional Bret cavorts with celebrities ("Jean-Michel Basquiat, Molly Ringwald, John McEnroe, Ronald Reagan Jr. ..."), has numerous affairs with both sexes and is perpetually strung out on coke, tequila, heroin, cosmopolitans and crystal meth. He even has a novelist pal named Jay McInerney. (According to Ellis, McInerney was not thrilled with his cameo appearance. "Really, out of all the s_____ things that have been written about him, this is the lowest? I guess...
...baroque species that mixes the sordid with the soaring, is Gilliam's specialty--that, and making movies with big ideas and impossibly spectacular imagery. At times his films become missions impossible. The Spanish shoot of his epic The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, with Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort, was so plagued by calamities that the only productive thing to come out of it was the disaster-movie documentary Lost in La Mancha. So many other projects have stalled that, at 64, Gilliam has joined the ranks of such hard-luck masters as Orson Welles and Erich von Stroheim...