Word: legendizing
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...upcoming project is a revision of the colonial legend of John Smith, starring Colin Farrell and Christopher Plummer. Fox News, the first media organization to publish a review of “The New World,” dubbed the movie “Pocahontas on Acid” before elaborating with a string of adjectives: “surreal, slow, confusing, choppy, and just plain weird.” Critics are already wondering why Malick would choose an actual fourteen-year-old to play the adult Smith’s love interest, or why the film jumps around...
...hold this magazine in your hands, I will be holding something else in mine: a very serious problem. I will no longer be part of Fifteen Minutes. Or, at the very most, if I’m lucky, I’ll graduate from FM co-chair to FM legend. But everybody knows most legends are either actually or effectively dead...
...recent years, many underground rock legends have reunited for a shot at their former glory. Boston post-punk progenitors Mission of Burma are working on their second new album after a hiatus since the mid-’80s. Post-hardcore acts from Slint to Braid have reappeared for tours, only to fade back into legend. Even the Pixies are rumored to be in the studio again. These moves invariably beg the question of motive: music, money, or something entirely different? For Dinosaur Jr., the issue is much more complicated; few bands have as tumultuous a history. The band...
...choose to specialize in the clarinet. Few modern jazz artists are unafraid to be explicitly political; Byron routinely gives his compositions titles like “(The press made) Rodney King (responsible for the LA riots).” Fewer still cite influences ranging from Duke Ellington and klezmer legend Mickey Katz to rap label Sugar Hill Records and the Afro-Cuban rhythmic tradition. “These are all types of music that I’ve always been interested in,” he says. “It’s great that...
...Brokeback” is a masterful retelling of an Annie Proulx (“The Shipping News”) short story, adapted for the screen by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. The Proulx story, first appearing in a 1997 New Yorker magazine, has since become the stuff of legend, and those associated with the movie are only too happy to keep it on its pedestal.“The story on its own carries a real weight,” says Gyllenhaal. “There is a real power to it.”Lee expresses his fondness...