Word: nostalgia
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...being, it’s kind of—I can barely get the words out—nice to think of loving someone that much, of a relationship lasting more than a night or a drunken half-hour. My love of the Styles section is more than nostalgia for New York, although that’s part of it. (I still read Page Six online and can be found lamenting the dearth of black-and-white cookies in the Boston area). It’s also a tenuous belief in true love. I don’t really think...
...first there’s the lead-in to watch. HBO filmed a nostalgia, nothing-really new special. The production crew and various random Hollywood personalities like Starr Jones and Alanis Morisette (how do they pick these people?) gush over how they are just exactly like the “girls,” the cultural significance of bringing blowjob talk to brunch, and the perpetuation of New York stereotypes, which the glammed-up producer, director, and cast assure us are totally true—except for the fact that none of the characters wear the same outfit twice...
...first there’s the lead-in to watch. HBO filmed a nostalgia, nothing-really new special. The production crew and various random Hollywood personalities like Starr Jones and Alanis Morisette (how do they pick these people?) gush over how they are just exactly like the “girls,” the cultural significance of bringing blowjob talk to brunch, and the perpetuation of New York stereotypes, which the glammed-up producer, director, and cast assure us are totally true—except for the fact that none of the characters wear the same outfit twice...
...doesn’t worry about the passage of time? Who doesn’t worry about getting older? Who doesn’t have nostalgia of the past?” Greene says. “I think these kinds of feelings can be placed in a broader context when you understand how physics looks at time, and that’s part of what the book is about...
...have wit and some satiric edge. But, possibly because of budgetary restraints, the film pretty much scants the revolution. It is a vague presence but never a persuasive dramatic force. One gets the feeling that Bertolucci, who was in Paris during the 1968 May events, feels duty bound (or nostalgia bound) to celebrate them. But as with sex, so with politics. His heart doesn't seem to be fully...