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Cooper later compares Wurtzel to La Traviata or a martyred saint: a figure we love to watch suffer. “Ordinary suffering tends to be kind of dull, whereas the Passion of Liz is pathos raised to the pitch of art porn,” he writes in an e-mail. “Agony on ecstasy. If drag queens are not dressing as Elizabeth Wurtzel 30 years down the road, I’ll be deeply surprised...
...mention seeing her or him nightly on syndicated reruns. Louis-Dreyfus and Alexander made fun of exactly that situation on recent episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the HBO sitcom made by and starring Seinfeld co-creator Larry David. In one scene, Louis-Dreyfus and David, playing themselves, pitch a show called I'm Not Evelyn, about an actress who can't get work because she's pigeonholed as the character she used to play. Louis-Dreyfus, however, has never pursued that sitcom idea in real life. "It's more funny in the context of Curb Your Enthusiasm than...
...Bush and the Republicans will pitch another round of tax cuts the same way they pitched last year's - by looking at the long term. Not only are tax cuts are the people's (and the corporations') money, they'll say, they represent the best way to ensure economic growth for years to come. The White House has even renamed the economic stimulus plan the "economic security plan," just to make the point. (Somebody must have held a focus group over the holidays.) Whereas Daschle's priorities are all screwed up - Washington shouldn't presume to spend the people...
...better city. No, this isn't a pitch for Dean Kamen's Segway. New Yorkers are avid pedestrians and steel-nerved riders - a motorized scooter, methinks, offers them too little of either. But it is a pitch for the cities of the future Kamen dreams about - less cars, fresher air, more foot traffic and less sitting in midtown gridlock...
...GIVE YOUR GIFT Having hot musicians (Sheryl Crow, Macy Gray, Shaggy) sing about giving of yourself--so you'll give your business to the Gap--would be dicey any year, much less after Sept. 11. Yet once again, the retailer's holiday ads were culturally pitch-perfect. On a stark set, the singers, covering Supertramp's plangent Give a Little Bit, gave a little uplift to a Christmas season that needed...