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...this added material comes off as hackneyed as it sounds. But to give Joffe what little credit is due, a discernable logic underpins this pop-up-book montage of colonial history. He reads The Scarlet Letter as a dialogue between witches and Indians on the one hand and the Puritan colonialists on the other, between the untouched wilderness and the civilized world between our most authentic impulses and social norms. Predictably enough, he poses the question, "Who is really more civilized...
Late 18th century Boston and Philadelphia had a stronger material culture than any other cities in America, but the old Puritan and Quaker distrust of the graven image and preference for the Word had delayed their appreciation of painting (as distinct from furniture or silverware)...Art was mere "limning" and, as Copley complained to West in London, people "regard it as no more than any other useful trade...like that of a Carpenter, tailor or shoe maker, not as one of the most Noble arts in the world. Which is more than a little Mortifying...
While playing John Proctor, a Puritan farmer portrayed by Day-Lewis in the film, Baum so impressed a casting director who happened to be in the audience that she offered to help Baum with his career...
...metal. The whole event was very "in your face" with the women wearing pouty, bitchy looks and the men looking arrogant as all hell. It was an excellent crowd of probably close to five-hundred with no shortage of transvestites and coked-out decadents. What they were doing in puritan Boston remains and mystery...
...cigarette has entered a new phase. More than a health hazard, it is now considered an accomplice to immorality. Of course, in Puritan Massachusetts, such nonsense cannot be tolerated. Placing itself on the side of the righteous majority, the staff ignores the preferences of the smoking minority...