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...these things so popular with so many women and so scorned by book critics and reviewers, who are often, but by no means always, males? (Some of the sharpest attacks on romances have come from academic feminists, who find the "love conquers all" plots distressingly retro.) Romances may account for a sizable share of U.S. publishing profits, but they don't get discussed much in polite print or society. Even dedicated fans report feeling embarrassed buying them...
...this environment, a show like South Park is, perversely, the most retro rarity on TV: an offensive and intelligent series, satirizing religion and society with proud coarseness (just as All in the Family did in its own way). South Park's bigoted, foulmouthed Eric Cartman may go to hell for it. But unlike GD&B's creators, he'll at least have something to show for his trip...
Green and Bastone launched the smokinggun.com with the intention, as Bastone puts it, of "paving a paper trail." The site has a retro look (thanks to Bastone's wife Barbara Glauber, who designed it) and a cheeky sensibility, but the real hook is the documents it obtains through the Freedom of Information Act, among them court records, FBI files and blueprints. "We had no idea how to do bells and whistles," recalls Bastone, sitting in a living room that mirrors the olive-and-orange palette of the site. Their operation has no office, and Green concedes that their "L.A. correspondent...
...theatricality. But perhaps this inclusivity of concepts is the very representation of art in time. The millennium, artificial construct that it is, provides nonetheless an opportunity for retrospection. And Time Boxes 2000, as a self-contained survey of some issues in the last 25 years of art, is retro at its best...
...draws comparisons to and can practically be considered a possible sequel to My Best Friend's Wedding, the 1997 hit that made a breakout star out of Everett. Although he has been making films since the 80s, it was not until his role as Julia Robert's droll and retro-English gay confidante that Everett was brought to the forefront of Hollywood. The essence of casual bonhomie, Everett is naturally charming, inquisitive and seemingly at complete ease with himself, traits that are clearly reflected in the character of Robert, yet another droll and charming English confidante. He once again steals...