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...Street, and featured the two poets Natasha Trethewey and Brenda Shaughnessy. Each poet has recently published her first book, Domestic Work and Interior With Sudden Joy, respectively. Trethewey read first. Her poems dealt, from many points of view, with a woman in a photograph projected on a screen for the audience. The woman was a prostitute, photographed in Storyville in 1912. Trethewey’s poems reconstructed a life around this woman, superimposing emotions and experience onto the subject images. Her reading style was conventional. Clearly enunciating every syllable and every break between syllables, she used a steady tone that...
...migré author, to the context of Yugoslavian integration today came from Jack Dimic, originally from Republika Srpska, now a student at the Lee Strasberg Institute for Theater and Film in New York. The project was realized with the assistance of Zarko Lausevic, a renowned Serbian stage and screen actor now in the United States. Emigrants themselves, Dimic and Lausevic partly depicted their own life stories—a political emigrant from Belgrade and an economic emigrant from Bosnia, an intellectual and a gastarbaiter—roommates in the poor suburbs of New York. The personal émigr?...
...work. Eight years after becoming an indelible symbol for the resourceful tactics of guerilla filmmaking with the taut, no-budget wonder El Mariachi, Rodriguez has become an eye-candy dynamo; a gleeful purveyor of pulp so jammed with spicy flavor that it seems ready to rupture on screen at any moment. With the propulsive mayhem of his neo-Spaghetti Western Desperado, Rodriguez established himself as a caffeine-saturated John Woo incarnate, filling the screen with delectable orgies of balletic gunplay and the inspired bedlam of guitar-case rocket launchers. Rodriguez's tongue-in-cheek, violence-as-cartoon mentality was pushed...
...Lists looms heavy, so the outfits were not only tame, but thunderously boring. A couple of exceptions. Angelina Jolie looked fantastic in a white pantsuit. And Jennifer Lopez, of course, ruined a perfectly nice outfit by wearing a diaphanous top. (I literally had to get two inches from the screen to figure out whether it was indeed see-through, but my mom's bloodcurdling scream from the upstairs bedroom confirmed my suspicions.) Oh, and Oscar or no Oscar, I still hate Gladiator...I was shocked when I heard that Nicole Kidman's publicist confirmed that she had a miscarriage...
...Spider verges on the absurd. One would at least think that Freeman is talented and dependable enough to be able to choose better movies. Or maybe screenwriter Marc Moss just has to learn that what may be good on the page is not necessarily good when transferred to the screen...