Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last summer, my first on this job, I read Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities." While reading the misadventures of Wolfe's Sherman McCoy, I searched for the real McCoy among the building's tenants. To my consternation, I could not label any one tenant "most likely to suffer a startling fall from grace after a hit and run accident...
...wasn't the first to fail to find the real life analogue of Sherman McCoy. Hollywood, after all, settled on Tom Hanks, America's icon of decency, to play the pathetic McCoy...
...real world in the particular, this summer I think I might have succeeded in the abstract. The image suggested by Wolfe's title exists in the daily routine on Park Avenue: there, people sacrifice efficiency to pretense and ceremony. While the bonfire is not the conflagration that consumes Sherman McCoy, it is kindled by petty vanities...
...would have been Starr vs. Ginsburg all right. I can still picture the scene in Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's courtroom. The judge has just admonished Starr for repeated, irrelevant citings of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Ginsburg is sneering, although he too has had to be told by Judge Johnson that the Marina del Rey tummy-tuck suit he keeps leaning on as a precedent is not germane in federal criminal cases. In the back row, a couple of criminal defense attorneys who specialize in defending drunk drivers and barroom brawlers are attempting unsuccessfully to suppress giggles...
Smoke Signals, which is adapted from some of his own short stories by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre, obviously wants to get at primal stuff. And in its little way it does. But the largest pleasure of this very small film, which is being promoted as the first feature largely created by Native Americans, lies in the relationship between its two young travelers. Off the reservation where they were born and raised, they present contrasting faces to the outside world. Victor wants to be silent, stoic, dangerously enigmatic--sort of an old-fashioned movie Indian. Thomas, who seems...