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...video or an Internet celebrity—that gets picked up and sent around to tons of viewers, has become a new cultural genre in itself, making its way into popular culture. No longer are the insular, nerdy tech communities complete worlds apart from those who go blond and sing Miley Cyrus songs with the top down. Now, they both can share in the LOLcatz.The intersection of the Web and popular culture has birthed a new “roflculture,” fostering new genres, new celebrities, and a new type of audience. While the meme remains based...
...right to reach for a new manner whenever the spirit moves him. But the LA demi-monde he's exploring (often with his shrewd observational skills fully intact) seems to cry out for the intensity of expression that made plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and movies like The Verdict sing with a sort of atonal harshness, helping them transcend the rather confined situations he prefers. Redbelt (the title refers to the highest honor available to jiu-jitsu fighters), despite its novel milieu somehow remains trapped in genre conventions. It's still basically a boxing picture, not essentially different from dozens...
...she’s been around for a nearly a half century and she’s still singing about dancing and having a good time. But whoever said 50-year-old women don’t like to sing and dance? She chooses to stay superficial once again, employing distinctly vapid lyrics—the words ‘dance’ and ‘floor’ manage to make it into every song—and reverting back to her “Holiday”-era Minnie Mouse-esque vocal range. But the beats...
...might have been the jet lag, or the Bushmills, or the fact that I don't sing and can't dance, but my cousin's wedding, in an artists' colony in western Galilee, had left me feeling a little disjointed. Like most clean-shaven agnostic half-Jews, I get slightly nervous around Hasidim, perhaps because we can't both be right about life. And though my cousin is of mixed-blood, like me, and was never particularly religious, his wedding guests included real-deal Hasids: Ultra-Orthodox men chanting and praying and rocking back and forth, in their fedora hats...
...boring reiteration of deserted island clichés, the details and the cast’s animated performances bring immediacy to the characters, who command the audience’s full attention. “Our city lives have left us wanting more excitement,” the characters sing in the opening scene, expressing a sentiment with which many students trapped between papers and midterms can identify. The musical’s book, co-written by Jacqueline P. Palumbo ’11 and Adam R. Gold ’11, who is also a Crimson editorial writer...