Word: smarts
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...good question, but this is a very smart supernatural thriller and there are definitely these elements of the movie that people are asking, and I love that it makes people want to ask these questions about faith and lack of faith, and it has this intense Biblical place, but more than anything, it's just a fun movie that's entertaining and suspenseful...
...really thankful for that. People probably think that there's probably an amount of, I don't know, drama or something that may come with them, but that's good. That's what I would hope people would think that I would do something that would be smart, because [The Reaping] is definitely a smart supernatural thriller...
...loads of modern movement: the mock swordplay and bullfight maneuvers Edward engages in with the ladies; the expertly clumsy seduction that Joyce tries on Edward, with the help of a beanbag chair that drops 30 feet from the flies to the stage floor. The show has more smart laughs than most Broadway musical comedies...
...they never died out. If it hadn't been for all that weaving and sewing, for instance, the embroidered work of Egyptian artist Ghada Amer would be hard to imagine--to say nothing of Mike Kelley's stuffed-animal art. That's the point of the other big, smart new show "Global Feminisms" at the Brooklyn Museum. Organized by Maura Reilly and art historian Linda Nochlin, it concentrates on art made since 1990 and demonstrates that the concerns of the '70s have spread around the world. Jenny Saville's big nudes, for instance, with their masses of battered flesh...
...with that? With luck, some of those kids will go on to discover O'Keeffe, Agnes Martin and Sally Mann. Or Kara Walker, Janet Cardiff and Kiki Smith. There are some names in there you don't know? Look them up on the Internet. You can bet a few smart kids will. That's how they'll find out how much more...