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...interesting facets of celebrity death-watchers is their unique demographic. Who searches for dead celebrities? The answer might surprise you. By examining the visitors to popular dead celebrity sight deadoraliveinfo.com we find that visitors to the site skew to male (71.2%), over 55 years of age (57.7%), living in suburbia (31.4%). Perhaps old guys in the burbs have more time to contemplate mortality...
...these cross-cultural matings warble. Philippe Claudel's pale meditation on the emptiness of suburbia is no match for Sarajevo-born American Aleksandar Hemon's moving account of an immigrant door-to-door salesman working the Chicago suburbs. France's Lydie Salvayre spins a ho-hum tale of a man with an untamable cowlick, and Rikki Ducornet responds with a limp portrait of the aging French cancan dancer La Goulue. But then, all of the writers in As You Were Saying (and their translators) contributed their services without pay. It is easy to imagine that some of the stories were...
...cinematography helps to ground the film in the compellingly nondescript image of New Jersey suburbia, and gives us the documentary-like realism that made “Spellbound” so powerful. This realism is constantly in tension with the whimsical soundtrack by American musician Eef Barzelay that is classical, folksy, and disturbing at the same time...
From the plush vantage of 21st century suburbia, it is easy to forget how much real, substantive progress has been made in relatively little time. Due to advances in sanitation, medicine, and education, life expectancy worldwide has dramatically increased in the past two centuries from 30 years in 1800 to 67 years today, while infant mortality rates have plummeted from 21.7 percent to 0.6 percent in 2000. Diseases like small pox, tuberculosis, and syphilis that once ravaged the Western world have virtually disappeared here. And the development of scientific farming methods, factories, electricity, mass transportation, and even computers has increased...
This rant was addressed to the right, but today it applies even more to the left: Would you ask the developing world to labor and go hungry so you yourself can enjoy your resentment of suburbia and shopping malls, already having attained the prosperity that progress affords you? If so, “an ingrate, dilettante, idiot...