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...More than a look at Vido's life alone, Family Letters provides a vivid portrait of Vido's father, a journalist who never fulfills his dream to be a writer, and the unique bond between father and son. Seeing each other as peers and fellow writers in spite of their biological relationship, Vido and Seepersad alternatively offer each other encouragement, criticism and advice in a way that forms a striking contrast to Vido's more candid exchanges with his older sister Kamla, or his oft-exasperated advice to his younger sister Sati...
Every promising career needs a catastrophe, if only for a change of pace, and Total Eclipse was DiCaprio's. This is the movie folks rent to snag a glimpse of the star's naughty bits (for which a slow button, a magnifying glass and a vivid imagination are required). No more Mr. Nice Guy; as Arthur Rimbaud, Paris' teen-poet sensation of 1870, DiCaprio has a talent to abuse. In an early sketch for the out-of-control movie star he so cagily plays in Celebrity, Rimbaud stands naked on an attic window ledge, pisses on someone he doesn...
...that for a 70,000 baht fine, about $1,800, the Thais will deport you rather than imprison you. As for the Canadian currently being held in the second-floor lock-up: according to detectives, he's ingested too much lamphong, a locally grown intoxicating flower that causes vivid hallucinations and can cause permanent psychological damage. They'll be shipping him to a psychiatric ward on the mainland, to a place called, of all things, Suan Sanarom--the Garden of Joys...
...stairs is a mural, known as the "Tribute to Karl Marx." Surrounding a photo of the socialist and a rising red Communist star, the words "Workers of the World Unite" are written in a plethora of languages. The dining room is decorated with half a dozen Communist posters in vivid reds and oranges. "Not everyone here is politically active but they are opinionated. They are not necessarily vegetarian, but they will sit and talk about its merits" says Kaufman...
...Silver is accompanied by a photograph of its making. Parker has discontinued documenting the progress of her work photographically, preferring to keep some of the mystery. In all truth, seeing the photo, which is on display beside the finished product at the ICA, makes that final product more vivid. One is given the opportunity to muse about both the chicken...