Word: worlds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hold your breath blonde-haired boys--they're looking for the next Anakin Skywalker to star in Episode II (due to start filming next summer) and become one of the most recognizable faces on the planet. The memo specified that Lucasfilm will cast a 19-year-old in the world's most coveted role--someone who is "self-determined, intelligent and forthright." Oh, and all for all of you non-Aryans, don't bother--the candidate must resemble Jake Lloyd. So there goes the talk of Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Phillipe and Joshua Jackson (too old) and pretty much every other...
...movies are getting worse and worse. Goldeneye was an innocuous one and the Tina Turner ditty had some longevity. But what in God's name does Tomorrow Never Dies mean? And that cacophony by Sheryl Crow? And to prove that it wasn't a fluke, now we get The World is Not Enough (it sounds like a Danielle Steel novel) with a boring title track by Garbage. Bring back Octopussy...Michael Mann is one of the finest directors around. He's particularly intriguing because he makes testosterone flicks that somehow play better to females than males. Check out The Last...
...about a little boy's experience in Nazi-occupied Germany--which constitutes the first part of the play--and wrote the second half herself. That Day tackles the experience of two parallel families, one in France and the other in Germany, who for some unclear reason are suffering from World...
...families are suffering, why the French family is forced to leave its hometown and abandon their child. Who are these families? Are they Jewish? Are they resistance fighters? The director leaves important concrete details out of the picture on purpose--to assert the universality of the harm that World War II caused? Everybody already knows the war is bad, so what does this play do that's new? Part of the reason for the ambiguity, at least in the first part, is that the play is from the little boy's point of view. We hear his thoughts over...
...hard being but a few hours drive from the Capital of the Twentieth Century. In the art world, where New York's hegemony is especially overwhelming, the resulting insecurity leads to Boston's misguided attempts to imitate or to compare itself to New York. Such attempts inevitably fall flat. This is unfortunate, because these gestures are intended as expressions of the Boston art community's justified optimism and pride: they just come out all wrong. In the photograph A Great Day in Boston, there are 810 beaming Boston visual artists. Behind all those goofy banners on Harrison Ave., there...