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“I have often thought that if I were ever a drag queen, and more specifically that if I were ever a drag queen who was a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race, I would play Virginia Woolf — or rather, Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf — in the Snatch Game episode when the contestants don their very best celebrity impersonation.”
“I was borderline friends with Jam Master J before he got assassinated.”
In true Seinfeldian fashion, Arthur Martine, the Victorian writer behind Martine’s Handbook of Etiquette, drew up a detailed taxonomy of the various species of bore. These include the Loud Talker, who “silences a whole party by his sole power of lungs;” the Malaprop, who masters the art of inappropriate conversation; and the Life-Sharer, who may be familiar to the Facebook addicts of today.
OH MY GOD
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Watch those ships obliterating.
Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, July 1946.
source: Library Of Congress
Movies I Saw All The Way Through In 2013 With No Fast Forwarding or Anything #13: The Master (2012)
With one exception, every Paul Thomas Anderson movie has been about people looking for love in all the wrong places, with a tremendous performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s done the former better, but in the latter department, this one takes the gold. And while Joaquin Phoenix was too inscrutable a lead for my taste, he’s certainly a terrific camera subject, with Anderson not wasting a flinch or crinkle. I could tell from the trailer I was in for the most gorgeous visual compositions I’ve ever noticed in a film; between that and how quickly we get into the cult stuff, my mind wandered nowhere nearly as soon as I thought it would.
As always, Anthony is right.
“The question at hand is not whether Richard kills people, rides roughshod over morality, or perversely revels in doing so. The problem for us — we distant modern viewers who have seen so many kings come and go in these history plays — is that as soon as Richard affixes the label of villainy to himself the label starts to lose its distinction, to melt into the milieu of political violence.”
Will Glovinsky, “Proving a Villain: The Search for Richard III.”
