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...Politician by day, renowned international pop star by night…it’s what many a middle-aged man daydreams about. He is currently Brazil’s Minister of Culture, but it is no wonder the media has dubbed him the “Minister of Cool...
...when Gilberto Gil visited Harvard’s Sanders Theater last week to give a lecture on “Brazilian Cultural Policies and Social Inclusion,” the audience could hardly guess that the ridiculously cool individual standing in front of them was 62 years old. Kicking off the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’ “Brazil Semester,” Gil energetically stood in a sharp suit, his shoulder-length dreadlocks tied back in a ponytail...
...Cool is the most ironically named movie since What’s the Worst That Could Happen? Crass commercialism rarely exhibits any sign of the finesse, reserve, or hip theatricality inherent to modern definitions of cool. This flop is no exception...
...Cool, the lackluster sequel to Get Shorty—both based on titular novels written by Elmore Leonard—orbits around the galaxy of popular stars clustered by production company MGM. It would seem that they have strategically selected performers to appeal to the broadest range of audiences. For every racial and social minority—aging rockers, young R&B and rap fans, 70s movie fans, gay men, WWF fans/closeted gay men—there are a few good men towards whom they can gravitate. The problem with that strategy is the movie MGM saddled with that burden?...
...movie about “cool” needs a central figure that speaks slower than everyone else; as John Travolta notes in Be Cool: “If you’re important enough, they’ll wait for you.” Think Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects, Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or Travolta himself in Get Shorty...