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...with pop culture this week. In fact, these past seven days might just drive me to become... edgy. I should go out and buy horned-rimmed glasses and a matching smoking jacket, start hanging out at the Signet, watch Fellini in my spare time and invite discussions of Goethe instead of Cher--because, lord knows, I can't even begin to defend anything that happened this week in entertainment. (Maybe it's because I missed "Dawson's Creek"--the only thing that can possibly temper my spirits.) So what prompted such drastic disillusionment? A couple nights ago, I, like most...
...good, wholesome entertainment or box-office blockbusters (when older people are in doubt as to what's cool, they just follow the charts. By that rationale, Pokemon probably placed 6th in the Best Picture race.) So they nominate The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile and The Sixth Sense instead of the three real best pictures of the year--The Talented Mr. Ripley, Being John Malkovich and The End of the Affair (throw in Election or Toy Story 2 and I'd still be happy). To look edgy, they reluctantly toss in Spike Jonze for Best Director and omit Frank...
...Best Actress nominees are serviceable--but uselessly nominating Meryl Streep for Music of the Heart instead of Reese Witherspoon for Election is a cop-out. If Tom Cruise wins Best Supporting Actor for Magnolia, I'll turn to religion. And I pray that I'll be able to contain my temper when 'NSync takes the stage to perform their Best Original Song nominee, "Music of My Heart"--they'll perform instead of Madonna, whose "Beautiful Stranger" managed to miss the final cut. The good news? We'll also see "Blame Canada," performed on stage since the South Park tune somehow...
...after seeing David Hilliard's work, I've begun to change my mind. His photos are not stolen moments or peeks into busy lives. Instead, they create a relationship between the subject and the viewer. Rather than passively revealing a person's truth, Hilliard and his subject are actively telling the viewer something...
...None of the subjects of the photos are so blatantly heroic as the survivors in Antarctica. Instead, we see a woman in a flowered dress, looking off into the distance. An elderly woman builds a house of cards. A man wearing only briefs stands proudly straight in the middle of a snowy forest. A drag queen picks fake fruit off strings in lush greenery. A naked man walks away from an Edenic highway rest stop...