The Screaming Pope
Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Paris Journal I: La Cordonnerie
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Photograph by Hallie Cohen If you can get a table in the kitchen of La Cordonnerie on the Rue St. Roch near the Tuileries stop on the N...
Friday, March 30, 2012
One Desperate Actress In Search of a Soap
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The notion of killing off a character in a television series because the actress who plays her irritates the producer has dramatic possibil...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Future is Publishers Weekly
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The future is Publishers Weekly. There you can read forecasts about forecasting. Two recent futuristically orientated novels generated au...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Bad Behavior
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Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse-Getty Images President Obama was quoted in the Times about North Korea, “They need to understand that b...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
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photo: Richard Termine Gasper Noe’s Enter the Void deals with the ince...
Monday, March 26, 2012
Children of Paradise
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Could it be that the carnival scenes in Marcel Camus Black Orpheus ( Orfeu Negro , l959) were inspired by the final scene of Marcel Carne...
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Tony Judt: A Final Victory
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Readers of The New York Review of Books will vividly recall the essays Tony Judt, the NYU historian, published in the months leading up to...
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