Jerry Saltz won a Pulitzer, I won a Pritzker for architectural journaylism in 2020.
I do miss London. The bullshit compared to NYC is just that little bit more refined. Always has been. Now I see (but I fffing cant't) the great great great independent sculptor Christo and the Serpentine. Imagine (as I will) listening to a BBC Prom and journeying to that Christo. May I suggest as an aperitif: Mahler's Symphony (#8) of a Thousand with five choirs...
Oh, me oh my....
I applaud your bravery Emmanuelle Seigner! What you say is absolutely true. Roman Polanski is one of the world's greatest directors. People are so used to, not even the Wiki summary, but 'tweet' summary of someone's life that many of the facts become totally unknown. A not so nice true New York film, Carnage. Years before Big Little Lies did something similar for the West Coast. I'm not going to argue this one out. ... has everyone seen Chinatown, one of the great movies about America and greatest movies of the cinema? !
You know what should be required reading in ALL schools, not just America: Johann Hari's book, Lost Connections.
The Hunting Ground was a documentary that no-one could deny its making. But there is a very important but....
"Kirby Dick came a ‘cropper’ last year with his doc The Hunting Ground about sexual abuse in colleges. The girls who started their campaign are unbelievably naively brave and tenacious to get their cause all the way to the White House in Washington. Unfortunately for respected director Kirby Dick, the trial of his ‘lead subjects’ had just got underway before the Sundance Fest 2015 premiere. And the director’s use of so-called facts was fairly embarrassing. Therein lies the problem for colleges taking action that when a case goes to trial facts are necessary. And the galling problem for the campaign recognizing college rape is that the facts, if there, are quashed and massaged or dragooned into a grey realm. Harvard Law School quite justifiably issued a press release. The campaign for justice by Andrea Pino and Annie Clark…thankfully thunders on!"
Extracted from mine own website if anyone wants to read more than 100 words from me. (Funny: not my first job -that was amazing!- but my second gig as an opera critic for the UK's first color tabloid. I would get paid for writing 400 words and they would chop it down to a 'tweet' of 200.) A bit 'miffed' that things such as adjectives hit the deck but hey, cela ne feraient once mused Hamlet;)
Andrew and Dave Go Sailing!
A TRIPLE THREAT COMING TO A MARINA NEAR YOU
2019
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I was considering Seinfeld but Jerry has two syllables, and we now know where one syllable gets you in America! And Stephen Colbert almost sounds like Rasputin, if you fast track the 1st syllable:) All that said, I’m happy with my choice. Hey, Netflix spin-off: Andrew and Dave Go Rock Climbing, Andrew and Dave go Space Lab (I still have friends at NASA, Dave)…..Andrew and Dave go scuba-diving (I still have friends underwater..)….
notice how the 'g' changed. Keepin' it honest....
Andrew and Dave Go: Werner Herzog
Blindfolded we will go. I blame everything that went on this endeavorer to our ‘pot smoking’ production manager Giraffe. See what happens when u give a human a break…!
Oh, me oh, my….
