i laughed out loud at the phrase vision board today

Curators maintain and restore collections of art and other objects, such as gems, insects, artefacts, and historic clothing. In addition to ensuring the physical preservation of the collection, they document and classify each piece by taking careful measurements, noting distinguishing features, and preparing precise descriptions.

Acquiring new items to add to their collections may be another responsibility of the curator. For example, the curator of an art exhibit might attend auctions, or visit artists, art dealers, and potential donors. These acquisitions can involve a great deal of travel.

Curators often need to research the items they are dealing with. The results of this research can be published in books, articles, and brochures. Depending on the institution they work at, and the nature of their research, curators may also give lectures, classes, and guided tours.

Another important duty of curators is creating exhibits of their collections for the public. These shows involve a great deal of planning and organization. Curators decide in which rooms the items (such as pottery, maps, or moon rocks) will be presented, whether the rooms will have to be redesigned or repainted, and what kind of lighting will be used. They also decide how the items will be transported and arranged. It is their job to direct and supervise the people who carry out these tasks, and they may also be responsible for publicizing the shows in the local media.

Curators normally specialize in a certain subject area, such as contemporary or Renaissance art, Egyptian pottery, Victorian clothing, dinosaurs, insects, or suits of armour. Their area of expertise depends on their educational background.

As they gain more experience and seniority, curators often take on more responsibilities. Duties such as scheduling, budgeting, managing, and fundraising can take up a large part of a senior-level curator’s day.

In addition to being curators, people in this field may also be scientists, such as paleobiologists, mineral scientists, entomologists, or botanists.

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Do you jump at the opportunity to express yourself in writing whenever possible? Do you find yourself scribbling short story ideas or screenplay dialogue on a notepad? Are your bookcases overflowing? If so, then maybe you should think about a writing career.

The written word is everywhere, from the backs of cereal boxes to the Internet. Writers create novels, scripts, advertisements, manuals, newspaper articles, and application forms—the list is endless. There will always be a need for good writers who can communicate clearly and effectively.

Generally, there are two kinds of writing: fiction and non-fiction. Fiction or creative writers use their imagination to create the plot and characters of their stories. Sometimes, they also have to research the subject matter they are writing about. For instance, if they are writing about a murder mystery set in 18th century England, they will do research into life in England at the time. Novelists, poets, playwrights, and screenwriters all fall into the category of fiction writers.

Non-fiction writers don’t imagine or create the events and people they are writing about. These writers must relate the facts. Journalists, for example, gather and write news and views from the world around them. Technical writers are hired by large manufacturing companies to write assembly instructions, auto manuals, and other materials that accompany commercial products. Non-fiction writers are also hired by governments and businesses to produce publications such as information brochures, press releases, and newsletters.

Some non-fiction writers are required to be very creative. Copywriters, for example, study companies’ products and use creative skills to generate the emotional impact that will make customers want to buy the product. Travel writers give factual accounts of tourist destinations and holiday resorts. However, they must be creative in getting the information across, so that readers will be enticed into visiting the places they are writing about.

NOC Code: 5121

so the last week i spent most of it at a job creation centre, and the results were typical, what you want to do, which jobs you want to fufill, who are you using jungian style pseduo science, reassuring, but not profoundly useful--this week is the one-on-one career planning, find a life and not a job thing, and i hope that it isnt filled with
a) as much positive thinking claptrap as the time before
b) that it will help me find a day job.

i move on wednesday.

the cbc once again loves my ass.

are there any resources for adult aspies, i have called the two toronto autism socities, for intake appointments, due to some personal habits that need to be changed now, but all of the practical books seem to be for parents of children to late adoloscents, and its the sheer practical stuff i need help with...

first half of the whole thing went incredibly slow, and exhaustingly happy. my attitude of i do not want to have fun, i just want to work has not been honoured. i am barely hiding my intense and complete contempt

no one asks you to be happy. just to get yr work done.
collette, qouted by ned rorem, wings of friendship: selected letters 1944-2003, 170

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Sarah knows how to field-dress a moose. I know how to castrate a calf. Neither of those things has anything at all to do with this election. But since we know so much about Sarah’s special skills, I wanted to make sure you knew about mine too.
— Iowa Lt. Gov. Patty Judge

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Firestone Library, Princeton, Rolling STacks, Photog and Date Unknown, linked from Little Professor Blog


ryan james mcfarland is sort of a mcginley lite, but the pictures are pretty enough

9 slides from the carasouel image of madmen.

del martin founder of daughters of billitis, founder of the lesbian journal the ladder, first lesbian leader of now, convinced now in 1971 that lesbian issues were femminist issues, white house delegate on aging, journalist, and first woman to be married to a female partner in california; has died and maurice sendak comes across as wise, meloncholy, and self depracting, when he talks about the loss of his partner of 50 years, Eugene Gylnn.

hyper realist paintings of ny delivery vehicles--not quite estes or bechtle b/c they have less of an exactitude, and many are on colour field backgrounds, the translation of graffiti tagging to more orderly traditional painting, esp. in Richardson and Johnson, paintings of delivery trucks, and Kent/Betty, paintings of delivery vans have a transhistorical/transmedia mash up sensibility which i find fascinating.

there might be a pop musical staring michael jackson, written by david gest, about robbie burns.

david frum on sarah palin.

no iconic canadian photos occured b/w BC and Ontario. Or in the Maritimes.

8 Zebra Prints i like the lime/chartuse and the breeze/linen ones. 6 giraffe prints i like maggie/silver.

guitar hero for xians.

i thot title 9 got rid of this shit

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Product Photo, Kleinhammer Dixie Coleslaw, Date and Photog Unknown


Boho Dance, covered by Bjork.


James Dean: Kiss Me
Paul Newman: Can't Here.
Screen test for Rebel.



I found this viola moving when i saw it at the AGA, slow and sort of beautiful, arcadian in the american traditions.

lula supsends brazillian spy cheif, over illegal wiretapping, telling the states what it should have done.


Jerry Reed (March 20, 1937 – August 31, 2008), on Porter Wagoner, singing Wabash Cannonball, listen to that picking, in the middle--best of/last of a dying breed.

t shirt with a photo transfer of a chinese concrete tower block


College Football Handjob.

200 plus pocket protectors, given out as promotional items with a plain white or black background, they become perfect canvases for early to mid century logo design.

an italian woman is at risk for 5 years in prison for blasphemy, for making jokes about the current pope being sodomised in hell--i am pretty sure that those jokes were made before dante, it is a long italian tradition.


I have been listening to Fireflies, the faith hill album of a few y ears ago, for the last few weeks, and it is a lost classic, overwrought, melodramatic, and profoundly, disterously domestic, this fan video of a woman singing stealing kisses, quite fiedeltiously, to her boyfriend, is incredibly evoctoive, i think because the hidden subtext (i cannot use words, so i must use songs) is inert, and one that replaces it, (i am so close to this fame, so love me) is hyper aware of the media it is using, and becomes more earnest for it...(notice the title of the video, the gaze, though hidden, becomes universal, it is no longer a femminist anthem of lonlieness, it has been co-opted) (compare and contrast with the dozen acoustic covers of varying qualities that are not shot by bf)

Martin Sobell Rosenberg conspitor, has given more evidence that they Rosenberg's were spies for the soviets--though the left has a short enough memory, that this will just be fodder for the new criteron editors.

michigan disenfranchises the poor.

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Candy Bergen on the Front Cover of Skitch Henderson's Honey Pie, 1969.

a few dozen of the title sections of little nemo in sumberland, beautiful detail, and amusing vingettes themselves.

minor gospel singer Ray Boltz loves both jesus and the cock.




Aardvark!

fanatstic photos of the paralympic olympics, including shots from field hockey and soccer, where various levels of sight are evened out using blindfolds.

house in oregon has been found to have 700 turtles.

police kick the shit out of a 19 yr old protestor in St Paul

video of tom ford and jeff koons, including rare studio visits. 11 photos of koons in versailles.

a) koons knows that he is a marker of america's empire in decline, his usage of versailles is a baroque testament to the power of site.
b) koons manages to both suprise, and lull into complanceny (when in ny, to get to the roof top garden, one had to pass industrial signs, and a bland hallway, then the first thing you saw was a plain box hedge, he managed to hide 3 monumental sculptures, just as the interiors here are carefully thot at concordance (ie the red lobsters colour is complimentary to the damasked burgundy walls, or how michael and jackson and bubbles has finally found its pure baroque home, just like ushering in banality is as happy as a pig in shit at its present home in germany, or the two busts are w/i the self aggrandizement of the site, or topiary) (even more abstractly, the material obsession of collecting the perfect encased vacuum cleaners, with collecting the perfect coutiers) (which was coppalas message in MA, i think)
c) i do not think that he is a fraud, but i think that the things he cares about (joy, material pleasure, innocence, earnestness, craft, devotion, surfaces, contentment, concordance, bourgeious completeness) are things that were once in fashion, and had been in fashion for a long time in european art history (from van dyck or holbein to the barbazions, at least) and have so fallen out of fashion, that his extreme reactionary tendencies are viewed as radical.
d) something lorna said, a long time, about austen, applies to koons, he is the only artist working today, who would try so hard and work so well, to work as part of the aesthetic tradtion of, and not against, places like ludwig's castle, and versailles (lorna's qoute: Jane Austen lives because the romances and archaic manners are a cover for her characters' total obsession with money. (Her materialism is really quite subversive)
e) he already almost bankrupt both the sonnabend and the gaogasian, and his work requires tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars, with the freddie mac/fannie mae/bear stearns/lahomans meltdowns, what is going to happen with this shiny shit--not only Koons work, but the chelsea/so ho scene?


Cliff Richards has been living with his male partner for decades, and just recently came out in favour of Gay Marriage.

The British evangelical aid agency Tearfund say they will continue to work with world-famous Christian pop singer Sir Cliff Richard following his public endorsement of civil partnerships.

In his new autobiography, entitled "My Life, My Way," the singer reveals that he shares his home with a Catholic Priest, called John McElynn. The singer also calls on the church to accept same-sex partnerships and that ‘commitment’ was the key in any relationship.

In his book Sir Cliff writes that he is “sick to death” with the media’s speculation about his sexuality. He adds: “What business is it of anyone else’s what any of us are as individuals? I don’t think my fans would care either way.”

On homosexual relationships he writes: “Same-sex marriages are perhaps a modern example of how things have changed. I think the church must come round and see people as they are now. Gone are the days when we assumed loving relationships would be solely between men and women. In the end people will be “judged for what they are,” he writes.

i have always had a fondness for Ms Richards.

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Sent by both Chris and Geoff.

Praise and Worship

The music that is listened to by a large minority of americans every sunday, has been causally dismissed by many critics. There is the assumption that this music was designed as a sexual release for the repressed and depressed, and that there is nothing real, nothing intellectual in it's usage. Even mainstream protestants and Catholics dismiss Praise music as something that is beneath them liturgically.

Praise and Worship might be an ecstatic release, seeing the glossolalia, the dancing, the almost orgasmic wailing and singing along, and the exhaustion afterwords would suggest that, but the narrative ensnares more history and desire then simply suburban unrest. Using a variety of lenses, I want to analyse the aesthetics and social politics of pleasure in Praise and Worship.

Beginning with a history of American ecstatics, including Shakers, Aimee Semple McPherson, and the Jesus People movement, moving into a textual analysis of both typical charismatic church music and more severe examples, and extending the discourse to include politics (both elected and not), architecture, recorded music, live music, theology, literature, and sexualities.

The goal then, is to unpack the myriad number of releases, and pleasures that occur when one is praising and worshipping. To treat the ecstasy of the mega-church as not only real and legitimate, but present in the daily lives of people, but also with a rich and difficult historical tradition. Think of it, then, as collecting the ecto-plasm, left by the holy ghost most Sundays.

Bio:

Anthony Easton is a writer from Toronto, Ontario. He has been published in Geez, The Red State Reader, Stylus, and has book chapters in Queer and Catholic, published by Routledge, and the Cultural History of Hair, published by Trunk Books. He is interested in sex, Jesus, and the politics of American spectacle.

top 20 things i saw in new york:

1. alex hank the ten deaths of summer (galeria hamis, chelsea) a large collection of photos, found objects, and epistles reworked as bronze plaques, a large and elaborate studio hanging, with clusters of meaning, like a radically inclusive extension of tillman's work--the photos were often moving, the found peices discurive, and the notes had a meloncholy, byronic eroticism. (it also seems to me a parody, of the ryan mcginley crack at the ephemeral school, and as a latino from mexico city, the eurocentric grand tour narratives that are still present in art history)
   
2. danielle julian-norton (reeves-contempary) a keep like maze out of neutrgena bars, the smell of hygenine became almost overwhelming when walking b/w the two 20 foot walls, if you could ignore the ordour, the geometrical/architecntural rigour of the rectangle blocks made into curves, and the lovely amber hue of light thru semi-transparent material, had a physicality, a honey hued last days of summer heft.
   
3. Polly Apfelbaum, Lovers LEap 13 (JMG) because they are wood block prints that looke so bright and plastic, that they become a refutation on the material cult of the object) (plus promeint use of pink)
   
4. Joel Sternfield Oxbow Archive (Luhring Augustine)They are bigger then i think i would want, and the prints are a little too crisp, the light a little too obvious in places--i like my tree prints like the 8x10 black and whites of Robert Adams Cotton Woods, these are huge, digital, c prints, 6 feet by 7 feet, or more, with the pristine, almost surely corrected colour that we expect, but i like the season motif, and northhampton mass is gorgeous, and there are sections of these that are masterfully composed---the reflection of grass on swamp water in The East Meadow, in April 20, 2007, or the line that is created by melting snow in The East Meadows on March 4th, or the lower right quadrant of Nov. 29th, that matches Fredrich in depciting the gothic drama of bare trees. We often talk about photos being painterly, but these have the exactitude of etchings or drawings.
   
5. Alison Schulink (Mike Weiss) Clowns as Evil is a trope that can no longer be done well, and i was prepared to hate this, but three paintings, one of a white tiger, one of a monkey, and one of niagra falls, with thick paint, expressionist violence, and a sort of auberbach earthiness, deflate the kitsch of the rest of the work--sort of an east village in the 80s throw back, but i still shockingly loved this.
   
6. a v. early draft of a joke painting, scrawled with sharpie, horziontally, on a 9x12 peice of loose leaf (van lintel)
   
7. mike coopers colour taxonomies 9 orange things and 9 yellow things, in white shadow boxes, exactly what you expect
   
8. Hans Haake's archival work in the 70s, with an approtionist edge, shown at Kent
   
9. Neil Campbell, the vancouver post minimalists two wall paintings, one of a circle painting in neon yellow, and one in dark grey in the corner of the back room--the corner peice decentralised the viewer, and reminded me of a black hole.
10. two barnett newmans (one bright orange, one blue), a blue on black reinhardt, a plum on ebony 5 foot truitt tower a guston shoes, the 1954 vogue that used pollock as background for the party dress shoot, done by beaton, and an amazing, late 50s sea and mountain stain painting, by frankenthaler, at the jewish musem abstraction/action show (plus realizing that banceou used canvas, and work by someone new to me, peter saul) (could have talked more, been more scandlous and more brave) (i want to write an article, about how the sexual realtionship b/w greenberg and frankenthaler was done at the expense of her career)
    
11. hooking up at mary boone, with a dirty, messy cy twombly sculpture (one smaller pillar on top of a larger one, both looked at the same time of the tennament laundry room and the neo classical temple), al taylors wall peice of ten hangers as a sphere, keith sonner's neon peices, and a fabric/floor peice called tangle.
    
12. Raphael Dallaporta's photos of landmines, which were conflicting for me. done as studio peices, the photos themselves were so luscious that they could be accused of making glamorous that which is evil. but the brief paragraphs above each device, with a dry and ironic style, discussed the history, politics and use function of these works---it became a really dark, profoundly ambigious notation on what it means to be a witness, what the photographers moral responibilty was as a documentarian. did not like them until pat told me what to look for.
13. a v. queer, v. sexy episcopal portrait by sargenet, with swishy scarlet robes covering the flesh of a dark eyed handsome man, could be a society portrait, in the chancellary of the church of heavenly rest, fifth ave at 90th
14. a koons lithograph of a boquet of flowers, done in the middle of his transition from sentimental fool to bad boy, at the same gallery, a bright blue, not angst ridden borgeious (!), two woodcutty murakami's, a great screen print of news both epic and banal, by Rauschenberg, and some nice late closes
15. the friends meeting house in flushing
    

top eleven works at the Met:

1. Courbet's large hunting portrait, with the lower left of the large canvas filled to the brim with dead prey, including foxes, deer, pheasents, rabbits and others.
   
2. Whistler's brace of grey ladies
   
3. Sargent's Madame X (in the words of pat, the sexiest 19th century women, witll with her clothes on) and his Wyndham sisters
   
4. Tang Dynasty Camels
5. the 25-30 small hindu devotional bronzes from Java
   
6. one of those Barnard landscapes of his interior courtyard, where oil looks like pastel
   
7. stuart davis's jazz still life
   
8. The pine branches of a screen by Zishon
   
9. Song Dynasty Celadon Pottery
   
10. a 1972 Ryman
11. Ingres Lady of the Host
12. one of Warhol's skull paintings
    
13. a excellent, syrian peice of Kufic pottery
14. Koons hi-tech chicanery, bleeding kitsch and devotion into something resembling earnest spectacle, with his own cocktails
15. small, over all patterned, klee watercolours
    
16. two 1920s stuart davis jazz still lives
    
17. Clodion's terra cotta study for the Balloon
    
18. Three odelisques by Matisse, and one of his wood carvings
    
19. ancient near eastern drinking vessels in the shape of donkey, ram, deer, and cattle heads
20. lingas from 15th Century cambodia
    

Top Ten from the Frick

1. Tiepolo Perseus and Andromeda--amazing he managed to get this much visual information and bombast into a work so small, even as it was a study (easel sized)
2. Hans Melming, Portrait of a Man, 1440---for the tight, and elegant landscape in monochromatic grey and black that provides a horizontal landscape, and deepens the perspective of a simple portrait.
   
3. Hans Holbein the Younger--Sir Thomas More (its holbein, and its ecclastical, of course i am going to love it)
4. Sir Joshua Reynolds--Selina, Lady Skipworth--because it is the beginning of impressionistic, emotionally relavent project, because i have a thing for the equistiley bored, because the grey on grey tones, with the dress, and the silver hair and the sallow skin, all of these are formal, i kept looking at it, and it shocked me how much it stayed with me.
   
5. two harpies bestriding a grotesque fish, anon, 16th century italian (its really ugly, and really violently so, and i am amused by ugly impolite things in polished, polite places)
6. Van Dycks Frans Snyder, for how his billowly black sleever interacts with his black doublet
   
7. Chardin's Plums--so tight, so minimal, so well composed, and the colour, i cannot describe how much this affects me, but it always decimates me
   
8. Polish Rider, by Rembrandt and his later self portrait, for the compare and contrast, and for this line from o hara: "at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world/except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick/which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first time." and how it was the first painting, in my first volume of art history for children, that taught me how to physically look at a painting, and because it is so vigiourous and handsome
   
9. Whistlers, The Ocean, for this line of perfect not quite seafoam, greyish green on the very top, that contextualised the rest of the paintings greys and blues
   
10. Constables Cloud Studies (Bob Ross' Puffy Clouds!)_
    

second reading went well, chelsea was a weird time to see art, but there was some excellent examples, baseball game was rained out, but nanoosh, the fancy hummus place close to lincoln centre had amazing food. full notes later, but good trip

the frick made me think a lot about renyolds, and also made me realise how much i love rembrandt, and how little vermeer does for me. only really, the renyolds was the surpise.

reading went well, my style and my peice was much more ehetorical and poetic then most people, and people seemed a little confused.

Off to NYC, two readings for queer and catholic, if you live in new york, feel free to come by and say hi:


Thursday, September 4 at 6:30PM, CUNY Grad Center, 365 5th Avenue, Skylight Room, (Rm 9100, T. 212-817-7000)

Friday, September 5, 8PM at BlueStockings, 172 Allen St; New York, NY 10002 (212) 777-6028

1) Your favorite musical moment in a movie

Maybe This Time, Cabaret, the close up, where york and minelli refuse to look at the camera, the gauzy vaseline window shot, of him shirtless, the camp moments made earnest by new discoveries, and how languid is, how the cuts between stage, and boudiour are seamless, becaue its all grist for the mill, that minelli is hopeful and devastated by it, makes excellent work of her limited skills (she does false bravado better then her mother, who did it better then most) (and then at the end, where confusion in the audience, who is not used to earnestness, is not used to whores falling for love)

2) Ray Milland or Dana Andrews
DAna Andrews for the Oxbow Incident, though Milliands pulp trash work thru the 70s is something to admire (Frogs! Gold! both Battlestar and the Loveboat)

3) Favorite Sidney Lumet movie
full points to the tightness, and the paranoid construction of 12 angry men, but that said,
the group might be my favourite. a sort of cracked and broken cukor film, like a downgraded The Women, (and really one of the last womens pictures), much more restrained, and less neurotic then other loonie bin pix, with a glacial, tight, and almost frozen over performance by bergen--what suprised me, was how good he was at the biological politics, the gender construction of women, even in the mostly conventional views of their neuroisis...(plus the set design, the costumes, the lighting, it was all immaculate)

4) Biggest surprise of the just-past summer movie season
how boring batman with heath ledger was. the barthes joke in hamlet two. how little american movies shock anymore. chose one.

5) Gene Tierney or Rita Hayworth

Tierny was the better actor. Hayworth had Put The Blame on Mame. That 5 seconds of taking off her gloves in Gilda, not only erases Tierny's talent from memory, it reminds us how medicore the rest of Hayworth's performances were. So it's got to win. (also, the intimacy of the rheseral, and how it was kind of meta before its time, in the same film)

6) What’s the last movie you saw on DVD? In theaters?
I'm Not There. Hamlet 2.

7) Irwin Allen’s finest hour?\
Swiss Family Robinson

8) What were the films where you would rather see the movie promised by the poster than the one that was actually made?
Anaconda.

9) Chow Yun-Fat or Tony Leung
Tony Leung

10) Most pretentious movie ever
Marienbad (all robbe gillet's fault)

11) Favorite Russ Meyer movie
Fanny Hill, because it is hysterical to figure out how Meyers handles restraint, how he handles having to work for a studio, and how he has to adapt and work around a system that will collapse v. soon. For the same reasons, his Pandora Peaks film, is fascinating because his desire for craft, for the construction of visual narratives, for mad comedy is no longer needed, and he knows that all is left of his rep is a taste for huge tits and his own legend.

12) Name the movie that you feel best reflects yourself, a movie you would recommend to an acquaintance that most accurately says, “This is me.”
Pinnochio.

13) Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo
Mercedes D'Costa

14) Best movie snack? Most vile movie snack?
I dont get dots, but junior mints dumped in a vat of popcorn, with rootbeer on the side is my favourite.

15) Current movie star who would be most comfortable in the classic Hollywood studio system
Lohan would do the best with it, because she would be controlled and contained. Clooney could do some excellent work in it, but would feel stifled by the lack of autonomy, and his own politics. Ron Pearlmen (157 tv and movie roles since 1979), who isnt a movie star, or Scarlett Johannssen (30 since 1994), who is, work so fucking much, and have so little quality control, that they would not collapse at all under the pressure.

16) Fitzcarraldo—yes or no?

yes. (kinski and herzog deserve each other)

17) Your assignment is to book the ultimate triple bill to inaugurate your own revival theater. What three movies will we see on opening night?

1) secret cermony
2) butterfield 8
3) the sandpiper



18) What’s the name of your theater? (The all-time greatest answer to this question was once provided by Larry Aydlette, whose repertory cinema, the Demarest, is, I hope, still packing them in…)

the silver fox

19) Favorite Leo McCarey movie

Duck Soup, but that had nothing to do with LEo McCarey at all.

20) Most impressive debut performance by an actor/actress.

shirley booth in come back little sheba.

21) Biggest disappointment of the just-past summer movie season

heath ledgers joker

22) Michelle Yeoh or Maggie Cheung

Maggie Cheung.
23) 2008 inductee into the Academy of the Overrated
Batman

24) 2008 inductee into the Academy of the Underrated
Hamlet 2
25) Fritz the Cat—yes or no
doesnt really work as a film.

26) Trevor Howard or Richard Todd

Richard Todd for Dorian Grey (fashionably bisexual, and tawdry, sort of a back alley version of the high street performance, Todd claimed later that he didnt know it was soft core)

27) Antonioni once said, “I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.” What filmmaker working today most fruitfully ignores the rules? What does ignoring the rules of cinema mean in 2008?
Mumblecore, most likely, bad and indulgent mostly, but refusing of spectacle for some kind of emotionally authenictiy, which breaks the rules of cinema, but adheres to the ongoing obsessive documentary culture.

28) Favorite William Castle movie
STraight Jacket. because whats scarier then an eldery, desperate Joan Crawford, esp with an axe.

29) Favorite ethnographically oriented movie
Mondo Cane. It does not pretend to be anything but honest explotation, plus cargo cults.

30) What’s the movie coming up in 2008 you’re most looking forward to? Why?
Miracle of St Anna, because it has a great cast, because Spike Lee knows how to shoot film, because it looks entertaining, that he has hidden his politics, under an obvious mcguffin.
Burn before Reading the Coens back to goofy comedy, and because i'm liking the little collective that is gathering around Clooney. (TILDA, Pitt, JK Simmons)

31) What deceased director would you want to resurrect in order that she/he might make one more film?
Dorthy Azner.

32) What director would you like to see, if not literally entombed, then at least go silent creatively?
Ron Howard (he can produce television)

33) Your first movie star crush
Tom Cruise or Michael J Fox

Sergio Leone Quiz.

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