" Video killed the radio star . . ."
This tune concludes "Take This Waltz,"
a 2011 film starring Michelle Williams.
Related material —
A New York Times obituary from this afternoon
and a video from the 2011 Williams film.
The Times report is of a "radio star" death on Tuesday, June 27.
Related philosophy from Sarah Silverman . . .
With Sarah Silverman …
… Continued from The Story of N (October 15, 2010).
“I remember how the darkness doubled….”
Heaven or Hell?
Morningstar (the weapon, not the girl)
Oh, and a belated happy birthday to Sarah Silverman.
* See November 25th.
The Kohs Block Design
Intelligence Test
Samuel Calmin Kohs, the designer (but not the originator) of the above intelligence test, would likely disapprove of the "Aryan Youth types" mentioned in passing by a film reviewer in today's New York Times. (See below.) The Aryan Youth would also likely disapprove of Dr. Kohs.
1. Wechsler Cubes (intelligence testing cubes derived from the Kohs cubes shown above). See…
Harvard psychiatry and…
The Montessori Method;
The Crimson Passion;
The Lottery Covenant.
2. Wechsler Cubes of a different sort (Log24, May 25, 2008)
3. Manohla Dargis in today's New York Times:
"… 'Momma’s Man' is a touchingly true film, part weepie, part comedy, about the agonies of navigating that slippery slope called adulthood. It was written and directed by Azazel Jacobs, a native New Yorker who has set his modestly scaled movie with a heart the size of the Ritz in the same downtown warren where he was raised. Being a child of the avant-garde as well as an A student, he cast his parents, the filmmaker Ken Jacobs and the artist Flo Jacobs, as the puzzled progenitors of his centerpiece, a wayward son of bohemia….
In American movies, growing up tends to be a job for either Aryan Youth types or the oddballs and outsiders…."
"… I think that the deeper opportunity, the greater opportunity film can offer us is as an exercise of the mind. But an exercise, I hate to use the word, I won't say 'soul,' I won't say 'soul' and I won't say 'spirit,' but that it can really put our deepest psychological existence through stuff. It can be a powerful exercise. It can make us think, but I don't mean think about this and think about that. The very, very process of powerful thinking, in a way that it can afford, is I think very, very valuable. I basically think that the mind is not complete yet, that we are working on creating the mind. Okay. And that the higher function of art for me is its contribution to the making of mind."
— Interview with Ken Jacobs, UC Berkeley, October 1999
5. For Dargis's "Aryan Youth types"–
From a Manohla Dargis
New York Times film review
of April 4, 2007
(Spy Wednesday) —
See also, from August 1, 2008
(anniversary of Hitler's
opening the 1936 Olympics) —
For Sarah Silverman —
and the 9/9/03 entry
Doonesbury,
August 21-22, 2008:
Part I:
(Thanks to
The Unapologetic Mathematician)
The puzzle —
Part II:
The moves —
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“‘Tikkun Olam,
the fixing of the world,’
she whispers. ‘I’ve been
gathering up the broken vessels
to make things whole again.'”
From Nov. 14, 2005:
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Culture Wars
‘Chicken Little’ Lays Golden Egg (Dean Goodman, Reuters) ‘Bee Season’ Anxiety
The mixed bag of limited release preems was highlighted by an excellent response to the concert film Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic. The film recorded a $19,000 plus per engagement average from seven outings for a $130,000 gross. The family drama Bee Season had a comparable gross but on three times as many screens that translated into anxiety about the Richard Gere film’s expansion prospects.
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Today’s vocabulary lesson:
A search on the related adjective “hendiadic”
leads to an insightful discussion of
religion and law
in contemporary Latin America
by Antônio Flávio Pierucci.
For other material on
Latin America and religion
from Robert Stone and
Nythamar Fernandes de Oliveira,
see the Jan. 25, 2005, entry
Diamonds Are Forever.
Related material:
Yesterday’s link for Nixon’s birthday
led to an obituary of a Marxist
writer that concluded as follows:
“In 2004, Mr. Magdoff wrote about his friendship with Che Guevara, one of his revolutionary heroes. At what proved to be their final meeting before Mr. Guevara’s death in 1967, Mr. Magdoff asked what he could do to help Cuba. ‘Keep on educating me,’ was the response.”
Culture Wars
‘Chicken Little’ Lays Golden Egg
(Dean Goodman, Reuters)
‘Bee Season’ Anxiety
(Leonard Klady, Movie City News):
| Title |
Gross (average)
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Theaters
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Cume
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| Chicken Little |
32.7 ( 8,950)
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3658
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81.5
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| Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic |
0.13 (19,210)
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7
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0.13
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| Bee Season |
0.13 ( 6,280)
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21
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0.13
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For Mike Nichols,
whose birthday is today:
Angels in Arabia
Yesterday’s entries discussed an angel and a fugue; this suggests Clive Barker’s classic tale Weaveworld, which in turn suggests the following links:
1. the Log24 archive,
Aug. 1-6, 2005, and
2. C. S. Lewis, George Orwell, and
the Corruption of Language,
an essay at the website of
St. Christopher’s Cathedral
in Bahrain, Arabia.
Nichols, who is Jewish, may of course prefer the following remark of comedian Sarah Silverman:
“I wear this St. Christopher medal sometimes because– I’m Jewish, but my boyfriend is Catholic– it was cute the way he gave it to me. He said if it doesn’t burn through my skin it will protect me.”
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