Related material for the National Comedy Center, from other posts
tagged Hereafter —
Sunday, July 7, 2024
The Penthouse Area
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Saturday, July 6, 2024
A Date with Jaime
A fan tribute in Jaime King's Instagram this evening suggests
a look at the date October 22, 2010 … as well as the old joke
"What am I here after?"
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
Paranormal Jackass
The follow-up to last year's runaway horror hit, "Paranormal Activity 2," kicked off its first weekend in theaters with a major haul. The creepy tale… pulled in $20.1 million on Friday.
Trailing behind "Paranormal" is last week's box-office busting debut "Jackass 3D. " The prank-fest, which landed about $50 million its first weekend in theaters, slipped to the second-place slot….
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The Clint Eastwood-helmed ensemble drama "Hereafter" landed in fourth place. Exploring the lives of three people who are dealing with death and the afterlife in several ways, including the story of a psychic played by Matt Damon, the screen legend's latest turn in the director's chair made approximately $4.1 million on Friday.
Related material—
Margaret Atwood on Lewis Hyde's Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art—
"Trickster is among other things the gatekeeper who opens the door into the next world; those who mistake him for a psychopath never even know such a door exists." (159)
What is "the next world"? It might be the Underworld….
The pleasures of fabulation, the charming and playful lie– this line of thought leads Hyde to the last link in his subtitle, the connection of the trickster to art. Hyde reminds us that the wall between the artist and that American favourite son, the con-artist, can be a thin one indeed; that craft and crafty rub shoulders; and that the words artifice, artifact, articulation and art all come from the same ancient root, a word meaning "to join," "to fit," and "to make." (254) If it’s a seamless whole you want, pray to Apollo, who sets the limits within which such a work can exist. Tricksters, however, stand where the door swings open on its hinges and the horizon expands: they operate where things are joined together, and thus can also come apart.
George P. Hansen on Martin Gardner and the paranormal.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
But Seriously…
Happy Birthday, Jean Simmons … Jan. 31, 2008
Elmer Gantry … Hollywood's view of the Foursquare Church
Resurrection … An August 2003 post inspired by KHYI, then broadcasting from Plano, Texas
For what it's worth, some free advice for Matt Damon…
GET QUOTES
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Moreover
Google News this afternoon—
Related material:
- Celebration of Mind (Oct. 20)
- Problem Picture (Oct. 21)
- Hereafter (Oct. 22)
- The Gypsy in The French Mathematician
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Problem Picture
The above image was suggested by yesterday's
Celebration of Mind and by Plan 9 From Outer Space
in yesterday's New York Times and in this journal.
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Friday, January 24, 2003
Friday January 24, 2003
Steps
John Lahr on a current production of "Our Town":
"The play's narrator and general master of artifice is the Stage Manager, who gives the phrase 'deus ex machina' a whole new meaning. He holds the script, he sets the scene, he serves as an interlocutor between the worlds of the living and the dead, calling the characters into life and out of it; he is, it turns out, the Author of Authors, the Big Guy himself. It seems, in every way, apt for Paul Newman to have taken on this role. God should look like Newman: lean, strong-chinned, white-haired, and authoritative in a calm and unassuming way—if only we had all been made in his image!"
— The New Yorker, issue of Dec. 16, 2002
On this date in 1971, Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, died.
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"Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the rest of the players in his own way. If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished, the show would be great. Everybody, including himself, would be pleased. Life would be wonderful….
First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work. Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director….
When we sincerely took such a position, all sorts of remarkable things followed….
We were now at Step Three."
— Alcoholics Anonymous, also known as "The Big Book," Chapter 5
Postscript of 5:15 AM, after reading the following in the New York Times obituaries:
"Must be a tough objective," says Willie to Joe as they huddle on the side of a road, weapons ready. "Th' old man says we're gonna have th' honor of liberatin' it."
"The old men know when an old man dies."
— Ogden Nash