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Re: On the symbolic nature of a broken air conditioner: In The Heat Of The Night and the rise of the New South

danleo — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:31:04 -0000

Ah, thanks, Lance. I'm honored. Maybe after this current series.
Maybe some of these cool downbeat, black-and-white 60s movies, like
Hud, the Hustler, or King Rat. Or it might be fun to take as a theme
a great actor or actress: like, say, the first four or five films of
a Montgomery Clift, or Brando, or the three James Dean movies. I
recently watched Red River for the first time in a long time, and
Clift was so good in that, his first movie. Or you could do a series
on Howard Hawks, or Godard, or Fellini, or Jean-Pierre Melville...As
long as it's not, like, the films of Michael Bay.

Re: On the symbolic nature of a broken air conditioner: In The Heat Of The Night and the rise of the New South

LanceMannion — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:12:12 -0000

Dan, that wasn't a comment, that was a cry to be allowed to host a Wednesday Night at the Movies series or two...or three...or four. What do you say?

Re: Grand Old Man of the New Journalism

tomwatson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:17:50 -0000

My view on Bonfire came from working as a political reporter in the Bronx at the time - and yes, it was incredibly ham-handed, no nuance at all. Even the Al Sharpton character was the merest of caricatures....

Re: Grand Old Man of the New Journalism

LanceMannion — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:09:26 -0000

Man oh man, how I used to love Wolfe's write stuff. But Bonfire of the Vanities soured me a bit, and not because of its politics, but because it was so hamhanded in its characterizations. And then I learned that my favorite of his non-fiction books, The Right Stuff, included a fair amount of fiction. Now I'm no longer sure what I think, unless I'm actually reading something by him. Then I tend to think, Wow can this man tell a really fine lie!