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Beautiful Digital Girls That Are Not Real

June 6th, 2010

Beautiful Digital Girls That Are Not RealThis is a very good collection of beautiful girls, from deviantart.com. These are very nice inspirations, especially if you need to make a picture of women.

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The Last Reverberation

May 15th, 2010

The Last ReverberationDon’t miss Brendan Boyle’s review of “The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination,” in Bookforum. It ponders why writers put off writing with reading or with writing something they’re not supposed to be writing….


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Literary Smackdown: Amis And Hitch Vs. Anna

February 27th, 2010

As literary feuds go, the recent dustup involving Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens, and Anna Ford is light on literature, and heavy on a set of oddly specific personal attacks. The fight centers on an…Literary Smackdown: Amis and Hitch Vs. Anna


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Designer’S: Exhibit, Product, Graphic, Fashion And Food

August 30th, 2009

Designer's: Exhibit, Product, Graphic, Fashion and Food

This is a review of the work of over 100 products, fashion, food and visual graphic designs, representing the complete expression of a flow of ideas, languages, research, products and innovations, which together help us to better understand contemporary design trends.




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No Laughing Matter

August 23rd, 2009

No laughing matter

Is it possible to make a movie about comedians that’s actually funny? Judd Apatow’s latest sets itself a challenge, says John Patterson

Movies about stand-up comedians are like movies about painters. There’s always a scene in middlebrow, art-drunk flicks where we get to witness the artist actually making their art, wherein the painter flails wildly at the canvas with brush and oils, striving to convey the appropriate sense of transcendent creative ecstasy. And on the easel there always sits the utterly unconvincing proof of his or her greatness, particularly if the artist in question is fictional (ie with nothing that can be pulled off a gallery wall to prove their brilliance). To underscore and legitimise our paint-flinger’s genius, we usually have to await the arrival of some big-noise critic, like Jeffrey Tambor’s Clem Greenberg in Pollock, to announce, “By god, Pollock, I think you’ve finally cracked it!”

Same thing in Judd Apatow’s intermittently very funny but ungainly and overlong Funny People (how many Woody Allen movies run to 146 minutes?). It doesn’t matter that stand-ups Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen work real comedy club crowds because the moment they start doing whatever it is they do, it feels totally unconvincing, like Sally Field and Tom Hanks in Punchline (my scars from that one have yet to heal two decades on). And the other big stand-up movie of note, Bob Fosse’s bottomlessly grim Lenny, with ODs, borderline OCD, and lots of sobbing, isn’t my definition of a laugh-riot, either.

So in Funny People, they go the sidekick-validation route: every time Sandler or Rogen cracks wise, there’s little doughboy Jonah Hill to vouchsafe (ad nauseam), “That’s funny!” If you need a stooge following you around saying you’re the King of Yucks, count on it, you’re not funny people at all.

Putting the word “funny” or “comedy”, or “laugh” in your title is like giving one giant hostage to fortune; by simple elevation of expectation, you court certain death for The Funny. There ought to be a law against it, or perhaps just a stupidly folklorish superstition militating against the practice, like actors quailing cravenly at the mention of “Macbeth.”

Try me. Take the test. Funny Girl? Funny Lady? Not funny. Something Funny Happened On The Way To The Forum? No, it didn’t – the only funny thing that happened was they let Dick Lester direct it. Funny Games? I don’t think so. And with an Austrian director, to boot? Nein! Funny Bones? Well, that one is quite funny, which is an achievement because Jerry Lewis is in it. Funny Farm? Funny Money? How can they possibly be funny? Chevy Chase is in both of them. Something Smells Funny? Yes, Tom Green, that’s your dead career stinking up the place. The King of Comedy? (Best Joke: “I wanna show you a picture of my Pride and Joy …”) No, it’s a laff-free wilderness of wincing discomfort and anxiety, plus Sandra Bernhard’s many, many teeth.

And Jerry Lewis has the straight role.

Quit trying so hard. Don’t tell us upfront about The Funny; surprise us. You’ll find maybe we aren’t such a tough crowd, after all.

John Patterson

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