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"Hell" as Jean-Paul Sartre should properly have said, "is other people's trousers." I know this will sound odd to the speaker of American English, but in Europe to assert that "Hell is other people's pants" would leave one open to charges of filthy-mindedness, and possibly a visit from the authorities. Perhaps we'd best leave it as: "Hell is other people's nether garments", together with the hateful...
In last month's Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens considers the importance of urban "Bohemias" and why the ultimate demolishment/development of New York's Greenwich Village is a very, very sad thing. From the essay: It isn’t possible to quantify the extent to which society and culture are indebted to Bohemia. In every age in every successful country, it has been important that at least a small part...
“Hell”, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in his play Huis Clos, “is other people.” My wife’s dad, another lifelong socialist, put the same sentiment differently. “I love the working class,” he used to say, “I just don’t want to go on holiday with them.”
Mamoru Oshii is best known as the brains behind international anime movie smash hit Ghost in the Shell its spin-off TV series' and its visually spectacular sequel Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. Although still better known abroad than it is in Japan, there's still a lot of pressure on Oshi to pull something magic out of the bag to prove there's life beyond the Major's leotard.
Greek columns? Greek fucking columns? Here's why HRC made the gracious speech last night: she's going to be running for preznit in four years after Obama of Olympus screws up the surest bet of American political history, and it won't...
Mega-multicultural Echange Theatre , a company that draws on eastern and western influences as well as incorporating live music into their productions, have done the unimaginable: The Flies is an existential Jean-Paul Sartre rock opera. Camden People's Theatre has had one Oresteia in its small space already with Elektra ; while that had us enthralled with it's precision and focus, The Flies is Sartre's...
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In the immortal words of Jean-Paul Sartre, "Au revoir, gopher". Red State Rebels: Hear some music, help elect Nicole LeFavour Finally! The temperatures have cooled down here in the Treasure Valley, and we're looking at a run of fine summer evenings just ahead. The Unequivocal Notion: Lowering the drinking age back in the news And this time it has some pretty stiff support behind it. The Political...
Jackie Wullschlager in the FT reviews new books on Sartre and de Beauvoir, Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant, de Maintenon and Louis XIV, and the model wives of Cezanne, Monet & Rodin: Twenty-one years ago, I reviewed on these...
If, like me, you have read Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method , Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness , Maurice Merleau-Ponty's The Phenomenology of Perception , and Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology and Dissemination from cover to cover, and all just out of curiosity, then I think it's fair to say that 1: You're a div, 2: You're a div with too much time on your hands, 3: You're none the wiser...
Broadway actor/director PETER KASS has died from heart failure. He was 85. Kass passed away in New York on Monday (04Aug08), his son Robbie has confirmed. Kass, ...
Ever since he was little, Christophe Boubal, a French novelist, has been interested in writing and Japan. His grandfather owned the famous Cafe de Flore in Paris where renowned intellectuals including Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir met and talked. Read the full story
Anyone who has read this blog or my comments anywhere knows that I am absolutely schizophrenic when it comes to wisdom and knowledge. I have quite the love/hate relationship with the concept of knowledge and education, for its own sake. One moment I come across as an pompous, know-it-all blowhard. The next, I’m all Will Rogers, [...]
This one is for Dan, Gloria, X. Trapnel, Karen and all the other Charles Boyer lovers. He was such a peerless actor. I remember he was in Jean Paul Sartre's play Red Gloves in New York. I was in the theater and there were two women sitting behind me and as soon as he came on they started, "Good God. Is that Charles Boyer! So small! And that stomach! And he's nearly bald." And after a few seconds of...
