Jean-Claude is back, baby, and this time he's postmodern
This teaser for what’s apparently a forthcoming Jean-Claude Van Damme experimental meta-movie, in which Jean-Claude plays himself in a biopic about his own descent into washed-up, mildly delusional post-actorhood, has me rather excited. The article at Slate.com...Give it up for the Gays!
Courtesy of Andrew Sullivan, my favorite gay catholic anti-torture pro-Obama (probama?) conservative blogger, I came across this video of Barney Frank on the floor of the House of Representatives. Frank, who I briefly interviewed once, is pointing out what a bunch of...How Now, Iron Johns?
I’ve never read as much by Ellen Willis, who died last year at the age of 64, as I’ve wanted to, probably because she’s never really caught the zeitgeist in the last 10 years (i.e. my time as a semi-serious reader of criticism) to the point where I...RIP, Mailer
I just learned that Norman Mailer died, which is sad, sort of, although there’s something about Mailer that militates against too much sadness. He’s more of an Irish wake kind of guy, too much of a lovable asshole, for too long, for me to feel as though he...E-Edition
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