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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
So I learned from the March 28 issue that Cyndi Lauper is big in Japan. Who knew? ???
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Tony-Ranger on March 29, 2011, 09:02:33 pm ---Oh, and if you missed Tina Fey's "Confessions of a Juggler" in the February 14 and 21 issue, do not pass Go, go back and read it NOW! (Although it's not very original; our own Crayonlicious was first on the topic!!
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Can't wait to read her new memoir Bossy Pants. It will be interesting to contrast it with Annie Proulx's, the most recent memoir I've read.
Jeff Wrangler:
I don't know how I've managed to do this, but I'm actually reading the April 4 issue the week of April 4! :o
Jeff Wrangler:
Well, whaddya know!?!?! When I got home today, the April 11 issue was in my mailbox, and it includes a profile of none other than our own LaShawn Malone! Yes, indeed, a profile of Anna Faris!
However, making a cursory skim of the article, focusing on quotation marks, since that's what The New Yorker uses where traditional practice calls for italics, I noticed no mention of Brokeback Mountain. :(
The issue also has reviews of Jake's The Source Code and Michelle Williams's Meek's Cutoff.
So many Brokeback connections in one issue!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 06, 2011, 06:38:13 pm ---However, making a cursory skim of the article, focusing on quotation marks, since that's what The New Yorker uses where traditional practice calls for italics, I noticed no mention of Brokeback Mountain. :(
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That would be an unfortunate omission, since her work in BBM constitutes, as far as I know, her only role in a drama, albeit as a figure mostly there to provide comic relief. She was really good in that small role, and otherwise she seems to mainly appear in silly (though sometimes worthwhile) comedies. I seem to recall some critic -- it might have been the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, in fact -- saying something like, her casting was another example of Ang Lee's apparent project of elevating B-movie starlets to A-list actors in respected movies.
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