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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 18, 2023, 11:15:05 am ---Guess what? S&M reenvisions Brokeback Mountain as a conversation between two urban hipsters of today in the next issue. I didn't find it funny but there were a couple of clever references. I even thought it was a bit patronizing but I suppose that is another thing that satire is allowed to do. Your thoughts would be welcome: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/brokeback-mountain-in-manhattan
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--- Quote ---Thanks for the tip, FRiend. I didn't find it funny or even interesting -- kind of bland satirizing of gay NYC hipsters sprinkled with cowboy references but aside from that and the characters' names really having nothing to do with Brokeback Mountain.That sort of stereotypical satire seems worn out and, since it's not actually funny, pretty pointless.
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Well, I guess we'll all have to agree to disagree on this one. I just read it now, and I found it quite funny. Maybe you need to be a gay man of a certain age. ...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 29, 2023, 03:00:44 pm --- Maybe you need to be a gay man of a certain age. ...
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Maybe so.
Meanwhile, imagine the commotion from Mr. Shawn's grave about this line in an April 25 review of the TV series Dead Ringers:
--- Quote ---"The physicians, who are stars in their field (and British expatriates in America), also chase after a multimillion-dollar investment from a Sackler-esque heiress, Rebecca Parker (an exhilaratingly cunty Jennifer Ehle), to launch their own birthing center?a shining institution on a hill that they hope will change ?the way women birth forever.?
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Jeff Wrangler:
Is that even a word? ;D
Shouldn't it at least be c _ n _ -like? ;D
From the review of Beef. I need to look up the meanings of woo-woo and bougie. ;D
Front-Ranger:
The May 8 issue is kind of the coronation issue. I'm surprised they came up with so much to write about King Charles III but I guess Rebecca Mead had quite a lot of time to come up with the material. Comparing that article with "Behind the Lens" about Jackie Kennedy is like the mirror bookends in BBM. Charles was born a somebody who now wants to be a nobody. Jackie was a nobody who grew up to become a somebody. A review of the new biography Camera Girl by Carl Anthony, it includes the following quote about her junior year at Paris's Sorbonne: "Jackie perfected a knowledge of 'how to be "on," to make an intentional impression, to invent herself into a character.'"
Front-Ranger:
Today I read for the second time Rebecca Mead's review of "Spare" by Prince Harry and J. R. Moehringer, the ghostwriter. She was struck by the many parallels to the play Hamlet in the book and has admiration for Moehringer.
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