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Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct 📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War 🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
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Of course! Thx for pointing out what I thought went w/o saying.
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Great 20th century novel and a great, dense "city symphony." Wonderful integration of popular culture. Belongs w Grosz, Dix & Beckmann, as well as The Three-Penny Opera. Has been compared favorably to Ulysses (which I'll have to re-read for the first time since high school).
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Wow. I can only imagine how much that annoyed P. Adams (and in Annette's magazine too). Thx, Jim
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Very funny. Frampton was a lot closer to Annette Michelson than he was to Sitney. Let me know if you can identify the source.
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He always seemed old--at 24 already had that long beard, wore 3-piece suits, possibly purchased 2nd hand. Complicated guy, deadly serious & at times raucously funny. Politically rightwing, married a wonderful feminist lefty Marjorie Keller who died shockingly young leaving him twin girls to raise.
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A true individual. P. Adams was affable/irascible, generous/opinionated, totally brilliant & always accessible. He gave me 2 breaks--one leading to a book, Midnight Movies, and the other to a 22 year gig at Cooper Union--and a wealth of background material for Everything is Now.
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So musical
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More or less. This is a "war" with real domestic consequences.
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Both are true. They get a show, we foot the bill (and worse).
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Thx, glad to hear
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One drink behind (or maybe ahead of) Audrey
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LOL
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Yes, read Joshua Cohen's novel The Netanyahus and weep (with laughter)
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I'm not sufficiently versed in LA politics to know which local labor leaders, politicians or liberation theologists have the skills or the moral authority to organize a general strike but hope some will emerge. What is the appropriate tactic for DC with tanks next weekend in the street?