Comment Archives: Stories: Arts and Culture
Re: “I Survived the Front Line of the H&M Opening”
"In August 2011, nearly 300 workers passed out in one week at a Cambodian factory supplying H&M. Fumes from chemicals, poor ventilation, malnutrition and even "mass hysteria" have all been blamed for making workers ill. The minimum wage in Cambodia is the equivalent of just $66 (£42) a month, a level that human rights groups say is not even half that required to meet basic needs."
"On 19 May 2013, a textile factory that produced apparel for H&M in Phnom Penh, Cambodia collapsed and killed three while injuring several others."
Re: “Behind the Candelabra: The Third Cut Is the Deepest”
That makes a kind of terrible sense.
Re: “Behind the Candelabra: The Third Cut Is the Deepest”
I can't believe the film didn't mention that chunk of Thorson's story at all. Not even in an ’80s end credits where-are-they-now? kind of way. Also apparently Rob Lowe's character shot himself.
Re: “Behind the Candelabra: The Third Cut Is the Deepest”
Thorson had to go into witness protection! And later got shot!
Re: “Generation VHS: Good Burger”
Ah, Snow Day. It won't make the Gen. VHS cut, but I remember it fondly.
"Welcome to the Chuck n' Wayne House of Pain!"
Re: “Generation VHS: Good Burger”
Like Iggy Pop showing up in SNOW DAY.
Re: “Generation VHS: Good Burger”
I'll never be able to get over the insanity of the George Clinton scene. Sure, I had no idea who that was at the age of 5, but gracious, that's a deep referential scene for a kid's movie starring Kenan and Kel.
Thank goodness it exists, though.
Re: “Generation VHS: Good Burger”
GOOD BURGER was a lot of fun. As opposed to SPACE JAM, which is as enjoyable as watching your team get hosed while the idiot next to you can't shut off his airhorn.
Re: “Behind the Candelabra: The Third Cut Is the Deepest”
Thorson witnessed the Wonderland Murders? Ye gods. That might have made watching WONDERLAND worthwhile.
Re: “Behind the Candelabra: The Third Cut Is the Deepest”
I found myself way more sympathetic to Liberace (rather than Thorson's) at the end. Did anyone else feel that way?
Re: “Generation VHS: Good Burger”
uh I JUST referenced Good Burger the other day when talking to my 34 yearold husband. He had no idea what I was talking about. Generation gap.
Re: “Behind the Candelabra: The Third Cut Is the Deepest”
Karen: I don't think Soderbergh cared as much about getting Liberace's story "right" as much as he did commenting on Vegas in the 70s.
Re: “Heaven Can't Wait: Three Belcourt Shows Only of Heaven's Gate Director's Cut”
I thought the whole thing was thrilling - the parts that were small and intimate were TERRIBLE on a big screen (tiny dialogue on a big screen is deadly), but the parts meant to be epic were, well, epic. I can see how it wasn't really primed to be a big hit -- some of the scenes went on so long I thought I was watching "Mobius Strip: The Movie" -- but gosh, if you stick with it, you get so much great stuff -- the way the immigrants circling the assassins mimics the waltz at Harvard, the brilliant sequence with the fiddle-playing roller-skater. The shot of the whores close to the end. Gosh, so much that was so great. Thanks, Belcourt!
Re: “Flipping Channels: The Revolution Ends ... Now (For the Season)”
Personally, I thought the Red Wedding scene was super-cool and don't completely understand people's traumatized responses. Didn't everybody see it coming from the first time Rob mentions going back to see Walder Frey? I love the ballsiness of GRRM's storytelling, and revel in all the terrible shit that happens. There's my confession.
Re: “Behind the Candelabra: The Third Cut Is the Deepest”
I agree with the Disney part, because it is truly a deluded fairy tail. I was cringing ever since I learned the movie was to be based on Thorson's book - which at best, is a trashy piece of fiction written by a felonious sycophant. There was so much more to Liberace than being a gay man. The true story may never make it to film because it's not salacious enough for today's audiences. That Thorson based, dung heap of lies tries to diminish Liberace with the limitations, as a human being, of Thorson - who is in jail, where he belongs. The film should have been called Thorson & focused on his travesty of a life. But no, it's called Liberace - to continue the legacy of sponging off a legend. What an embarrassment & shame.
Re: “Behind the Candelabra: The Third Cut Is the Deepest”
I'd love Matt Damon to act in a sequel that profiles the Wonderland Murders that Thorson was a witness to. The latter half of the '80s for him was arguably more insane than the first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland_Mu…
Re: “Flipping Channels: The Revolution Ends ... Now (For the Season)”
"Game of Thrones has proven the rare period piece"
GoT is not a period piece as it does not specifically represent some time in human history. Instead it is a low fantasy set in a world which is an amalgamation of medieval and ancient cultures.
Re: “Behind the Candelabra: The Third Cut Is the Deepest”
Articulate and insightful. Well said.
Re: “Meet Me Under the Giant Wino: 'Laughing Bacchus' at Saturday's Art Crawl”
Did someone mention a giant Wino? Here ya go!
http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&es…
Re: “Nashville Symphony Receives Notice of Foreclosure”
I'd like to know what's happened in other towns that have faced this situation. What do you do with an expensive relatively new symphony hall? Does this mean everyone associated with the symphony is out of a job?