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A great opening paragraph [31 Dec 2004|09:49am]

applebonkers
[ mood | amused ]

In Anthony Lane's review of The Phantom of the Opera:

"What does it take to shake a movie fan? Whether we are critics or bug-eyed buffs, so many of our evenings are spent in the company of crimes and misdemeanors that we can hardly be blamed for developing the hide of a pachyderm. Just occasionally, something slips through—a thin shudder of monstrosity, enough to remind us of what it means to be afraid. And so it came about, this week, that I gazed at a black screen and saw words so calamitous that they might have been written in my own blood: “Screenplay by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher.”

I'm planning to see the movie anyway. But still - heh!

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looking for article about Morman church (history of) [30 Dec 2004|07:26pm]

tesseract_5
I so admire you resourceful people. Does anyone remember or know how to find a copy on line of the article about Joseph Smith and the history of the Mormons, Church of Latter Day Saints. I'm trying to find a copy for a friend who has left the church but still lives with his large Mormon family, so is looking for factual evidence to back up his position.

thanks!
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Decline into Decadence [26 Dec 2004|12:00pm]

agaran
Says Walter Kirn in today's NY Times: "Now that America's urbane sophisticates have had to acknowledge their status as a fringe group so out of touch with mainstream moral values, tournament bass fishing, Nascar and Christian rock that their electoral and cultural clout is marginally less than that of Casper, Wyo., legions of self-doubting highbrows are asking themselves how this decline into decadence occurred."

He blames it on New Yorker cartoons. The article is a wonderful review of the recently-published The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker.
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favorite articles of the year [17 Dec 2004|05:44pm]

tesseract_5
So it's the time again, when a lot of lists are made. Please remind me of the wealth of great writing that has been in the New Yorker this past year by listing your favorites:

mine: (please forgive no titles or authors)
* about polls and polling methods in the election
* David Sedaris' Old Faithful
* Anthony Lane's (?) wonderfully sarcastic review of Troy
* LA traffic wiped the other one I was thinking of from my brain...
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Searching for a fiction story [14 Dec 2004|06:52pm]

jaffijofer
[ mood | good ]
[ music | Jessica-The Allman Brothers Band-A Decade of Hits 1969-1979 - Allman Brothers ]

The first adult short story I ever read was in the New Yorker several years ago. I am now a subscriber and avid reader, but that first story has stuck in my mind. I would really like to find it. I figure it was probably from some time in 2001. It involved a high-school teacher and a princess...And Gnocci. That's all I remember. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

Thanks.

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[14 Dec 2004|03:02pm]

marty_mcfly
Man, I love Nexis. The first hit for my search for the silver thief article pulled it up. So far my 3 favorite articles of the year would be this one, the Sherlock Holmes piece, and the Giant Squid article.

The Silver Thief by Stephen J. Dubner )
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[14 Dec 2004|09:38am]

marty_mcfly
Mysterious Circumstances part 2 )
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[14 Dec 2004|09:36am]

marty_mcfly
Apparently this story is too big for a single post so I've had to split it up.

Mysterious Circumstances by David Grann, part 1 )
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Mariachi Suit [12 Dec 2004|03:14am]

garrettpalm
Anyone here Christmas shopping according to the New Yorker? Can anyone afford to? I appreciated the purpose of the article, but I found a lot of it, well, humorous.

But at least now I know I can buy a custom made Mariachi Suit up the street from me in my "barrio".
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[10 Dec 2004|09:39am]

marty_mcfly
Does anyone remember an article about a silver thief that ran awhile back? I can't seem to find it online, or even the title of the article, but I'm pretty sure it ran this year. The thief left hardly any evidence, spent a long time planning everything out, and was one of the most meticulous burglars ever. I was just talking with a friend of mine about the article the other night and wanted to read it again.

Also, if you haven't read the Sherlock Holmes article from the most recent issue, you owe it to yourself to do so. It's definitely one of the best articles I've read in a long time.
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[09 Dec 2004|03:17pm]

marty_mcfly
Fine Disturbances by Jeff Tietz )
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"Fine Disturbances" [09 Dec 2004|01:39pm]

hcwoodward
Hi all. I was looking for an online version of Jeff Tietz's "Fine Disturbances" article that was in the Cartoon issue, but no luck so far. It was the piece in which he followed along with a tracker near the Mexico border. I've wanted to share it with a few people, but alas, I've failed to track it.
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Seven and a half pages long! [08 Dec 2004|12:37am]

cette_vie
[ mood | content ]
[ music | nothing in particular ]

I just got the newest issue.

If you haven't seen it yet, I encourage you to read the article on Richard Green, about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. That kept me spellbound for a good fifteen minutes while I was supposed to be doing my precalculus homework. Lane's review of "Closer" is also quite priceless as usual. Enjoy!

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[07 Dec 2004|07:15pm]

my_kateling
I finally got around to reading the review of Eminem's new album. Here are my favorite highlights:


"When Eminem's rhymes click, they feel both musically calibrated and lexically tuned, the careful work of someone who loves language and has crumpled up a lot of paper trying to figure out how, and where, words fit together."

I've always defended Eminem on this account. As someone obsessed with scansion, especially of the Shakespearean make, I appreciate his tragically misused talent that my other favorite whiny white rappers, The Beastie Boys, lacked. Or, I should say, lack since they've recently come out with another album to underwhelm us all. (They're mentioned in the beginning of the article, actually.)

"But on 'The Eminem Show,' his third major-label album, Eminem's scansion was being squashed by his personality. No longer the underdog, he sounded like Al Pacino is 'Scarface,' paranoid and entitled." [Emphasis added.]

I might be tempted to try to listen to the album, but I know that it will no doubt feel like Sasha Frere-Jones describes:

"Listening to it is like being hit in the arm by someone's little brother forty-five times in a row."



It's too bad the Eminem can't get his head out of his nether regions and let his talent for metered verse take him, and us, somewhere real.
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[05 Dec 2004|08:33pm]

musettas
[ mood | bored ]
[ music | do you realize + the flamming lips ]

Hi.

My name is Patrick and I love The New Yorker. I was a member of this community under my last username, pmfing, but have changed usernames and so I am joining again.

More NYer loving comments to come...

:)

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[04 Dec 2004|03:18pm]

marty_mcfly
I really love Anthony Lane. He is able to write reviews that I can't wait to read about movies that I will never see, like "Alexander." There's some real gems in the review.

I particularly liked this part, "Farrell comes across here as twitchy, straw-haired, and buzzing with sexual mystification, as if he had researched the life of Anne Heche by mistake."

And this is just brilliant, "Jolie is in her element here, bravely choosing to impersonate a Russian gangster in the delivery of her dialogue, and spending large portions of the film with a snake or two coiled around her person. “Her skin is wet. Her tongue is fire,” the Queen says of her favorite pet, although it could be the other way around. We are supposed to read these scenes as evidence of her exotic unknowability and pagan working practices, although, if half of what I hear is true, they resemble a perfectly normal day in the Jolie household."
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US Postal Service and your New Yorker magazine [01 Dec 2004|10:05am]

tesseract_5
So I live on the West Coast, in the general LA area. I usually get my weekly dose of the New Yorker on a Tuesday, but sometimes its more like Thursday... A couple times the cartoon issue has been abducted on-route (just call up Conde Nast they send a replacement, and say that often happens with that particular issue). Some other subscribers I know often notice that their New Yorker seems awefully used looking, thumbed through. We jokingly suspect that this is a popular lunch time read for US Postal workers on a quick cartoon fix.

I'm curious, does Conde Nast send out batches of the magazine from a central mailing place? and do those of you on the East Coast usually get your New Yorker earlier in the week? closer to when it appears in bookshops and news stands?
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[30 Nov 2004|01:58pm]

marty_mcfly
I finally got around to looking at the list of livejournal feeds, and noticed that there's one for The New Yorker. So if you'd like to known when the website is updated with new content, add this to your friends list: [info]newyorkerfeed.
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growing up with charlie brown [27 Nov 2004|04:01pm]

loveandfluids
if reading the article on peanuts in the 11/29 issue does not make you even slightly reconsider your consciousness, then you are smarter than i am and have already realized these things before.
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[22 Nov 2004|12:28pm]

my_kateling
I keep looking through Richard Avedon's unfinished "Democracy" portfolio.
This issue will definitely be preserved as a permanent coffee table fixture in my house.

I love Karl Rove's picture. Very porcine.

I think the last two portraits, Carter and Barack Obama, are very telling. The face of US humanism and the future face...?
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