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Noted: Anthony Lane on reviewing
The New Yorker’s Anthony Lane, on the perils of reviewing: On a broiling day, I ran to a screening of Contact, the Jodie Foster flick about messages from another galaxy. I made it for the opening credits, and, panting heavily—which, with all due … Continue reading
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Dinty’s Google Maps essay
Not especially funny or witty myself, perhaps that’s why I admire those who are: I must have opened my blog a half dozen times today to read the first sentence by Anthony Lane in the post below this. Then tonight … Continue reading
Filed under design, essay-narrative, experimental, humor, Lane—Prince Anthony, memoir, NOTED
Noted: Anthony Lane on Grace Kelly
The sex life of Grace Kelly, like the home life of the Incas, is one of those distant but down-to-earth matters which we can investigate in depth, and muse upon at length, but never really hope to understand. According to … Continue reading
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Noted: Narrative without backstory
From Anthony Lane’s review of Star Trek in the May 18 New Yorker: In all narratives, there is a beauty to the merely given, as the narrator does us the honor of trusting that we will take it for granted. … Continue reading
Filed under Lane—Prince Anthony, narrative, NOTED, technique
