The New York Times continues to think that the trend towards dressing up is their hot new over the last couple of years. The New York Times is increasingly the last to know about anything, but I'll take what I can get. This one is very much an outgrowth of the Mad Men phenomenon, but it pretty high on my "mmmm, yes, but no" list.
Get ready for the sound of me screaming. I haven't read it yet, but nothing titled, "Can Anybody Make a Movie for Women?" is gong to result in anything but my fury.
I feel like a bit of an asshole linking this one as it's unavoidably full of "look at those wacky Japanese" and "geeks are losers" tropes, but Tokyo man weds video game character.
Jude Law 'in love' with 'Sherlock Holmes' co-star Robert Downey Jr. That's the headline exactly as CNN gives it to you, and I'm interested in it both as marketing strategy in terms of sound-bites on Sherlock Holmes and also because of the whole implied giggly/awkwardness of the headline in the rest of the article. I find this shit amusing on the surface and then quaint and irritating when I think about it, to be frank. Because CNN would _never_ use that headline in reference to men who were, you know, actually romantically/sexually in love with each other. That's the problem.
Speaking of Holmes: originally the two bits of Holmes hilarity coming out in the next couple of months (the one mentioned above and the sucktacular thing GDL is in) were just going to be odd campy amusements to me. But now I'm having to read all the Holmes stuff for my Bristol paper, so hey... I might be informed on the OMGWTFBBQ factor of these projects.
An origami crane folded by Sadako Sasaki is part of 9/11 memorial. My fellow children of the 80s, were you traumatized by 1,001 Cranes along with me? I can't believe that there used to be a whole genre of children's books, both fiction and non-, about nuclear war. Ah, the Regan years.
Patty has been keeping me up to date on the epically weird demise of the Washington Times, DC's bizarreo-land Moonie-run paper. If you haven't been following it, you can catch up here.
The odds of my book being in-stock again from a major e-tailer before the deadline for Christmas shipping delivery is pretty low. I'm making a post office run on Saturday. If you want one $14 to me via paypal and I'll get it out then. Books will be in stock again soon, just not in time for Christmas delivery.
The real key, I think, is I need to stop thinking these articles are about me on any level whatsoever. My relationship with being female is odd/tenuous in a lot of ways, UNTIL I READ THESE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES. But seriously, since I pretty much literally play a woman on TV (well, movie screen), I suppose my level of agitation is reasonable, but NOT ABOUT ME. But it's so yucky. SO SO YUCKY.
I'm 43 and much more straightforwardly female-identified than you are, and both the ageism and the sexism in that piece enraged me. I really didn't read any further than the words I quoted--I just scrolled back up to the byline to establish that A WOMAN (with the hilarious and somehow appropriate name of "Daphne Merkin") wrote the review.
Thanks to her, I am now resolved to see this movie and everything else this director has ever made.
Daphne Merkin wrote the article? Then you can seriously just write it off sight unseen no matter what it's about, she's...got a lot of issues that she insists on inflicting on the rest of the world in the guise of being an "essayist."
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I'll give you a shortcut to screaming--
Date: 2009-12-17 03:14 pm (UTC)...a Nancy Meyers movie, in which 55-year-old women implausibly exert charms that no 25-year-old can hold a candle to...
YOU BET THEY DO, BITCH. Those words were written by *a woman*.
Re: I'll give you a shortcut to screaming--
Date: 2009-12-17 03:19 pm (UTC)Re: I'll give you a shortcut to screaming--
Date: 2009-12-17 03:22 pm (UTC)Thanks to her, I am now resolved to see this movie and everything else this director has ever made.
Re: I'll give you a shortcut to screaming--
Date: 2009-12-17 04:14 pm (UTC)Re: I'll give you a shortcut to screaming--
Date: 2009-12-17 04:18 pm (UTC)And hey, are you chattable later?
Re: I'll give you a shortcut to screaming--
Date: 2009-12-17 04:19 pm (UTC)