Tag Archives: Jeff Goldsmith

live at snubbs: looking at kings without crowns

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Dave

Meet the Fockers. Jewish? Hardly. The idea that Hollywood is Jewish can be seen as somewhat tenuous. That it is the entertainment complex, the mouthpiece of the industrial/financial complex is evident.Its secular, universal aspiring, atheistic or a best gnostic, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Daniel Hopsicker, Edward Bernays, Everett Sloane, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Hieronymous Bosch, James Naremore, Jeff Goldsmith, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael, Peter Bogdanovich, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

trial of a soapbox romantic

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Dave

The problem with the prodigy, the adult prodigy, is the fact of dealing with once being great, and living perpetually in eclipse. Orson Welles was a romantic since birth, a romantic always outside, outside adapting to the narrow and canny … Continue reading →