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Tag Archives: Mel Brooks
sacred stories: niche interests
The sacred and the profane. the eternal tango. …“Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.”― Primo Levi….Max Frisch once wrote that “technology … Continue reading
the great white hope
The shitty nothingness of it all. Shit as pure nothingness. The essence of the empty and void.Nothingness. A man eager to give society, the political body, a political enema to purge it of all its shit. Politics as substitute shit. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andres Serrano, Andrew Potter, Canada Goose Coats, justin trudeau, Marcel Duchamp, megan leslie NDP, Mel Brooks, PETA, peter kent environment minister, Piero Manzoni, sam rosenfeld, senator brazeau, senator patrick brazeau
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truman kaput & harry the hipster
It was an era of the general entertainer. Ronny Graham’s parents were both vaudeville players towards the end of that epoch and Graham was a multi-talented performer: comedian, composer, lyricist, actor. Like his contemporaries which were Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce … Continue reading
flowers of evil : herman cain dada
In his debates he looks almost bizarrely overconfident,brazenly recycling the same answers and obsessed with the populist mantra of 9-9-9- as if its a toll free number where you can order the godfather himself for home delivery. Its always ladies … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Burt Lancaster, Charles Baudelaire, E.L. Doctorow, Franz Kafka, herman cain, Hugo Ball, jacob bendian, Kurt Schwitters, leslie savan, Marcel Duchamp, marcel jenco, mark bloch, Mel Brooks, nick searcy, Ralph Ellison, Richard Huelsenbeck
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life on parade: playing dress up
It was the Aryan myth. It was born as a minor issue in comparative linguistics, grew into a full-fledged racial theory of history, and ended by almost devouring European civilization….. Steven Heller: In fact, Hugo Boss was the designer back … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arno Breker, Arthur Szyk, Bryan Ferry, Filippo Marinetti, Frederic Spotts, Georges Bataille, James Young, Jean Genet, Joseph Thorak, Julius Paul Junghanns, Kerry Bolton, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Steven Heller, Susan Sontag
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viscious frailties at the most extreme
At the Spanish court, Goya was advantageously placed to observe vicious frailties at their most extreme. At the time that he became Painter of the Household, Charles IV had just succeeded to the throne in place of an elder brother … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Woods, Ann Coulter, Diego Velasquez, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Los Caprichos, Goya Naked Maja, Jerry Vines, Kenneth Clark, Mel Brooks, Otto Dix, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba, Voltaire
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TRIVIAL PURSUITS & BOYS IN STRIPED SUITS
”However here we also get the first doubtful use of the Holocaust in Beatrice and Virgil. We are told that fewer than two per cent of Holocaust survivors ever tell of their ordeal. And so:’For his part, Henry now joined … Continue reading
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Tagged Aravind Adiga, Aravind Adiga The White Tiger, Brian Cuban, Casey Haskins, Charlie Chaplin, Eli Wiesel, George Orwell, George Orwell Animal Farm, Gerald Feldman, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Holocaust Fiction, Holocaust Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Boyne, John Self, Joseph Brean, Joseph Brean National Post, Lina Wertmuller, Lina Wertmuller Seven Beauties, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks The Producers, Roberto Benigni, Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful, Salman Rushdie, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Simon Wiesenthal Institute, Yann Martel, Yann martel Beatrice and Virgil, Yasunari Kawabata
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WHO SPIKED THE PUNCH
When discussing the fall of Rome, there is a desire to latch onto the shortest, the most accessible, and the most direct and dramatic answer to the question lurking in many minds: mind: what does it actually mean for a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Adrian Goldsworthy, Alboin, Alec Guinness, Anthony Mann The fall of the Roman Empire, Arianism, Bryan Ward Perkins, Charlemagne, Chomsky, Conversion of Clovis, David Frum, Dom Deluise, Dr. Peter Heather, Edward Gibbon, frumforum.com, John Belushi, Jordanes, Julius Nepos, Justinian, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks History of the World Part I, National Lampoon Animal House, Noam Chomsky, Orestes, Pepin the Short, Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens, Sam Bronston, Skull cups, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd
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ROBIN HOOD THE MISUNDERSTOOD
”Another Robin Hood movie, another ideological travesty. Interviewed recently on his role in the new epic, Russell Crowe said it was a story of class warfare, of robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. It’s an alarming omen to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Benigno, Carrie Eckles, John Ridpath, Martin Buber, Mel Brooks, Michael Curtiz, Norman Invasion, Oscar Wilde, Piers Plowman, Reverend Tim Jones, Robin Hood, Robin Hood maid marion, Robin Hood Sherwood Forest, Robin of Sherwood, Robin Williamson Incredible String band, Russell Crowe, Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry Wilde, The Incredible String Band, William Langland
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