Tag Archives: Mordechai Richler

waiting for god-oh!… a matter of memory

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Dave

What is a jew? The question is more easily posed than responded to, or at least those responses differ in an agree to disagree manner. That could be predicted in avance, given that Jewish history has never conformed to reasonable … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alan Arkin, Allison Yarrow, Arthur Koestler, Avraham Burg, Daniel Gordis, David Landau, jewish history, John Phillips photography, John Stuart Mill, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mindy Meyer, Mordechai Richler | Leave a comment

100 red carpets for the sun

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Dave

Seeing Irving Layton in action was poetry as performance art. The phycicality, the gesticulation, the booming delivery, the sublimation, the modulation. A spectacle vascillating between erotic vulgarity, a sort of testosterone based infantilism, yet enigmatically mixed with the redemptive promise … Continue reading →

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uncomfortably numb: black comedy no ice

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Dave

there is an uncomfortable sense of comfort to the film Barney’s Version, the Robert Lantos adaptation of the Mordecai Richler novel. There are the familiar devices of death, longing and memory but the ingenious Richler always managed to steer clear … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Albert Finney, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Foran, Dustin Hoffman, Francine Pelletier, Julie Spergel, Malcolm Lowry, Mordecai Richler, Mordechai Richler, Robert Fulford, Robert Lantos, Sander L. Gilman | Leave a comment

JUST KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR YELLOW SNOW

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Dave

Canada… the true north…..Wikileaks….It must be something in the water, and Canadians don’t want Americans drinking it or sharing it … “A few acres of snow” – “Quelques arpents de neige”- is a quotation from Voltaire popularly understood to be … Continue reading →

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RADIO DAYS WITH AUNT JULIA: A Nobel In The Rye

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Dave

Naturally, in the life of a great writer no significant love remains untold. In 1977, during a period when his work took a turn toward comedy, Vargas Llosa wrote Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, about a young man named Mario … Continue reading →