Baz Lurhmann

There’s a part in William Gaddis’s big novel The Recognitions where Basil Valentine talks about how forged paintings are always outed as fakes over time because they ultimately illustrate not the original genius of the artist, but instead show how the current zeitgeist interprets the artist. Film adaptations of books aren’t painted forgeries, but they are highly susceptible to the same critical limitations that Valentine discusses. We can see this plainly in Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 adaptation of...Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!   Mary Schmich, June 1, 1997 "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who’d rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns, but there’s no reason we can’t entertain ourselves...Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!   Mary Schmich, June 1, 1997 "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who’d rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns, but there’s no reason we can’t entertain ourselves...Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!   Mary Schmich, June 1, 1997 "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who’d rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns, but there’s no reason we can’t entertain ourselves...Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!   Mary Schmich, June 1, 1997 "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who’d rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns, but there’s no reason we can’t entertain ourselves...Read Full Story