Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Monday, May 16, 2011
Monday, July 02, 2007
1000 Films To See Before You Die...?
The Guardian has compiled the list. But any claim to usefulness, which such a comprehensive list should have, is undermined by the inclusion of such wonders as Dumb & Dumber and Pumping Iron over, you know, mindless fare like Dead Man and Henry Fool. And no way is Sleepy Hollow, or even Silence of the Lambs, more "essential" than The Straight Story.
Sunday, August 08, 2004
So Safire
Wrote a letter to William Safire yesterday. Here's part of it, responding to his column on the word so.
This note may be a week late, but the following info has no sell-by date. The ironic use of "so" to refer to something outdated when it's not actually that outdated, was popularized before Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In Heathers (1989), a black comedy and cult favorite which satirizes high school culture, the character Heather Chandler tells Heather McNamara : "Grow up, Heather, bulimia is so '87." I suppose one might argue that this source is a bit obscure. But this was the movie (well, along with the not-so-good Pump Up the Volume) that catapulted the young Christian Slater to his short-lived stardom.
This note may be a week late, but the following info has no sell-by date. The ironic use of "so" to refer to something outdated when it's not actually that outdated, was popularized before Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In Heathers (1989), a black comedy and cult favorite which satirizes high school culture, the character Heather Chandler tells Heather McNamara : "Grow up, Heather, bulimia is so '87." I suppose one might argue that this source is a bit obscure. But this was the movie (well, along with the not-so-good Pump Up the Volume) that catapulted the young Christian Slater to his short-lived stardom.
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