What, asked the ads of my youth, becomes a legend most? Based on his current offering, the epic ”Che,” Steven Soderbegh’s answer seems to be: perpetuating it.
Before going any further, bear in mind: Soderbergh’s “Che,” currently touring art houses in the 4 /1/2 “roadshow” version as well as enjoying a simultaneous general release as two [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 27, 2009
Soderbergh’s “Che”: Que?
January 21, 2009
The View at Noon
From Tufts University Medical Center (Chinatown):
Watching this with medical students and faculty was interesting: the line from the Inaugaration speech that drew instinctive applause from this particular gathering was “we shall restore Science to its rightful place.” They did not cheer the line about “the wholesale redistibution of land and the dispersal of the gentry.” [...]
January 7, 2009
Requiem for Jawaher
I always figured that it must be a splendid thing, to believe in something, and I mean most anything, without reservation: wholeheartedly, without qualification, without condition. And to be able thereby to take part in whatever communal ritual affirms that belief, without inhibition: you know, to bellow “Priestly People” at Sunday Mass, to beat the [...]
