Alternative monitoring of popular culture ~ broadly defined ~ in the pursuit of deeper understanding
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Friends with Benefits
I thoroughly enjoyed Will Gluck's 2010 film Easy A with the entirely too charming Emma Stone. Gluck's Friends with Benefits has a lot of the same breezy insouciance and snappy sophistication but it also has two enormously catalytic stars at the center -- Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. They snap, crackle and pop from the first frame. The film -- which really is more about the journey to true love than the arrival -- has tons of sex talk and skin, but it's not dirty ... well, it is kinda dirty, but it's all good.
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Danai Gurira
I don't know all of Danai Gurira's story but what I do know is every bit what America is about when it's functioning properly....
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As you closely read the two photographs above -- Sally Mann's "Candy Cigarette"(top) and Diane Arbus's "...
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