Rating: ❤❤❤❤ “Biology and Giddyup.” As I embark on this review, I’m surprised by two things: that Matthew McConnaughey didn’t begin his autobiographical Greenlights with “Alright, alright, alright,” his fatefully improvised exclamation as local cool dude Wooderson in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused – and that I’m not beginning this review of something McConnaughey-related with …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ (Throughout this spiel I use this symbol 💬 to denote quotations taken from word balloons in the book.) Almost everything seems so “meta” nowadays. Of course, there’s always been a lot of metaness in art. Greek choruses are meta; Chaucer is meta; Puck’s closing monologue in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is too. …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ I hid myself within myself…and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows, and contempt in my diary. – Anne Frank “But this isn’t like other comics…It was so…so personal!” – Mala, Maus Anne X There’s not a drop of intended hyperbole in the introductory claim I’m about to make, so gird yourselves. The diary …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Unmasked: A Memoir is as colorful, vigorous, flamboyant and buoyant as just about any of his household-name shows. I’m often more attracted to the artist than her/his art, and such is the case with Webber – though my appreciation for his work is quite potent. (His Phantom’s sorrowful rendition of “Masquerade” …
