Exotic and irrational entertainment

...books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions

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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Christmas noir: Remember the Night

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Four years before they appeared as the fatally attracted couple in Billy Wilder's film noir classic Double Indemnity , Fred MacMurray...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

The other Barber of Seville

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The composer Giovanni Paisiello at the clavichord, by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1791 (detail) Two hundred years after its ...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Six months with Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, inheritance, and money

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"Passion subdued by Reason." The Lady's Magazine , March 1795. This is the first in a series of monthly posts focussing...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Whole lives: Carrie Brownstein, Patti Smith, and Elvis Costello

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Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl (Riverhead Books, 2015) Carrie Brownstein was and is a guitarist and vocalist in Slea...
Saturday, January 9, 2016

Favorites of 2015: Bollywood song picturizations

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In this coda to my "Favorites of 2015" series I'm going to count down my five favorite Bollywood song picturizations from film...
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