“This month, two prominent magazines have published dishy articles about nefarious doings at other prominent magazines: Vanity Fair covers the absurd rise and pathetic fall of Rosie, while GQ covers the reign of terror unleashed by a despotic honcho at the magazines published by the mega-conglomerate now known as AOL Time Warner.” Navel gazing? Maybe. Schadenfreude? Sure. But it’s worked for television for years, so corporate types may be banking that it’ll sell copies.
Tag: 12.03.02
Bridget Jones’ Groupies
Why are so many of the most popular female characters among American readers so… well… British? From Bridget Jones to Kate Reddy to Hermione Granger, there seems to be something about the UK’s women that’s attracting their colonial counterparts. “[Writer Allison] Pearson believes the British gift for pessimism and irony has served her — and her countrymen — well in print. She says, ‘ ‘Bridget Jones’ and Nick Hornby’s books and mine have extreme irony in common. And irony isn’t the normal American mode.'”
Boosting A Nation’s Profile Through Film
Alexander Dovzhenko is a legend in Ukraine, but in the West, he’s about as well-known as, well, Ukraine itself. A new festival of Dovzhenko’s work at Washington’s National Gallery is designed to increase American appreciation of both the filmmaker and his homeland, and to that end, is being bankrolled in part by the Ukrainian government.
Harry In Trouble?
Is the Harry Potter franchise running out of steam? “The third movie will be late, the fourth book is proving unadaptable, the director is burned out and the boy wizard is facing a greater enemy than Voldemort – the march of time.”