“One good thing, I must say, though, about Trump, [is] he has broken down certain norms we’ve lived with for a long time and didn’t really make sense, like extramarital affairs. I was arguing about that in the Clinton days. It doesn’t really matter. That’s private. They used to say, ‘If he cheats on his wife, is he going to cheat on his country?’ No! You can cheat on your wife … [Read more...]
‘La La Land’: A love letter to the movies, with a painful P.S.
In R.E.M.’s visionary music video for “Everybody Hurts,” a familiar traffic jam becomes an unfamiliar act of protest. Connected by their shared pain, commuters of all creeds and colors begin an exodus from their cars: first one, then a few, then everyone, until they just disappear. I can’t think of a more appropriate post-11/8 song. The opening of Damien Chazelle’s La La … [Read more...]