Justin wrote:
>No doubt I am confused. It is an occupational hazard. And I haven't seen the
>movie. However, whites who played "hot" jazz, like Bix Beiderbecke or even
>Benny Goodman, whose swing was pretty hot, as opposed to Paul Whiteman style
>"dance" music, were often not just musically clo
No doubt I am confused. It is an occupational hazard. And I haven't seen the
movie. However, whites who played "hot" jazz, like Bix Beiderbecke or even
Benny Goodman, whose swing was pretty hot, as opposed to Paul Whiteman style
"dance" music, were often not just musically close to black perfor
>wait, Louis! how do you know what "Woody Allen had concocted in his head"
>and that he "made no point" if _you didn't see more than 10 or so minutes
>of the movie_?
I read lots of reviews in preparation for my post. The negative ones stuck
in my mind. As the first few minutes of the film unfo
At 07:33 PM 08/02/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Emmett Ray, if you missed my mention of the
>fact that he is played by Sean Penn, is white. His foolishness is meant to
>illustrate some point that Woody Allen had concocted in his head. When you
>try to illustrate points with characters, you end up either
Louis Proyect wrote:
> When you
> try to illustrate points with characters, you end up either boring people
> or not making the point.
Interesting, if true, and probably true on the whole. But Plato and Dante, who
both to this to some extent though in different ways, are not boring, and they
Umm--have you seem some of the getups Louis Armstrong used to perform in? I
mean, this was "jungle music," and musicians did all sorts of ridiculous
and humiliating stagey things. Even Ellington, who had more dignity than
all of us put together, went along with a lot of foolishness at the Cotton
I enjoyed the slapstick Woody Allen, but his later urban persona was boring.
None of the characters in his films interested me.
Louis Proyect wrote:
> >It was worth watching to the end, the deaf lady disses Emmet big time...
> >
> >steve
> >
> >Stephen Philion
>
> I actually had intended to wat
Umm--have you seem some of the getups Louis Armstrong used to perform in? I mean, this
was "jungle music," and musicians did all sorts of ridiculous and humiliating stagey
things. Even Ellington, who had more dignity than all of us put together, went along
with a lot of foolishness at the Cott
>It was worth watching to the end, the deaf lady disses Emmet big time...
>
>steve
>
>Stephen Philion
I actually had intended to watch it until the end, but it was so painfully
inept that I couldn't watch past the first ten minutes. Leaving aside the
sheer repulsiveness of the central character,
It was worth watching to the end, the deaf lady disses Emmet big time...
steve
Stephen Philion
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Department of Sociology
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Jim Devine wrote:
> At 01:58 PM 08/02/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >Turni
At 01:58 PM 08/02/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Turning now to one of Woody Allen's most recent (and unwatchable)
>films--"Sweet and Lowdown"--we are presented with not only another version
>of his museum sensibility with respect to music, but an apologia for his
>own amoral behavior
>
>In "Sweet
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