Why Did Augustine Really Hate Sex?

Written by Douglas Davis on October 19, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Behold the "vital fire" [male erection] which does not obey the soul’s decision, but, for the most part, rises up against the soul’s desire in disorderly and ugly movements…. –St. Augustine, "Contra Julianum," c. 429 AD We must conclude that a husband is meant to rule over his wife as the spirit rules the flesh.
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Q&A With Cuban Crime Novelist José Latour

Written by J.T. Leroy on October 19, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Between the Darts Q&A With Cuban Crime Novelist Jose´ Latour José Latour is a Cuban writer living in Havana. Akashic Books is putting out his new novel, Outcast (217 pages, $13.95). Publisher Johnny Temple asked me if I wanted to interview him. My only experience of Cuba was when I lived in Miami, where we
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Who Does Oliver Cromwell Remind You Of?

Written by Jonathan Kalb on October 19, 1999. Posted in Posts, Theater

McGinn/Cazale Theater 2162 Broadway (76th St.), 4th fl., 279-4200, through Oct. 31. Tinpot Cromwell Three and a half centuries ago, following a catastrophic civil war, the government of England was entrusted to a man with even more contempt for pluralistic democracy than the current Mayor of New York. According to his biographers, Oliver Cromwell wasn’t
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Woofstock Week

Written by Adam Heimlich on October 19, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Soon, we hope, young, upper middle-class white people who loudly talk shit about "film" in public places will chatter instead about Fight Club, which opens Friday, and which deals with some of the same issues as Beauty in an immeasurably less smug way. The other big cinema event this week is the Dreyer retrospective at
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Talking With David Lynch About the Year’s Best Film

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on October 19, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

The Year’s Best Film David Lynch’s The Straight Story struck me as the best movie of 1999 when I first saw it at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and I have no doubt I’ll think the same thing at year’s end. How can I be so certain, when the good-movie season has just begun?
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Come Out, Fight Breast Cancer, See Art

Written by Adam Heimlich on October 12, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Before we get to the events for the week, I want to try an anti-plug. This is a delicate operation because for hypemongers, all press is good press. The only way to really punish a bad writer on a book tour is to ignore her, but Lisa Schiffman’s Generation J was simply too bad for
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Fight Club

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on October 12, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Bloody Rationalism David Fincher’s Fight Club has one significant advantage over every other cinematic thrill machine out there: it feels genuinely dangerous. Stylishly funky yet faultlessly streamlined, a strange concoction of incessant momentum, spasmodic hilarity, insinuating weirdness and, not incidentally, a brilliant, catalytic performance by Brad Pitt, this fevered fantasy touches on the most primal
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Dennis Cooper’s Telling Interviews

Written by J.T. Leroy on October 12, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

I first read Dennis Cooper’s Try when I was 14. It was the first book I ever completely related to. Bad shit happens to this kid, Ziggy, in the book and there is nobody there to save him. No social workers, no helpful teachers, it all just is. A kid making porn for Ziggy’s creepy
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Random Hearts

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on October 12, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

The Wasteland There is a furious anger in Harrison Ford–a fear of being wronged, and a fear of what he might do to those who wronged him. This anger never surfaces in comedies (which is wise, because it’s way too frightening for comedy), and in adventure films and dramas he strategically suppresses it, just as
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Marie Irene Fornes & Judy Elkan

Written by Jonathan Kalb on October 12, 1999. Posted in Posts, Theater

Signature Theater, 555 W. 42nd St. (betw. 10th & 11th Aves.), 244-7529, through Oct.10. Splattered Despite an impressive career nearly four decades long in the American theater and a reputation among serious critics scarcely short of reverence, the Cuban-born playwright Maria Irene Fornes remains relatively unknown to theatergoers in her adopted country. She belongs to
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