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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Q&A With Craig Baldwin

Written by Ed Halter on October 12, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Spectres of the Spectrum directed by Craig Baldwin Working out of his gadget-cluttered basement studio in San Francisco’s Mission district, Craig Baldwin has handcrafted a unique body of subcultural cinema in the past decade. He’s the unabashed Unabomber of underground film, assembling volatile collages of found footage into paranoid stream-of-consciousness narratives that touch on conspiracy
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Julien Donkey-Boy

Written by Armond White on October 12, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Beau Travail directed by Claire Denis Ready, Set, Cinema Three Kings should have opened the New York Film Festival as a gateway to the extraordinary fall movie season. This satire about America’s 1991 Gulf War against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein that killed hundreds of thousands of people and won the closed hearts and narrow minds of
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Happy, Texas

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on October 5, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Quirkytown, USA If nothing else, Happy, Texas proves yet again that William H. Macy is one of the best actors in America. He’s not playing the lead here–a shame, since he should always play the lead. But he makes what could have been merely an eccentric and interesting supporting part–a small-town Texas sheriff with mysterious
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Privy Party

Written by Jonathan Kalb on October 5, 1999. Posted in Posts, Theater

Privy Party Do You Come Here Often?, an extended comic sketch about two men stuck in a bathroom together for 25 years, may just be that perfect collision of comedy and surreality that Beckett looked for in his collaboration with Keaton, and that Ionesco simply wished for. Having said that, I flash back to a
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NYC Goes All Biblical and Cybernetic

Written by Adam Heimlich on October 5, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

No, the reason the Meadowlands will be our region’s spiritual lighthouse on Friday night and all day Saturday is the Promise Keepers’ "conference." (10/1-2, 800-888-7595 for info.) Twenty thousand Homer Simpsons getting fired up about "integrity" in a hockey arena is such an absurdly large and squishy target that I feel I should leave it
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Mumford

Written by Armond White on October 5, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Only Disconnect American Beauty is a swindle that exposes the naivete of the critics who praise it, the people who fall for it. In return, they get the smug comfort of satisfying cynical views of suburbia, teenagers, wives, husbands, business, homosexuality, technology, violence–the all-American cliches. Superior movies such as the new satirical Breakfast of Champions
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Three Kings

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on October 5, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Failing Vision An overheated, dizzying hash of a movie, David O. Russell’s Three Kings puts me in the rare position of cheering a filmmaker’s inconsistency. Which is to say: If the whole of this seriocomic plunge into Operation Desert Storm were as awful as its first 20 minutes, I might’ve been driven toward wrist-slitting, or
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Hitler’s Niece

Written by Alan Cabal on September 21, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

A Family Affair Every victim eventually becomes a bully, and every hero eventually becomes a bore. The most flamboyant illustration of these axioms in this century would be the zeitgeist himself, Adolf Hitler. No political figure in history has gotten more posthumous media exposure, and no political personality has been more thoroughly examined. Mussolini was
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