Paleo Retiree writes:
- Smart stuff from Lloyd Fonveille about the Marlene Dietrich / Josef von Sternberg films. Some great pix too.
- Jill Duffy reviews the food at the Berlin and Kiev airports.
- These days, are there still many people who think pot should be illegal?
- How much of a Wise Man has Robert Rubin really been?
- Some interesting snapshots of Hispanic-American attitudes.
- A terrific appreciation of Pauline Kael.
- An interesting visit with Paul Volcker.
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That’s a nice piece on PK. Glad to see the auteur argument mentioned. I’ve been surprised to see so many people act like she and Sarris weren’t really so far apart on that. I think those people are forgetting what the argument was really about, perhaps because the common understanding of what the theory entails has changed a good deal over the years.
I think she’s wrong in saying that Kael disliked “pretty much all of Hitchcock,” though. I seem to recall that she admired a fair number of his ’30s and ’40s films.
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It would be very hard not to like H’s 39 Steps.
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Count me as someone who:
1) increasingly finds Judge Posner’s thoughts to be unpersuasive;
2) thinks pot should still be illegal:
http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-drug-policy-roulette
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