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Celebrity

  • Streuselkuchen

    StreuselkuchenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    A story about coolness. « The phone rings. It is Jim Jarmusch, and he asks if I want to come over to his place. »

  • Schwarzeneggerology

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    On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »

  • On location

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    Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?

  • Kill your darlings

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    Like plots in a garden cemetery, with lamentations, good-riddances or other epitaphs.

  • K-pop nostalgia

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 Human idols are hardly perfect.

  • The void that fills the void

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    Relics, and the places devoted to their worship, dotted the map of Europe and the Middle East. Saints, like today’s celebrities, were both omnipresent and faraway, once-vulnerable people who became something more than human.

  • The myth of 1922

    The myth of 1922

    What does modern mean? In Brazil, it often meant an embrace of newness as the possibility of reinvention. In Modernity in Black and White: Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 1890-1945, Rafael Cardoso unravels the myth of 1922.