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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Beloved indie singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt has died at the age of 45 after taking an overdose of muscle relaxants last week. [via New York Times]
2. The weekend’s number three film (Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel) grossed $50 million dollars, which is virtually unheard of. We hope you were checking out… Read More

Artkrush

Dalí and Vezzoli: Art in a Celebrity-Obsessed World

By Paul Laster on

The Divine Dalí: that’s how artist Salvador Dalí referred to himself. “I am the supreme swine,” he once told an interviewer. “The symbol of perfection is the pig.” After Marcel Duchamp, but before Andy Warhol, Dalí understood how to manipulate the press to create a mass-media image of celebrity, a position that few visual artists are able to hold. Fast-forward to the present, and we find the incomparable Francesco Vezzoli, a charismatic artist who has the ability to woo Helen Mirren, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, and Lady Gaga to take part in his outrageous productions. With a stroke of genius, Stockholm’s Moderna Museet has brought Dalí and Vezzoli together in an exhibition that explores their mutual interest in fame, fortune, and creativity. … Read More

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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Roman Polanski has relocated from the clink to a cute snow-covered chalet in Gstaad. [via Vulture]
2. Sales for the science book photographed in Tiger Wood‘s wrecked car — Get a Grip on Physics by John Gribbin — have jumped in recent days. [via The Independent]
3. Do artists have… Read More

Film

Breaking News: Roman Polanski Granted Bail by the Swiss

By Caroline Stanley on

According to a report from the BBC: “A Swiss court has accepted filmmaker Roman Polanski’s plea to be freed on bail from a Swiss jail where he is being held for a US child sex case.” The Swiss Justice Ministry is still trying to decide whether it will appeal.

Polanski will be released on… Read More

Film

The One Where We Prove Woody Allen Wrong

By Spencer Lund on

Jeffrey Wells recently quoted Woody Allen in his piece about aging directors:

When you first start out you’re always striving for greatness and perfection and then after some years reality sets in and you realize that you’re not going to get it.

Wells goes on to list a number of well known directors and their decline as they got older:

“I’ll take the young Scorsese (Mean Streets to Raging Bull) over the latter-day version any day of the week. Ditto young Coppola vs. old Coppola. Or young Bertolucci (Before The Revolution, The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris). Or young DePalma (The Phantom of the Paradise, Sisters, Greetings). Or young Jim Cameron (Piranha, Terminator, T2, Aliens) over the silver-haired Avatar techno-maestro he’s since become.”

Logical, but we think there are some directors who skirted the age dilemma. (On a related side note, Quentin Tarantino plans to avoid it altogether.) After the jump, three who never stopped “striving for greatness and perfection.”… Read More

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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. This morning the US filed papers asking the Swiss authorities to hand over Roman Polanski so that he can be tried in LA. [via WaPo]
2. Julian Casablancas says there is a “disagreement” among the Strokes over whether the new songs for their upcoming album are complete. [via NME]
3.… Read More

Film

Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist: Mythological Revisionism or Misogynistic Schlock?

By Adam Eisenberg on

The opening sequence of Antichrist is an oscillation between, “oh, isn’t this lovely” and, “oh c’mon, give me a break.” In many ways, it’s a fractal for the remainder of the picture, as well as Lars Von Trier’s entire career to date. Every frame in the destined-to-be-debated Antichrist might sever audience reactions more precisely than its notorious scissor wielding sequence, but there is no denying its visual appeal. It has a video-game-like clarity that pushes digital to a place celluloid snobs never dreamed it could breach. But while the images are breathtaking, the content is often cheesy, overwrought, and borders on… Read More

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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Don’t expect any new material at Pavement’s upcoming reunion gigs; these concerts are all about nostalgia. [via NME]
2. Tracy Morgan hands out a big F-you to former SNL castmates Chris Kattan and Cheri Oteri in his new memoir. “All I have to say about that is, where’s Chris Kattan now? Where’s Cheri Oteri now? That bitch can’t even get arrested.” [via Gawker]
3. How did we miss out on the “Zach Braff offed himself with a bunch of pills” rumors? He’s not dead, and clarifies that if he ever does kill himself, it will be with pots and pans. [via E! Online]
4. Giorgio Armani has tapped Megan Fox to replace Victoria Beckham as the new poster girl for their Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans campaigns; look for the images come January. [via WWD]
5. Roman Polanski will complete his new movie The Ghost — which is scheduled to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February — from inside the big house. [via… Read More

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What’s on at Flavorpill: Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

By Caroline Stanley on

Today at Flavorpill, we visited Jay-Z’s “Stash Spot.” We heard what Jamie Foxx had to say about Roman Polanski, namely, “If it had been my daughter who was barely a teenager — my daughter is 15 — Roman Polanski would be missing … period.” We discovered ten similarities between Grand Theft Auto and Inherent Vice. We wondered which male castmember gets killed off of Heroes. (Don’t roll your eyes. We’re still watching.) We found out that Tyra Banks is rolling in it. We wanted to design a Flavorpill flag. We got really excited for The House of the Devil. We previewed DJ AM’s MTV reality show. And finally, we learned which bands will be playing the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. We find it more exciting than the sports… Read More

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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Tao Lin and Carles of Hipster Runoff have a new “sound project ” called Jesus Christ (the indie band); listen to their first MP3, “is this really what you want?,” now. [via GvB]
2. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski used Bruce Springsteen song titles to explain the rules of the Internet at a… Read More