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2
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Queerantino
A blog about moviegoing and other screen experiences. By Liz Brown.
Jun
18
Suddenly Last Summer. Directed by John Aes-Nihil. Starring Vaginal Davis, Lance Loud, Jade Gordon, and Bibbe Hanson.
Jun
17
Edith (Little Edie) Bouvier-Beale
Jun
16
Cesar Romero and Joan Crawford
Jun
11
On the point
What is the point. That is what must be borne in mind. Sometimes the point is really who wants what. Sometimes the point is what is right or kind. Sometimes the point is a momentum, a fact, a quality, a voice, an intimation, a thing said or unsaid. Sometimes it’s who’s at fault, or what will happen if you do not move at once. The point changes and goes out. You cannot be forever watching for the point, or you lose the simplest thing: being a major character in your own life.
—Renata Adler, “Brownstone”
Jun
10
On television
A lady lifted the lid of her toilet tank and found a small yachtsman, on the deck of his boat, in a bowl. They spoke of detergents. A man with fixed dentures bit into an apple. A lady in a crisis of choice phoned her friend from a market and settled for milk of magnesia. A hideous family pledged itself to margarine.
—Renata Adler, “Speedboat”
Jun
9
On “writing”
That “writers write” is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.
—Renata Adler, “Castling”
Jun
8
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