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HASTY REACTION: The Apartment (1960) Directed by Billy Wilder; watched on DVD. The latest in my personal Festival of Billy Wilder Movies I Haven’t Seen Yet. I was a little apprehensive because in a recent re-watching of Some Like It Hot, I found Jack Lemmon’s comedic affect to be jarring, over-the-top and unfunny. Released only a year later, The Apartment re-teamed Lemmon and Wilder, but fortunately the circumstances were considerably different. The central device of insurance drone C.C. “Bud” Baxter (Lemmon) allowing executives the use of his bachelor apartment for their extramarital trysts in return for professional advancement establishes a rather darker palette than two guys in drag joining an all-girl band. It’s a comedy, but the kind that rests upon all-too-familiar predicaments, e.g. being conscripted into the secrets of others. The movie takes off and flies because of Shirley MacLaine as Fran Kubelik, elevator attendant and the object of Bud’s desires. The 26 year old MacLaine is irresistible — she speaks volumes in few words (compared to the voluble Bud), with a face both beguiling and wholly incapable of untruth. A thoroughly good movie; I now see why so many list it among their favorites, and how influential it has been to later filmmakers (Exhibit A: Cameron Crowe).

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May 11, 2010 | 1 comment

Join or Lai [NSFW]

August 27, 2009 | Post a comment

Pre-emptive apology to artist Justine Lai, whose work is the subject of this post: I do, in fact, believe that said work has artistic merit, and is worthy of clear-eyed artistic consideration. But that’s not what I’m going to do. I contend that an expectation for me to abstain in the face of such comedic bounty would be unnatural.

I gotta hand it to Justine Lai. I may say that I love history… but she luuuuhhhves history.

Lai - JoinOrDie #07In her ongoing, mostly NSFW painting series “Join or Die,” Ms. Lai depicts herself having sex with each President of the United States, in chronological order. At the current time, the artist is enjoying a cigarette (so to speak) following her encounter with 18th president Ulysses S. Grant. Shown at right is her imagined congress with president number seven, Andrew Jackson, who simultaneously delivers the Old Hickory and the ol’ hickey.

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How Do You Rate on the LA-dar?

June 29, 2009 | 5 comments

Again, an item in Ye Olde Facebook Newsfeed set me to thinking. The blurb below was posted by an old schoolmate of mine. I have anonymized her profile picture, and (obviously) blurred out her name. She still lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where we grew up; I (in case you didn’t know) now live in Los Angeles.which-ca-city-LA-screencap

I haven’t taken the quiz, so I don’t know what questions my friend answered. She was puzzled by the result, so I’ve endeavored to develop more in-depth questionnaire to determine how temperamentally well-suited one is for L.A. residency. So here it is: Derek’s L.A.dar, v 0.5.
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Top 10 Tweets in the “3 Words After Sex” Meme

May 26, 2009 | 1 comment

Yep, count on me to keep it highbrow. #3wordsaftersex appears to be the meme du jour over at Twitter, so here are my top ten (of the amount I was willing to read through) with the tweeter’s names in parentheses.

  1. “This never happened.” (SuperSocialite)
  2. “Please stop crying?” (dannibby)
  3. “Must tweet this…” (steno)

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Facebook Meme: 25 Things About Me

January 28, 2009 | 11 comments

This little Facebook meme has found its way to me. OK, what am I supposed to do?

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

I’ll do it, and I’ll send it to the friends who tagged me in theirs, but no way am I going to require 25 of my Facebook friends to write lists too. My friends have more important things to do… well, most of them, anyway.

25 Random Things About Me

  1. I am a compulsive copy editor and a remorseless grammar nazi (in case you hadn’t noticed).
  2. I am geeky enough to use HTML markup when posting things on community web sites. In case you still hadn’t noticed.
  3. I’m seriously considering getting a bicycle to use for getting around town, in order to both save money on gas and get more exercise. The only drawback I foresee is the increased chance of severe injury due to LA’s shortage of bike lanes and surplus of reckless drivers.

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