just something i noticed in the times. an article about vancouver's restaurant scene a while back entitled "Asian Stars Are Bright in Vancouver's Firmament". and this week's way early preview of an article on jack goldsmith begins as follows: "In the fall of 2003, Jack L. Goldsmith was widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament."btw, i caught "the king and the clown," which i think was the 3rd most popular movie of all time in korea. the story in a nutshell is about a troup of performers that become court jesters in 14th (15th?) century korea. the more intriguing aspect of the film is that one of the jesters, gong-gil, wins the affection of a lascivious king, who realizes that gong-gil can meet his emotional and physical needs more than his many (female) concubines. i know, there's a reason why this movie was called the "brokeback mountain" of korea. even though only one very quick male-on-male kiss verifies this homosexual subtext, i was pretty darn surprised that a mainstream movie was acknowledging and not denigrating homosexual love.
granted, i think the movie's popularity may be attributable to the very bawdy humor, skewering of the upper class and depictions of lavish royal life, but i dunno, maybe we've come a long way, baby? yeah, i don't wholeheartedly endorse this movie bc i think they could've cut out about 20 min, but it was entertaining.
this reminds me: the heath ledger/michelle williams breakup kind of got to me. maybe bc they're my quasi-neighbors? who knows.
2 comments:
I much prefer "welkin" to "firmament."
Michelle and Heath? Yeah, no way even a cute brownstone in Carroll Gardens was going to keep them two together--though I kind of like that the two dudes from Dawson's Creek dropped off the planet, while the two girls married and reproduced with Hollywood A-listers.
yeah, what happened to buttcut?
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