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Anyone picked this up? I'm not sure I've ever read any Otis Ferguson (Robert Warshow's in there too. I guess Ebert's inclusion is the price...)

http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=240

Philip Lopate and Geoffrey O'Brien doing a reading/signing in NYC tomorrow:

http://www.coliseumbooks.com/events/032306event.htm

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! Back in the day when the Halliwell Film Guide was the only game around it was peppered with pull quotes from Otis Ferguson. I think in one of Alfred Kazin's memoirs there is a portrait of Otis as a hipster that young Alfred looked up to. Although it sounds interesting, I'm not sure if I will be going to any readings at Coliseum, either this Thursday or the next.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Is Kenneth Turan in it?

I read his book "Never Coming To A Theater Near You" which was pretty good.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

You're right Ken -- I still look at my Halliwell for old films and those Nation quotes are plentiful.

Don't see if Turan is in, Manohla Dargis is.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931082928/102-6675737-8001757

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

You mean The New Republic?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ferguson didn't work for The Nation? could be.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

No one here even remotely interests me except Farber. I think I'll pass.

― Anthony (Anthony F), Thursday, 23 March 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

awww come on morbius what's so bad about ebert?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 23 March 2006 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

Going in reverse chronological order, we can start with his comparing C___h to Dickens and calling Fight Club "fascist."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen C***h yet, but I hear it's pretty bad, with ridiculous excuses for characters and a plot that doesn't hang together and that it's really hung up on its supposedly great sociopolitical message, so that comparison seems accurate enough.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

DON'T BE DISSIN' THE CHARLIE D!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Chuck D? The OG?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

C***h is not in the same galaxy re wit, caricature and soc-comm.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

I love the Orwell essay about him but Chuck D is pretty much everything I hate about novels that Charlotte "Bronco" Bronte didn't cover.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

So now you go after Bronco?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

He hates the trendy 19th-c potboilers.

A friend swears John Simon's reviews in the early '70s got him to enjoy reading. I think Simon tends to be judged harshly these days because of the distemperate personal attacks he chucked into his reviews (eg, Liza is ugly). His testimony on the film's behalf in the I Am Curious (Yellow) trial on the Criterion DVD is rather thoughtful.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

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