David Sadighian
David Sadighian
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David Sadighian
When pressed to list the most lurid cultural phenomenon of the decade — this is scene, after all — I made the usual rounds: reality television (too obvious); celebrity sex tapes (too pillaged as a genre); American Apparel (too personal); Miley Cyrus (too damning); hipsters (too hipster).
Yalies in China
or Yale in China? Isolation vs. Immersion
BEIJING — Closely guarding an answer sheet and a half-eaten cheeseburger, Katie Planey ’09 cranes her neck as if to lift above the bar din — European accents discussing European football, Chinese mouths garbling “mojito” — to hear what’s next: “All right, kids,” an American accent says, “Question seven is ‘Name the northernmost province in China.’ ”
Yalies in Hollywood: Sweet Smell of Success
Despite the premium that alums such as Bruce Cohen ’83 — Academy Award-winning producer of “American Beauty” — place on their liberal-arts cred, the upper echelons of Hollywood are comprised of the lucky, the well-connected and the mixer savvy. And the contingent of Yalies intent on “Museum”-like success — nourished on theory in classrooms with fireplaces — are arguably unprepared for such an endeavor immediately after graduation. But recent Blue Book offerings like Suzanne O
Workshop brings smart planning to Elm City
The storefronts of a Chapel St. block offer a whimsical procession through Connecticut kitsch — a yellowed Dutch Boy paint ad, wads of Christmas lights — before arriving at the Yale Urban Design Workshop, a fluorescent-lit cache of Bass wood models and architectural drawings.
scene’s full-frontal Woodies coverage
Given the nature of the 2006 “Woodies” — the “college student music for college students by college students” awards show of mtvU, MTV’s venerable offshoot — the scene was, unsurprisingly, collegiate. The show, which filmed on Oct. 25 and will air on MTV on Saturday, Nov. 4 at 10 p.m., featured live performances from Imogen Heap and Beck, as well as appearances by a requisite crop of celebrities.
Dunst dazzles as l’enfant terrible
Rest assured — the rumors that the young dauphine dons a pair of Converse are entirely untrue. However, the other glaring anachronisms that have launched critics into skepticism and hipsters into swooning reverie are entirely present.
Soft-core porn enshrined in the Whitney
Among juggernauts like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the dazzlingly austere MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art often suffers the cruel fate of dismissal. And foolish dilettantes always have their reasons: “I find American art to be so common”; “The Whitney? It’s lesser Guggenheim”; “Oh, isn’t that next to Chanel?” Yet this hulking, Brutalist museum — a bull in the china shop of Madison Avenue’s boutiques — deserves more attention than it half-heartedly garners.
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David Lynch thinks we're all lightbulbs. What?
The most curious thing about any conversation with David Lynch is inarguably his voice. While one might imagine a kind of Hannibal Lector bite, instead Lynch is completely benign, if not charming. Propped beneath a nasally voice, his words are...
'Killer' forgets style, suspense
Fortunately for the cause of world peace, Ashley Judd can't speak Dutch. Yet even more unfortunate, perhaps, is that her cinematic archetype -- i.e. the bedraggled, three quarter-pretty heroine in a half-bad thriller -- is not lost in translation.