Lee Rosenbaum, veteran arts writer and author of the blog
Culture Grrl
is
amazed at what museum folks are revealing
to the press while under investigation for accepting stolen antiquities. She has a good round-up of all the recent coverage. Lee will also be on
These Days
this Thursday as we spend an hour talking about the topic of cultural heritage and the role of museums.
I love Cary Grant – what’s not to love? He’s dashing and funny, gutsy but well-mannered, daring and thoughtful, and tall. He was...oh, so tall. And he could really wear a suit. Grant had a fascinating life, though I’ve chosen to ignore the fact that he was once a mime. Mimes are disturbing. I suspect Cary Grant is the only mime I could love, especially if he was wearing a suit. Anyway, Benjamin Schwarz of The Atlantic pays tribute to Grant. I love this description of Grant’s accent: “an amalgamation of low-born and refined, of West Country lilt and hard Cockney, overlaid with the clipped patter of baseball talk.”
Here’s a scary bit (depending on your perspective) on the future of the beauty industry. Botox will be a thing of the past. Wrinkle eradication will come in a jar and breast implants from your butt.
Stephanie Coontz is a marriage historian and always has fascinating things to say about relationship trends and the current state of marriage. I’ve had her on These Days before, and the topic makes our phone lines light up immediately. Here’s an essay she recently wrote on marriage. One of the surprising statistics is that 40% of American children are born to unmarried parents. That seems incredibly high to me.
Apparently, Sarah Silverman doesn’t like to be video taped on stage and have her performance end up on YouTube. She and Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses have something in common .
aaryn b.
from san diego
January 29, 2008 at 07:41 PM
hey...the link to the coontz piece isn't working.
could your repost it?
many thanks.
Tom Fudge
January 29, 2008 at 10:23 PM
On the issue of Cary Grant's accent... though I have enjoyed Cary Grant in Afred Hitchcock and other movies, I was always puzzled by the fact that he seemed to be so often cast as an American. I realize the standard American accent used to be more British than it is now (consider the dropped "R's" in F.D.R.'s speeches and radio addresses). But Grant never sounded American to me, and suspending my disbelief was a trial when he was cast as such so often. Also... if you want to hear a good "cockney" Cary Grant movie, rent Gunga Din, which was shot in 1939 and has Grant cast as a British soldier. It's the only movie I've seen in which Grant has a pronounced London accent. Gunga Din is set in India based on the Rudyard Kipling poem.
