Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
It Happened One Night & Overboard: Emphasizing the Rich Girl Need to Be Dominated by A Working Man
Pulling the coveted sweep of the Oscars that is winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Screenplay (Adapted), It Happened One [Read More…]
The Selling of a Myth That Can No Longer Be Bought: The 2001 Britney Spears Pepsi Commercial & Justin Timberlake Reemerging in the Present
With Justin Timberlake set to perform at this year’s fifty-second Super Bowl, the usual unquenchable thoughts of his long ago defunct relationship with Britney Spears [Read More…]
Can Maurizio Cattelan Save OKCupid?
In the cutthroat world of online dating, OKCupid was once the blazer of trails in the arena called “find me someone to pay for my [Read More…]
Annette Bening as Gloria Grahame Keeps a Looser Rein on Her Boy Toy Than Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond
What’s worse than being an aging woman? An aging woman who used to be lusted after by the masses as a film star. While this [Read More…]
Angela Lansbury as the Ultimate Frivolous Woman in Blue Hawaii
As far as movies that are hard to watch for their overt misogyny go, Blue Hawaii is one of the ones that increasingly takes the [Read More…]
Leave Tony Bennett Alone
The internet, always the ideal tableau to find oneself amid vitriol at the drop of a hat, has taken aim at Tony Bennett in the [Read More…]
24K Magic: A Patrick Bateman-Tailored Song Buttressing an Album of the Year Win in A Trump Reign
Patrick Bateman is the figure–the monster masquerading around as a sentient human being–that perpetually seems to crop back up in modern life, no matter how [Read More…]
Awards Shows Continue to Suffer the Girls Effect (& Only Blue Ivy Seems to Notice)
Like a time when a woman could live scot-free in exchange for being verbally abused and cheated on, it’s hard to imagine an era in [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey’s Method Increasingly Channels Madonna’s
The comparison of Lana Del Rey to Madonna isn’t necessarily a likely one–especially considering Del Rey’s largely tween/Tumblr fandom has little respect for any god [Read More…]
Ghost Has Nothing on A Ghost Story in Terms of Haunting Devotion
The budget for Jerry Zucker’s 1990 classic, Ghost, was 505.7 million dollars. The budget for David Lowery’s A Ghost Story was 100,000 dollars. When watching [Read More…]
