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Marcello’s Speech on Domestic Relationships in La Dolce Vita Remains More Resonant Today Than Ever
Numerous scenes in La Dolce Vita stand out for their intensity–from Sylvia (Anita Ekberg) traipsing around in a silent Trevi Fountain at dawn to Marcello [Read More…]
Madonna’s Unreleased Erotica Tracks Are the Missing Pieces to What Could Have Been a Hit Album
Even if you weren’t coherent in 1992, you find out sooner or later that Erotica was one of Madonna’s most commercially and critically panned albums [Read More…]
Contempt: A Map of Relationships Gone Awry
There exists within the annals of film history numerous stories about love gone wrong. But there is something so true and real about the unraveling [Read More…]
McCartney: The Sad-Eyed Beatle
In general, Paul McCartney is the most beloved Beatle. Sure, people idolize and deify John Lennon, but Macca is the “lovable lad from Liverpool” who [Read More…]
Turning Shit Into Gold: The Olsen Twin Effect
There are very few famous people who truly embody what it means to have an “American spirit.” Basically, there’s Henry Ford, Madonna and the Olsen [Read More…]
Not So Subtle PSA: Movies in Which the Woman Doesn’t Get the Abortion
While abortion is becoming less stigmatized, sort of (see: the woman who filmed her abortion for YouTube), it remains a polarizing issue in the United [Read More…]
Sex Bomb: Marilyn Monroe’s Continuing Contribution to the Gold Standard of Sexuality
Marilyn Monroe means many different things to different people. For some it’s glamor, for others it’s Old Hollywood, but everyone can agree that, overall, she [Read More…]
Why Does No One Take the Plight of the White Girl Seriously?
Some of you may have rolled your eyes or even let a scoff exit your mouth upon seeing the title of this article. And such [Read More…]
The Internet Gives Me Shizophrenia
I can’t do anything I want to. There’s too much to distract me. My distractions then start to distract me. And this is all, of [Read More…]
If The Ashlee Simpson Show had Continued…
On the laurels of her appearances in Nick and Jessica: Newlyweds, Jessica Simpson’s younger sister, Ashlee, landed her own reality show on MTV in 2004, entitled [Read More…]
