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Vexillophilia

Down From the Flagpole, Up in the Museum Gallery. Flag collecting is an obsession Thomas S. Connelly shares with an increasing number of vexillophiles, as flag fanciers are called.

Source: By Kate Murphy. [New York Times: Arts]

. Item Nº44 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 8:16:24 PM. 45.

NINE QUEENS by Fabian Bielinsky

Unseen Yet Seen, A World of Evil. "Nine Queens," a modest caper film by Fabian Bielinsky, is an allegory for corruption in Argentina.

Source: By Larry Rohter. [New York Times: Movies]

. Item Nº43 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 5:22:35 PM. 44.

TEDDY BEARS' PICNIC by Harry Shearer

What Fools Fat Cats Can Be. Harry Shearer aims his satire "Teddy Bears' Picnic" at a power elite (think Cheney, Kissinger) of loopy guys romping at a woodsy retreat.

Source: By Andy Meisler. [New York Times: Movies]

. Item Nº42 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 5:13:19 PM. 51.

THE CAT'S MEOW by Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich: Older, Sadder, Maybe Wiser. With his first film in eight years, "The Cat's Meow," Peter Bogdanovich looks back fondly at old-time Hollywood.

Source: By David Thomson. [New York Times: Movies]

. Item Nº41 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 5:07:43 PM. 46.

SING! about the Los Angeles Children's Choir

Golden Girls. On Oscar night, this mother-and-daughter team wore outfits that cost more than their film.

Source: By Nicole Vecchiarelli. [New York Times: Movies]

. Item Nº40 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 4:54:46 PM. 38.

Mule Skinner Blues

Just Folks Whose Wish Came True: To Be Stars. "Mule Skinner Blues" is the latest in a string of documentaries about, er, unusual characters. But it is also a commentary on "outsider" art.

Source: By Lewis Beale. [New York Times: Movies]

. Item Nº39 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 4:29:24 PM. 52.

Mike Wallace of CBS News 60 Minutes

«'60 Minutes' and Its Icon Plan for Shift in Generations. Mike Wallace, who turns 84 in May, will severely reduce his involvement with "60 Minutes," the CBS news magazine that he helped start in 1968. »

By Jim Rutenberg. [New York Times: Arts]

Broadcast television is not cinema minima, but to the extent that CBS 60 minutes has been a platform for a kind of 'documentary film-making' which is, this item is offered here.

. Item Nº38 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 4:24:52 PM. 89.

Video-on-demand

Cable Offers More Viewing on Demand. Television seems to be finally catching up with its future, at least in terms of the technology. Still unclear is whether video on demand will be more than a passing fad.

By Jennifer 8. Lee. [New York Times: Arts]

. Item Nº37 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 3:48:57 PM. 54.

Television for the Blind

Blind Audience Is Aided by Audio Technology. The major television networks rolled out technology last week that allows the blind to follow the action on television by listening to a narrator describe what is happening.

Source: By John Files. [New York Times: Arts]

. Item Nº35 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 3:41:59 PM. 55.

Writing is a curious business

Footprints of Greatness on Your Turf. Most writers are aware, or become aware, that writing is a curious business, involving odd currents running every which way under the surface.

Source: By Frank Conroy. [New York Times: Arts]

. Item Nº34 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 3:37:07 PM. 48.

Salvador Dali

Memory Persists in a Dalí Pavilion Revisited. Could a Surrealist pavilion designed by Salvador Dalí for the 1939 World's Fair be the first example of installation art in the United States?

By Stephen Kinzer. [New York Times: Arts]

. Item Nº33 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 2:54:43 PM. 48.

Original Pirate Material - Lock Down Your Aerial. Is Original Pirate Material - Lock Down Your Aerial by The Streets genius or novelty?

[playing with cobras]

. Item Nº32 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 2:45:42 PM. 35.

A. Raffaele Ciriello

Photojournalist A. Raffaele Ciriello's career began in racing coverage but quickly took him to some of the world's worst war zones, including Afghanistan, Somalia, and Sierra Leone. See his photos, and stories at his web site Postcards from Hell.

Source: [Memepool] Source: [Jim Fridenmaker: Journalism]

. Item Nº31 posted: Monday, April 8, 2002 2:34:00 PM. 80.