In the spirit of Follow Fridays my compadres and I, @mcancino @hanana, @brooklahn, @amandaburke and @EstherLily have started RTTuesday – where we re-tweet some of our favorite posts from the last week. The idea is to take advantage of one of Twitter’s best functions – link and information sharing – while also highlighting some great [...]
Chris Bangle, BMW’s controversial chief designer, has announced his retirement from the company and indeed the entire auto industry. While this is understandable considering the scarcity of good jobs in the autoverse right now, Bangle is simultaneously one of the most loathed and influential modern car designers. 2007 7 Series The American born Bangle’s “flame [...]
Mickey Rourke’s face – puffed, spongy, semi-mobile, is like a relief map of failure in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, a sports drama that struggles semi-successfully to transcend it’s genre. To the degree that it succeeds Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Aronofsky deserve the credit for sharply grounding the film in reality. Likewise, it’s shortcomings are again [...]
This year’s Detroit auto show was shaping up to be a giant gloomfest but the actual metal on the ground held some reason for hope, even if a number of big manufacturers like Nissan decided to take a pass entirely. Here were some of the highlights from the new introductions. Ford Taurus (Production)
At the screening of Milk I attended a number of people walked out during scenes in which Sean Penn and James Franco were kissing. I had to wonder whether these folks thought they were going to see a film about beverage consumption. Did they not know this was a film about a gay man? On [...]
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