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I've always admired the traditions and achievements of Greek cinema and when I was in film school in NY I remember S. Kapsaskis' films and enjoyed them very much. It's too bad he made so few. This is a long overdue tribute to his work and to an illustrious father.
Everett
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A fine and fitting tribute to a life well lived. Thanks Andrea.
Les Marcott
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Freaks
I am part of the proverbial choir Andrea Kapsaski is preaching to in her recent article, Living in Los Angeles, I am surrounded by and bombarded with this region's collective consensus of what beauty is and it saddens me. Besides the stereotypes of peroxide blondes with big boobs, no butts, pouty lips and bones protruding from skin, there is the insidious overtone that if a woman doesn't have a similar look to a mass produced Barbie doll, a twisted plastic surgeon's version of Huxley's Gamma-Delta-Epsilon, she has no worth. Individuality, unique imperfections, character lines... these are not embraced by American culture. If only there would come a day when women are taken for who they are and not how they look, when skin color is no longer a divider, when people who don't fit societies "normal" aesthetic are made to feel part of the herd and not outside of it, and intelligent compassionate thought is cherished and praised over shallow physicality. Ah, a beautiful freak can dream!
Lia Beachy

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Thank you for writing about the exhibit at the Belgravia. This is such a lovely sampling of such wonderful painting. I wish that Scene4 would publish more about the art world and especially about representational art. It does indeed thrive amidst the preponderance of that which passes for modern art.
Anee S. Waterson
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