Arthur Meiselman
Stage To Screen

Views/reViews

I don’t have much to say in this issue. It’s that time... the winter has lasted too long, been too cold here in California by the sea. Not the malaise of cabin fever, just boredom. Same old, same old. What are the thoughts? Let’s see...
Film, music, graphics, media overload. Everyone on the planet is having their creativity empowered. Who said: “If everyone is an artist, then no one is?” Picasso.
America goes to war. I grew up believing America never went to war... first! Now it’ll be the second time in the last 50 years. The first time, American might-makes-right slaughtered 3 million Vietnamese people, and was inherently responsible for the rise of Pol Pot and the Cambodian genocide of 2 million.
Which is worse, a pax-americana where women and cheese-whiz are indistinguishable or a pax-islam where women are shaved, covered things?
The internet. If the French and Chinese think that sex, drugs and rock&roll are the satanic menace, then they are squinting with the eyes of old, paranoid men (which they are). Unbridled information is the menace, information without education.
The chat room is a thing that goes bump in the night.
Pornography. The most driving marketing force on the internet. Which is the worst pornography... the anal, vaginal, penile jpeg view of the world or the world wrestling federation and the Sopranos glorification of low-life problem solving? I vote for Colin Powell as porn star of the year.
Chicago. A terrific musical. Richard Gere is surprisingly good. But he’s not Jerry Orbach. Renee is pretty but not in a musical. Catherine is fat. Rob Marshall did a wonderful job, but he’s not Fosse. Without Fosse, Fosse is not Fosse.
Uma Thurman is currently the best working actress in film.
Who said, “If everyone is a poet, no one is ?” Lawrence.
Who said, “Make war, not love”. The Beatles. Third-rate musicians, fourth-rate songwriters, zero-rate performers.
Who said Elvis Presley was a great artist, a great singer? His mother.
The last piece of good theatre I saw was in Thailand. But that’s because I live in a theatrical wasteland and haven’t been back to New York or Europe for a while.
Digital photography is to film what laser printing is to compu-grahics and foundry typesetting.
If you can’t sing or play well, be Bruce Spingsteen.
If you can’t read music or compose well, be Phillip Glass.
SETI has finally discovered an e.t. signal... it’s called, Fox News.
The mockingbirds are back. All’s well with the world.
Ramblings.

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Arthur Meiselman is a writer,
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He’s also the director of the Talos Ensemble

 

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International Magazine of Theatre, Film & Media

March 2003

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