tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17586643.post114339529381578887..comments2023-10-26T00:34:56.760+01:00Comments on Xtinpore: Be preparedXtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05284726953322709781noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17586643.post-1143834770270724572006-03-31T20:52:00.000+01:002006-03-31T20:52:00.000+01:00I appreciate not only the appreciation for N by N-...I appreciate not only the appreciation for N by N-W, but also for Stanley Cavell. Cavell is an absolute favorite of mine, in fact. About a year ago, I made friends with <A HREF="http://allordinary2.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">an Aussie blogger</A> because she and I were the only ones who listed Cavell in our Blogger profiles.<BR/><BR/>I love that essay in themes out of school, too. Every time I watch the movie, I think about that scene where the drone of the airplane engines drown out the conversation.Scrivenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05922358016805022637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17586643.post-1143493239595270822006-03-27T22:00:00.000+01:002006-03-27T22:00:00.000+01:00Stanley Cavell is also a real man, no doubt about ...Stanley Cavell is also a real man, no doubt about it. And Tom? You've got that professional-with-martinis demeanour down to a ... well, T.Xtinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05284726953322709781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17586643.post-1143487786048185082006-03-27T20:29:00.000+01:002006-03-27T20:29:00.000+01:00I appreciate this appreciation, Xtin.I also would ...I appreciate this appreciation, Xtin.<BR/><BR/>I also would envy ROT for his encyclopedic knowledge of gratuities and his ability to at least feign an afternoon's work after multiple-martini lunches.Tom Bozzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853926747746938925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17586643.post-1143486408296186842006-03-27T20:06:00.000+01:002006-03-27T20:06:00.000+01:00In his "N by N-W" (Themes out of School, 1981), St...In his "N by N-W" (Themes out of School, 1981), Stanley Cavell comments on Cary Grant's face (and hero status) by comparing it with the Mount Rushmore Memorial. It all starts with Hitchcock's dissolve from Grant who's trying to shave with Eve Kendall's mini-razor, to the Big Faces of the Memorial. Supreme. Unmissable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com