SVEN BIRKERTS
ANGELO R. LACUESTA
DANIEL LIGHT
MARGOT SINGER
Thinking Chair, 2002
Sculpture by Arthur Ganson
STEPHANIE ELIZONDO GRIEST
So ‘Cosmo’ Says You’re Fat: A Retrospective
KERRY HOWLEY
On a p
lane recently, I glanced a few seats over and spotted someone watching that iconic 80’s film, Wall Street. What fascinated me was Daryl Hannah’s hair, big blonde ringlets framing her face, her coiffure made me unable to see her as the twenty-something actor she was then. She looked to me like an impersonator, someone old wanting to hang on desperately to the styles of her youth. I suppose this is another way of saying the film looked dated, but it’s more than that. I had lived through that period, too, and what dogged me as I watched Daryl Hannah in growing horror (she might as well have been pulling out her dentures before she went to bed with Charlie Sheen) was that I had lived through that era, too. What was I thinking? What was everyone thinking and why don’t I still think that way? Not only was Daryl’s Hannah’s hair uncomical at the time, it was the norm. And then a switch turned off and just as suddenly, her hair looked stupid (and you must say the word “stupid” in your head with the kind of British bluntness and accent of say, a Ricky Gervais)...(read more)
IN THIS ISSUE
VOLUME I, ISSUE I ● APRIL 2010
MEMENTOS FROM THE TRASH BIN OF HISTORY
WHAT’S NOSTALGIA GOT TO DO WITH IT?
JAMES SCUDAMORE
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