Archive for May 21st, 2010

Obit watch.

Friday, May 21st, 2010

I wanted to call out this LAT obit for comedian Carla Zilbersmith because:

  1. It made me laugh.
  2. I hate baseball, too.
  3. It includes a “Citizen Kane” reference.

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“Man, how exciting!”

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Big-time heists like the Paris job occupy a special place in the public imagination. They aren’t like ordinary crimes, which are dreary and depressing. Novels, movies and TV shows have trained us to believe a good caper is thrilling, even admirable. We think we know the vocabulary and visual terrain, from the dashing perp (Cary Grant in Hitchcock’s “To Catch a Thief” is your go-to guy here) to the shocked-and-outraged victim to the feckless investigators.

That sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

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