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• Bob at Forward to Yesterday recently braved an evening at an alcohol-free Indian casino in order to try out for the all-movie version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and at my request, he blogged about it. “So, how do I assess my chances? Not great, just based on my numbers, my lousy handwriting/lackluster questionnaire answers and my lack of extreme chipperosity.”
• Scarecrow Video has compiled a gallery of Klaus Kinski paintings from posters and video boxes. Kinski will not be denied: “Stare into Kinski’s eyes. I dare you! You will get lost in his obsession; you will feel how tortured he is. Rational behavior has been replaced by a primal drive.” Via The House Next Door.
• Henry Jenkins, co-director of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program, offers up anecdotes from the first week of the semester. “Senior House welcomes new students by dropping thousands of bouncy balls from the roof of our building while “Go Ask Alice” blares from the sound system and strobe lights flash in their faces. It can be a vaguely out of body experience but it captures the unexpected quality of life in this dorm.”
• Tom Hall has an excellent analysis of Anthony Kaufman’s Village Voice piece on the impact of day-and-date releasing amongst New York’s small handful of art theaters, through which he steals my boyfriend’s (admittedly private) fantasy of building an Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn. “[T]alk about under-screened and a license to print money; If someone partnered with The Brooklyn Brewery and built an Alamo-style art-house in Williamsburg (go ahead, do a search for 11211 on your favorite on-line ticketing website) and Park Slope, they’d be putting screens where the audience for these films now reside.”
• I’m on this week’s episode of ReelerTV, talking about Frank V. Ross and Kentucker Audley. It’s embedded above.