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As below, Haley Barbour’s dreamy nostalgia for pre-civil rights Mississippi is not “false nostalgia,” but it is a rather insidious false memory–the kind of misunderstanding of history that should probably bar one from becoming a serious presidential candidate, but probably won’t. (An editorial in the Times calls it “the faulty memory all too common among [...]
In this trailer for the forthcoming movie Flipped: 50’s hits, kids on bikes, sage father figures, and a voiceover that says, “Director Rob Reiner takes you back to the most unforgettable time of your life.” Apparently the movie also won “the Heartland Truly Moving Picture Award” (get it?).
Ah, yes, Rob Reiner longs for a sweeter, [...]
what we talk about when we talk about nostalgia
Reviewing Pulino’s, Sam Sifton quotes Richard Price and calls it “Restaurant dressed as theater dressed as nostalgia.”
Liberty Magazine, which ceased publication in 1950, is being revived online—sort of. Robert Whiteman has 1,387 issues worth of Liberty material in his basement, and on a pulpy new website—emblazoned “The Stories Never Die!”—he occasionally highlights old articles that [...]
on “date night”
A.O. Scott, how I love you:
[T]he word vagina has no intrinsically humorous properties, but it’s uttered here as if believing that it did were sufficient to make it so.