Archive for June, 2007
top 100 american films, new versus old
top 100 films, as decided by the American Film Institute by votes from people in the industry.
what?!?!!? swing time (90) should totally top sunrise (82)! Other than that, I agree totally with this list, and proclaim it definitive. All comments disagreeing will be deleted.
Slate: Why wine writers talk that way
from z-dog: Check out this Seidner-esque description of a wine quoted in the Slate.com article “Cherries, Berries, Asphalt and Jam: Why Wine Writers Talk that Way”
. . . Of course, the line between incisive and overwrought can be a fine one. British wine expert Michael Broadbent once likened a wine’s bouquet to the smell of schoolgirls’ uniforms (no, he wasn’t arrested). And the late Auberon (son of Evelyn) Waugh, in his wine column for Britain’s Tatler, described one wine as smelling of “a dead chrysanthemum on the grave of a still-born West Indian baby” (no, he wasn’t fired, but he and his editor, Tina Brown, were brought before the Press Council to answer charges of insensitivity).
[Actually sounds more like z. to me. Ed.]