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- Régime change
As Alfred Hitchcock famously said, cinema is not a slice of life but a slice of cake. Watch the trailer for Marie Antoinette (QuickTime) Fate’s pansy: Another view of Marie Antoinette. By Clea Simon.
- Fate’s pansy
Reimagining the past, as historical novelists must do, is difficult.
- Solving hunger is not a piece of cake
Marie Antoinette lost a head not too long after she allegedly offered, “Let them eat cake” as a suggestion to hungry Parisians with no bread. While there are still plenty of people making ignorant remarks these days, very few of them are French princesses. Progress!
- Crossword: ''Stuck on you''
And you can't seem to get rid of it
- Whatchmacallit
Kirsten Dunst: “The movie wasn’t about the sets or the costumes, it was about people and the history of emotions, rather than facts, to me.” Régime change: Sofia Coppola’s not so sweet Marie. By Peter Keough
- Fall back
If you cannot remember the past, so Santayana said, you’re condemned to repeat it. Watch trailers for this fall's new releases.
- Off with their heads
The signs are getting bleak for the man in the White House and the party in power.
- The surreal world
Corey Grayhorse offers a style of synthetic glitz that seems to channel our society’s plastic, superficial heart.
- The pursuit of perfection
Lines upon learning that a Lexus parked on the grounds of an English stately home was “sexually attacked” by a peacock
- Being there
Being there fascinates us. We like to watch even if we don’t participate, we are reminded by “States of Siege: A Consideration of Re-enactment Photography,” at the University of Rhode Island Main Gallery through March 12.
- Natalie Walker
It’s all soothing, but Walker’s never too sweet.
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