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A still from Showgirls.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

What\u2019s so great about the new New York Times Magazine<\/a><\/em>? Nicole already singled out the cover art<\/a>. Dan linked to Gary Shteyngart\u2019s \u201cembedded\u201d report on Russian TV. I like the tack of the whole thing, starting with the editorial letter. I like its transparency, its sense of humor, its confidence. I like the new typeface it unveils, the paper stock, too. (Finally, a newsmagazine that looks as good as New York<\/em>!) Even the small decision to ghostwrite the \u201cLives\u201d column shows head-thwacking common sense. (Writers will have to unburden themselves elsewhere.) Underneath these little changes, you can sense real thought about the strengths and limitations of a print weekly today. It\u2019s no accident that the magazine has devoted serious articles to photography and a classic rock LP or that it includes a weekly poem. The editors are making the most of their medium, are paying attention to analogue media as such. That this week\u2019s news features were informative, stylish, and timely comes as no surprise: the magazine has always published terrific features on a semiregular basis. But this week, the well added up to more than the sum of its parts. I\u2019m eager to see how Jake Silverstein and his team follow it up tomorrow. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1907, Robert Walser wrote a squib in the form of a letter that responds to an actor\u2019s request for theatrical advice. Walser prescribes a tour de force of anguish in which the actor must let out a lion-like roar from the top of the scenery; pull out tufts of (fake) hair, laying it \u201cdoucement\u00a0<\/em>on the earth\u201d; pick his nose \u201cintently\u201d; produce a \u201cfiery-green snake\u201d from \u201cyour pain-warped mouth\u201d; stick a knife in his eye and out through his throat (then light a cigarette \u201cas if you were secretly amused about something\u201d); and, for the big finish, be buried under the toppled scenery, with only a twitching arm visible before the curtain falls. All for the pleasure of the \u201cbankers and spice traders\u201d in the audience\u2014you know, theatergoers. In 2010, Walser\u2019s deadpan satire was translated by Paul North for Ugly Duckling<\/a> and accompanied by illustrations by Friese Undine that play up the stilted, absurd, self-serious nature of the text, including a helpful quartet of portraits demonstrating proper nose picking. Walser is sarcastic but darkly, delightfully so; he\u2019s mocking, but also, I\u2019d imagine, partly earnest. It\u2019s almost as though he\u2019d written it while watching the Oscars.\u00a0\u2014Nicole Rudick
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Critics shat on Paul Verhoeven\u2019s Showgirls<\/a><\/em> when it came out in 1995. Audiences despised it, too. Here was an irredeemable, exploitative romp, full of glitz and grease, insuperable pairs of shapely NC-17 tits, brittle performances, and overblown dialogue. (\u201cThis isn\u2019t champagne. This \u2026 is holy water<\/em>!\u201d) In the twenty years since, though, Showgirls<\/em> has undergone a time-honored evolution from blockbuster bomb to midnight-movie darling to cineaste curio. When Film Quarterly<\/em> ran a sixteen-page roundtable discussion on the film, the cycle was complete: it had been hailed, in hallowed quarters, as a masterpiece. So how is it, really<\/em>? Adam Nayman\u2019s It Doesn\u2019t Suck<\/a><\/em>, the first entry in a new series on pop classics, mounts a brief, stylish, persuasive argument for the film\u2014not a campy, so-bad-it\u2019s-good argument, nor a pretentious formalist defense, but a sound look at the movie on its own terms. Showgirls<\/em>, he says, is a parable about the vulgarity of showbiz, and its over-the-top grotesqueries are really no more outrageous than anything in reality. It isn\u2019t a guilty pleasure, but it should make moviegoers feel guilty, given our unslakable lust for Hollywood mythology and preposterous star-is-born stories. Nayman\u2019s book makes an ideal complement to the movie, which is worth re-watching. Why not? It\u2019s on Netflix, and it feels more daring, more bracing, and more bizarre than any big-budget picture in recent memory. \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Smithsonian Folkways<\/a> put out a new collection this week of the music of Huddie \u201cLead Belly\u201d Ledbetter, whose story reads like a \u201cparody of the brutal bluesman biography: Kill a man, go to prison\u2014twice\u2014then appeal for a pardon in a song,\u201d as NPR said<\/a>. The new documentary<\/a> on Ledbetter is as aurally thrilling as his life is compelling; it follows John Lomax\u2019s exploitation of the black musician and Lead Belly\u2019s influence on rock-n-roll, from the Weavers, to the\u00a0Grateful Dead, to Van Morrison, to the Beach Boys and even to Nirvana. Ledbetter\u2019s pure abuse of the twelve-string guitar defies categorization; he wasn\u2019t playing blues or folk. He had a unique, gritty spin on American balladry that\u2019s as fresh today as it was back then. \u2014Jeffery Gleaves<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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