Saturday, 16 April 2011

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Another Jack Kerouac adaptation on the way with Big Sur

Like a 16-year-old dreaming of ditching their suburban prison and just, like, seeing the world, Hollywood has gotten really into Jack Kerouac: The Kristen Stewart-starring On The Road won’t debut until late 2011 (although you can get an early glimpse at what it’ll look like here), but already an adaptation is underway of Kerouac’s Big Sur, the quasi-sequel that follows Kerouac’s experiences with dealing with the unlikely fame that On The Road brought him. The story—which most recently formed the basis of the documentary One Fast Move Or I’m Gone, and an accompanying album by Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar—features several of the same characters as On The Road (i.e. fictionalized versions of Kerouac, Neal and Carolyn Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, etc.), but it has a decidedly less bohemian, freewheeling tone, covering the years when Kerouac retreated to a cabin in Northern California and tried to combat his descent into alcoholism.
Its adaptation will be directed by Michael Polish—one half of the identical Polish Brothers best known for Twin Falls, Idaho—who’s assembled a cast that includes Lars Von Trier regular Jean-Marc Barr as Kerouac, Josh Lucas as Neal Cassady, and Kate Bosworth as Billie, with smaller roles for Anthony Edwards, Radha Mitchell, Balthazar Getty, and Henry Thomas. With all these Kerouac novels suddenly getting the big-screen treatment, we remain shocked that no one has attempted to make a 3-D version of Doctor Sax. It even has vampires!
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The revenge of Tora Prison

If, as Dostoyevsky once said, the degree of civilization of a society can be judged by entering its prisons, Hosni Mubarak's sons and top lieutenants will now get a chance to reflect on the impact they left on Egypt.
Gamal and Alaa Mubarak have reportedly been taken to Tora prison where a number of other figures from their father's regime are already being held. Hosni is also in custody at a hospital in Sharm el-Sheik after suffering an unspecified "heart crisis" during questioning by prosecutors. The three have been charged with corruption as well as instigating violence against protesters during the uprising that removed them from power.
It's a stunning reversal for the Mubaraks -- one underscored by the facility where they're being held. Tora -- actually a complex of five prisons about 14 miles south of Cairo -- has been home to some of the regime's most prominent enemies, including opposition leader Ayman Nour and Al Qaeda founder and later defector Sayyid Imam "Dr. Fadl" al-Sharif...

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Guestroom - Dave Graney

If you know your Australian music, today's guest will be no stranger to you.

He came onto the Australian scene with the Moodists in the early '80s, fronted the Coral Snakes, The White Buffaloes, and these days you'll see him playing alongside the Lurid Yellow Mist.
With his gravelly voice, stage presence and eccentric wardrobe, he's hard to miss!
Dave Graney has just written a memoir that's part road trip, part tour diary, part hallucinatory dream. It's called 1001 Australian Nights, and no doubt he has thousands more stories from the road, the music scene, the stage and from his childhood in South Australian timber town Mt Gambier.
You can listen to Dave Graney here or you can subscribe to our podcast - search for "The Guestroom" in ITunes or Juice or head to our podcast page
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Sasha Grey's “NEÜ SEX”

I’ve noticed a recurring theme in the criticisms that have awaited the publication of porn star/legit actress Sasha Grey’s first book of photography, Neü Sex: this book would never have been published if she wasn’t a hardcore porn performer; she’s whoring her body to gain publicity; there are so many other talented young photographers who deserve to be published before her; blah, blah, blah. Yes, Neü Sex may be an intermittently alluring, admittedly minor debut book of photography from a young artist struggling to find her specific voice, but it’s more valuable in its choice of subject matter (her) than as a portrait of a young visual artist (again, her). And if this assessment still seems somewhat unfair to those who resent that a 23-year-old performer-turned-photographer has secured a major publishing deal when so many of her peers are struggling to gain recognition for their craft, then you’re missing the point. Sasha Grey’s most noteworthy cultural accomplishment isn’t that of a porn star, a model, a musician, an actress, a writer, or a photographer — her most impressive body of work is, quite simply, the creation of Sasha Grey...