The best part of a panel about "LOVE" sponsored by The Week magazine was when Harold Evans asked Bernardo Bertolucci, via a patchy connection from Rome, about love. Bertolucci said, "What love? Like I have passion for cinema!" and then he went into a story about how he loved Jean-Luc Godard and his work so much that the first time he met JLG, Bertolucci threw up on him - "That was the manifestation of my love for him." Cinephilia and gastrointestinal distress - that's Gothamist in a nutshell!
The second best part of the panel was when Farrah Fawcett didn't understand Erica Jong's famous "zipless fuck" phrase and Farrah called it a "senseless" fuck. Classic, although New Yorkish might think Jong's voice yelling "labia" which then echoed through Grand Central might be better. Edmund White sort of spooked people out when he discussed his 9 year relationship where both parties have other flings on the side, but, hey, whatever works.
You can see Bertolucci's The Dreamers in theaters or check out his amazing The Conformist at AMMI in Queens this weekend. Or speaking of movie love, see Godard's Breathless.
Paul and Amy discuss the panel and being seated at the baby...we mean, blogger table.
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Ah, love. Bertolucci and Godard, Stan and Wendy.
Total Stan and Wendy. Nice call, Adam.
loved Bertolucci, HATED THE DREAMERS. From the get-go, it was the most self-satisfied, self-important piece of self-indulgence I've ever seen. It made me want to slap silly every '68 cinematheque-rioting, baby booming philosophe who crosses my path.
How Bertolucci could turn this dewy-eyed filmmaker against an important movement in world history, I just don't know.
Lots of young tail, though, doing stuff that'd make Kubrick blush.
Wait wait wait... I don't know what a zipless fuck is. Do I have to read that book to find out? I have more than enough properly characterized canonical lit in my properly syllabized comp. lit. classes to go reading yet another poppéd person who pretends rebellion via "candor" and "sad-happiness."