Released this past Fall by powerHouse books is Susan Anderson’s glossy coffee table book, entitled High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants. The book’s description reads, “The girls...
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Pauline Adamek
The creepy world of child beauty pageants — High Glitz
Three years ago, fashion photographer Susan Anderson turned her lens onto the fascinating and creepy world of kiddie beauty pageants. Read a review of the book and exhibition here. *** In the...
Salacious reading — Allen Edwards’ memoir Shear Force
Profane, revealing and downright hilarious – Allen Edward”™s memoir, Shear Force, is the kind of behind-the-scenes racy tell-all you just can”™t stop reading. Written in a frank, confidential and...
All You Need Is Love — The Last Station – film review
It”™s the time for the season of love – at least for the independent period dramas coming out of Great Britain this autumn. Following the romantic tales of Bright Star and An Education, we are now...
(Where’s the) Rhyme & Reason? – A Serious Man reviewed
The Coen Brothers have made a career of examining the more absurd sides of philosophy, morality and ethics. They have, perhaps, never done so in such a personal a manner as they do in A Serious Man. In this, their most...