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May 9, 2008BETSEY CULPQuestions of GuiltIt was a major film, created by a major director. And yet the producers found it so offensive that they refused to release it. An official at BBC, one of its sponsors, said after a screening,
One of its producers called it
After the director retrieved a copy and it was shown in the United States, critics like Harold Rosenberg hated it. May 7, 2008BETSEY CULP joins SFBulldog columnist h. brown for a live internet broadcast. Join the festivities at 7:00 p.m. at http://live.yahoo.com/hbrown. Archived later at http://pottalktv.org/. May 5, 2008BETSEY CULPThe Nature of the CityOne of my favorite mental exercises is to stand on a hilltop in San Francisco and try to imagine what the area looked like two hundred years ago. Erase the houses and streets. What would I see? Dunes. Lots of them. More...May 2, 2008BETSEY CULPLet There Be Light... and DarkJoy to the World. Visit a major city almost anywhere in the world, and you’re likely to find public art lurking around every corner. Some of it is good; some not. But its mere presence enlivens city streets and amuses passersby. Visit San Francisco, and you’re likely to feel that something is missing. May 2, 2008When Fridays Get Too Casual The critics of casual Fridays said this would happen. First it was casual office attire. Then inappropriate conversation followed closely behind those jeans and flip-flops. April 30, 2008BETSEY CULPAn Injury to One...… is an injury to all. The International Longshoremen’s Union has a long and honorable history in San Francisco. On Thursday, May 1, its members will extend that history by closing down all West Coast ports, in an action that recalls the waterfront strike of 1934. April 28, 2008BETSEY CULPOf Samurai, Sex, and SpidersWhen the world was too much with samurai in 17th- and 18th-century Japan, they headed down to the Yoshiwara district of low-city Edo. Last week, in a similar mood, I headed down to the Drama & Desire show at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. There I had to make do with paintings of kabuki actors and courtesans. The samurai had the real thing. April 25, 2008BETSEY CULPNoodling on the News — Channeling KafkaOn the third planet from the sun, Bob Egelko wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle:
Elsewhere, in a parallel universe, a lawyer named Joseph L. walked down a long corridor in one of those gray nondescript buildings that houses government bureaucrats. April 23, 2008BETSEY CULPClass ActsSOMETIMES THE NEWS sounds like it’s a literal translation from Albanian. The words are familiar. But they don’t make any sense. April 21, 2008BETSEY CULPTripe à la Mode de CaenWANNA WIN an easy bet? Next time you’re walking down a busy street in SF, wager that most of the people there have never read Herb Caen.
April 4, 2008BETSEY CULPNoodling on the News —When the C-in-C CallsOn the third planet from the sun, the New York Times wrote in an editorial,
Elsewhere, in a parallel universe, The Sink pulled his chair nearer to the window and looked out. |
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