Cher
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| - | [[John Updike]] dies. I have never read anything by him. My only memory remotely connected to the physical me is a foreign professor who came to teach us English at the [[HIVT]], where I studied for translator. | ||
| - | He described a scene in one of Updike's [[Rabbit Angstrom|Rabbit]] [[novel sequence]] in which the main character inserts a gold coin into the vagina of his partner. | + | Cher came to prominence in 1965 as one half of the [[pop/rock]] duo [[Sonny & Cher]]. She subsequently established herself as a solo recording artist, a television star in the 1970s, and a film actress in the 1980s, starring a string of hit films including ''[[The Witches of Eastwick (film)|The Witches of Eastwick]]'', ''[[Silkwood]]'', ''[[Mask (film)|Mask]]'' and ''[[Moonstruck]]'', for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. |
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| - | I was instantly [[put off]], although I am not naturally aversed by [[debauchery]]. | + | |
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| - | That partner appears to be Janice, I find now. | + | |
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| - | The whole story was described by this teacher as terribly a [[middle-class]] [[everyman]], perhaps best described in Europe as the [[petit bourgeois]] who was a fan of the work of [[Jacques Brel]], one who was laughed at by Brel despite (or perhaps, because) being a fan. It is a character I find difficult to [[Identification (literature)|indentify]]<sup>*</sup> with. | + | |
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| - | For a writer of such fame, it is strange that so few of his works have been adapted for film (see [[unfilmability]]), is this due to the aforementioned unfilmability or just that no filmmaker was inspired enough by the stories of Updike? | + | |
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| - | *(6.30) - ''[[The Witches of Eastwick]]'' (1987) | + | |
| - | *(6.24) - ''[[Too Far to Go]]'' (1979) (TV) | + | |
| - | *(6.22) - ''[[The Roommate]]'' (1985) (TV) | + | |
| - | *(5.43) - ''[[Rabbit, Run]]'' (1970) | + | |
| - | *(5.38) - ''[[A & P]]'' (1996) | + | |
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| - | The films are preceded by their IMDb scores which are a fairly reliable assessment of tastes. | + | |
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| - | ''[[The Witches of Eastwick]]'' is his most famous work in filmland (it is far to easy for a writer to be famous in bookland). In 1987, the novel was adapted into a [[The Witches of Eastwick (film)|film]] starring [[Jack Nicholson]] as Darryl, [[Cher]] as Alexandra, [[Susan Sarandon]] as Jane, and [[Michelle Pfeiffer]] as Sukie. | + | |
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| - | <sup>*</sup>[[Identification (literature)|Indentification]] is a term used in [[Literary criticism|literary]] and [[Film theory|film]] studies (but also in the static visual culture realm, so perhaps better umbrellad by the term [[narratology]]) to describe a psychological relationship between the reader of a novel and a character in the book, or between a spectator in the audience and a character on screen. In both cases, [[reader]]s and [[spectator]]s see themselves in the [[fictional character]]. | + | |
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| - | Identification is usually supposed to be largely [[unconscious]]: a reader may be aware that she likes a given character, but not that she actually see that character as an [[alter ego]], a version of her, or a projection of her aspirations for herself. It would be a mistake to think all [[heroes]] foster identification, or that all [[villain]]s inhibit identification—many, perhaps even most, characters elicit some degree of identification on the part of the reader or spectator. | + | |
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| - | [[Pramoedya Ananta Toer]] | + | |
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| - | [[Diary]] of an [[insatiable]] [[slut]]. | + | |
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Cher came to prominence in 1965 as one half of the pop/rock duo Sonny & Cher. She subsequently established herself as a solo recording artist, a television star in the 1970s, and a film actress in the 1980s, starring a string of hit films including The Witches of Eastwick, Silkwood, Mask and Moonstruck, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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