|
In case you missed these pieces, The Film Snob*s Dictionary was the subject of some intriguing writeups in mid-March: a characteristically terse reviewette in Variety and an inordinately weighty think piece by Richard Schickel in the L.A. Times. Schickel’s article is flattering even as he resists falling in love with the book, yet puzzling in its desire to evaluate The Film Snob*s Dictionary as if it were some kind of scholarly tract by Jonathan Rosenbaum. As we’ve said in interviews, the opinions expressed within the book are genuine, but the book itself is, let’s face it, a novelty paperback. Next: Harold Bloom on Why Do Men Have Nipples? April 04, 2006 More Film Snobbery »
|
Rock SnobberyFilm SnobberyFood SnobberyWine Snobbery
Read more from the Rock Snob's Dictionary » 
Monthly Archive
|
|
Faithfull, Marianne. Marlboro-voiced pop survivor who has shed her earlier incarnations—as the English-rose chanteuse of the baroque-pop Jagger-Richards song “As Tears Go By” and the wasted Rolling Stones concubine who inspired and co-wrote “Sister Morphine”—to become the witty, Weimarish den mama of indiedom. Having first gone down this path with 1979’s comeback LP, Broken English, Faithfull cashed in her formidable equity as a Rock Snob icon by recording her 2002 album, Kissin’ Time, with top-ranking collaborators Beck, Billy Corgan, and Jarvis Cocker.