Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
November 30, 2017
Episode 70: When Art Imitates Life
In 1979, Michael was still living in Ohio when Woody Allen’s Manhattan came out, and
It just seemed like exactly everything I wanted out of life was in that opening sequence.
Now Manhattan — a movie in which Allen’s character dates a high-school student, and a movie that Louis C.K. refers back to in his unreleased film I Love You Daddy, looks very different. Michael asks:
Do you think somehow these guys who have these urges that they somehow know are wrong, they use their art in order to normalize what they’re doing? If I can get people to see this and accept it as a thing, then it makes the underlying urges, it offers me a measure of forgiveness and acceptance and all that, because I’m not hiding and it’s out in the open.
Also mentioned this week:
- Claire Dederer, Paris Review, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
- Vanity Fair, Mariel Hemingway Says Woody Allen Tried to Seduce Her When She Was a Teenager
- David Sims, How Louis C.K. Used Comedy as a Smokescreen
- Willa Paskin, Slate, Louie Was Propaganda for Louis C.K.’s Decency. How Does It Look Now?
- Jerry Useem, The Atlantic, Power Causes Brain Damage
- Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, How Donald Trump Rules America’s Garden of Dicks and Sparked the #metoo Movement
- Newsweek’s Pop Goes the Weasel cover
- Trump tweeted himself out of the running for Time’s Man of the Year.
- Time issued a denial
- Women’s Wear Daily, Vanity Fair Fashion Staff Nonplussed by New Editor’s Personal Style
- Diaa Hadid, NPR, To Win This Board Game, Keep Away From The Matchmaker
- Arranged! on Kickstarter
- Prongles
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