Inside the Daily Planet, 9/21/08
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Theater note: In which your correspondent gets lost in a warehouse, drinks three beers, and watches cartoonsby Jay Gabler, TC Daily PlanetAs Jeremey Catterton struggled, with stuttering gusto, to communicate an abstract (and possibly nonexistent) thesis about the parallels among Jesus Christ (as portrayed by Willem Dafoe in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ), Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis (as portrayed by Sam Riley in Anton Corbijn’s Control), and St. Matthew (as painted by Caravaggio), Jayne Deis perched at the keyboard to drink, smoke, heave her well-suspended cleavage at the audience, and heckle an increasingly brittle Catterton—who finally collapsed into tears and sang “Love Will Tear Us Apart.”Readers, Writers and BooksInterview: Chief Bender storyteller Tom Swiftby Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet”For almost the entire second half of the twentieth century Minnesota had only one representative in the Baseball Hall of Fame. When the second and third members of that club, Dave Winfield and Paul Molitor, were inducted, the name of the first, ‘Chief’ Bender, popped up in newspaper articles—usually as a footnote. I knew almost nothing about him, so I started reading. The more I learned, the more I wanted to learn.”Bonny’s Americaby Michele St. Continue Reading