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Amsterdam Musée du Luxembourg art Until Feb. 22 “Vodou: Art & Mysticism from Haiti” Illustration from % 33-1454-4129-0 exhibits unique objects of vodou wor- ‘The Peacock Party,’ www.museeduluxembourg.fr ship and art. 1979, by Alan Aldridge, Tropenmuseum on view in London. art Oct. 31-May 10 “Monet: L’Oeil Impressioniste” shows % 31-20-5688-200 works by the French painter Claude www.tropenmuseum.nl Monet (1840-1926) and analyzes the effect his partial loss of vision had on Berlin his paintings. art Musée Marmottan Monet Until Feb. 15 Making magic “High Fidelity—Artist’s Records in the % Marzona Collection” displays 300 vinyl 33-1-4496-5033 albums alongside posters, photogra- www.marmottan.com phy, musical scores and books. Kunstbibliothek Rome Until Feb. 1 art % 49-30-2662-951 “Bruno Munari” exhibits more than www.smb.spk-berlin.de 150 objects, including sculptures, art- works and graphics by Milanese artist with star ensembles Brussels and industrial designer Bruno Munari art (1907-1998). “Brussels Biennial” presents contempo- Museo dell’Ara Pacis rary art in various locations by interna- Until Feb. 22 tional artists including Abdellah Kar- % 39-06-0606-08 The power of movies when Hollywood greats are team players roum, Charles Esche and Anselm www.arapacis.it Franke. Until Jan. 4 photography % 32-2-5078-345 “Lisette Model and School: Photo- www.brusselsbiennial.org graphs from 1937-2002” presents 21 photographs by Lisette Model art (1901-1983) and over 100 works by “Corpus Delicti: Contemporary Art in artists she inspired, including Diane Ar- the Brussels Law Courts” exhibits art bus, Elaine Ellman, Larry Fink, Peter adressing ideas of justice and crime. Hujar, Gary Schneider, Rosalind So- Brussels Law Courts lomon, Bruce Weber and others. Until Nov. 21 Museo di Roma in Trastevere % 32-2519-8677 Until Nov. 2, 2009 www.corpus-delicti.be % 39-06-5816-563 www.museodiromaintrastevere.it Cologne art Stockholm “Gerhard Richter” exhibits 40 paint- photography ings by the German artist (born 1932) “Nuevas Historias—A New View of with a focus on abstract works pro- Spanish Contemporary Photography” duced between 1986 and 2006. shows work by Spanish artists Jordi Museum Ludwig Bernadó, Isidro Blasco, Bleda y Rosa, Until Feb. 1 Alicia Martin, Mireya Masó and others. % 49-221-2212-6165 Kulturhuset Stockholm www.museenkoeln.de Until Jan. 25 % 46-8-5083-1508 Düsseldorf www.kulturhuset.stockholm.se art “As Far as the Eye Can See— Tours Lawrence Weiner” is a retrospective art of conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner “The Pleasure of Taste—French Paint- (born 1942). ing at the Time of Madame de Pompa- K21 Kunstsammlung im Hamburger Kunsthalle by 25 contemporary conceptual artists Palazzo Reale dour” exhibits 60 paintings by the Ständehaus Until Jan. 18 from Russia. Until Jan. 25 French masters Boucher, Greuze, Char- Until Jan. 11 % 49-4042-8131-200 Fundación Juan March % 39-0287-5672 din and Fragonard, all influenced in % 49-211-8381-600 www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de Until Jan. 11 www.comune.milano.it style by the patronage of the French www.kunstsammlung.de % 34-91-4354-240 courtesan Madame de Pompadour. www.march.es Munich Musée des Beaux-Arts Frankfurt Helsinki photography art Until Jan. 12 photography “Beneath the Waves of the Archipelago Milan “Kandinsky—Absolute, Abstract” is a % 33-2-4705-6873 “Jim Rakete: 1/8 sec.” shows black and Sea” presents underwater photography art major retrospective of paintings and www.tours.fr white portraits of celebrities by German of the Baltic Sea taken by Finnish diver “Seurat, Signac and Neo-Impression- graphic art by Russian artist Wassily photographer Jim Rakete (born 1951). and photographer Jukka Nurminen. ism” is a retrospective dedicated to Kandinsky (1866-1944), one of the Deutsches Filmmuseum Vienna Amos Anderson Art Museum the founding fathers of the Neo-Im- first modern abstract artists. music Until Jan. 4 pressionist movement. Kunstbau Lenbachhaus % 49-69-9612-2022-0 Until Nov. 16 “Festival Wien Modern 2008” is a con- % 358-9-6844-460 Oct. 25-Feb. 22 temporary music festival featuring the www.deutsches-filmmuseum.de % www.amosanderson.fi 49-89-2333-2000 works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Enno www.lenbachhaus.de Göteborg Poppe and Peter Ablinger alongside London works by Tony Conrad, Chaya Czer- photography photography nowin and others. “Graciela Iturbide” showcases the art “Still Lives—When Things are Dream- Oct. 26-Nov. 16 work of the photographer and Hassel- “Alan Aldridge—the Man with the Ka- ing: Photographs from the Collection” % 43-1-2420-0 blad 2008 award winner, who focuses leidoscope Eyes” features the artwork, presents still life photographs from www.wienmodern.at on the interactions between nature sketches, letters and films of the Brit- the past 100 years. ish illustrator and graphic designer and culture, identity and landscape. Münchner Stadtmuseum Source: ArtBase Global Arts News Service, Hasselblad Foundation Alan Aldridge (born 1943). Until Feb. 1 WSJE research. Until Jan. 11 Design Museum % 49-89-2332-2370 % 46-3136-8350-0 Until Jan. 25 www.stadtmuseum-online.de www.hasselbladfoundation.org % 44-2074-0369-33 WSJ.com www.designmuseum.org Paris What’s on Hamburg art WSJ.com subscribers can see an art Madrid “From Miró to Warhol: The Berardo Archivio Storico della Fondazione Jacqueline Vodoz e Bruno Danese expanded version of the European “From Leonardo to Piranesi: Italian art Collection in Paris” presents works cov- arts-and-culture calendar at ‘Multiplo Ora X,’ 1963, by Bruno Drawings from 1450 to 1800” exhibits “Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art ering five major art movements in the WSJ.com/Europe 100 drawings by Italian Masters. in Moscow, 1960-1990” shows works Munari, on view in Rome. 20th century. Confessions from Teitur Golf’s lessons in humility W16 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL v Top Picks 8-11 | Cover story Film 12 | Books DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES &ESTATES Contents Updike on aging friends t A rich culture, fed by oil 3 | Fashion Ensemble power Cat lady Berlin n history How movie stars make magic Acentury ago,half oftheworld’soil came Men’s style goes ‘extreme banker’ Doris Lessing from one place: Baku, the capital of Azer- when working as a team baijan, located on a stretch of Caspian coastline so rich with petroleum and nat- Collecting: Avant-garde fashion 13 | Sports ural gas deposits that the ground could actually catch on fire. Baku, a traditional meeting point of the Ottoman, Persian 4 | Music Golf’s lesson in humility and Russian Empires, was transformed by the oil boom. European and local oil Confessions of Teitur barons reinvented the city, importing Eu- Literary trio’s fish story ropean-style luxuries while pioneering the use of the oil tanker. Baku is currently 5 | Games undergoing a second oil boom, with off- 14 | Taste shore deposits providing profits. Both oil booms are evident in a lavish LittleBigPlanet’s dreamworld exhibition at Berlin’s Ethnological Mu- Jan who? seum, called “Azerbaijan: Land of Fire,” which chronicles 5,000 years of history 6-7 | Food & Drink and culture in the Caucasus, with high- 15 | Top Picks lights from Baku’s major museums. It’s all here: Bronze Age relics; medieval Islamic Wine: Australia’s ceramics; 19-century handicrafts; early Plus: Indie films on the Web, and Events in Berlin, Paris and Linz 20th-century political caricatures; late bright spot 20th-century political propaganda; and Morgenstern reviews ‘W.’ contemporary Azerbaijani art. Ensemble performances and star turns: Top row (from left to right): Russell Crowe of “American 16 | Time Off The variety of objects is dazzling, but Making a bad Gangster” and “L.A. Confidential,” Tom Cruise in “Magnolia” and Cameron Diaz in “Being John Malkovich.” the carpets are a standout. The most im- Middle row (from left to right): Jeff Bridges in “The Big Lebowski,” Julia Roberts and George Clooney of “Ocean’s Eleven” and Cate Blanchett in “I’m Not There.” Front row (from left to right): Meryl Streep in “A pressive are the Karabakh carpets, cocktail better t Prairie Home Companion,” Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” and Jack Nicholson in “Chinatown.” Our arts and culture calendar marked by dramatic colors and geomet- Cover illustration: Drew Friedman ric forms, produced in the 19th century, WSJ.com when Azerbaijan’s carpet industry reached a highpoint. Around the corner from the carpets, a slideshow docu- ments life in Baku during the first boom with a parade of images featuring medi- World’s horse race Raw power New Chandigarh? FLORENCE-TUSCANY Elizabeth Blackshire Editor eval-looking barbershops, Dickensian oil Panoramic position on the hills This weekend’s Breeders’ Cup Top sushi chefs are autocrats Population growth is Craig Winneker Deputy editor derricks and elegant boulevards. is inaugurating a new track in their domain, and fans pressuring Le Corbusier’s Fahire Kurt Art director —J.S. Marcus PRESTIGIOUS Kathleen Van Den Broeck Assistant art director Until Nov. 16 surface. How will it play? love it. Indian city. Matthew Kaminski Taste page editor % 49-30-8301-438 ANTIQUEHAMLET WSJ.com/Sports WSJ.com/Food WSJ.com/Asia Questions or comments? Write to [email protected]. www.smb.spk-berlin.de 24000 sf (2230sm) of restored Please include your full name and address. apartments in the Chianti Classico area,

Paris n art Staatliches Theatermuseum Cafer Cabbarli, Baku luxury pool, gym, cellars - 88 acres “Picasso and the Masters,” at the Grand ‘The Merchant,’ 1932-33, by Azim Azimzad, on view in Berlin. (36 hectares) vineyards, olive groves. Palais, pulls together more than 200 Prestigious wines with International awards.Œ 10mil. THE JOURNAL CROSSWORD / Edited by Mike Shenk 67 Home of Sharp 6 Chamillionaire’s field 51 Tries 87 Stable mother paintings and a handful of sculptures to 69 Ring leader? 7 Old sneaker feature 54 Foam toy brand 90 Without feeling document Picasso’s admiration, some- the stunning and probably once-in-a-life- The same is true of Ludwig Kasper 0039 392 844 0033 [email protected] Across 22 Gabon’s president 34 Forever, seemingly 56 “The Spanish 70 Founder and keyboardist of 8 Roundabout route 55 Brown quickly 91 Around the 30th: Abbr. times to the point of obsession, for two time lineup of Titian’s “Venus and Cupid (1893-1945), who fit his aesthetic ideas the Earth Band ___ 1 Finito Bongo 36 Author of 2001’s Singer” painter 9 1974 hit from Spain 57 “ in heaven 93 Miniature hourglass dozen major artists, including Cranach, with an Organist,” Goya’s “Naked Maja” to those of the Third Reich. His giant 73 Mess up messages above, ___ earth 5 Destroy by 23 Winner of several “Fury” 58 Vermont-based 10 Spot for some surfers 97 Go by Courbet, Cézanne, Delacroix, Gauguin, In- and Manet’s “Olympia” is interspersed nude figures—the show includes “Little 77 Equip anew beneath”: 1 Kings degrees O. Henry Awards 40 Risk-reducing mail-order retailer 11 Above, in Austria 99 Deadly mushroom gres, Manet, Rembrandt, Rousseau, Van with several garish and crudely near-por- Girl with an Apple” (1933), “Standing 79 Harbor sight 59 Teed off 10 Crockett’s “Miami 25 Carnegie Hall position 60 Crest rival 12 It has little foliage 102 Kevin of “Weeds” Gogh and especially his Spanish prede- nographic late Picassos that look like the Boy” (1933) and “Spear Carrier” headliner of 80 Dorm duo 61 Satisfies Vice” partner 45 Struck like a water 62 Some 39-Down 13 Outlaw 103 Girl in a Beach Boys cessors El Greco, Goya, Zurbarán and secondary splashings of a spoiled child. (1936)—are allmodeledonHellenicsculp- January 16, 1938 balloon 81 “Amscray!” 15 Mexicali setting works 14 “Everything’s Coming Up 65 Sacred scrolls song Velázquez. Since the show offers at least A pair of associated exhibits running tures. They were widely admired by the 27 Observation 49 Celestial ___ 19 Dos minus dos 63 Crime writer 84 Not worth Roses” composer 68 CONTROL foe 104 Deplore one and often several works by each of until Feb. 1 offer Picasso’s multiple varia- Nazi leadership. 28 Lineups Seasonings offering Buchanan 86 Southern city in 1965 20 Dark Lord of the 15 Yahoo 70 Chutney maker’s supply 106 Reference section them, it earns its blockbuster status for tions on Delacroix’s “Women of Algeria” The other two artists in this show re- 30 Didn’t guzzle 50 Huey Lewis’s band headlines Sith 64 Lacking range 16 Cookie entrepreneur 71 Where seconds staple this personal pantheon alone, as well as (attheLouvre)and Manet’s“LeDejeuner fusedto toe the ideological and aesthetic 31 Vaccine target 52 Do 88 Western lilies 21 Destroyer 66 Singer Corinne Wally are important 109 Cash on hand? for its raft of fine Picassos. sur l’Herbe” (at the Musée d’Orsay.). lines of Hitler’s Germany. Ernst Barlach destroyer 33 Chief Ouray, for one 53 Perfect places Bailey ___ 89 Author who wrote “Demian” 17 35th anniversary gift 72 Make a mess of 110 Curly-leafed cabbages Laid out thematically, the exhibit —Judy Fayard (1879-1938) reached the peak of his ca- under the pen name Emil 18 Title character in Anne 74 Bunker, for one starts with self-portraits—mostly a reer during the Weimar Republic with Male Bonding/ by Pancho Harrison Sinclair 111 Current setting Until Feb. 2 Rice’s sixth Vampire 75 First name among works illustrating the futility of war. Un- 92 Clear out 112 Stilton stoolies young Picasso alongside works by ma- % 33-1-44-13-17-17 1234 56789 1011121314 15161718 Chronicles book hoteliers like Kasper or Thorak, he created figures 94 Fourth little piggy’s share 113 Second son ture artists, among them an unforgetta- www.grandpalais.fr 24 “What services ___ thou 76 Slalom makeup ble aged Rembrandt who nearly steals that show humanity, suffering and great 19 20 21 22 95 Zola’s declaration 114 Bullpen stat do?”: Lear 78 Response to a pointer the section. Picasso more than holds his n expressive power. The Nazis condemned 96 Friday, for one 26 Wildcatter’s 115 Small singer Linz art 23 24 25 26 80 Dance party attendees own in the next few galleries devoted to his art as degenerate and 400 works 98 Shell games? dream 116 Gets it wrong “PoliticalSculpture,”at theLandesgalerie 81 LaBeouf of classical models and portraits, with su- wereremoved from museums and public 27 28 29 30 100 Leigh Hunt poem “Abou Ben 29 It might make pupils shrink Linz, features works by foursculptors ac- “Eagle Eye” 118 Résumé sender’s goal perb paintings from his early blue and places in 1937. Among the most famous ___” 32 Tool used when the stakes tive in Austria during the Nazi era, when Prime Farm Land 82 Stock unit 119 Lamb tenders of his works (shown here in a photo- 31 32 33 34 35 101 “Winter Light” director are high? rose periods and the post-Cubist return Hitler hoped to make the city of Linz, his S.E. Oklahoma 83 Pit group: Abbr. 120 Fish-loving eagle to figuration. Sometimes the relation- graph) was his floating bronze angel in 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 105 Reduce in force 35 Outfits boyhood home, into a cultural capital. 200 Acres Red River Bottom 85 Mil. branch in the Dept. 123 Answer to the chaplain the Cathedral of Güstrow, which was re- Government Base, Good Renter in Place 107 Calico cat, usually 37 “Deal or No Deal” star ship of a Picasso to an older work is The most notorious of the four is Jo- 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 of Homeland Security 125 Large ray patent, as in the many variations on moved and symbolically melted down to with 5% return. 108 Many a nametag 38 TV’s “ ___ Haw” sef Thorak (1889-1952), who specialized Velázquez’s“Las Meninas” (that painting make ammunition. The exhibit includes $2600 per acre. 52 53 54 55 56 57 113 Furthermore 39 Anti-art art in illustrating Nazi ideals of art. Between ishereonlyina slideprojection),and avio- Barlach’s bronze works “The Melon 903-701-7248 or 7247 117 “That’s great!” 41 Affectionate word Last week’s solution 1934 and 1944 Thorak created the im- Eater” (1907), “Freezing Girl” (1916) and 58 59 60 61 62 63 lently colored reconstruction of Cra- ages we now associate with Nazi art: 121 Home of Odysseus 42 More than just ask “Wanderer in the Wind” (1927). ABBADO BAS I C RANLOW nach’s delicate portrait of a bejeweled overdeveloped bodies with small heads, 64 65 66 67 68 122 Writer of the “I am stuck on 43 Singer Stefani Perhaps the most interesting artist Band-Aid” jingle BEAVERS TEXACO ARCANE woman. Other pairings are wonderfully heroic men and subservient women. He 44 This, in Toledo ONTOP I C WHI TEHATMOUSE here is Fritz Wotruba (1907-1975), Aus- MAKE GREAT 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 124 Writer who appeared in a surprising, including Zurbarán’s haunting completed bustsofNazipropagandamin- 45 “Amscray!” ADMI T HAYES CEDES PAK tria’sbestknown20th-centurysculptor.His CONNECTIONS 2004 “Gilmore Girls” episode brown-and-black vision of Saint Francis ister Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini 77 78 79 80 46 Profitable Internet business READ HELLS BARDS TELL block-like figures, carved from hard, rough- 126 Under any circumstances of Assisi as a hooded monk and Picasso’s and Hitler himself. Thorak also made IN EUROPE. 47 Largest human gland DRK COMBATMOVER MOREY surfaced stone, exude a primitive force. 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 127 Treasure ERASES I RES JAM jagged Cubist “Man with a Guitar”—one sculptures for the 1936 Olympics in Ber- THE WALL STREET 48 Song sung by Wotrubaalreadyhadsuccessfulinter- 128 “La Vita Nuova” writer of very few Cubist works on show. lin, the German Pavilion of the World Ex- JOURNAL EUROPE. 89 90 91 92 93 94 Fred and Ginger CARAFES AND I QU I BBLE national exhibitions behind him in the 129 Reach a maximum price in “Swing Time” OUSTED COACHFATMARES Toward the end of the exhibit, position in Paris in 1937, the party parade early 1930s and enjoyed excellent re- 95 96 97 98 99 130 You see right through it MSDOS LOCUS BONE S AC T though, Picasso starts to pale, with a few grounds in Nuremberg and the Reich views from Austrian and foreign art crit- St. Croix, USVI 131 Beans WSJ.com I TON RUNON TOADS ETTA too many of the later works he blithely Chancellery in Berlin. ics when Germany’s annexation of Aus- LAND OF PARADISE 100 101 102 103 104 NEZ SEMI S COMMA GAMUT To advertise 132 Close by, poetically knocked off in a single day. In a gallery of Atthe endofthe warmanyworks(in- ESTATE SALE GREATMENTHUMB RET I RE tria forced him into exile. He continued 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 Crossword online women’s portraits, his pulled-taffy, yowl- cluding Hitler’s bust) were destroyed or Emma Balogun Spectacular view—Beautiful Setting 133 IDs first issued in 1936 SENTOUT ORES MENAGES working in Switzerland until the end of For an interactive ing and cartoonish “Big Nude in a Red disappeared into private collections. To- the war. Included in this show are “Torso” The Wall Street Journal Europe 114ac. overlooking Turquoise Bay & Buck 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 HPS POLL HEARTH Island. Home, guest house, garages, gen. Down version of The Wall SOLOS HONEYBEATME TMS Chair” is no match for the imposing In- day his images are used to illustrate neo- (1930), “Large Lying Youth” (1933) and +44 207 842 9608 122 123 124 125 1 2003 Peter Martins ballet Street Journal Crossword, gres “Madame Moitessier,” the subtle fi- Nazi propaganda. The show includes the room & servant's quarters. 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W2 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 W15 v A Cultural Conversation with Arthur Wheelock / By Ann Landi v Taste 7 Fashion

Houses of Worship / By Peter L. Berger Lost in Rembrandt’s Shadow 7

Washington itive instincts were likely goaded of Peace” and “Mars and Venus,” Do not feel you are hopelessly by the secretary to the prince of reveal his success in this vein. Men’s style: Extreme banker Blessed Are the Poor? out of the cultural loop if your Orange, Constantin Huygens, who iii first response to the full-dress exhi- created challenges for the two Mr. Wheelock, a lifelong By Ray A. Smith “It was a peacock moment, when knowledges that his double- Poverty (of sorts) is suddenly Pentecostal megachurch in a sub- bition devoted to the 17th-century painters. “We think, though we’re scholar of Dutch art, is the very ORDON GEKKO is on the move America was really brash,” mens- breasted looks haven’t been a top in fashion. Politicians and com- urb of Johannesburg. The congre- Dutch master Jan Lievens, opening not sure, that Huygens sets up opposite of the peripatetic again. Even though turmoil wear designer Patrik Ervell says. At seller. The 34-year-old Mr. Stern- mentators blame the financial cri- gation of some 7,000 South Afri- on Oct. 26 at the National Gallery competitions for them, because Lievens. A sandy-haired, low-key Gon Wall Street has wiped out his runway show last month, he had berg, who says he sought inspira- sis on greed, not only by malefac- cans, black and white, created of Art, is “Jan who?” An amazingly there are all sorts of similarities in man with a big, engaging smile, some of today’s Masters of the Uni- models sport 1980s-style pompa- tion for his spring collection tors on Wall Street, but also by enough noise to give me a head- gifted and versatile painter, choices of subjects being made at he has been with the National Gal- verse, the character played by dours, trying to evoke the cockiness from looks of the late 1970s all the denizens of Main Street ache for hours. This was hardly a Lievens until recent this time,” the cura- lery for more than 30 years and Michael Douglas in the 1987 movie of stockbrokers and other corporate and early 1980s, neverthe- who live above their means, accu- congenial form of worship for me. years had slipped tor says. Lievens’s first became enthusiastic about “Wall Street” is looming large—in players in that era. less included more double- mulate useless possessions and de- But I did hear the sermon, deliv- through the cracks Restoring the four-foot-high “Cru- the northern Baroque as an under- men’s fashion. Not since he said that Retailers hope the bolder looks breasted jackets in his spoil the environment. It is not ered by a highly charismatic of art history. cifixion,” set against graduate at Williams College, greed was good have so many dou- will inspire consumers to go shop- spring 2009 collection. quite clear what a nongreedy Wall preacher. There were two simple Many of Lievens’s reputation of a stormy backdrop, where he studied with the German ble-breasted jackets, three-piece ping again. The styles also have the He says he admires men Street would look like. But for the but powerful messages. One, “God works were long at- Jan Lievens. is in the show and émigré Jakob Rosenberg. Because suits and colored shirts with white advantage of looking fresh to men who can pull off such a rest of us, after due repentance, does not want you to be poor!” tributed to Rem- can be contrasted Rosenberg had studied at Har- collars shown up in stores, in maga- under 30, who missed the extreme- big, showy style. 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection; Michael Bastian; Tom Ford the solution to our financial woes And, two, “You can do something brandt or inaccu- with Rembrandt’s vard, that’s where Mr. Wheelock zines and on runways. banker look the first time around. Still, Mr. Sternberg is held to be a more ascetic life. about it!” The New Testament rately labeled “student of Rem- interpretation of the same scene wanted to do his graduate work. Modern takes on these and other Some designers and retailers say and other designers, in- Above, the character If that is volun- strongly suggests brandt,” but scholarly detective in the exhibition’s catalog. He earned his doctorate there and iconic looks of the 1980s—think sus- formal, double-breasted or three- cluding Michael Bas- Gordon Gekko in ‘Wall tary, rather than that Jesus had a par- work is producing a more compli- But the mysterious relation- quite incidentally encountered his penders and paisley power ties— piece suits and contrast-collared tian and Antonio Az- Street’; left, three-piece compelled by cir- The prosperity ticular concern for cated portrait of the relationship ship between the two—was it a first Lievens in the dining hall—a have popped up in a wide range of shirts make sense even in an eco- zuolo, are tweaking suit and contrast-collar cumstance, it has gospel vs. the poor, but there between the two artists and a friendly rivalry? a bitter contest? painting of an old man inaccu- collections for this fall and next nomic slump. These styles, they say, the look, making shirt by Michael Bastian; the glow of moral is no suggestion fuller picture of Lievens as a re- a lifelong mutual admiration soci- rately attributed to (who else?) spring. The designers embracing can help men appear serious and their double- right, double-breasted superiority. “Green liberation that he wanted peo- markable talent in his own right. ety?—is only part of the Lievens Rembrandt. “We thought the the look range from avant-garde competitive at the office and on job breasted jackets suit by Tom Ford. is good,” says a lat- theology. ple to remain poor. From portraiture to history paint- story. “We purposely did not in- painting was by a student of Rem- Prada to preppy J. Crew, which is fea- interviews. Chicago attorney Fran- slimmer and ter-day Gandhi as The prosperity ing, landscape to still life, “he had clude comparative Rembrandt brandt, not realizing that Lievens turing five shirt styles with contrast- cis Kowalik, for one, doesn’t think shorter than the 1980s ver- he goes to work by preachers, however, a range of careers,” notes Arthur works,” Mr. Wheelock says. “We was never his student.” ing white collars. Designers pushing that’s far-fetched. A double- sions. In addition, they advo- ’80s started out all about,” bicycle. But if you are really poor, refer more often to the Old Testa- Wheelock, organizer of the exhibi- wanted Lievens to stand on his Mr. Wheelock landed a fellow- double-breasted looks include breasted suit “has a little more au- cate wearing the jackets in says Kevin Harter, Bloom- asceticism does not mean giving ment, which has some passages tion and curator of northern Ba- own, but we tell the story in the ship at the National Gallery in Thom Browne, Tom Ford, Bottega thority to it, a little bit of weight,” more informal ways—without ingdale’s men’s fashion di- up your SUV—it means you are that do suggest that God will be- roque painting at the National Gal- catalog and in the wall text.” 1972, and then began teaching at Veneta, Canali, Dunhill, Lanvin, Phil- says the 44-year-old, who owns a ties, for instance, or with rector. eating just one meal a day be- stow material blessings on those lery of Art. “We’re trying to lip Lim, Ralph Lauren and Valentino. number of double-breasted suits jeans. Also emerging this fall is cause it is all you can afford. who remain faithful to him. bring all that together be- Tom James, a custom-clothing com- and plans to buy more. “It says Some retailers are also a very different but equally in- Far more attractive to poor peo- As I left the church, I asked my- cause it’s so important to pany that visits men’s offices, says you’re not messing around.” showing three-piece suits, an- your-face 1980s look. For ca- ple, who are a majority of its ad- self: Would I really want to quar- get work from all the repre- orders for double-breasted suits But other designers say the bold other formal look that gained sual clothes, designers are herents, is the “prosperity gospel,” rel with these messages? There is sentative stages of his career rose more than 50% to 1,753 in the 1980s looks may be too much for to- currency in the 1980s. Brooks Broth- channeling punk. Bergdorf a version of Christianity asserting no sentimentality about poverty in and no one has done that.” year ended Oct. 14. day’s austere times. Some men are ers is carrying two more three- Goodman is gearing up for time for the working that material benefits will come to the prosperity gospel. There is an Lievens was a child prod- The clothes, of course, were all turned off by the extra fabric and all piece-suit styles than usual and mak- what men’s fashion director Tommy class, so it is interesting those who have faith, live a mor- appeal to people not as victims, igy. He studied with one of designed before the events of the the buttons on a double-breasted ing sure all of its stores have at least Fazio calls a “British version of the that that look is coming ally upright life and, not so inciden- but as responsible actors. There is the foremost painters and past few weeks. But some designers jacket. And a generally accepted one of the styles this fall. And Bloom- ’80s”—characterized by skinny pen- back when we’re going tally, give money to the church. also the confidence that generally teachers of the day, Pieter say they became fascinated months rule of thumb is that men who are ingdale’s put three-piece suits in the cil jeans, pants with zigzags of zip- through our economic crisis right Broadly speaking, this is what Max people know what is best for them- Lastman, and by the time he ago with the unbridled ambition overweight or short look wider in windows of its New York flagship pers, suspenders, fingerless gloves, now,” says Tim Bess, men’s fashion Weber called the Protestant Ethic, selves, better than any well-mean- returned to his native and decadence of the early 1980s. double-breasted jackets. store in early October. The look, bulky black boots and studs on ev- analyst with retail and fashion con- but with much less emphasis on ing outsiders. It is no wonder then Leiden—also Rembrandt’s The fact that that era came just be- Designer Scott Sternberg, whose combined with contrast-collared erything from belts to leather vests sultancy Doneger Group. “Both self-denial and more on hard work, that research data, from South Af- hometown—at age 14, he fore the 1987 stock market crash Band of Outsiders label is sold at Bar- shirts, “is very masculine and about and leather jackets. styles were about being very aggres- planning for the future, family loy- rica for instance, show that Pente- was in demand as an artist. isn’t lost on them either. neys New York and other stores, ac- power and luxury, which is what the “England in the ’80s was a rough sive.” alty and educating one’s children. costals have an unusual degree of The first gallery of the show The prosperity gospel probably self-confidence and optimism gives a notion of the teenage originated among the poorer ele- about the future. Lievens’s extraordinary pow- ments of the U.S. evangelical com- In 1968 a conference of Latin ers, including tenebrous por- munity. It is now a global phenom- American bishops meeting in traits of the Evangelists, a Avant-garde at auction enon, especially among the rapidly Medellin, Colombia, proclaimed a lusty genre scene of a young spreading Pentecostal churches in “preferential option for the poor,” man embracing a bare- HE CATWALK MOVES to mate: £4,000-£6,000); Paco Ra- Africa, Latin America and Asia. which since then has become an breasted wench, and biblical TChristie’s South Kensington banne’s futuristic tunic dress made Virtually all outside commen- important ingredient of Catholic staples like “The Feast of Es- Thursday when the auction house from linked aluminum panels (esti- tary, both by theologians as well as social teaching, and has influenced ther,” once thought to be by sells a private collection of 20th cen- mate: £5,000-£8,000); and Harry people in the lay media, has been many in mainline Protestantism. Rembrandt. “When I was a Ismael Roldan tury avant-garde fashion. Gordon’s disposable paper shift very negative, holding that the Liberation theologians interpreted graduate student in the The 250 pieces of vintage fash- adorned with an outsize cat on the prosperity gospel is a distortion of this as an option for socialism. But 1960s, this was a very fa- ion garments, headwear and jew- bodice (estimate: £600-£800). Christianity pushed by rogue it is helpful to pay attention to the mous Rembrandt,” Mr. Wheelock And Lievens alone is a com- elry in a sale covers design from a The 1970s and 1980s produced preachers who enrich themselves syntax. The option is for the poor. recalls. “It wasn’t ‘attributed to,’ it plicated trajectory of ambition 1960s influenced by the Space Age such contrasting fashion as revolu- by exploiting the poor. There is That is, it is an option to be taken was Rembrandt. Which shows and wily adaptation. He moved to the University of Maryland in the tionary T-shirts and softly feminine some validity to these criticisms. It by those who are not poor. that art history is an ever-evolv- The Hague to paint for the prince fall of ’73. The museum asked evening wear. Vivienne Westwood’s is certainly true that Christianity is Of course, the proposition is ing phenomenon.” of Orange and for the exiled court him to stay on as a part-time re- Collecting knitted jumper made from black and not a recipe for acquiring wealth. well-intentioned. But it is not sur- iii of Frederick and Elizabeth, the search curator, a job that eventu- MARGARET STUDER red wool with a skull appliqué But in that respect the prosperity prising that many of the poor are The exhibition proposes that in Protestant rulers of Bohemia. He ally evolved into a full-time posi- printed with “No Future” (estimate: gospel—usually seen as being on opting for a less patronizing mes- many respects Lievens was the ini- then traveled to England, where tion. He has managed to combine £2,000-£4,000) will be offered the Christian right—closely resem- sage. They do not think of them- tiator of stylistic and thematic de- he remained for three years, in teaching and curating ever since and pop art through the revival of ar- alongside Zandra Rhodes’s elegant, bles the “liberation theology” of selves as victims dependent on velopments that characterized pursuit of the patronage of (one of his former graduate stu- chitectural couture in the 1990s. It silk mauve-and-blue “shrug” jacket, the Christian left, except that the the compassion of the rich. I both artists’ work in the late Charles I. It was his bad luck to be dents, Lloyd DeWitt, did a lot of includes designers such as André with an estimate of £500-£700. latter’s enrichment program is col- have no idea how the current 1620s. “What we’re going to show followed four months after land- research on Lievens and contrib- Courèges, Emilio Pucci, Yves Saint From the 1990s, a black leather, low- lective rather than individual. Lib- mess in the financial markets is here is evidence that Lievens, even ing in London by Anthony Van uted an essay to the catalog). In Laurent, Ossie Clark, Issey Miyake cut bondage dress with gilt-buckled eration theology defined Christian- to be fixed. But I continue to be before Rembrandt gets going, is do- Dyck—a flashier painter and a spite of many shows of Dutch art and other pivotal designers. straps by Gianni Versace is esti- ity as essentially being a struggle convinced that capitalism pro- ing these powerful paintings,” says Catholic like the king—who gained at the NGA in the past decade, The collection comes from Resur- mated at £1,000-£2,000. of poor oppressed people against vides the only reliable mecha- Mr. Wheelock. The records also the sort of patronage coveted by Mr. Wheelock may still be best rection, a leading U.S. vintage fash- Men also come into their own capitalism and imperialism. nism for lifting large numbers of put Rembrandt back in Leiden, af- Lievens. The artist returned to the known as the organizer of the ion retailer with stores in New with a number of jazzy jackets, in- Leaving aside theology and people from poverty to a decent ter studying with Lastman himself, Netherlands, working in Amster- blockbuster Vermeer exhibition in York and Los Angeles, owned cluding two from Alkasura to moral philosophy, sociology pro- level of material life. In other in 1625, by which time the young dam and Antwerp, moving so 1995. “Thirteen years later people by designer Katy Rod- be sold together, one with vides a rather different perspec- words, if one is concerned for the Lievens already had a growing au- many times that even the most are still talking about it,” he says. riguez and Mark Hadd- red cherries on yellow tive. A few months ago, I visited a poor, one will adopt a preferen- dience for his work. “They may dogged of scholars have difficulty Will they be talking about away. satin and the other cov- tial option for capitalism. have shared a studio,” Mr. Whee- tracing his footsteps. (To put this Lievens years down the road? Mr. “This sale is about ered in frogs (esti- Weber believed that the eco- lock believes, and it seems certain in contemporary terms, it is some- Wheelock, for one, certainly hopes moments in time that mate: £500-£600). Pepper . . . and Salt nomic consequences of Protestant- they were close. “In a number of what as if a hotshot realist like so. “You can see really great paint- changed fashion,” On Dec. 4, Kerry ism were unintentional. The pros- Lievens’s works Rembrandt served John Currin picked up stakes and ings, really powerful bold work in says Christie’s tex- Taylor Auctions’ “Pas- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL perity gospel intends these conse- as the model, and we know that tried to adapt to suit several well- this show,” he promises. “Another tiles specialist Pat sion for Fashion” sale quences—material betterment for Lievens appears in Rembrandt’s heeled collectors—one thing for part of the story is about how an Frost. Bidding is ex- in London will offer a individuals, economic growth in paintings as well.” London’s Charles Saatchi, another artist works in 17th-century Eu- pected from museums, contrasting assembly of the aggregate. It promises poor The give-and-take seems to for Los Angeles’s Eli Broad, and rope and how all these paintings fashion collectors who often 20th-century items, from a “Fifty Fathoms” Tourbillon people that these goals are attain- have continued throughout their yet something else for New York’s that were once called Rembrandt view pieces as sculpture for 1930s luxurious pink coat dress (ref. 5025-3630-52) able. It is a promise likely to be careers. For example, both “Rem- Leonard Riggio.) With each reloca- attest to changing tastes and the display, contemporary de- with turquoise stone buttons kept. It seems to me that this em- brandt and Lievens were fasci- tion there are changes in style but evolution of connoisseurship. And signers seeking inspiration by Schiaparelli (estimate: pirical reality must be taken into nated by old age,” Mr. Wheelock seldom a drop-off in quality. as these pictures become Lievens and shoppers looking to £4,000-£6,000), to a gold and account in any evaluation of the notes. A Lievens painting of the Lievens’s ultimate aim was to and not Rembrandt,” he adds with make a strong statement at silver velvet suit for men de- prosperity gospel—even by theo- nearly naked Job, bearded face be a court painter in the esteemed a smile, “what does that tell us their next party. Christie's signed by Mr. Fish (estimate: logians and moral philosophers. cast downward, withered limbs “International Style”—an often op- about the Rembrandts we now Striking items from £1,000-£1,500). The Mr. Fish outstretched, may have been in- eratic meld of themes and influ- have in our collections?” the 1960s include Pierre label was founded by Mr. Berger is director of the Insti- spired by a 1630 Rembrandt por- ences that range from Titian to Cardin’s Space-Age in- Satellite cape, Michael Fish, a U.K. designer “Okay people—pagers, beepers tute on Culture, Religion and trayal of Jeremiah. Rubens. Several large-scale paint- Ms. Landi writes on culture and spired voluminous red circa 1965, by who pushed flamboyant WWW.BLANCPAIN.COM and all cellphones on.” World Affairs at Boston University. At a certain point, their compet- ings in the show, such as “Triumph the arts for several publications. plastic satellite cape (esti- Pierre Cardin. men’s fashion in the 1960s.

W14 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 W3 v Music v Sports

Singer-songwriter, in a confessional mood President William Howard Taft on the golf course around 1930.

By Craig Winneker from folk to pop to classical to electronic. N THE FOUR ALBUMS he’s released Who are your musical influences? since landing a record deal in 2003, the I listen to lots of orchestral music. I read a OScandinavian singer-songwriter Teitur lot of books and stories and articles. You sort has used an impressive array of instruments of combine all the things that surround you. I behind his very personal lyrics—everything listen of course to a lot of music on iPod, travel- from amplified and heavily reverberated ing, and hundreds of bands and individuals. acoustic guitar to a brass ensemble to the hor- It’s very hard to narrow it down. I think it’s ror-movie drone of the Theremin. many different things; it’s either the songwrit- But for the title track to his new record, ing aspect, the instrumentation, the orchestra- “The Singer”—released earlier this year in the tion—different things you find in different U.S. and continental Europe and out next places. month in the U.K.—he relies on his vocal cords. “I always had the voice, and now I am a Q: What was the soundscape you were singer,” he declares, with no musical accompa- trying to create with the new album? It’s niment until a lightly struck marimba joins in got very unusual instrumentation and you for the second verse. In live performances, Tei- recorded it in a remote location. Christian Odasso/UYA Films, Inc tur sings the song—an artist’s slightly That was mainly looking into what the Fishing in Key West, from the newly tongue-in-cheek confession that he doesn’t al- songs are saying. They sort of had a Victorian restored film ‘Tarpon.’ ways understand what an adoring audience feel. We recorded the album in a place that sees in him—a cappella and alone on the stage. was built in the 1860s, it looks like a doll- Born Teitur Lassen in 1977 in the remote house. It’s on the coast of Gotland [a Swedish Faroe Islands (an autonomous province of Den- island in the Baltic sea], an old princess’s resi- mark located halfway between the Danish dence. That also played into the music. The Literary trio’s mainland and Iceland), he left home for Copen- choice to use brass was very obvious. Of hagen as a teenager and quickly made a name course, I also wanted to use my band. Then for himself as a talented musician and song- things just sort of find their own way. For the

USGA Archives fish story writer. By 2003 Teitur had signed with Univer- electronic elements, we wanted to make our sal Records, which released his well-regarded own synthesizer sounds. We recorded clari- By Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg debut, “Poetry & Airplanes.” He now records nets and saxophones and then processed RECENTLY RESTORED film for his own label, Arlo and Betty, named after them with computer programs to get these featuring a trio of writers two of his guitars. overtones and change the sound. You can de- Afishing for tarpon in Key Teitur’s music combines elements of folk, cide: Should this material be driven by acous- Golf’s crash course in humility West in the early 1970s has classical, jazz, pop and even cabaret. But the tic guitar and voice, or should it be strings, or started to attract attention in liter- common thread running through the various should it be piano? There are so many options. OT LONG AFTER he turned over the Oval where all could play free of charge. They ab- try called him to the White House in 1952, for- ary and fly fishing circles. The styles—apart from his lilting, plaintive vo- But when you look inside the material, and Office in 1909 to his friend and hand- stained on the Sabbath, but “the green” availed ever coupling America’s most influential club movie, “Tarpon,” features the late cals—is his ability to tell a story. His confes- who you are, and who you’re dealing with, Npicked successor, Teddy Roosevelt itself for all to enjoy the pleasures of the open to the corridors of power. When Arnold Palmer poet Richard Brautigan and the sional songs often spin out an idea from one then you make those choices based on what wrote a letter to U.S. President William Howard air. Social clubs formed to organize play, and captured America’s imagination with his tele- novelists Jim Harrison and crystalline image: musing on a lasting bond surrounds you and what’s possible. Taft, urging him to discontinue his rounds of they codified the game’s evolving rules. Ideas vised heroics, he capitalized on those connec- Thomas McGuane, and includes with a ex-girlfriend; sharing a six-pack with a golf at Chevy Chase Country Club. Photos of of privacy and exclusivity, however, wouldn’t tions to become the game’s first player-tycoon. original music written and per- rock star bent on self-destruction; falling in- Q: You did a cover version of “Great Balls America’s leader spending afternoons on the arrive until the early 19th century, when the En- After a half-century of struggle, top pros could formed by Jimmy Buffett. stantly in love with a waitress. of Fire.” It must be one of the most unusual links, former President Roosevelt warned, sent glish took the game south, conforming it to look ahead at the merging lanes of the PGA, The 53-minute documentary Confession is a theme that turns up in a lot versions of that song ever recorded. the wrong message to the public, especially in their more rigid class structure. Instead of us- Madison Avenue and Main Street and see a opens with a trolley-car ride in of his work, including a project with American I’m very interested in how, when you read the wake of the Panic of 1907,when the govern- ing public spaces, club members now chipped highway paved with gold. Golf rode the prime Key West and then segues into a composer Nico Muhly to create music for ran- lyrics, they take you somewhere, and when ment intervened to rescue the banking system. in to buy land for their courses as private hold- of Jack Nicklaus into a broad social acceptance narrative that features lots of salt domly selected YouTube videos. The “Confes- you hear the song, you think, “Oh my god this President Taft, a lifelong golfer who, to put ings. Gates and fences followed. With admit- that would have been unthinkable only two de- water fly-fishing, and scenes that sions” song cycle, commissioned this year for is so different than what I read.” It works the it mildly, needed the exercise, told Teddy to tance now viewed as a “private” issue, deci- cades before. aim to capture the flavor of life the Holland Baroque Society, is a kind of other way around. You listen to a song and sions about whom to let in led to restrictions Then came Tiger, the next avatar. He swept among outsiders in Key West dur- soundtrack to an instant society. Its lyrics then you read the lyrics and it’s completely dif- about whom to leave out. away most of the last vestiges of “restriction.” ing the period. The movie also of- even incorporate comments from YouTube Pierre Bjork ferent. That happens to me a lot. So I thought Golf Journal The game reached America in the late 19th Golf was big business now, and money fers brief but entertaining views viewers. The singer-songwriter Teitur, from the Faroe if you play a song like this, for example, with MARK FROST century based largely on the English variation; streamed in from flush and eager corporate of a trio of writers who would When he’s not touring, Teitur divides his Islands; right, his new album, ‘The Singer.’ minor chords, it can go into the music and tell the first clubs in New England established partners. High-end daily-fee courses cropped later become well-known. Mr. Har- time between an apartment in Copenhagen it differently. With “Great Balls of Fire,” I was themselves as bastions where the socially up like weeds, offering amenities that had re- rison, for example, is the author of and a house he’s just bought back home in the writing all these dark things, minor things, mind his own damn business. Angrier words prominent could remove themselves from mained out of most players’ reach. The trend the novella “Legends of the Fall”; Faroe Islands. Before his concert last Monday thank me.” and I wanted to write something about schizo- were exchanged, spilling over into issues of pol- teeming urban centers; these “country” clubs culminated in the appearance of a new breed of the 1994 film version starred Brad night at the Botanique club in Brussels, we sat Well, it was also with a sense of humor. I’ve phrenia, and then the words to “Great Balls of icy. Three years later, still gnashing his teeth at served as their Edenic sanctuaries. Although private club that catered to the super rich—and Pitt and Anthony Hopkins. for a chat with the singer as his bandmates pre- toured around, playing 200 shows a year for Fire” popped up—“You shake my nerves and Taft’s betrayal, former President Roosevelt their courses were designed—and they were charged accordingly; membership as conspicu- The producers of “Tarpon” pared for a soundcheck—and worked half- the last few years, being in front of an audi- you rattle my brain”—and it just made sense. threw his hat into the presidential ring as a last- taught the game—by generations of working- ous status symbol—that would have shocked failed to land a commercial distrib- frantically to replace a bass amp’s blown fuse. ence and coming to terms with what it means minute third-party candidate. The Republican class Scots immigrants, the upper class pater- the Old Money aristocrats of the early USGA. utor, and soon pirated editions be- to perform when you are the writer, and when Q: For your “Confessions” project, you vote, effectively split, resulted in the election nalistically came to think of it as “their game.” Most of the money for those courses and gan to circulate. “I was a fly fish- Q: You’ve been writing your own songs are you the artist. I’ve learned that, when you are writing music to YouTube videos. You of an obscure governor from New Jersey, Wood- The founding of the U.S. Golf Association in their membership fees flowed from super- ing guide in Key West in the 1980s for a long time. How did you get started? sing something, it has to be something that must have had to watch a lot of strange row Wilson. 1894 formalized this stewardship. heated Wall Street spigots; then greed, hubris and 1990s, and it was something I can always remember writing music and you know something about. It has to be some- stuff. President Taft continued to play golf Amateur championships came first, but the and the stubborn human inability to see danger you had to see,” says Marshall being interested in instruments. Especially thing that you’ve experienced—people that We actually got kind of hooked on them. throughout his life, helping to legitimize the USGA’s annual “Open” competitions encour- coming from a distance led to September 2008. Cutchin, publisher of MidCurrent. song forms. I remember singing and playing you’ve met, or things that you feel—or you’re The idea at first was to find all these really sport, although it remained within its firmly aged golf’s emergence as a “professional” Amid the economic wreckage of all this steroi- com, a popular Web site for fly along to all the songs that people sing when not really singing. I think there’s something mundane videos, that are confessional in etched class lines. (Teddy stuck to tennis.) sport and, as lower-class caddies like Francis dal excess, the future of golf’s high-flying re- fishing. The movie gathered dust they get together. It’s very typical in the Faroe very existential in that. You can only sing the some way. It’s a really new concept, people Forty years later, President Eisenhower’s un- Ouimet and Walter Hagen won championships, cent past seems at best uncertain. The grand for more than 30 years before its Islands that when you have a party, there’s a things that happen to you and that you are. posting home videos for everyone else to see: apologetic embrace of the game dissolved it attracted broader public interest. Then old clubs, built on sustaining cultures rooted co-director, Guy de la Valdene, de- catalog of songs that you sing all over again. What better than for me to write a song about I speak many different ones. For me it comes putting a camera on their fridge, filming their many of its elitist associations and golf com- Bobby Jones, while upper middle class and an deep in their communities, will weather any cided to restore it and then issue They’re usually folk songs or even just songs what it’s like to be a singer and sing in front of quite naturally. I also lived in England, just to dog sleeping, someone going for a drive and pleted its journey to middle-class respectabil- avowed amateur, transcended all social defini- storm, but many of those daily-fee courses had it as a DVD. “It’s exactly as it was with Faroese lyrics to famous, evergreen melo- an audience. get closer to the language. At the beginning, putting their camera in the car. A lot of it has ity. tions with his genius for the game and became already gone under; and the survivors face when we made it,” says Mr. de la dies, Beatles songs. I became very interested it’s because music that you’re listening to and beautiful aesthetics and it’s very interesting Presidents have played the game ever since its first international avatar. hard times. Valdene, who is the author of “For in them, and very close to them. So I learned Q: It took you seven years to write the things you’re trying to communicate, they are and it tells about the person. I think it’s a hu- with varying degrees of skill and obsession, but A second wave of private clubs appeared to Corporations will no longer have the same a Handful of Feathers,” a hunting how to play music that way, and I always songs for the album. Why so long? in English. It’s the language of rock music. man need: you want to share something that without fear of backlash or rebuke. Until May service an expanding white-collar class; they discretionary funds to express their affection book. wrote many songs, from an early age. They just sort of came together that way. I Then after that you think, “What am I saying you see. It’s very beautiful. of this year, when President George W. Bush— became the business world’s locker room. Hun- for golf. The number of amateur golfers has flat- Fans have helped get out the write constantly. I write a lot of things, and here? What am I trying to do here?” And you The idea of putting music to it is also very whose family ties to the patrician roots of dreds of cities built their first public courses, lined and with an injured Tiger on the sidelines, word via the Web. Cathy Ransier, Q: Some of the music you make has a very sometimes they take shape fast and some- realize you have to learn a couple of things interesting, because there’s stuff happening American golf reach back three generations— making the game accessible to all; thanks to so have TV ratings. A path forward can be co-owner of The Book Mailer, a cat- other-worldly quality ot it. Did the remote- times they take shape slow. It just depends on and get acquainted with the language and in it. Even a washing machine going around, announced that he was giving up the game. Pho- Jones, the game’s exclusive association with af- found in the recent victory of the U.S. Ryder alog retailer of fly fishing books ness of the Faroe Islands inspire that? what you’re trying to do. I write things down with what you’re saying. the colors falling in, you can orchestrate those tos of the commander in chief on a golf course fluence had begun to change. Cup team; a group of untested kids and sea- and related gear based in Helena, I think it’s a different angle to things—to and then rework them and get them into things. The main idea is to nail the fact that while our armed forces remain at war overseas, But many of those clubs would not survive soned veterans putting their egos aside, and Mont., says she has sold more metropolitan life, to other cultures. The men- shape. Some of the songs just weren’t ready Q: Do you ever think, maybe this song people are confessing things. It was also fun he had determined, were good for neither mo- the Crash of ’29. Coupled with Jones’s retire- playing their guts out for nothing but pride. than 1,400 copies of “Tarpon” tality there is quite different. It’s very dra- yet, that kind of thing, but I kept them around. would be better in one language than an- to make lyrics out of the comments. There was rale nor image. A few months later, that presi- ment in 1930, the Depression nearly killed the Captain Paul Azinger borrowed a page from the priced at $34.95 since early June. matic, the weather determines everything. Then they started to take shape. Then I wrote other? Just because of how the lyrics might one video where a guy was showing how to dent’s image appears beyond repair, and the nascent structure of the game. Jones’s own Au- Scots, who still play golf the way they’ve al- “It’s got a cult following,” she It’s very inspiring to be there. You’re just more “The Singer,” which sort of defines the other sound? make cappuccinos, and the amount of reac- U.S., indeed the world, faces a crisis of grave gusta National, a course built with Wall Street ways done on their local, minimal masterpiece says. That may change. Mr. de la used to hearing silence. If you’re in your house ones, and it all came together. Sure. It depends on who you’re talking to. I tions to it was stunning—someone’s aggres- portent and vast uncertainty; May 2008 sud- money for princes of industry, barely scraped tracks. Their game, taken to heart, teaches dis- Valdene says his niece has plans and it starts raining, everything can suddenly did an album in the Faroese language, and my sive, someone is emotional, someone is funny. denly seems like the good old days. by, aided by interest in a pro-am tournament cipline, equilibrium, modesty, moral rectitude to enter the movie in various film start shaking, and then it’s gone again. I think Q: Scandinavian artists have a long his- initial reaction was, “OK this is going to come It says a lot about the times we live in. Golf’s symbolic legacy as an indulgence for that Jones created to sell memberships: The and the lesson that any player forgets at their festivals. it really affects people who are from places tory of recording songs in English—some out in the Faroes and Iceland, because no one the wealthy appears to have come back into Masters. Through that troubled decade and peril: Golf, like life, is a humbling game. like that. more successfully than others. How diffi- else understands it.” But then you discover WSJ.com play. How it became “their game” to begin with then World War II, the game’s struggling pro- Mark Frost is the author of “The Greatest WSJ.com cult is it for someone to write songs in a dif- that people can enjoy it even though they may shed light on where it goes from here. fessional tour, gaining traction on the strength Game Ever Played” and “The Match,” and co- Q: The title track of your new album, ferent language? don’t understand the words. It’s still music; it On stage Golf, in the way it evolved from the Scots’ of stars Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan, held on creator of the TV series “Twin Peaks.” His next On the boat “The Singer,” is very personal, almost nar- For me, it’s been a case of speaking English still creates pictures in them. See video of an interview with Teitur pastoral relationship with their land, and the by its fingernails. book, “Game Six,” the story of the 1975 baseball Watch a film clip from ‘Tarpon’ at cissistic. What’s behind a lyric like, “I sing for many years. I used to read books in English and part of a performance at way they played it, began life as an egalitarian The Eisenhower era revived every aspect of World Series, will be published in fall of 2009. WSJ.com/Lifestyle about my loneliness and in return they when I was small. I’m very good at languages, Q: Your songs weave in a lot of styles, WSJ.com/Lifestyle pastime. Their courses were public parks the sport. Ike joined Augusta before the coun- Email [email protected].

W4 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 W13 v Books v Games A new novel checks in on aging friends Community gaming By Jamin Brophy-Warren ical bull or a skateboard. Navigating face with profane or scandalous ma- By Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg produce great writers. What do O’Hara worked at night; beginning NLIKE SOME videogame com- the worlds is surreal (evoking the terial. Users may create things that N HIS 23RD NOVEL, “The Wid- you make of this? at midnight when his family went to panies that have flashy of- spirit of “Alice in Wonderland” au- aren’t appropriate for all ages. Me- ows of Eastwick,” John Updike I thought there was something in bed, but that might have been a Ufices in Los Angeles or San thor Lewis Carroll, who’s buried dia Molecule plans to ban any mate- Ihas returned to familiar ground. what he said. This is a non-Euro- newspaper man’s habit. I’ve tried to Francisco, developer Media Mole- only a few kilometers from the stu- rial that’s not kid-friendly. The trio of witches whose verve and pean country. We’re a cultural is- avoid teaching, which for all its cule has a studio located in the mod- dio’s offices), with everyday objects Media Molecule sees the risk as wit helped give 1984’s “The Witches land and our canon, our master- charm takes a lot of your energy and est British town of Guildford above becoming building blocks for each part of the process. “Google didn’t of Eastwick” its puckish glee, are pieces, are unlike the European mas- makes you doubt yourself. a bathroom-products showroom. level. become popular by hiding bad back. This time, though, they are terpieces. “Moby Dick” and “Huckle- And the company’s mascot, in con- The family-friendly gameplay search results,” says Mr. Evans. “If more melancholy and creased by berry Finn” are the Q: Earlier this trast to tough guys like Grand Theft masks the studio’s data-driven ap- you can build the right features to doubt. Mr. Updike’s best work has two great 19th-cen- month, the New Auto IV’s Niko Bellic, is an obsidian- proach. Media Molecule mines doz- find content you like, it’ll float to A scene from LittleBigPlanet. addressed the subtext of daily life. tury American nov- York Post cited a eyed ragdoll named Sackboy. ens of aspects about player behav- the top.” Sony Computer Entertainment America He was awarded the 1991 Pulitzer els, and they’re coming biography Sony has high hopes for the ior, such as what user-generated out- The community approach may Prize for “Rabbit at Rest,” the last about marginal char- of John Cheever 30-person company’s new game, Lit- fits are most popular and how many work against LittleBigPlanet if many as the Wii and more than a mil- should be a “good game,” but novel in the series about a former acters drifting and noted that he tleBigPlanet. Due out next week for items someone has collected. That more PlayStation 3s aren’t sold. lion less than the older Xbox 360, ac- doesn’t think it will drive PS3 sales high school basketball player—and around. We’re fasci- resented you for the PS3 console, the videogame fol- data will then be analyzed and incor- Fewer PS3s may mean fewer Lit- cording to research firm NPD like Grand Theft Auto IV or Metal he won the 1982 Pulitzer for the nated by heading not treating him as lows Sackboy’s adventures through porated into the game’s interface. tleBigPlanet players online and less Group. Gear Solid 4, two of the PS3’s top ti- third, “Rabbit is Rich.” In his new west, there is a Puri- an equal. How did a dream world. Sony has launched a The approach is similar to the re- content and interaction. So far, the “Due to its high price point and tles this year. book, Mr. Updike, 76 years old, imag- tan religiosity that you view him, and multicity advertising campaign, search that sites like Facebook do console has lagged behind the latest the strong demand on the Wii, I Mr. Ettouney, the art director ines the curtains of age beginning to haunts us. European what accounted for placing hundreds of tiny billboards on their users. generation of rivals like the Nin- don’t think this will be the PS3’s sea- and co-founder, is unfazed. “If the close. At one point, Sukie, the young- novels want to show his concerns? in lawns and on buildings. The com- Allowing user-generated con- tendo Wii and the Microsoft Xbox son,” says Edward Woo, research an- people connect to [the game], est of the witches, finds herself you society as it ex- I thought he was pany also used Sackboy in its presen- tent in LittleBigPlanet creates the 360. The PS3 has only sold 3.5 mil- alyst for Wedbush Morgan Securi- they’ll reach others. All we need is a thinking that “both Alexandra and ists or existed, a great writer. I was tation to deliver financial data at same risks that sites like YouTube lion copies over the last year, half as ties. Mr. Woo says LittleBigPlanet starting point.” Jane were vaguer than she remem- whereas American amazed by him. He this year’s E3, the videogame indus- bered them—deeper into the engulf- novels would rather had a poetry and try’s annual conference. ing indifference that renders us for get away and dwell speed that were ter- Under the mantra “Play. Create. death.” Mr. Updike was interviewed on the inner life of rific. I was 100% ad- Share,” LittleBigPlanet brings the on the phone from his home in Bev- the character— miring of John type of user-generated content erly Farms, Mass. which is another way of being insu- Cheever, and he was friendly to me. tools found on sites like YouTube to lar. I thought it was interesting that Still, many of his letters and diaries the videogame console. That means Q: Your last book, “Terrorist,” he said we weren’t up on things, contained uneasy feelings about me in addition to allowing players to re- had a very contemporary theme that there is an accumulation of and even some hostile remarks. But vamp levels or stages of the game or and was a national best seller. knowledge about how to create art. I never felt it personally and always come up with new ones, Media Mole- Why did you decide to return to I don’t think that is true. I don’t had good times with John when I cule has also introduced ways to characters we met 30 years ago? think European clubbiness helps saw him. All that aside, what mat- find and share what other users of Variety. It also occurred to me their art. There has been a falling off tered is that he had a wonderful gift, the game have created. that maybe the first book was a suc- of American winners of the Nobel. a wonderful luminous way of writ- To do that, the studio has taken a cess of a sort. It had a movie, and I There was a spate after the Second ing. He was very impatient; maybe page from the Web world by adding thought we might be able to sell a World War that reflected the impor- that’s an alcoholic’s quality. Every- features like user recommendations few more copies. In the wake of “Ter- tance of the U.S. in the global pic- thing was succinct and quick; even (similar to what one might find on rorist” I also thought a return to a ture. Now we don’t project quite his movements were rapid. And that Amazon) and “tagging” features, comedy would be a relief to my lim- A. Richard Allen that magnetic image. came through in his prose. He didn’t which group items according to ited public. harp on anything. There was no ex- their characteristics. When the PS3 see a character affected by time, ments of reality. That I’ve done so Q: Can you tell us a little about cess of words. is linked to the Internet, these fea- Q: What is the creative process and undergoing changes that many sequels indicates I’ve got a your writing day? tures allow players to find user-de- like when you revisit established couldn’t have always been pre- weakness for them. When I set up shop up here as a Q: Is there any chance that signed levels or objects that directly characters as opposed to creating dicted. And the author is saved the freelancer I tried to set a schedule you’ll return to more contempo- appeal to them just as they would somebody we haven’t met before? trouble of naming characters afresh Q: Horace Engdahl, permanent where I’d do three pages. I’d begin in rary themes in your next novel, search for a new pair of shoes on- It gives me a chance to write and giving them biographies. I also secretary of the Swedish Acad- the morning and work until 1 p.m. say the Wall Street crisis, for ex- line. “It’s like a cross between Face- about the passage of time. It was find it rewarding because you are emy, which oversees the Nobel I’ve really kept to that and still do. ample? book and Flickr,” says Alex Evans, true of the Rabbit series, and the creating another layer onto a fiction Prizes, recently suggested that There’s no mystery to it. In my case I bet Tom Wolfe is just the man technical director and co-founder of short stories of Henry Bech. You can as a life is layered in terms of mo- the United States is too insular to the morning energy is better. John to handle that. the company. Media Molecule views LittleBig- Planet as something that will be a work in progress long after its re- lease date. Traditionally, when cus- tomers purchase a videogame, the product is considered finished and A Nobel laureate considers the house cat “patches,” or downloadable addi- tions, are usually limited to fixing By Cynthia Crossen der my sofa. It took a long time for I’ll walk into my sitting room and any gameplay problems that crop ORN IN PERSIA, raised on a her to be a reasonably normal cat. Doris Lessing there will be a fox. up. Instead, the studio plans to keep farm in southern Rhodesia Most cats are warm and kind, on adding new community features, Band a long-time resident of the whole. Yum-Yum had none of Q: What’s the story with all such as uploading gameplay footage London, Doris Lessing, 88 years that. those cats running loose around to YouTube, just as an Internet com- old, has led an unconventional and London? pany would. (Sony said it delayed peripatetic life. But over the de- Q: I’m guessing none of your People are throwing out their the original release date by a week cades, she has maintained several cats has ever had a diamond-stud- lovely pets, sometimes very cru- to remove a background song that it passionate, long-term relation- ded collar. elly. They throw them out without discovered featured lyrics from the ships—with cats. She has rescued, No! I’ve never had a posh cat. thinking. The life of a semiwild cat Quran, after buzz had built online harbored and adored them, and But one of the cats that was born is very short. I’ve had two or three from concerned Muslims.) when necessary to save the life of a here, El Magnifico, never un- here. They’re in a very poor way. Mr. Evans and his partners Mark mother cat, she has condemned derstood that there were When you see a pair of eyes glaring Healey, Dave Smith and Kareem Et- some kittens to death. Ms. Lessing, cats less privileged than out of a hedgerow, that’s probably touney started at Lionhead Studios who won the Nobel Prize for litera- him. a male that doesn’t have long to in the 1990s. In their spare time in ture last year, is best known for her live. 2005, they developed “Ragdoll novels, including the 1962 feminist Q: What about dogs? Kung-Fu,” a goofy fighting game. classic, “The Golden Notebook,” I love dogs. I very much Q: What have cats taught you The success of the game gave them and the Canopus in Argos science- regret not having dogs, but about life—or death? the chance to launch their own stu- fiction series. But in her book, “On in the city they often have a I had a cat who had cancer in his dio right down the road, Media Mol- Cats” (first published in 2002 but pretty bad time. Dogs have shoulder, and the vet persuaded ecule, and to develop LittleBig- just released in a new edition), Ms. to have an energetic and epa/Corbis me it would be perfectly all right Planet. Lessing applies her formidable physical life. Cats are per- sponsible bringing all sions when we tried to be on each for him to take off his leg. He suf- In the game, players guide Sack- powers of observation to the fectly happy never doing these unloved cats into other’s level. He knew we were try- fered terribly for two years. He boy through about 50 different lev- beasts she calls “exotic visitors, anything. the world. But I have a very bad mo- ing. When push came to shove, thought I had done this to him, and els and collect orbs to score points household friends.” ment when I take a cat to be though, the communication was he was right. He would lie on my while gathering stickers and cos- Q: Why do you hate to spay spayed. pretty limited. bed and scream as he came out of tumes. There are mini-missions Q: Do you have cats now? your cats? his nightmares. What lesson? throughout such as riding a mechan- I have a very difficult cat named Having kittens makes female Q: You wrote about trying to Q: You seem to have an open- Never, never do one of those clever Yum-Yum. Her previous owner cats warm and nice and friendly. communicate with your cats. door policy for neighborhood things past the right time. WSJ.com treated her badly and dumped her. Yum-Yum was done early, and she How did that work? cats. Dream world hasn’t got any softness. Of course, The cat I communicated with Q: It’s hard to lose a pet. When she turned up here she was I’ve got cats who just drop in. Watch Jamin Brophy-Warren you can’t say this to any cat fan- five years old. She was enormously best was El Magnifico. He was such But now we’ve got three foxes in Well, as Kipling wrote, “you’ve test drive LittleBigPlanet, at scared and spent most of a year un- cier, they say you’re terribly irre- a clever cat. We used to have ses- the garden. I wonder if someday given your heart for a dog to tear.” WSJ.com/Lifestyle

W12 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 W5 v Food & Drink

Australia’s bright spot The Australian Riesling index In a broad blind tasting of Australian Riesling, these were our favorites. Web IESLING IS ONE of the While we included a number of wines below $10 in our tasting, Jacob’s world’s greatest grapes and Creek 2007 was the only one we liked. Some wines from the 2008 card and tax-deductible contribu- Rits natural home is Germany. vintage are beginning to arrive and are worth seeking out for their tions made through the Austin Film It’s grown successfully elsewhere, youthful vibrancy. Society for the $100,000 budget. too, from Austria to Michigan to Back-end revenue sources have New York. In fact, we happened to VINEYARD PRICE RATING COMMENTS long been key to recouping the high see a Riesling from Luxembourg at a costs of producing and promoting store recently and, having rarely Kilikanoon Wines $18.99 Very Good Best of tasting. Crisp and clean, films for theaters; in 2007, the spe- seen a wine from Luxembourg, “Mort’s Block” with good minerals and some cialty divisions of major studios picked it up. It was Clos des Rochers 2007 (Watervale, fullness. A complete wine, very spent an average of $26 million to Clare Valley) much a proud Riesling. market a film, up from $18 million the year before, according to the Tastings Pewsey Vale $13.99 Very Good Best value. Vibrant, with a light, MPAA. By contrast, movies using DOROTHY J. GAITER Vineyard “Dry” charming, peach-nectar nose and the emerging online-only model 2008 (Eden Valley) an ephemeral, lovely taste. We don’t have to recoup on that kind of AND JOHN BRECHER also liked three different Pewsey marketing push—but it’s still un- Vale wines from 2007—regular, clear how they’ll fare without it. The team behind “On Broad- Riesling 2005 “Grand Premier Cru” “Dry” and “Prima.” way,” a drama set in the pubs and (Moselle Luxembourgeoise), it cost Henschke $29.99 Good/ Richer than most, with some churches of south Boston, are hop- $17.99 and it was one of the best “Julius” 2005 Very Good roundness and depth. Relaxed ing the movie’s niche appeal, which Rieslings we’ve had in a while, with (Eden Valley) and balanced. Grown-up wine, deterred some traditional film buy- beautiful, ripe fruit, great minerals, with stature. We also liked the ers, can be used to target potential perfect acidity and great mouthfeel. lively 2006. viewers online. “There’s 40 million We bought a case to lay down. Irish Americans you can market to,” Riesling has been a popular Ninth Island $14.99 Good/ More luscious than many, with says director Lance Greene. grape in Australia for more than a Josh Brolin, Toby Jones and, (Kreglinger Wine Very Good white peaches and pears. Nicely Shot in 20 days in 2006 for about below, Thandie Newton in ‘W.’ century, but it got shoved aside dur- Estates) 2005 full and calm, so it would be good $1 million, “On Broadway” tells the ing the past 15 years or so by popu- (Tasmania) with elegant dishes. story of locals who mount a play in lar, easy-to-drink and affordable an Irish bar. The cast includes Eliza Chardonnay and Shiraz. Recently, Stonehaven $11.50* Good/ Pleasant, with green apple-Key Dushku, a star of TV series such as we have been sharply critical of Aus- Vineyards Very Good lime tastes and some spiky “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and tralia’s Chardonnay and Shiraz— “Winemaker’s acidity. Joey McIntyre, the New Kids on the too many of them are caricatures of Selection” 2006 Block singer-turned Broadway ac- A Freudian trip to the Oval Office wine—but we have always added (South Australia) tor. Mr. Greene says the film, which that Australian Riesling is generally screened at 16 film festivals, re- LIVER STONE GOES for the the White House (where, in an un- play of power, raw and absolute, a good bet if you can find it. That ca- Jacob’s Creek 2007 $8 Good Clean, crisp, mouth-watering, ceived three offers from companies juggler vein in “W.,” an exu- guarded moment, he tells Dick comes when Ellen Burstyn’s Bar- veat at the end has been important, (South Eastern lemon-lime nose. Fun, gulpable, proposing a DVD release, which he Oberant account of the life and Cheney that a summary of “en- bara Bush chases a dog off a chair though, because Australian Riesling Australia) and a touch sweet, especially on rejected. Instead, the sales agency times of George W. Bush. He juggles hanced” interrogation techniques with a baleful glance and a snap of has been hard to find—until now. As the finish. Good for an aperitif. negotiating on his behalf brought genial mockery and moist empathy “kinda reminds me of my fraternity her finger. Stiletto-voiced beneath a Australia battles to right its export Drink immediately. “On Broadway” into its new com- without venturing any judgments days”). If that last portrays George nimbus of white hair, Ms. Burstyn ship, it is clearly placing a bigger bet pany for digital sales, Cinetic Rights on his hero’s presidency. It’s excit- W. Bush as stupid or abysmally fatu- proves to be a brilliant miniaturist on Riesling. We had no trouble pick- Note: Wines are rated on a scale that ranges: Yech, OK, Good, Very Good, Delicious and Delicious! *We paid $9.95 Management. ing to watch what Josh Brolin does ous, “W.” paints him at other times in what’s basically a cameo role, and ing up 50 examples to find out, over- for Stonehaven, but this price appears to be more representative. Prices vary widely. These came from California, Connecticut, New York and Texas. Launched last year, CRM’s head with a character who has some- as a bright, decent man who’s sim- her peremptory pooch banishment all, how they are. Heidi Younger of programming is Matt Dentler, the times seemed to be playing charac- ply unable to cope with the devious is precisely the sort of sharp, witty We did not set a price limit, but former director of the South By ters on his own. Still, excitement schemers around him, or as an all- stroke that might have enlivened the vast majority cost less than $20. beautifully with the somewhat sometimes with some minerals and, more complex than just sugar. Alco- for those locations on labels. We Southwest film festival. “On Broad- too-transparent glass that’s half- the movie’s more banal scenes. We also did not include late-harvest heavier foods of fall, from pork to in the best, a nice fullness. They hol tastes sweet, for instance, and also found that it’s worth spending way” will premiere online next empty until religion fills it. Through Of which there are many—a Riesling. And while we usually limit veal to dishes that involve cream were wines that let the fruit do the the level of acidity in a wine affects a little more: The wines around $15 month. “There’s this huge gap be- Film it all, Josh Brolin invests him with grumpy Poppy springing his raffish our tastings to recent vintages be- sauces. talking and that was such a great re- the impression of sweetness. And and above were generally far better tween the festival circuit and theat- JOE MORGENSTERN unflagging energy—not just the en- son from jail, a Cabinet ramble at cause those are the ones you are We tasted the wines in blind lief. They were generally dry, which there was simply no doubt about it: than those below $10. One more in- rical releases that we’re trying to re- ergy of a zealot, though there is cer- the Texas ranch (where General Lionsgate (2) most likely to find, we did not in this flights over several days and we’re would certainly be a surprise to peo- These Rieslings left a far less sweet teresting thing: Very few of the duce,” says Mr. Dentler, who ac- tainly that, but the zest of a natu- Tommy Franks seems to be hiding a case because we routinely saw bot- thrilled to be able to report this ple who avoid Riesling because they taste than the Shirazes. In fact, in a Rieslings had critter labels, unlike knowledges that his budding indus- has its limits in a film that tells us rally gifted politician who’s deter- WSJ.com grapefruit in his lower lip), a ge- tles going back to 2002 and there’s news: With a little bit of care, you think it’s sweet. few cases we found the wines so dry so many other Australian wines. It’s try has to convince traditionalists lots of things we already know, plus mined to parlay his gifts into a place neric Texas barbecue, a mawkish no reason fine Riesling can’t age can pick up a bottle of Australian Here’s the irony: These Rieslings they seemed positively stark. We as if the winemakers respect the who think of a big-screen release as one thing Mr. Stone insists on until of honor in American history. presidential visit to a veterans hos- beautifully for many years. Riesling with confidence that you tasted drier than most of the reds didn’t much like those, but bravo for grape—and the people who buy a prerequisite for success. “We’re his patchwork drama turns into a Mr. Brolin’s performance is Opening this week in Europe pital. And those are only lesser Fall might seem like an odd sea- will have a well-made, mouth-water- we tried in our recent, unsuccessful trying. Riesling—too much to try to sell seeing the first generation of film- hapless Oedipal parody of “The Mak- hugely enjoyable. The script pro- n Baby Mama Sweden lapses in a film that does no better son for Riesling, because many peo- ing, friendly wine that will go beauti- tasting of Australian Shiraz. It’s pos- Again and again, our favorites them with a cute animal and a silly makers coming of age when watch- ing of the President.” vides him with predictable easy n Body of Lies Poland with two crucial experiences in W’s ple think of it as a light summertime fully with meals. These wines were sible that the Shirazes didn’t actu- were from Clare Valley and Eden Val- story on the label. ing things on a pixellated screen is It’s the Poppy thing, the notion stuff—the ritual mispronunciation n Brideshead Revisited Norway, Spain life—his struggles with alcohol, wine, but actually this is the perfect easy to enjoy. Wine after wine was ally have more residual sugar, but ley, which are hot spots for fine Aus- What is going on here? We asked the norm, not a novelty,” he says. that W.’s life—and therefore much of “nuclear,” the obligatory “misun- n Burn After Reading Netherlands which make for some loud, loutish A speedy turnaround was vital to of America’s recent life—has been time for Riesling because it pairs filled with vibrant lemon-lime fruit, sweetness is a sensation that’s far tralian Riesling, and we would look Louisa Rose. In our tasting, we were derestimate,” the random wander- n Hellboy II: The Golden Army France scenes but aren’t dramatized, and impressed with a winery called Pew- the executive producers of “Haze,” a driven by nothing more or less than ings through rhetorical thickets. his religious conversion, which is n In Bruges Portugal sey Vale in Eden Valley, where she is documentary about Gordie Bailey, a son’s desperate search for ap- But he excels at the hard stuff—ab- relegated to a glib epiphany in the n Lakeview Terrace Italy, Spain the winemaker. Pewsey Vale, which who died of alcohol poisoning dur- proval from a father who doesn’t ap- juring condescension, going beyond course of a jog, followed by brief en- n only produces white wines, has ing a fraternity ritual in 2004. The prove of him. Maybe that’s simplis- mimicry into empathy—and his task Step Brothers Austria counters with a thickset preacher been making them for more than producers wanted to reach viewers tic nonsense, maybe not, but it’s far must have been all the harder be- n Swing Vote Spain played, gracelessly, by Stacy Keach. In search of Italian Grignolino n 150 years. “The key to good Riesling on college campuses this fall. Snag- from an original thought, and the cause of W’s chameleon proclivities. The Rocker Estonia When Oliver Stone’s bizarre and is, first, make sure you have good Films, which exclusively shows non- movie, which was written by Stan- A model of plainspoken affability in n The Visitor France bloated “Nixon” opened 13 years By Dorothy J. Gaiter We contacted one of our favor- David Heitz in the middle of har- now—consumer demand for fruit, all of the flavors that you want fiction films, was deemed the best ley Weiser, keeps coming back to it his first presidential campaign, Mr. n Vicky Cristina Barcelona ago, the 37th president had recently and John Brecher ite Italian wine experts, Charles vest and he said his winery still “riper” wines gets most of the to see in the wine before you pick tool. Like some other video services, like some psychobabbling brook of Bush later seemed to be channeling Belgium, Finland died, after being out of office for HATEVER HAPPENED to Ital- Scicolone. He said that, because makes all three Grignolinos, blame—and it’s something that it,” she told us. There is no margin SnagFilms streams video through revelation. “You disappoint me, Jun- traces of the speech patterns one n W. Belgium, France, Netherlands, two decades. When his screwball Wian Grignolino? I know Heitz Grignolino needs to be drunk very though only about 1,000 cases of many wine writers have com- for error, she explained, adding, an online tool that users can plug ior, you deeply disappoint me,” sometimes hears in evangelical Portugal tragedy “J.F.K.” opened in early used to produce a Grignolino, but young and can be delicate, many the red, 400 cases of the rosé and plained about for some time. Our “There’s no oak and no malolactic into any number of Web pages, from Bush Senior says sternly at one preachers—particularly a sibilant n War Inc. Portugal 1992, the 35th president had been I’m searching Ohio for an Italian stores are afraid to carry it since very little of the Port. The 2005 feeling is that high alcohol per se fermentation.” She says her wines blogs to MySpace profiles. point. (He’s played, by James Crom- emphasis at the end of certain dead for almost three decades. Source: IMDB Grig, pale red-orange in hue, with they need to get it out the door so red is sold out, but the 2006 will be isn’t horrible—some great wines, are the result of good fruit and ter- The director of “Haze,” Pete well, like the Ghost of President’s words—and then, after September George W. Bush is very much with WSJ.com subscribers can read reviews of a slightly bitter taste. The last Ital- quickly. It’s now barely among the released in a few months, while such as Barolo, have always had roir, benefitting from the challeng- Schuermann, says he resisted at Day Past.) At another, Poppy admin- 11th (the events of which are, inexpli- these films and others at WSJ.com/FilmReview us, of course, but it’s unlikely that ian Grig I had came from a store in top 100 grape varieties in Italy, the 2008 rosé will be released next pretty high alcohol levels and we ing soil, high altitude and cooler first and tried to convince the pro- isters a patrician tongue-lashing to cably, absent from this film) he “W.” will make many waves, and not Oakwood, Ohio, about 25 years with only about 1,600 acres spring. just had a very successful tasting temperatures of the Eden Valley, ducers to keep trying to find a theat- his ne’er-do-well heir unapparent: added tough-guy tonalities. Josh just because the 43rd president is ago. —M.H. Deal, Akron, Ohio planted, according to official fig- of Gigondas, where the level is which makes for a longer ripening rical buyer. But eventually the direc- “What are you cut out for? Party- Brolin doesn’t do that slight sibi- conic Dick Cheney, and the steely an exceedingly lame duck. ures. We searched for Italian Gri- Is it my faltering memory or around 14.5%—but too often these season and more flavorful grapes. tor put his longstanding dream in ing? Chasing tail? Driving drunk? lant, but he’s acute on the presi- will to use it in his role as the presi- Mr. Stone’s latest POTUS pot- Good question. Grignolino is a gnolino and found two. One was a has the alcohol content of many days the wines really taste like al- In our tasting, few of the wines check of getting his movie “in a the- You think you’re a Kennedy? You’re dent’s combination of truculence dent’s tutor. The other tutor, Toby shots are scattered at best, and his charming, light and earthy wine 2005 and the merchant actually (most?) wines risen dramatically cohol, which makes them out of absolutely wowed us, but their con- ater near you,” he says. “It’s a bitter- a Bush!” And in one of several singu- and petulance, and his vocal choices Jones’s Karl Rove, is a shrink- hopscotch approach to recent his- from the Piedmont region of Italy. apologized for its age and gave us over the past few decades? When I balance and impossible to pair sistent charm and the careful wine- sweet thing. But then I have to larly inept dream sequences, Bush average out to a vivid evocation of wrapped policy gnome with a promi- tory drains context and signifi- When we were young, Grignolino a discount (proving Mr. Scicolo- reached wine-drinking age in the with foods, not to mention the making that went into them im- weigh that against the educational 41 reclaims his old desk in the Oval his colorful subject. nent forehead. Condoleezza Rice is cance, not to mention shock and was such a regular part of our lives ne’s point). Even with the dis- late ’70s, 12% seemed to be the top- other effects. All in all, we also pressed us. They are a good bet. goals of the film. Now there’s the po- Office, taking back the presidency When it comes to members of all tics and brittle sycophancy in awe, from the enormous events that that it seemed perfectly normal to count, it was overpriced because end for alcohol content in varietal wish alcohol were toned down in Forced to make a choice, we would tential of a lot of people seeing it.” from Bush 43. the government and the Bush fam- Thandie Newton’s smirky stereo- have marked the second Bush presi- order it in 1978 at Mama Leone’s it was tired and had lost its charm. wines (not that I was seeking out most wines these days. It seems still drink German Riesling. There is Fortunately for the film, Freud’s ily, the film relies on quick-sketch type. Colin Powell, as played by Jef- dency. restaurant after flying up from Mi- The other, a 2007, was fresh and the highest!). Now it seems hard to like alcohol is no longer a byprod- an easy complexity and an intensity specter can’t compete with Oliver impressionism, with variable re- frey Wright, looks like a homesick Feature films are, by their slow- ami for a week-long vacation in pleasant, but lighter and less find a wine with lower than 12%. uct and instead seems to drive too of flavor in German Riesling that’s WSJ.com Stone’s version of reality, which in- sults. The young Laura Bush is camper, as well as an unhappy one. gestating nature, unable to rival the earthy than we remember. This is many wines. cludes W’s candle-burning days as a Donald Rumsfeld is a cipher, though New York (it was Scanavino). But —John Staugaitis, special. But to our fellow German Web watching lovely, as Elizabeth Banks plays her, spectacular sizzle of a Tina Fey until we received this letter, we the kind of red that would be good, West Sand Lake, N.Y. Riesling lovers out there: Check out Listen to an interview with Yalie (drunken revelries at the frat but the script makes no more of her it isn’t Scott Glenn’s fault; what’s on skewering Sarah Palin, but this one hadn’t realized that we, too, chilled, with summer foods next —Melanie Grayce West contrib- what’s happening in Australia. John Jurgensen and see a clip from house), his years in Texas (where he in later life than the comely, familiar the screen gives no hint of the de- also scants the steak. In spite of hadn’t had a Grignolino in many August. You’re right. Alcohol content uted to this column. Our email ad- Melanie Grayce West contrib- ‘The Princess of Nebraska,’ at went from overprivileged oil-field presence on the TV screen. You fense secretary’s power in the Josh Brolin’s heroic efforts, “W.” is a toiler to chief resident of the gover- run-up to the second Iraq war. years. By the way, we caught up with has been rising steadily for years dress is [email protected]. uted to this column. Our email ad- WSJ.com/Lifestyle sense the processing power of a skin-deep biopic that revels in its an- dress is [email protected]. nor’s mansion) and his ascension to quick mind in Richard Dreyfuss’s la- Indeed, the most memorable dis- tic shallowness.

W6 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 W11 v Film Indie films opt for release on the Making the best of a bad cocktail ’M OFTEN ASKED to recom- pare his hollandaise sauce.” By Mr. DeGroff asserts, a modern clas- mend a good bartender’s guide contrast, “with very few excep- sic? I guess so, at least when “clas- Long Island Iced Tea Ifor the home mixer, and tions, people have a lot to say sic” doesn’t necessarily imply ap- Coming to a small screen among the books I always cite is about the preparation of their probation. I don’t like brutalist ar- 15 ml vodka “The Craft of the Cocktail,” by Bloody Mary, Manhattan, old-fash- chitecture, but that doesn’t mean A survey of some sites that offer feature films on the Web. 15 ml gin Dale DeGroff, a drinks guru to ioned, and even the ultimate clas- the FBI headquarters in Washing- 15 ml rum (Not every service is available in every country.) whom I have often turned for ex- sic cocktail, a dry martini.” ton isn’t a classic of that particu- pertise. With some 500 recipes, Mr. DeGroff is quite right about lar modern style. 15 ml tequila t Babelgum.com his book is comprehensive enough this, though I might quibble that You could say that the Long Is- 15 ml triple sec to cover the basics, the classics, people are opinionated especially land Iced Tea is a classic of alco- Directors Spike Lee and Michel 22 ml fresh lemon juice about their Martinis. And, I would hol—brutalized frat-boy style. But 15 ml simple (sugar) syrup Gondry are the posterboys for this suggest, they are often wrong in there is no doubt that many out- video outlet's efforts to woo indie How’s Your Drink? their opinions. The challenge for side the U.S. regard it as an iconi- 90 ml Coca-Cola filmmakers. Mr. Lee is leading the the bartender, as Mr. DeGroff is cally American quaff. When the Shake all but the Coke with “jury" for a Babelgum film festival ERIC FELTEN the first to recognize, isn’t just to Washington Post did an article on ice and strain into an ice-filled (viewers do the voting) and a give the customer what he wants, the young call-center workers of highball glass. Top with the music-video contest headed by Mr. delightful old obscurities and a but to help him discover that he Gurgaon, India, a few years ago, it cola, stir and garnish with a Gondry begins next month. good number of the less-preposter- wants something better than what found the twenty-somethings ous drinks of the past few de- he’s had before. Many are the Mar- liked to relax at the local T.G.I. Fri- lemon wedge. cades. But now Mr. DeGroff has a tini-drinkers adamant that ver- day’s, dressed in Levi’s and order- new book coming out, and it aims mouth is an abomination who ing Long Island Iced Teas by call-

iTunes t New Video Digital, which acts a to edit out all but the drinks that have never actually tasted the ing for “L.I.T.” cuties in Whit Stillman’s movie middleman between Apple’s fit comfortably under the title stuff in their Martinis. They just If something is going to be a “Barcelona” who tasted, for the iTunes store and filmmakers, says “The Essential Cocktail.” There might find they like a proper Dry symbol of American taste and first time, real burgers straight off it has several hundred titles in may have been room for Sex on Martini (a drink of about four style, then the only thing to do is the Weber. In a strange way, mak- the iTunes library, including the Beach in the last book, but no parts gin to one part dry ver- to make the best of it. The Ger- ing the Long Island Iced Tea drink- “Purple Violets,” with Ed Burns and more: Mr. DeGroff has cut his core mouth) if only a mixological mans who ordered Long Island able may be one of Mr. DeGroff’s list of cocktails down to about Sam-I-Am could be found to give Iced Teas from Mr. DeGroff at the more valuable contributions to the Selma Blair. Last year it became PhotoLibrary the first film to premiere 100, with another 100 variations them the encouragement to try it. Rainbow Room may have ended cocktail bar. exclusively on iTunes. on the basic themes. So what the But what does a good bar- up just as shocked as the Spanish Email [email protected] heck, you might wonder, is the tender do when he is presented Long Island Iced Tea doing in with an order for a drink notori-

t there? ous for being, well, junk? At the Jaman.com Mr. DeGroff is an indefatigable A scene from ‘The Princess of Nebraska.’ Rainbow Room, Mr. DeGroff would The bulk of Jaman's offerings are promoter of good drinks and no get regular requests for Long Is- for rent. Users pay a dollar or Magnolia Pictures slouch in advocating his own role land Iced Tea: “For some reason it more to download a movie to their in bringing classic cocktails back was particularly popular with the HD computer, where they can watch it By John Jurgensen tionally released film “A Thousand solid offers came in that would land into vogue. (Full disclosure: I European tourists, especially Ger- GAME PASS for several days. Jaman offers AST WEEK, AS NEW Years of Good Prayers,” under bud- it in theaters or on television. should note he cites me a few mans, who were a large part of Hollywood fare, but it also movies like “Sex Drive” get. There are no big stars in “Prin- In late August, the director times in his latest work, by way of our crowd.” And so he did his best specializes in international and “W.” flooded multi- cess,” which revolves around a Chi- struck a deal that made “Crawford” resolving where one or another to figure out how to make the content. The most-viewed movie plexes, the latest fea- nese exchange student adrift in San the first film to make its debut on cocktail came from.) Mr. DeGroff’s drink worthy of the venue. This in- on Jaman is the 17-minute ture from director Francisco and alienated from her Hulu.com. A joint venture of NBC campaign to eliminate prefab sour volved avoiding, as Mr. DeGroff “Migration,” directed by Mira Nair. Wayne Wang was get- culture. Shot with handheld cam- and News Corp. (which owns Dow mix in drinks meant to be made puts it, “the sure road to disas- Lting a very different premiere. The eras, “Princess” has an edgy look Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall with fresh-squeezed citrus would ter—a bad drink and a badly BE A WORLD-WIDE RECEIVER Hollywood veteran, known for films that ties into the story (cellphone Street Journal), the seven-month- be enough to secure his place as a drunk customer.” like “The Joy Luck Club,” released videos and text messages are the old Hulu primarily streams familiar Defender of the Classic Cocktail. The standard sort of Long Is-

Joost.com t his “The Princess of Nebraska” on character’s favored communication TV shows and movies, such as “Sat- But for all his emphasis on high- land Iced Tea is a pretty sure road Launched last year, Joost offers NFL GAMES STREAMED LIVE ONLINE YouTube, where it can be seen free. modes), but the movie wasn’t made urday Night Live” and “Men In end cocktail craft, his approach is to disaster. As originally con- familiar content such as Independent filmmakers are with YouTube in mind. Black,” and offers tools that let view- practical, born of experience be- ceived, the drink gets an ounce TO POINTS BEYOND NORTH AMERICA.* episodes of “CSI” and “The Daily known for taking risks with their On YouTube, which is offering ers post these videos directly on hind the stick. He spent a couple each of vodka, gin, rum, tequila Show.” Its free selections art, but many are wary of digital dis- “Princess” on its new Screening their own blogs, Facebook pages of decades tending bar, first at the and triple sec, a dangerous NOW IN HIGH DEFINITION. include movies picked up from tribution. Now, as perceptions shift, Room channel for professional and other sites. Since going up on very democratic New York saloon amount alcohol to be camouflaged festivals. “Charlie” pivots on a they’re going online in growing num- short films and features, the movie the site earlier this month, “Craw- Charley O’s and later at the some- by sour mix and Coca-Cola. Mr. De- married man's spiral into bers. “Haze,” a film making its de- will generate revenue from ads on ford” has been among the top mov- what less democratic Rainbow Groff’s first strategy to fix the jealous rage. but at the Hamptons International the site. But Mr. Wang says the big- ies and one of the most-discussed Room. And he learned that a good Long Island Iced Tea is to cut the Film Festival in New York, also got a videos on the site, says Hulu, which bartender respects the prefer- liquor bill in half, using only half wide release on the Web last week doesn’t release the number of views ences of his patrons. an ounce of each of the spirits.

t through SnagFilms.com, a service Filmmakers are its videos generate. Mr. DeGroff quotes Harry And then, in keeping with his com- Netflix that lets anyone host the movie free Mr. Modigliani, who says he Johnson, author of a 19th-century mitment to fresh juice at all times, Recently the rental service had an on their own Web page. Other full- coming to terms with worked hard to avoid a political bar manual: “The greatest accom- he replaces the canned sour mix unconventional hit with “Super length films are following a similar slant to his film, is thrilled with the plishment of a bartender lies in with freshly squeezed lemon juice, High Me,” which plays off the path with online-only premieres on the idea of releasing direct discussion among viewers. his ability to exactly suit his cus- balanced with a little simple familiar premise of “Super Size iTunes and video hubs such as Hulu. “We’re getting a primetime audi- tomer.” And when it comes to (sugar) syrup. It’s not bad at all— Me." In his version, comedian Because of rights issues, not every their work online. ence, demographically speaking,” drinks, customers not only have though given the drink’s boozy Doug Benson smoked marijuana service is available in every country. the director says. “I’m reaching the opinions but are wont to express baggage, I can’t say I could bring daily for a month. Behind the shift: a glut of movies audience I’d hoped to reach.” them. In his youth, Mr. DeGroff myself to order one, even if I jockeying for theater screens. Last ger payoff comes in viewership. Be- His agreement with Hulu was worked as a waiter, and he writes: could expect it to be made to Mr. year 603 feature films were re- fore “Princess” was available, the brokered by B-Side, an Austin com- “I was never instructed by a cus- DeGroff’s specifications. leased in the U.S., a 29% increase trailer had been viewed more than pany that runs the Web sites of tomer on how the chef should pre- Is the Long Island Iced Tea, as from 2002, according to the Motion 80,000 times. In theaters, the same some 200 film festivals. Using email

Snagfilms.com t Founded by former AOL Picture Association of America. trailer would have been seen some addresses and other data gathered executive and film investor Ted Meanwhile, the once-bullish market 5,000 times, the director estimates. from festival goers, B-Side orga- for movies with budgets under $15 “Going to theater has become about nizes screening events around the Arbitrage Leonsis, SnagFilms shows only NFL.COM/GAMEPASS documentaries, ranging from million recently lost some of its core making a point,” he says. “I like the U.S. where movies are shown free as familiar titles like “Super Size buyers. For instance, Time Warner accidental encounters” that occur a way to drive DVD sales. Now, with Me” to festival films. “Haze,” an and Paramount have either closed on the Web.” So far he’s noticed that films like “Crawford,” B-Side is ap- or scaled back three of their spe- those accidental viewers make plying that strategy to the Web. A roll of Scotch Magic tape exposé on college drinking, GAME PASS HD GAME PASS cialty divisions. more comments about the looks of Hulu didn’t pay anything up recently opened via SnagFilms. In response to all this, filmmak- the main character than the film it- front for “Crawford.” Instead, the City Local currency Œ New and improved Game Pass with higher The original Game Pass powered by ers are starting to come to terms self. “I don’t see a whole lot of com- company shares revenue generated quality video and more features: Yahoo! Sports: with the idea of releasing their work munication about aesthetic. That’s by the six advertisements that run t Hong Kong HK$9.50 Œ0.91 • Regular season games streamed YouTube.com on the Web. It’s a notion musicians fine, too,” the director says. at various points during the • Regular season games streamed live live online YouTube representatives have grappled with years ago. Offering Director David Modigliani spent 74-minute film. Neither Hulu or London £1.99 Œ2.57 online in High Definition been hitting film festivals to find art online rarely earns a creator roughly three years making the doc- B-Side will say how much that • Unlimited access to archived games • Archived games available for 48 hours much up front, but it boosts the umentary “Crawford,” a portrait of amounts to, but B-Side only expects candidates for its Screening New York $3.90 Œ2.91 • Simultaneous viewing of up to 4 games • Compatible with low speed Room channel, which launched in odds of broad exposure. With no the people living in the adopted it to cover the company’s initial ex- June. Most of the offerings are need for old-fashioned film prints, Texas hometown of President penses on the film—a few thousand • DVR controls, live stats, chat, and more broadband connections going on the Web is cheap and George W. Bush. The movie was first dollars. At a time when interest in Brussels Œ2.99 Œ2.99 shorts, including “34 x 25 x 36,” a quick. And directors can get instant screened for the public last spring politics is running high, B-Side is seven-minute look at female feedback from online viewers. at the South By Southwest Film Fes- banking on a return from selling * NFL Game Pass is not available in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Bermuda, Antigua, and U.S. mannequin parts that has been Frankfurt Œ3.95 Œ3.95 Mr. Wang’s “Princess” was made tival in Austin, Texas. But as “Craw- “Crawford” on DVD, offered online Territories. Additional restrictions may apply. viewed 1.2 million times. with the $200,000 the director had ford” went on to get accepted into for $19.99. The director has no inves- Note: In a plastic dispenser, 19mm x 25 meters. Prices, including taxes, as provided by retailers © 2008 NFL PROPERTIES LLC. TEAM NAMES/LOGOS ARE TRADEMARKS OF THE TEAMS INDICATED. left over after delivering his tradi- more than 30 other festivals, no tors to pay back. He used his credit in each city, averaged and converted into euros.

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W10 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 W7 v Film Ensemble power: Measuring the magic when movie stars work together

don Adventure,” “Airport” and “The Tower- By Joe Morgenstern ing Inferno.” Yet the 1970s also gave us two of the HEN INGRID Bergman asks greatest ensemble dramas ever made, “The Sam to sing that deathless Godfather” and “The Godfather: Part II.” The ‘Ocean’s 11’ team: George Clooney, song in “Casablanca,” the They weren’t small films. Rather, they were Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould lyrics reassure her that intimate and operatic in equal measure, and and Don Cheadle. the fundamental things their director, Francis Coppola, was able to still apply. But in the mov- make them equal-opportunity workplaces Wies, as everywhere else, some of them don’t. for Brando, Pacino, Duvall and De Niro. As Traditional superstar power is in steep de- for small ensembles, they became the prov- cline, thanks to salaries that have spiraled ince of Woody Allen and Robert Altman, out of control, to star vehicles that have be- two filmmakers with a devotion to unusual come—along with some of their stars—re- material (as well as a gift for finding financ- petitive or grotesque, and most of all to ing, however modest or precarious) and a changing tastes. love of what actors do with it. Movies have changed profoundly since Will Ferrell has never been funnier, or the days of Bergman and Bogart—or Paul more adroit, than he was as a haplessly Newman. They’ve changed even more since lovesick Woody surrogate in Woody Allen’s the days when a film starring Julia Roberts, “Melinda and Melinda.” Josh Brolin does a Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, Cameron Diaz, remarkable evocation of George W. Bush in Bruce Willis or Tom Cruise was automati- “W.,” but his self-effacing performance in cally a major event. Will Smith remains a “No Country for Old Men” was remarkable huge draw, the exception to the rule, and too. Meryl Streep has never been more en- Johnny Depp was certainly the animating dearing than she was as Lily Tomlin’s coun- spirit of three phenomenally profitable pi- try-western singer sister in Altman’s final rate extravaganzas. Yet Hollywood glamour film, “A Prairie Home Companion.” (Well, is in a lowered state, and young audiences maybe as the former rocker in last sum- don’t much care, even though the full ex- mer’s surprise hit “Mamma Mia!”, though tent of their indifference is still being Photofest that was a clear case of a star taking on a masked by the white noise of celebrity chat- central character with formidable technique ter. Kids are just as likely to turn out for a Most of the faults she found were those Blonde,” Forest Whitaker in “The Last King when they don’t have to dominate every camouflaged by lovely exuberance.) heavily promoted horror flick, the latest you’d expect in precocious young students— Of Scotland,” Daniel Day-Lewis in “There scene. As every devotee of “The Wire” knows, comedy from Judd Apatow’s laugh factory overzealousness, emotional extravagance, a Will Be Blood.” But peaks such as those are That’s what Brad Pitt did as Jesse James the most fertile soil for ensemble acting or another iteration of the “National Trea- cluster of tropes that come under the few and far between. What sustains me in in a movie seen by audiences that must these days is TV. But it’s always a source of sure” franchise. (Or adorable doggies: “Bev- gaudy umbrella of hyper-Andrew-Lloyd- the patchily verdant valleys is ensemble act- have numbered in the dozens across the na- amazement, as well as an antidote to artis- erly Hills Chihuahua” has been tops at the Webber-ism (or, in the movie realm, Dream- ing, which emphasizes interplay over indi- tion: “The Assassination of Jesse James by tic rigor mortis, when feature filmmakers box office, beating Leonardo DiCaprio and girls-ism). An actor’s term she invoked vidual virtuosity. the Coward Robert Ford.” (He was also ter- manage to fold certified movie stars into Russell Crowe in “Body Of Lies.”) Mean- more than once was “presentational,” mean- Ensemble work is all about playing well rific as a mental patient in “Twelve Mon- strong, entertaining features that play like while, grown-ups—people old enough to sit ing you’re pushing, you’re selling yourself, with others. It’s about creating social keys.”) Cate Blanchett did it, eerily but in- chamber pieces. Some may have relatively through a two-hour feature without an un- you’re outside the song instead of in it. In a worlds, though that doesn’t mean the triguingly, when she played a version of small budgets: Steven Soderbergh’s “Out Of controllable urge to text, phone or Twitter— couple of cases, she asked the performer to worlds must be downsized to the dimen- Bob Dylan in “I’m Not There.” Sandra Bul- Sight,” with George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez tell me all too often that most new movies take the song down half an octave or more, sions of a theater stage. Peter Jackson’s lock did it beautifully as Harper Lee in “In- and Don Cheadle, among others; the Coen leave them so cold they’ve stopped going thus reducing the need to draw on false en- “Lord Of the Rings” trilogy was an ensem- famous.” Paul Newman did it in “Nobody’s brothers’ “The Big Lebowski,” with Jeff out to theaters. ergy, or to sit down with another singer, ble piece on an epic scale. And it doesn’t Fool,” in an ensemble cast that included Bridges as a stoner to end all stoners; David I feel their numbness. If truth be told, knees touching knees, and sing quietly to mean stars are excluded. A special subset Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy and Philip Sey- O. Russell’s “Three Kings,” a war movie some of the new youth comedies are great her or him rather than to the audience. In of my special pleasure brings together the mour Hoffman. Matt Damon did it in “Good with a soul and a cast that included George fun, and prime time for feature films—the each case, she tried to elicit the qualities best of both worlds—watching movie stars Will Hunting,” and Russell Crowe did it, Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube. fall and winter season that’s finally upon us— that all good teachers value—simplicity, work in ensemble settings, either before somewhat, in “American Gangster”—some- Budgets aren’t the issue, though. Sensi- still brings enjoyment and surprise. But specificity, truth—while assuring these tal- the full force of their stardom has hit (via times it’s hard for a star to throttle back— bility is, as witnessed by recent ensemble most of the features that fill the multiplex ented young people that their efforts would the 20/20 hindsight of DVDs) or after though before becoming an international pieces produced on a relatively lavish scale: screens during most of the year are pretty be rewarded. Audiences eagerly “fall into they’ve become names in the global house- star he had done it superbly in “L.A. Confi- Soderbergh’s very funny and blithely sophis- dispiriting, whether because of brainless vi- authenticity,” she said. hold. dential,” a film that, noir or not, serves as a ticated “Ocean’s Eleven,” in which Clooney, olence and bloodless digital effects, or ro- Clearly this was not just a class about After is harder than before. Not every shining example of the ensemble genre. Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Elliott botic writing and the sort of acting that the singing, but about good acting as the bed- star is willing or able to take time out from The best and brightest British film stars Gould and Julia Roberts all managed to scripts deserve—flashy and full of bombast, rock of good singing. It was a distillation of the role of pack leader and join an adventur- have never hesitated to do ensemble work shine without acting like stars; or Martin yet devoid of genuine feeling. When the go- fundamentals that do indeed still apply, to ous pack, as Tom Cruise did so impres- on screen, and the world is richer for it; Scorsese’s “The Departed,” which was not ing gets grim (the grimmest experience for motion pictures as well as to musical the- sively in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magno- they’re so damned good at what they do exactly an obscure art film, given the Oscar me so far this year has been watching Will ater, and a demonstration of how to apply lia.” And it doesn’t really count, at least in that they can blend in when it’s appropriate it won last year, but a singularly unshowy Ferrell and John C. Reilly play 40-year-old them. And the astonishing thing was how my book, when stars make aggressively bi- and stand out when it’s demanded. showcase for such platinum-standard ac- infants in “Step Brothers”), I need my own quickly the students got it, as if all they zarre appearances, as Cruise and Robert Their commute between stardom and tors as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, reassurance that some of the fundamental had needed was permission to come back Downey Jr. did recently in “Tropic Thun- smaller roles may well be easier than it is Mark Wahlberg and Jack Nicholson. And an things I’ve loved about movies still apply— to themselves. Defenses dropped, posturing der” (a comedy which sends up the whole in this country because there’s less at stake ensemble sensibility can cross genre bor- especially the pleasure of watching fine ac- vanished, real feelings shone through. One notion of movie stardom), or when they in- financially: Johnny Depp probably earns ders, as “Iron Man” proved last summer. A tors working in ensembles on a human singer was able, almost instantly, to turn a dulge their penchant for self-enchantment, more in a single year than Laurence Olivier star vehicle by any reasonable definition, scale. And reassurance is exactly what I palpably false phrase into a piercingly beau- as Brad Pitt and George Clooney did in earned in a lifetime. But it’s also because so and an action spectacular to boot, “Iron got, I’m happy to say, from sitting in re- tiful passage that left people in the audi- “Burn After Reading.” many stellar Brits—and such of their Irish Man” scored the box-office coup that it did cently on a cabaret singer’s master class. ence gasping. I was one of gaspers, and for Sometimes the effort smacks of highly brethren as Peter O’Toole—started in the because its star, Robert Downey Jr., man- What does cabaret have to do with mov- a while I wondered why I was so deeply paid dilettantism, as it did when Cameron theater, where democracy is a way of life. aged the phenomenal trick of firing up and ies? Nothing at all, as far as I knew at the moved. Then I realized that the class had Diaz played a pickpocket in “Gangs of New (Even after achieving knighthood, Olivier throttling back at the same time—of creat- outset. The attraction was the singer, the brought me back to myself too. York.” (Though much less so when, in “Be- was always Larry to his fellow actors, Alec ing a singular star presence while staying incomparable Barbara Cook. She had been a For as long as I can remember I’ve taken ing John Malkovich,” she buried herself in Guinness was always Alec and the unquench- connected to his fellow actors, as well as to beguiling musical comedy star on Broadway special pleasure in the kind of acting that the role of John Cusack’s disconsolate able Michael Caine remains Michael.) a vast audience. before her second career in elegant clubs, Barbara Cook was trying to instill in her wife.) Sometimes it’s an act of generosity: American screen idols of an earlier day Unshowiness is in constantly short sup- and now she was working with a few excep- singers—in actors who serve the material Morgan Freeman has helped many small, were pretty much imprisoned by the star ply. Yet it’s the essence of the ensemble sen- tional young students at a new perform- rather than sell it, who search for the truth worthy projects get financing by lending system, except for occasional work fur- sibility, which has been thriving against all ance space in Santa Monica. without being pretentious about it, who sub- his presence to their casts. Sometimes it’s loughs in so-called all-star ensembles like odds, and will continue to do so as star ve- At first the work seemed only about sing- ordinate their gifts to the production as a an honorable failure, as it was for Julia Rob- “Grand Hotel.” Although the concept of an hicles take new forms, and new stars—such ing. One after another, the students sang whole. I can thrill just as readily as anyone erts in Mike Nichols’s turgid “Closer.” When all-star ensemble is oxymoronic, it was a skilled and subtle actors as Anne Hathaway, Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection; Warner Bros./Photofest; Marvel; Photofest Picturehouse/Everett Collection; New Line Productions; New Line Cinema/Photofest; Paramount Pictures/Photofest their songs—lovely classics from the Gersh- else to brilliant star performances—to De all the figurative stars are in alignment, popular one in the 1960s and 1970s—all Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Gosling and Keira wins, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim—in Niro in “Taxi Driver,” Streisand in “Funny however, a screen icon can not only en- those household names, lesser names and Knightley—take, but also share, the spot- From top: ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ (Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep); ‘Lord of the big, rich voices, with strong stage presence. Girl,” Stallone in the first “Rocky,” Nichol- hance the right ensemble, but be enhanced major has-beens emoting in the endangered light. One fundamental thing that still ap- From top: ‘Nobody’s Fool’ (Jessica Tandy and Paul Newman); ‘The Departed’ Rings’ (Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen); ‘Magnolia’ (Tom As they did, Barbara Cook gently but firmly son in “Chinatown,” Travolta in “Pulp Fic- by it. And be unburdened by it. Movie stars staterooms, cockpits and offices of such ex- plies is star power. Another is that power (Leonardo DiCaprio and Ray Winstone); ‘Iron Man’ (Robert Downey Jr. and Jeff Cruise and Jason Robards); ‘The Godfather’ (Marlon Brando). nailed their lapses, excesses or bad habits. tion,” Reese Witherspoon in “Legally can dare to reveal new sides of themselves travaganzas as “Ship Of Fools,” “The Posei- grows when it’s held in reserve. Bridges); ‘L.A. Confidential’ (Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce).

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don Adventure,” “Airport” and “The Tower- By Joe Morgenstern ing Inferno.” Yet the 1970s also gave us two of the HEN INGRID Bergman asks greatest ensemble dramas ever made, “The Sam to sing that deathless Godfather” and “The Godfather: Part II.” The ‘Ocean’s 11’ team: George Clooney, song in “Casablanca,” the They weren’t small films. Rather, they were Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould lyrics reassure her that intimate and operatic in equal measure, and and Don Cheadle. the fundamental things their director, Francis Coppola, was able to still apply. But in the mov- make them equal-opportunity workplaces Wies, as everywhere else, some of them don’t. for Brando, Pacino, Duvall and De Niro. As Traditional superstar power is in steep de- for small ensembles, they became the prov- cline, thanks to salaries that have spiraled ince of Woody Allen and Robert Altman, out of control, to star vehicles that have be- two filmmakers with a devotion to unusual come—along with some of their stars—re- material (as well as a gift for finding financ- petitive or grotesque, and most of all to ing, however modest or precarious) and a changing tastes. love of what actors do with it. Movies have changed profoundly since Will Ferrell has never been funnier, or the days of Bergman and Bogart—or Paul more adroit, than he was as a haplessly Newman. They’ve changed even more since lovesick Woody surrogate in Woody Allen’s the days when a film starring Julia Roberts, “Melinda and Melinda.” Josh Brolin does a Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, Cameron Diaz, remarkable evocation of George W. Bush in Bruce Willis or Tom Cruise was automati- “W.,” but his self-effacing performance in cally a major event. Will Smith remains a “No Country for Old Men” was remarkable huge draw, the exception to the rule, and too. Meryl Streep has never been more en- Johnny Depp was certainly the animating dearing than she was as Lily Tomlin’s coun- spirit of three phenomenally profitable pi- try-western singer sister in Altman’s final rate extravaganzas. Yet Hollywood glamour film, “A Prairie Home Companion.” (Well, is in a lowered state, and young audiences maybe as the former rocker in last sum- don’t much care, even though the full ex- mer’s surprise hit “Mamma Mia!”, though tent of their indifference is still being Photofest that was a clear case of a star taking on a masked by the white noise of celebrity chat- central character with formidable technique ter. Kids are just as likely to turn out for a Most of the faults she found were those Blonde,” Forest Whitaker in “The Last King when they don’t have to dominate every camouflaged by lovely exuberance.) heavily promoted horror flick, the latest you’d expect in precocious young students— Of Scotland,” Daniel Day-Lewis in “There scene. As every devotee of “The Wire” knows, comedy from Judd Apatow’s laugh factory overzealousness, emotional extravagance, a Will Be Blood.” But peaks such as those are That’s what Brad Pitt did as Jesse James the most fertile soil for ensemble acting or another iteration of the “National Trea- cluster of tropes that come under the few and far between. What sustains me in in a movie seen by audiences that must these days is TV. But it’s always a source of sure” franchise. (Or adorable doggies: “Bev- gaudy umbrella of hyper-Andrew-Lloyd- the patchily verdant valleys is ensemble act- have numbered in the dozens across the na- amazement, as well as an antidote to artis- erly Hills Chihuahua” has been tops at the Webber-ism (or, in the movie realm, Dream- ing, which emphasizes interplay over indi- tion: “The Assassination of Jesse James by tic rigor mortis, when feature filmmakers box office, beating Leonardo DiCaprio and girls-ism). An actor’s term she invoked vidual virtuosity. the Coward Robert Ford.” (He was also ter- manage to fold certified movie stars into Russell Crowe in “Body Of Lies.”) Mean- more than once was “presentational,” mean- Ensemble work is all about playing well rific as a mental patient in “Twelve Mon- strong, entertaining features that play like while, grown-ups—people old enough to sit ing you’re pushing, you’re selling yourself, with others. It’s about creating social keys.”) Cate Blanchett did it, eerily but in- chamber pieces. Some may have relatively through a two-hour feature without an un- you’re outside the song instead of in it. In a worlds, though that doesn’t mean the triguingly, when she played a version of small budgets: Steven Soderbergh’s “Out Of controllable urge to text, phone or Twitter— couple of cases, she asked the performer to worlds must be downsized to the dimen- Bob Dylan in “I’m Not There.” Sandra Bul- Sight,” with George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez tell me all too often that most new movies take the song down half an octave or more, sions of a theater stage. Peter Jackson’s lock did it beautifully as Harper Lee in “In- and Don Cheadle, among others; the Coen leave them so cold they’ve stopped going thus reducing the need to draw on false en- “Lord Of the Rings” trilogy was an ensem- famous.” Paul Newman did it in “Nobody’s brothers’ “The Big Lebowski,” with Jeff out to theaters. ergy, or to sit down with another singer, ble piece on an epic scale. And it doesn’t Fool,” in an ensemble cast that included Bridges as a stoner to end all stoners; David I feel their numbness. If truth be told, knees touching knees, and sing quietly to mean stars are excluded. A special subset Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy and Philip Sey- O. Russell’s “Three Kings,” a war movie some of the new youth comedies are great her or him rather than to the audience. In of my special pleasure brings together the mour Hoffman. Matt Damon did it in “Good with a soul and a cast that included George fun, and prime time for feature films—the each case, she tried to elicit the qualities best of both worlds—watching movie stars Will Hunting,” and Russell Crowe did it, Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube. fall and winter season that’s finally upon us— that all good teachers value—simplicity, work in ensemble settings, either before somewhat, in “American Gangster”—some- Budgets aren’t the issue, though. Sensi- still brings enjoyment and surprise. But specificity, truth—while assuring these tal- the full force of their stardom has hit (via times it’s hard for a star to throttle back— bility is, as witnessed by recent ensemble most of the features that fill the multiplex ented young people that their efforts would the 20/20 hindsight of DVDs) or after though before becoming an international pieces produced on a relatively lavish scale: screens during most of the year are pretty be rewarded. Audiences eagerly “fall into they’ve become names in the global house- star he had done it superbly in “L.A. Confi- Soderbergh’s very funny and blithely sophis- dispiriting, whether because of brainless vi- authenticity,” she said. hold. dential,” a film that, noir or not, serves as a ticated “Ocean’s Eleven,” in which Clooney, olence and bloodless digital effects, or ro- Clearly this was not just a class about After is harder than before. Not every shining example of the ensemble genre. Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Elliott botic writing and the sort of acting that the singing, but about good acting as the bed- star is willing or able to take time out from The best and brightest British film stars Gould and Julia Roberts all managed to scripts deserve—flashy and full of bombast, rock of good singing. It was a distillation of the role of pack leader and join an adventur- have never hesitated to do ensemble work shine without acting like stars; or Martin yet devoid of genuine feeling. When the go- fundamentals that do indeed still apply, to ous pack, as Tom Cruise did so impres- on screen, and the world is richer for it; Scorsese’s “The Departed,” which was not ing gets grim (the grimmest experience for motion pictures as well as to musical the- sively in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magno- they’re so damned good at what they do exactly an obscure art film, given the Oscar me so far this year has been watching Will ater, and a demonstration of how to apply lia.” And it doesn’t really count, at least in that they can blend in when it’s appropriate it won last year, but a singularly unshowy Ferrell and John C. Reilly play 40-year-old them. And the astonishing thing was how my book, when stars make aggressively bi- and stand out when it’s demanded. showcase for such platinum-standard ac- infants in “Step Brothers”), I need my own quickly the students got it, as if all they zarre appearances, as Cruise and Robert Their commute between stardom and tors as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, reassurance that some of the fundamental had needed was permission to come back Downey Jr. did recently in “Tropic Thun- smaller roles may well be easier than it is Mark Wahlberg and Jack Nicholson. And an things I’ve loved about movies still apply— to themselves. Defenses dropped, posturing der” (a comedy which sends up the whole in this country because there’s less at stake ensemble sensibility can cross genre bor- especially the pleasure of watching fine ac- vanished, real feelings shone through. One notion of movie stardom), or when they in- financially: Johnny Depp probably earns ders, as “Iron Man” proved last summer. A tors working in ensembles on a human singer was able, almost instantly, to turn a dulge their penchant for self-enchantment, more in a single year than Laurence Olivier star vehicle by any reasonable definition, scale. And reassurance is exactly what I palpably false phrase into a piercingly beau- as Brad Pitt and George Clooney did in earned in a lifetime. But it’s also because so and an action spectacular to boot, “Iron got, I’m happy to say, from sitting in re- tiful passage that left people in the audi- “Burn After Reading.” many stellar Brits—and such of their Irish Man” scored the box-office coup that it did cently on a cabaret singer’s master class. ence gasping. I was one of gaspers, and for Sometimes the effort smacks of highly brethren as Peter O’Toole—started in the because its star, Robert Downey Jr., man- What does cabaret have to do with mov- a while I wondered why I was so deeply paid dilettantism, as it did when Cameron theater, where democracy is a way of life. aged the phenomenal trick of firing up and ies? Nothing at all, as far as I knew at the moved. Then I realized that the class had Diaz played a pickpocket in “Gangs of New (Even after achieving knighthood, Olivier throttling back at the same time—of creat- outset. The attraction was the singer, the brought me back to myself too. York.” (Though much less so when, in “Be- was always Larry to his fellow actors, Alec ing a singular star presence while staying incomparable Barbara Cook. She had been a For as long as I can remember I’ve taken ing John Malkovich,” she buried herself in Guinness was always Alec and the unquench- connected to his fellow actors, as well as to beguiling musical comedy star on Broadway special pleasure in the kind of acting that the role of John Cusack’s disconsolate able Michael Caine remains Michael.) a vast audience. before her second career in elegant clubs, Barbara Cook was trying to instill in her wife.) Sometimes it’s an act of generosity: American screen idols of an earlier day Unshowiness is in constantly short sup- and now she was working with a few excep- singers—in actors who serve the material Morgan Freeman has helped many small, were pretty much imprisoned by the star ply. Yet it’s the essence of the ensemble sen- tional young students at a new perform- rather than sell it, who search for the truth worthy projects get financing by lending system, except for occasional work fur- sibility, which has been thriving against all ance space in Santa Monica. without being pretentious about it, who sub- his presence to their casts. Sometimes it’s loughs in so-called all-star ensembles like odds, and will continue to do so as star ve- At first the work seemed only about sing- ordinate their gifts to the production as a an honorable failure, as it was for Julia Rob- “Grand Hotel.” Although the concept of an hicles take new forms, and new stars—such ing. One after another, the students sang whole. I can thrill just as readily as anyone erts in Mike Nichols’s turgid “Closer.” When all-star ensemble is oxymoronic, it was a skilled and subtle actors as Anne Hathaway, Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection; Warner Bros./Photofest; Marvel; Photofest Picturehouse/Everett Collection; New Line Productions; New Line Cinema/Photofest; Paramount Pictures/Photofest their songs—lovely classics from the Gersh- else to brilliant star performances—to De all the figurative stars are in alignment, popular one in the 1960s and 1970s—all Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Gosling and Keira wins, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim—in Niro in “Taxi Driver,” Streisand in “Funny however, a screen icon can not only en- those household names, lesser names and Knightley—take, but also share, the spot- From top: ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ (Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep); ‘Lord of the big, rich voices, with strong stage presence. Girl,” Stallone in the first “Rocky,” Nichol- hance the right ensemble, but be enhanced major has-beens emoting in the endangered light. One fundamental thing that still ap- From top: ‘Nobody’s Fool’ (Jessica Tandy and Paul Newman); ‘The Departed’ Rings’ (Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen); ‘Magnolia’ (Tom As they did, Barbara Cook gently but firmly son in “Chinatown,” Travolta in “Pulp Fic- by it. And be unburdened by it. Movie stars staterooms, cockpits and offices of such ex- plies is star power. Another is that power (Leonardo DiCaprio and Ray Winstone); ‘Iron Man’ (Robert Downey Jr. and Jeff Cruise and Jason Robards); ‘The Godfather’ (Marlon Brando). nailed their lapses, excesses or bad habits. tion,” Reese Witherspoon in “Legally can dare to reveal new sides of themselves travaganzas as “Ship Of Fools,” “The Posei- grows when it’s held in reserve. Bridges); ‘L.A. Confidential’ (Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce).

W8 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 W9 v Film Indie films opt for release on the Making the best of a bad cocktail ’M OFTEN ASKED to recom- pare his hollandaise sauce.” By Mr. DeGroff asserts, a modern clas- mend a good bartender’s guide contrast, “with very few excep- sic? I guess so, at least when “clas- Long Island Iced Tea Ifor the home mixer, and tions, people have a lot to say sic” doesn’t necessarily imply ap- Coming to a small screen among the books I always cite is about the preparation of their probation. I don’t like brutalist ar- 15 ml vodka “The Craft of the Cocktail,” by Bloody Mary, Manhattan, old-fash- chitecture, but that doesn’t mean A survey of some sites that offer feature films on the Web. 15 ml gin Dale DeGroff, a drinks guru to ioned, and even the ultimate clas- the FBI headquarters in Washing- 15 ml rum (Not every service is available in every country.) whom I have often turned for ex- sic cocktail, a dry martini.” ton isn’t a classic of that particu- pertise. With some 500 recipes, Mr. DeGroff is quite right about lar modern style. 15 ml tequila t Babelgum.com his book is comprehensive enough this, though I might quibble that You could say that the Long Is- 15 ml triple sec to cover the basics, the classics, people are opinionated especially land Iced Tea is a classic of alco- Directors Spike Lee and Michel 22 ml fresh lemon juice about their Martinis. And, I would hol—brutalized frat-boy style. But 15 ml simple (sugar) syrup Gondry are the posterboys for this suggest, they are often wrong in there is no doubt that many out- video outlet's efforts to woo indie How’s Your Drink? their opinions. The challenge for side the U.S. regard it as an iconi- 90 ml Coca-Cola filmmakers. Mr. Lee is leading the the bartender, as Mr. DeGroff is cally American quaff. When the Shake all but the Coke with “jury" for a Babelgum film festival ERIC FELTEN the first to recognize, isn’t just to Washington Post did an article on ice and strain into an ice-filled (viewers do the voting) and a give the customer what he wants, the young call-center workers of highball glass. Top with the music-video contest headed by Mr. delightful old obscurities and a but to help him discover that he Gurgaon, India, a few years ago, it cola, stir and garnish with a Gondry begins next month. good number of the less-preposter- wants something better than what found the twenty-somethings ous drinks of the past few de- he’s had before. Many are the Mar- liked to relax at the local T.G.I. Fri- lemon wedge. cades. But now Mr. DeGroff has a tini-drinkers adamant that ver- day’s, dressed in Levi’s and order- new book coming out, and it aims mouth is an abomination who ing Long Island Iced Teas by call-

iTunes t New Video Digital, which acts a to edit out all but the drinks that have never actually tasted the ing for “L.I.T.” cuties in Whit Stillman’s movie middleman between Apple’s fit comfortably under the title stuff in their Martinis. They just If something is going to be a “Barcelona” who tasted, for the iTunes store and filmmakers, says “The Essential Cocktail.” There might find they like a proper Dry symbol of American taste and first time, real burgers straight off it has several hundred titles in may have been room for Sex on Martini (a drink of about four style, then the only thing to do is the Weber. In a strange way, mak- the iTunes library, including the Beach in the last book, but no parts gin to one part dry ver- to make the best of it. The Ger- ing the Long Island Iced Tea drink- “Purple Violets,” with Ed Burns and more: Mr. DeGroff has cut his core mouth) if only a mixological mans who ordered Long Island able may be one of Mr. DeGroff’s list of cocktails down to about Sam-I-Am could be found to give Iced Teas from Mr. DeGroff at the more valuable contributions to the Selma Blair. Last year it became PhotoLibrary the first film to premiere 100, with another 100 variations them the encouragement to try it. Rainbow Room may have ended cocktail bar. exclusively on iTunes. on the basic themes. So what the But what does a good bar- up just as shocked as the Spanish Email [email protected] heck, you might wonder, is the tender do when he is presented Long Island Iced Tea doing in with an order for a drink notori-

t there? ous for being, well, junk? At the Jaman.com Mr. DeGroff is an indefatigable A scene from ‘The Princess of Nebraska.’ Rainbow Room, Mr. DeGroff would The bulk of Jaman's offerings are promoter of good drinks and no get regular requests for Long Is- for rent. Users pay a dollar or Magnolia Pictures slouch in advocating his own role land Iced Tea: “For some reason it more to download a movie to their in bringing classic cocktails back was particularly popular with the HD computer, where they can watch it By John Jurgensen tionally released film “A Thousand solid offers came in that would land into vogue. (Full disclosure: I European tourists, especially Ger- GAME PASS for several days. Jaman offers AST WEEK, AS NEW Years of Good Prayers,” under bud- it in theaters or on television. should note he cites me a few mans, who were a large part of Hollywood fare, but it also movies like “Sex Drive” get. There are no big stars in “Prin- In late August, the director times in his latest work, by way of our crowd.” And so he did his best specializes in international and “W.” flooded multi- cess,” which revolves around a Chi- struck a deal that made “Crawford” resolving where one or another to figure out how to make the content. The most-viewed movie plexes, the latest fea- nese exchange student adrift in San the first film to make its debut on cocktail came from.) Mr. DeGroff’s drink worthy of the venue. This in- on Jaman is the 17-minute ture from director Francisco and alienated from her Hulu.com. A joint venture of NBC campaign to eliminate prefab sour volved avoiding, as Mr. DeGroff “Migration,” directed by Mira Nair. Wayne Wang was get- culture. Shot with handheld cam- and News Corp. (which owns Dow mix in drinks meant to be made puts it, “the sure road to disas- Lting a very different premiere. The eras, “Princess” has an edgy look Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall with fresh-squeezed citrus would ter—a bad drink and a badly BE A WORLD-WIDE RECEIVER Hollywood veteran, known for films that ties into the story (cellphone Street Journal), the seven-month- be enough to secure his place as a drunk customer.” like “The Joy Luck Club,” released videos and text messages are the old Hulu primarily streams familiar Defender of the Classic Cocktail. The standard sort of Long Is-

Joost.com t his “The Princess of Nebraska” on character’s favored communication TV shows and movies, such as “Sat- But for all his emphasis on high- land Iced Tea is a pretty sure road Launched last year, Joost offers NFL GAMES STREAMED LIVE ONLINE YouTube, where it can be seen free. modes), but the movie wasn’t made urday Night Live” and “Men In end cocktail craft, his approach is to disaster. As originally con- familiar content such as Independent filmmakers are with YouTube in mind. Black,” and offers tools that let view- practical, born of experience be- ceived, the drink gets an ounce TO POINTS BEYOND NORTH AMERICA.* episodes of “CSI” and “The Daily known for taking risks with their On YouTube, which is offering ers post these videos directly on hind the stick. He spent a couple each of vodka, gin, rum, tequila Show.” Its free selections art, but many are wary of digital dis- “Princess” on its new Screening their own blogs, Facebook pages of decades tending bar, first at the and triple sec, a dangerous NOW IN HIGH DEFINITION. include movies picked up from tribution. Now, as perceptions shift, Room channel for professional and other sites. Since going up on very democratic New York saloon amount alcohol to be camouflaged festivals. “Charlie” pivots on a they’re going online in growing num- short films and features, the movie the site earlier this month, “Craw- Charley O’s and later at the some- by sour mix and Coca-Cola. Mr. De- married man's spiral into bers. “Haze,” a film making its de- will generate revenue from ads on ford” has been among the top mov- what less democratic Rainbow Groff’s first strategy to fix the jealous rage. but at the Hamptons International the site. But Mr. Wang says the big- ies and one of the most-discussed Room. And he learned that a good Long Island Iced Tea is to cut the Film Festival in New York, also got a videos on the site, says Hulu, which bartender respects the prefer- liquor bill in half, using only half wide release on the Web last week doesn’t release the number of views ences of his patrons. an ounce of each of the spirits.

t through SnagFilms.com, a service Filmmakers are its videos generate. Mr. DeGroff quotes Harry And then, in keeping with his com- Netflix that lets anyone host the movie free Mr. Modigliani, who says he Johnson, author of a 19th-century mitment to fresh juice at all times, Recently the rental service had an on their own Web page. Other full- coming to terms with worked hard to avoid a political bar manual: “The greatest accom- he replaces the canned sour mix unconventional hit with “Super length films are following a similar slant to his film, is thrilled with the plishment of a bartender lies in with freshly squeezed lemon juice, High Me,” which plays off the path with online-only premieres on the idea of releasing direct discussion among viewers. his ability to exactly suit his cus- balanced with a little simple familiar premise of “Super Size iTunes and video hubs such as Hulu. “We’re getting a primetime audi- tomer.” And when it comes to (sugar) syrup. It’s not bad at all— Me." In his version, comedian Because of rights issues, not every their work online. ence, demographically speaking,” drinks, customers not only have though given the drink’s boozy Doug Benson smoked marijuana service is available in every country. the director says. “I’m reaching the opinions but are wont to express baggage, I can’t say I could bring daily for a month. Behind the shift: a glut of movies audience I’d hoped to reach.” them. In his youth, Mr. DeGroff myself to order one, even if I jockeying for theater screens. Last ger payoff comes in viewership. Be- His agreement with Hulu was worked as a waiter, and he writes: could expect it to be made to Mr. year 603 feature films were re- fore “Princess” was available, the brokered by B-Side, an Austin com- “I was never instructed by a cus- DeGroff’s specifications. leased in the U.S., a 29% increase trailer had been viewed more than pany that runs the Web sites of tomer on how the chef should pre- Is the Long Island Iced Tea, as from 2002, according to the Motion 80,000 times. In theaters, the same some 200 film festivals. Using email

Snagfilms.com t Founded by former AOL Picture Association of America. trailer would have been seen some addresses and other data gathered executive and film investor Ted Meanwhile, the once-bullish market 5,000 times, the director estimates. from festival goers, B-Side orga- for movies with budgets under $15 “Going to theater has become about nizes screening events around the Arbitrage Leonsis, SnagFilms shows only NFL.COM/GAMEPASS documentaries, ranging from million recently lost some of its core making a point,” he says. “I like the U.S. where movies are shown free as familiar titles like “Super Size buyers. For instance, Time Warner accidental encounters” that occur a way to drive DVD sales. Now, with Me” to festival films. “Haze,” an and Paramount have either closed on the Web.” So far he’s noticed that films like “Crawford,” B-Side is ap- or scaled back three of their spe- those accidental viewers make plying that strategy to the Web. A roll of Scotch Magic tape exposé on college drinking, GAME PASS HD GAME PASS cialty divisions. more comments about the looks of Hulu didn’t pay anything up recently opened via SnagFilms. In response to all this, filmmak- the main character than the film it- front for “Crawford.” Instead, the City Local currency Œ New and improved Game Pass with higher The original Game Pass powered by ers are starting to come to terms self. “I don’t see a whole lot of com- company shares revenue generated quality video and more features: Yahoo! Sports: with the idea of releasing their work munication about aesthetic. That’s by the six advertisements that run t Hong Kong HK$9.50 Œ0.91 • Regular season games streamed YouTube.com on the Web. It’s a notion musicians fine, too,” the director says. at various points during the • Regular season games streamed live live online YouTube representatives have grappled with years ago. Offering Director David Modigliani spent 74-minute film. Neither Hulu or London £1.99 Œ2.57 online in High Definition been hitting film festivals to find art online rarely earns a creator roughly three years making the doc- B-Side will say how much that • Unlimited access to archived games • Archived games available for 48 hours much up front, but it boosts the umentary “Crawford,” a portrait of amounts to, but B-Side only expects candidates for its Screening New York $3.90 Œ2.91 • Simultaneous viewing of up to 4 games • Compatible with low speed Room channel, which launched in odds of broad exposure. With no the people living in the adopted it to cover the company’s initial ex- June. Most of the offerings are need for old-fashioned film prints, Texas hometown of President penses on the film—a few thousand • DVR controls, live stats, chat, and more broadband connections going on the Web is cheap and George W. Bush. The movie was first dollars. At a time when interest in Brussels Œ2.99 Œ2.99 shorts, including “34 x 25 x 36,” a quick. And directors can get instant screened for the public last spring politics is running high, B-Side is seven-minute look at female feedback from online viewers. at the South By Southwest Film Fes- banking on a return from selling * NFL Game Pass is not available in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Bermuda, Antigua, and U.S. mannequin parts that has been Frankfurt Œ3.95 Œ3.95 Mr. Wang’s “Princess” was made tival in Austin, Texas. But as “Craw- “Crawford” on DVD, offered online Territories. Additional restrictions may apply. viewed 1.2 million times. with the $200,000 the director had ford” went on to get accepted into for $19.99. The director has no inves- Note: In a plastic dispenser, 19mm x 25 meters. Prices, including taxes, as provided by retailers © 2008 NFL PROPERTIES LLC. TEAM NAMES/LOGOS ARE TRADEMARKS OF THE TEAMS INDICATED. left over after delivering his tradi- more than 30 other festivals, no tors to pay back. He used his credit in each city, averaged and converted into euros.

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Australia’s bright spot The Australian Riesling index In a broad blind tasting of Australian Riesling, these were our favorites. Web IESLING IS ONE of the While we included a number of wines below $10 in our tasting, Jacob’s world’s greatest grapes and Creek 2007 was the only one we liked. Some wines from the 2008 card and tax-deductible contribu- Rits natural home is Germany. vintage are beginning to arrive and are worth seeking out for their tions made through the Austin Film It’s grown successfully elsewhere, youthful vibrancy. Society for the $100,000 budget. too, from Austria to Michigan to Back-end revenue sources have New York. In fact, we happened to VINEYARD PRICE RATING COMMENTS long been key to recouping the high see a Riesling from Luxembourg at a costs of producing and promoting store recently and, having rarely Kilikanoon Wines $18.99 Very Good Best of tasting. Crisp and clean, films for theaters; in 2007, the spe- seen a wine from Luxembourg, “Mort’s Block” with good minerals and some cialty divisions of major studios picked it up. It was Clos des Rochers 2007 (Watervale, fullness. A complete wine, very spent an average of $26 million to Clare Valley) much a proud Riesling. market a film, up from $18 million the year before, according to the Tastings Pewsey Vale $13.99 Very Good Best value. Vibrant, with a light, MPAA. By contrast, movies using DOROTHY J. GAITER Vineyard “Dry” charming, peach-nectar nose and the emerging online-only model 2008 (Eden Valley) an ephemeral, lovely taste. We don’t have to recoup on that kind of AND JOHN BRECHER also liked three different Pewsey marketing push—but it’s still un- Vale wines from 2007—regular, clear how they’ll fare without it. The team behind “On Broad- Riesling 2005 “Grand Premier Cru” “Dry” and “Prima.” way,” a drama set in the pubs and (Moselle Luxembourgeoise), it cost Henschke $29.99 Good/ Richer than most, with some churches of south Boston, are hop- $17.99 and it was one of the best “Julius” 2005 Very Good roundness and depth. Relaxed ing the movie’s niche appeal, which Rieslings we’ve had in a while, with (Eden Valley) and balanced. Grown-up wine, deterred some traditional film buy- beautiful, ripe fruit, great minerals, with stature. We also liked the ers, can be used to target potential perfect acidity and great mouthfeel. lively 2006. viewers online. “There’s 40 million We bought a case to lay down. Irish Americans you can market to,” Riesling has been a popular Ninth Island $14.99 Good/ More luscious than many, with says director Lance Greene. grape in Australia for more than a Josh Brolin, Toby Jones and, (Kreglinger Wine Very Good white peaches and pears. Nicely Shot in 20 days in 2006 for about below, Thandie Newton in ‘W.’ century, but it got shoved aside dur- Estates) 2005 full and calm, so it would be good $1 million, “On Broadway” tells the ing the past 15 years or so by popu- (Tasmania) with elegant dishes. story of locals who mount a play in lar, easy-to-drink and affordable an Irish bar. The cast includes Eliza Chardonnay and Shiraz. Recently, Stonehaven $11.50* Good/ Pleasant, with green apple-Key Dushku, a star of TV series such as we have been sharply critical of Aus- Vineyards Very Good lime tastes and some spiky “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and tralia’s Chardonnay and Shiraz— “Winemaker’s acidity. Joey McIntyre, the New Kids on the too many of them are caricatures of Selection” 2006 Block singer-turned Broadway ac- A Freudian trip to the Oval Office wine—but we have always added (South Australia) tor. Mr. Greene says the film, which that Australian Riesling is generally screened at 16 film festivals, re- LIVER STONE GOES for the the White House (where, in an un- play of power, raw and absolute, a good bet if you can find it. That ca- Jacob’s Creek 2007 $8 Good Clean, crisp, mouth-watering, ceived three offers from companies juggler vein in “W.,” an exu- guarded moment, he tells Dick comes when Ellen Burstyn’s Bar- veat at the end has been important, (South Eastern lemon-lime nose. Fun, gulpable, proposing a DVD release, which he Oberant account of the life and Cheney that a summary of “en- bara Bush chases a dog off a chair though, because Australian Riesling Australia) and a touch sweet, especially on rejected. Instead, the sales agency times of George W. Bush. He juggles hanced” interrogation techniques with a baleful glance and a snap of has been hard to find—until now. As the finish. Good for an aperitif. negotiating on his behalf brought genial mockery and moist empathy “kinda reminds me of my fraternity her finger. Stiletto-voiced beneath a Australia battles to right its export Drink immediately. “On Broadway” into its new com- without venturing any judgments days”). If that last portrays George nimbus of white hair, Ms. Burstyn ship, it is clearly placing a bigger bet pany for digital sales, Cinetic Rights on his hero’s presidency. It’s excit- W. Bush as stupid or abysmally fatu- proves to be a brilliant miniaturist on Riesling. We had no trouble pick- Note: Wines are rated on a scale that ranges: Yech, OK, Good, Very Good, Delicious and Delicious! *We paid $9.95 Management. ing to watch what Josh Brolin does ous, “W.” paints him at other times in what’s basically a cameo role, and ing up 50 examples to find out, over- for Stonehaven, but this price appears to be more representative. Prices vary widely. These came from California, Connecticut, New York and Texas. Launched last year, CRM’s head with a character who has some- as a bright, decent man who’s sim- her peremptory pooch banishment all, how they are. Heidi Younger of programming is Matt Dentler, the times seemed to be playing charac- ply unable to cope with the devious is precisely the sort of sharp, witty We did not set a price limit, but former director of the South By ters on his own. Still, excitement schemers around him, or as an all- stroke that might have enlivened the vast majority cost less than $20. beautifully with the somewhat sometimes with some minerals and, more complex than just sugar. Alco- for those locations on labels. We Southwest film festival. “On Broad- too-transparent glass that’s half- the movie’s more banal scenes. We also did not include late-harvest heavier foods of fall, from pork to in the best, a nice fullness. They hol tastes sweet, for instance, and also found that it’s worth spending way” will premiere online next empty until religion fills it. Through Of which there are many—a Riesling. And while we usually limit veal to dishes that involve cream were wines that let the fruit do the the level of acidity in a wine affects a little more: The wines around $15 month. “There’s this huge gap be- Film it all, Josh Brolin invests him with grumpy Poppy springing his raffish our tastings to recent vintages be- sauces. talking and that was such a great re- the impression of sweetness. And and above were generally far better tween the festival circuit and theat- JOE MORGENSTERN unflagging energy—not just the en- son from jail, a Cabinet ramble at cause those are the ones you are We tasted the wines in blind lief. They were generally dry, which there was simply no doubt about it: than those below $10. One more in- rical releases that we’re trying to re- ergy of a zealot, though there is cer- the Texas ranch (where General Lionsgate (2) most likely to find, we did not in this flights over several days and we’re would certainly be a surprise to peo- These Rieslings left a far less sweet teresting thing: Very few of the duce,” says Mr. Dentler, who ac- tainly that, but the zest of a natu- Tommy Franks seems to be hiding a case because we routinely saw bot- thrilled to be able to report this ple who avoid Riesling because they taste than the Shirazes. In fact, in a Rieslings had critter labels, unlike knowledges that his budding indus- has its limits in a film that tells us rally gifted politician who’s deter- WSJ.com grapefruit in his lower lip), a ge- tles going back to 2002 and there’s news: With a little bit of care, you think it’s sweet. few cases we found the wines so dry so many other Australian wines. It’s try has to convince traditionalists lots of things we already know, plus mined to parlay his gifts into a place neric Texas barbecue, a mawkish no reason fine Riesling can’t age can pick up a bottle of Australian Here’s the irony: These Rieslings they seemed positively stark. We as if the winemakers respect the who think of a big-screen release as one thing Mr. Stone insists on until of honor in American history. presidential visit to a veterans hos- beautifully for many years. Riesling with confidence that you tasted drier than most of the reds didn’t much like those, but bravo for grape—and the people who buy a prerequisite for success. “We’re his patchwork drama turns into a Mr. Brolin’s performance is Opening this week in Europe pital. And those are only lesser Fall might seem like an odd sea- will have a well-made, mouth-water- we tried in our recent, unsuccessful trying. Riesling—too much to try to sell seeing the first generation of film- hapless Oedipal parody of “The Mak- hugely enjoyable. The script pro- n Baby Mama Sweden lapses in a film that does no better son for Riesling, because many peo- ing, friendly wine that will go beauti- tasting of Australian Shiraz. It’s pos- Again and again, our favorites them with a cute animal and a silly makers coming of age when watch- ing of the President.” vides him with predictable easy n Body of Lies Poland with two crucial experiences in W’s ple think of it as a light summertime fully with meals. These wines were sible that the Shirazes didn’t actu- were from Clare Valley and Eden Val- story on the label. ing things on a pixellated screen is It’s the Poppy thing, the notion stuff—the ritual mispronunciation n Brideshead Revisited Norway, Spain life—his struggles with alcohol, wine, but actually this is the perfect easy to enjoy. Wine after wine was ally have more residual sugar, but ley, which are hot spots for fine Aus- What is going on here? We asked the norm, not a novelty,” he says. that W.’s life—and therefore much of “nuclear,” the obligatory “misun- n Burn After Reading Netherlands which make for some loud, loutish A speedy turnaround was vital to of America’s recent life—has been time for Riesling because it pairs filled with vibrant lemon-lime fruit, sweetness is a sensation that’s far tralian Riesling, and we would look Louisa Rose. In our tasting, we were derestimate,” the random wander- n Hellboy II: The Golden Army France scenes but aren’t dramatized, and impressed with a winery called Pew- the executive producers of “Haze,” a driven by nothing more or less than ings through rhetorical thickets. his religious conversion, which is n In Bruges Portugal sey Vale in Eden Valley, where she is documentary about Gordie Bailey, a son’s desperate search for ap- But he excels at the hard stuff—ab- relegated to a glib epiphany in the n Lakeview Terrace Italy, Spain the winemaker. Pewsey Vale, which who died of alcohol poisoning dur- proval from a father who doesn’t ap- juring condescension, going beyond course of a jog, followed by brief en- n only produces white wines, has ing a fraternity ritual in 2004. The prove of him. Maybe that’s simplis- mimicry into empathy—and his task Step Brothers Austria counters with a thickset preacher been making them for more than producers wanted to reach viewers tic nonsense, maybe not, but it’s far must have been all the harder be- n Swing Vote Spain played, gracelessly, by Stacy Keach. In search of Italian Grignolino n 150 years. “The key to good Riesling on college campuses this fall. Snag- from an original thought, and the cause of W’s chameleon proclivities. The Rocker Estonia When Oliver Stone’s bizarre and is, first, make sure you have good Films, which exclusively shows non- movie, which was written by Stan- A model of plainspoken affability in n The Visitor France bloated “Nixon” opened 13 years By Dorothy J. Gaiter We contacted one of our favor- David Heitz in the middle of har- now—consumer demand for fruit, all of the flavors that you want fiction films, was deemed the best ley Weiser, keeps coming back to it his first presidential campaign, Mr. n Vicky Cristina Barcelona ago, the 37th president had recently and John Brecher ite Italian wine experts, Charles vest and he said his winery still “riper” wines gets most of the to see in the wine before you pick tool. Like some other video services, like some psychobabbling brook of Bush later seemed to be channeling Belgium, Finland died, after being out of office for HATEVER HAPPENED to Ital- Scicolone. He said that, because makes all three Grignolinos, blame—and it’s something that it,” she told us. There is no margin SnagFilms streams video through revelation. “You disappoint me, Jun- traces of the speech patterns one n W. Belgium, France, Netherlands, two decades. When his screwball Wian Grignolino? I know Heitz Grignolino needs to be drunk very though only about 1,000 cases of many wine writers have com- for error, she explained, adding, an online tool that users can plug ior, you deeply disappoint me,” sometimes hears in evangelical Portugal tragedy “J.F.K.” opened in early used to produce a Grignolino, but young and can be delicate, many the red, 400 cases of the rosé and plained about for some time. Our “There’s no oak and no malolactic into any number of Web pages, from Bush Senior says sternly at one preachers—particularly a sibilant n War Inc. Portugal 1992, the 35th president had been I’m searching Ohio for an Italian stores are afraid to carry it since very little of the Port. The 2005 feeling is that high alcohol per se fermentation.” She says her wines blogs to MySpace profiles. point. (He’s played, by James Crom- emphasis at the end of certain dead for almost three decades. Source: IMDB Grig, pale red-orange in hue, with they need to get it out the door so red is sold out, but the 2006 will be isn’t horrible—some great wines, are the result of good fruit and ter- The director of “Haze,” Pete well, like the Ghost of President’s words—and then, after September George W. Bush is very much with WSJ.com subscribers can read reviews of a slightly bitter taste. The last Ital- quickly. It’s now barely among the released in a few months, while such as Barolo, have always had roir, benefitting from the challeng- Schuermann, says he resisted at Day Past.) At another, Poppy admin- 11th (the events of which are, inexpli- these films and others at WSJ.com/FilmReview us, of course, but it’s unlikely that ian Grig I had came from a store in top 100 grape varieties in Italy, the 2008 rosé will be released next pretty high alcohol levels and we ing soil, high altitude and cooler first and tried to convince the pro- isters a patrician tongue-lashing to cably, absent from this film) he “W.” will make many waves, and not Oakwood, Ohio, about 25 years with only about 1,600 acres spring. just had a very successful tasting temperatures of the Eden Valley, ducers to keep trying to find a theat- his ne’er-do-well heir unapparent: added tough-guy tonalities. Josh just because the 43rd president is ago. —M.H. Deal, Akron, Ohio planted, according to official fig- of Gigondas, where the level is which makes for a longer ripening rical buyer. But eventually the direc- “What are you cut out for? Party- Brolin doesn’t do that slight sibi- conic Dick Cheney, and the steely an exceedingly lame duck. ures. We searched for Italian Gri- Is it my faltering memory or around 14.5%—but too often these season and more flavorful grapes. tor put his longstanding dream in ing? Chasing tail? Driving drunk? lant, but he’s acute on the presi- will to use it in his role as the presi- Mr. Stone’s latest POTUS pot- Good question. Grignolino is a gnolino and found two. One was a has the alcohol content of many days the wines really taste like al- In our tasting, few of the wines check of getting his movie “in a the- You think you’re a Kennedy? You’re dent’s combination of truculence dent’s tutor. The other tutor, Toby shots are scattered at best, and his charming, light and earthy wine 2005 and the merchant actually (most?) wines risen dramatically cohol, which makes them out of absolutely wowed us, but their con- ater near you,” he says. “It’s a bitter- a Bush!” And in one of several singu- and petulance, and his vocal choices Jones’s Karl Rove, is a shrink- hopscotch approach to recent his- from the Piedmont region of Italy. apologized for its age and gave us over the past few decades? When I balance and impossible to pair sistent charm and the careful wine- sweet thing. But then I have to larly inept dream sequences, Bush average out to a vivid evocation of wrapped policy gnome with a promi- tory drains context and signifi- When we were young, Grignolino a discount (proving Mr. Scicolo- reached wine-drinking age in the with foods, not to mention the making that went into them im- weigh that against the educational 41 reclaims his old desk in the Oval his colorful subject. nent forehead. Condoleezza Rice is cance, not to mention shock and was such a regular part of our lives ne’s point). Even with the dis- late ’70s, 12% seemed to be the top- other effects. All in all, we also pressed us. They are a good bet. goals of the film. Now there’s the po- Office, taking back the presidency When it comes to members of all tics and brittle sycophancy in awe, from the enormous events that that it seemed perfectly normal to count, it was overpriced because end for alcohol content in varietal wish alcohol were toned down in Forced to make a choice, we would tential of a lot of people seeing it.” from Bush 43. the government and the Bush fam- Thandie Newton’s smirky stereo- have marked the second Bush presi- order it in 1978 at Mama Leone’s it was tired and had lost its charm. wines (not that I was seeking out most wines these days. It seems still drink German Riesling. There is Fortunately for the film, Freud’s ily, the film relies on quick-sketch type. Colin Powell, as played by Jef- dency. restaurant after flying up from Mi- The other, a 2007, was fresh and the highest!). Now it seems hard to like alcohol is no longer a byprod- an easy complexity and an intensity specter can’t compete with Oliver impressionism, with variable re- frey Wright, looks like a homesick Feature films are, by their slow- ami for a week-long vacation in pleasant, but lighter and less find a wine with lower than 12%. uct and instead seems to drive too of flavor in German Riesling that’s WSJ.com Stone’s version of reality, which in- sults. The young Laura Bush is camper, as well as an unhappy one. gestating nature, unable to rival the earthy than we remember. This is many wines. cludes W’s candle-burning days as a Donald Rumsfeld is a cipher, though New York (it was Scanavino). But —John Staugaitis, special. But to our fellow German Web watching lovely, as Elizabeth Banks plays her, spectacular sizzle of a Tina Fey until we received this letter, we the kind of red that would be good, West Sand Lake, N.Y. Riesling lovers out there: Check out Listen to an interview with Yalie (drunken revelries at the frat but the script makes no more of her it isn’t Scott Glenn’s fault; what’s on skewering Sarah Palin, but this one hadn’t realized that we, too, chilled, with summer foods next —Melanie Grayce West contrib- what’s happening in Australia. John Jurgensen and see a clip from house), his years in Texas (where he in later life than the comely, familiar the screen gives no hint of the de- also scants the steak. In spite of hadn’t had a Grignolino in many August. You’re right. Alcohol content uted to this column. Our email ad- Melanie Grayce West contrib- ‘The Princess of Nebraska,’ at went from overprivileged oil-field presence on the TV screen. You fense secretary’s power in the Josh Brolin’s heroic efforts, “W.” is a toiler to chief resident of the gover- run-up to the second Iraq war. years. By the way, we caught up with has been rising steadily for years dress is [email protected]. uted to this column. Our email ad- WSJ.com/Lifestyle sense the processing power of a skin-deep biopic that revels in its an- dress is [email protected]. nor’s mansion) and his ascension to quick mind in Richard Dreyfuss’s la- Indeed, the most memorable dis- tic shallowness.

W6 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 W11 v Books v Games A new novel checks in on aging friends Community gaming By Jamin Brophy-Warren ical bull or a skateboard. Navigating face with profane or scandalous ma- By Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg produce great writers. What do O’Hara worked at night; beginning NLIKE SOME videogame com- the worlds is surreal (evoking the terial. Users may create things that N HIS 23RD NOVEL, “The Wid- you make of this? at midnight when his family went to panies that have flashy of- spirit of “Alice in Wonderland” au- aren’t appropriate for all ages. Me- ows of Eastwick,” John Updike I thought there was something in bed, but that might have been a Ufices in Los Angeles or San thor Lewis Carroll, who’s buried dia Molecule plans to ban any mate- Ihas returned to familiar ground. what he said. This is a non-Euro- newspaper man’s habit. I’ve tried to Francisco, developer Media Mole- only a few kilometers from the stu- rial that’s not kid-friendly. The trio of witches whose verve and pean country. We’re a cultural is- avoid teaching, which for all its cule has a studio located in the mod- dio’s offices), with everyday objects Media Molecule sees the risk as wit helped give 1984’s “The Witches land and our canon, our master- charm takes a lot of your energy and est British town of Guildford above becoming building blocks for each part of the process. “Google didn’t of Eastwick” its puckish glee, are pieces, are unlike the European mas- makes you doubt yourself. a bathroom-products showroom. level. become popular by hiding bad back. This time, though, they are terpieces. “Moby Dick” and “Huckle- And the company’s mascot, in con- The family-friendly gameplay search results,” says Mr. Evans. “If more melancholy and creased by berry Finn” are the Q: Earlier this trast to tough guys like Grand Theft masks the studio’s data-driven ap- you can build the right features to doubt. Mr. Updike’s best work has two great 19th-cen- month, the New Auto IV’s Niko Bellic, is an obsidian- proach. Media Molecule mines doz- find content you like, it’ll float to A scene from LittleBigPlanet. addressed the subtext of daily life. tury American nov- York Post cited a eyed ragdoll named Sackboy. ens of aspects about player behav- the top.” Sony Computer Entertainment America He was awarded the 1991 Pulitzer els, and they’re coming biography Sony has high hopes for the ior, such as what user-generated out- The community approach may Prize for “Rabbit at Rest,” the last about marginal char- of John Cheever 30-person company’s new game, Lit- fits are most popular and how many work against LittleBigPlanet if many as the Wii and more than a mil- should be a “good game,” but novel in the series about a former acters drifting and noted that he tleBigPlanet. Due out next week for items someone has collected. That more PlayStation 3s aren’t sold. lion less than the older Xbox 360, ac- doesn’t think it will drive PS3 sales high school basketball player—and around. We’re fasci- resented you for the PS3 console, the videogame fol- data will then be analyzed and incor- Fewer PS3s may mean fewer Lit- cording to research firm NPD like Grand Theft Auto IV or Metal he won the 1982 Pulitzer for the nated by heading not treating him as lows Sackboy’s adventures through porated into the game’s interface. tleBigPlanet players online and less Group. Gear Solid 4, two of the PS3’s top ti- third, “Rabbit is Rich.” In his new west, there is a Puri- an equal. How did a dream world. Sony has launched a The approach is similar to the re- content and interaction. So far, the “Due to its high price point and tles this year. book, Mr. Updike, 76 years old, imag- tan religiosity that you view him, and multicity advertising campaign, search that sites like Facebook do console has lagged behind the latest the strong demand on the Wii, I Mr. Ettouney, the art director ines the curtains of age beginning to haunts us. European what accounted for placing hundreds of tiny billboards on their users. generation of rivals like the Nin- don’t think this will be the PS3’s sea- and co-founder, is unfazed. “If the close. At one point, Sukie, the young- novels want to show his concerns? in lawns and on buildings. The com- Allowing user-generated con- tendo Wii and the Microsoft Xbox son,” says Edward Woo, research an- people connect to [the game], est of the witches, finds herself you society as it ex- I thought he was pany also used Sackboy in its presen- tent in LittleBigPlanet creates the 360. The PS3 has only sold 3.5 mil- alyst for Wedbush Morgan Securi- they’ll reach others. All we need is a thinking that “both Alexandra and ists or existed, a great writer. I was tation to deliver financial data at same risks that sites like YouTube lion copies over the last year, half as ties. Mr. Woo says LittleBigPlanet starting point.” Jane were vaguer than she remem- whereas American amazed by him. He this year’s E3, the videogame indus- bered them—deeper into the engulf- novels would rather had a poetry and try’s annual conference. ing indifference that renders us for get away and dwell speed that were ter- Under the mantra “Play. Create. death.” Mr. Updike was interviewed on the inner life of rific. I was 100% ad- Share,” LittleBigPlanet brings the on the phone from his home in Bev- the character— miring of John type of user-generated content erly Farms, Mass. which is another way of being insu- Cheever, and he was friendly to me. tools found on sites like YouTube to lar. I thought it was interesting that Still, many of his letters and diaries the videogame console. That means Q: Your last book, “Terrorist,” he said we weren’t up on things, contained uneasy feelings about me in addition to allowing players to re- had a very contemporary theme that there is an accumulation of and even some hostile remarks. But vamp levels or stages of the game or and was a national best seller. knowledge about how to create art. I never felt it personally and always come up with new ones, Media Mole- Why did you decide to return to I don’t think that is true. I don’t had good times with John when I cule has also introduced ways to characters we met 30 years ago? think European clubbiness helps saw him. All that aside, what mat- find and share what other users of Variety. It also occurred to me their art. There has been a falling off tered is that he had a wonderful gift, the game have created. that maybe the first book was a suc- of American winners of the Nobel. a wonderful luminous way of writ- To do that, the studio has taken a cess of a sort. It had a movie, and I There was a spate after the Second ing. He was very impatient; maybe page from the Web world by adding thought we might be able to sell a World War that reflected the impor- that’s an alcoholic’s quality. Every- features like user recommendations few more copies. In the wake of “Ter- tance of the U.S. in the global pic- thing was succinct and quick; even (similar to what one might find on rorist” I also thought a return to a ture. Now we don’t project quite his movements were rapid. And that Amazon) and “tagging” features, comedy would be a relief to my lim- A. Richard Allen that magnetic image. came through in his prose. He didn’t which group items according to ited public. harp on anything. There was no ex- their characteristics. When the PS3 see a character affected by time, ments of reality. That I’ve done so Q: Can you tell us a little about cess of words. is linked to the Internet, these fea- Q: What is the creative process and undergoing changes that many sequels indicates I’ve got a your writing day? tures allow players to find user-de- like when you revisit established couldn’t have always been pre- weakness for them. When I set up shop up here as a Q: Is there any chance that signed levels or objects that directly characters as opposed to creating dicted. And the author is saved the freelancer I tried to set a schedule you’ll return to more contempo- appeal to them just as they would somebody we haven’t met before? trouble of naming characters afresh Q: Horace Engdahl, permanent where I’d do three pages. I’d begin in rary themes in your next novel, search for a new pair of shoes on- It gives me a chance to write and giving them biographies. I also secretary of the Swedish Acad- the morning and work until 1 p.m. say the Wall Street crisis, for ex- line. “It’s like a cross between Face- about the passage of time. It was find it rewarding because you are emy, which oversees the Nobel I’ve really kept to that and still do. ample? book and Flickr,” says Alex Evans, true of the Rabbit series, and the creating another layer onto a fiction Prizes, recently suggested that There’s no mystery to it. In my case I bet Tom Wolfe is just the man technical director and co-founder of short stories of Henry Bech. You can as a life is layered in terms of mo- the United States is too insular to the morning energy is better. John to handle that. the company. Media Molecule views LittleBig- Planet as something that will be a work in progress long after its re- lease date. Traditionally, when cus- tomers purchase a videogame, the product is considered finished and A Nobel laureate considers the house cat “patches,” or downloadable addi- tions, are usually limited to fixing By Cynthia Crossen der my sofa. It took a long time for I’ll walk into my sitting room and any gameplay problems that crop ORN IN PERSIA, raised on a her to be a reasonably normal cat. Doris Lessing there will be a fox. up. Instead, the studio plans to keep farm in southern Rhodesia Most cats are warm and kind, on adding new community features, Band a long-time resident of the whole. Yum-Yum had none of Q: What’s the story with all such as uploading gameplay footage London, Doris Lessing, 88 years that. those cats running loose around to YouTube, just as an Internet com- old, has led an unconventional and London? pany would. (Sony said it delayed peripatetic life. But over the de- Q: I’m guessing none of your People are throwing out their the original release date by a week cades, she has maintained several cats has ever had a diamond-stud- lovely pets, sometimes very cru- to remove a background song that it passionate, long-term relation- ded collar. elly. They throw them out without discovered featured lyrics from the ships—with cats. She has rescued, No! I’ve never had a posh cat. thinking. The life of a semiwild cat Quran, after buzz had built online harbored and adored them, and But one of the cats that was born is very short. I’ve had two or three from concerned Muslims.) when necessary to save the life of a here, El Magnifico, never un- here. They’re in a very poor way. Mr. Evans and his partners Mark mother cat, she has condemned derstood that there were When you see a pair of eyes glaring Healey, Dave Smith and Kareem Et- some kittens to death. Ms. Lessing, cats less privileged than out of a hedgerow, that’s probably touney started at Lionhead Studios who won the Nobel Prize for litera- him. a male that doesn’t have long to in the 1990s. In their spare time in ture last year, is best known for her live. 2005, they developed “Ragdoll novels, including the 1962 feminist Q: What about dogs? Kung-Fu,” a goofy fighting game. classic, “The Golden Notebook,” I love dogs. I very much Q: What have cats taught you The success of the game gave them and the Canopus in Argos science- regret not having dogs, but about life—or death? the chance to launch their own stu- fiction series. But in her book, “On in the city they often have a I had a cat who had cancer in his dio right down the road, Media Mol- Cats” (first published in 2002 but pretty bad time. Dogs have shoulder, and the vet persuaded ecule, and to develop LittleBig- just released in a new edition), Ms. to have an energetic and epa/Corbis me it would be perfectly all right Planet. Lessing applies her formidable physical life. Cats are per- sponsible bringing all sions when we tried to be on each for him to take off his leg. He suf- In the game, players guide Sack- powers of observation to the fectly happy never doing these unloved cats into other’s level. He knew we were try- fered terribly for two years. He boy through about 50 different lev- beasts she calls “exotic visitors, anything. the world. But I have a very bad mo- ing. When push came to shove, thought I had done this to him, and els and collect orbs to score points household friends.” ment when I take a cat to be though, the communication was he was right. He would lie on my while gathering stickers and cos- Q: Why do you hate to spay spayed. pretty limited. bed and scream as he came out of tumes. There are mini-missions Q: Do you have cats now? your cats? his nightmares. What lesson? throughout such as riding a mechan- I have a very difficult cat named Having kittens makes female Q: You wrote about trying to Q: You seem to have an open- Never, never do one of those clever Yum-Yum. Her previous owner cats warm and nice and friendly. communicate with your cats. door policy for neighborhood things past the right time. WSJ.com treated her badly and dumped her. Yum-Yum was done early, and she How did that work? cats. Dream world hasn’t got any softness. Of course, The cat I communicated with Q: It’s hard to lose a pet. When she turned up here she was I’ve got cats who just drop in. Watch Jamin Brophy-Warren you can’t say this to any cat fan- five years old. She was enormously best was El Magnifico. He was such But now we’ve got three foxes in Well, as Kipling wrote, “you’ve test drive LittleBigPlanet, at scared and spent most of a year un- cier, they say you’re terribly irre- a clever cat. We used to have ses- the garden. I wonder if someday given your heart for a dog to tear.” WSJ.com/Lifestyle

W12 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 W5 v Music v Sports

Singer-songwriter, in a confessional mood President William Howard Taft on the golf course around 1930.

By Craig Winneker from folk to pop to classical to electronic. N THE FOUR ALBUMS he’s released Who are your musical influences? since landing a record deal in 2003, the I listen to lots of orchestral music. I read a OScandinavian singer-songwriter Teitur lot of books and stories and articles. You sort has used an impressive array of instruments of combine all the things that surround you. I behind his very personal lyrics—everything listen of course to a lot of music on iPod, travel- from amplified and heavily reverberated ing, and hundreds of bands and individuals. acoustic guitar to a brass ensemble to the hor- It’s very hard to narrow it down. I think it’s ror-movie drone of the Theremin. many different things; it’s either the songwrit- But for the title track to his new record, ing aspect, the instrumentation, the orchestra- “The Singer”—released earlier this year in the tion—different things you find in different U.S. and continental Europe and out next places. month in the U.K.—he relies on his vocal cords. “I always had the voice, and now I am a Q: What was the soundscape you were singer,” he declares, with no musical accompa- trying to create with the new album? It’s niment until a lightly struck marimba joins in got very unusual instrumentation and you for the second verse. In live performances, Tei- recorded it in a remote location. Christian Odasso/UYA Films, Inc tur sings the song—an artist’s slightly That was mainly looking into what the Fishing in Key West, from the newly tongue-in-cheek confession that he doesn’t al- songs are saying. They sort of had a Victorian restored film ‘Tarpon.’ ways understand what an adoring audience feel. We recorded the album in a place that sees in him—a cappella and alone on the stage. was built in the 1860s, it looks like a doll- Born Teitur Lassen in 1977 in the remote house. It’s on the coast of Gotland [a Swedish Faroe Islands (an autonomous province of Den- island in the Baltic sea], an old princess’s resi- mark located halfway between the Danish dence. That also played into the music. The Literary trio’s mainland and Iceland), he left home for Copen- choice to use brass was very obvious. Of hagen as a teenager and quickly made a name course, I also wanted to use my band. Then for himself as a talented musician and song- things just sort of find their own way. For the

USGA Archives fish story writer. By 2003 Teitur had signed with Univer- electronic elements, we wanted to make our sal Records, which released his well-regarded own synthesizer sounds. We recorded clari- By Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg debut, “Poetry & Airplanes.” He now records nets and saxophones and then processed RECENTLY RESTORED film for his own label, Arlo and Betty, named after them with computer programs to get these featuring a trio of writers two of his guitars. overtones and change the sound. You can de- Afishing for tarpon in Key Teitur’s music combines elements of folk, cide: Should this material be driven by acous- Golf’s crash course in humility West in the early 1970s has classical, jazz, pop and even cabaret. But the tic guitar and voice, or should it be strings, or started to attract attention in liter- common thread running through the various should it be piano? There are so many options. OT LONG AFTER he turned over the Oval where all could play free of charge. They ab- try called him to the White House in 1952, for- ary and fly fishing circles. The styles—apart from his lilting, plaintive vo- But when you look inside the material, and Office in 1909 to his friend and hand- stained on the Sabbath, but “the green” availed ever coupling America’s most influential club movie, “Tarpon,” features the late cals—is his ability to tell a story. His confes- who you are, and who you’re dealing with, Npicked successor, Teddy Roosevelt itself for all to enjoy the pleasures of the open to the corridors of power. When Arnold Palmer poet Richard Brautigan and the sional songs often spin out an idea from one then you make those choices based on what wrote a letter to U.S. President William Howard air. Social clubs formed to organize play, and captured America’s imagination with his tele- novelists Jim Harrison and crystalline image: musing on a lasting bond surrounds you and what’s possible. Taft, urging him to discontinue his rounds of they codified the game’s evolving rules. Ideas vised heroics, he capitalized on those connec- Thomas McGuane, and includes with a ex-girlfriend; sharing a six-pack with a golf at Chevy Chase Country Club. Photos of of privacy and exclusivity, however, wouldn’t tions to become the game’s first player-tycoon. original music written and per- rock star bent on self-destruction; falling in- Q: You did a cover version of “Great Balls America’s leader spending afternoons on the arrive until the early 19th century, when the En- After a half-century of struggle, top pros could formed by Jimmy Buffett. stantly in love with a waitress. of Fire.” It must be one of the most unusual links, former President Roosevelt warned, sent glish took the game south, conforming it to look ahead at the merging lanes of the PGA, The 53-minute documentary Confession is a theme that turns up in a lot versions of that song ever recorded. the wrong message to the public, especially in their more rigid class structure. Instead of us- Madison Avenue and Main Street and see a opens with a trolley-car ride in of his work, including a project with American I’m very interested in how, when you read the wake of the Panic of 1907,when the govern- ing public spaces, club members now chipped highway paved with gold. Golf rode the prime Key West and then segues into a composer Nico Muhly to create music for ran- lyrics, they take you somewhere, and when ment intervened to rescue the banking system. in to buy land for their courses as private hold- of Jack Nicklaus into a broad social acceptance narrative that features lots of salt domly selected YouTube videos. The “Confes- you hear the song, you think, “Oh my god this President Taft, a lifelong golfer who, to put ings. Gates and fences followed. With admit- that would have been unthinkable only two de- water fly-fishing, and scenes that sions” song cycle, commissioned this year for is so different than what I read.” It works the it mildly, needed the exercise, told Teddy to tance now viewed as a “private” issue, deci- cades before. aim to capture the flavor of life the Holland Baroque Society, is a kind of other way around. You listen to a song and sions about whom to let in led to restrictions Then came Tiger, the next avatar. He swept among outsiders in Key West dur- soundtrack to an instant society. Its lyrics then you read the lyrics and it’s completely dif- about whom to leave out. away most of the last vestiges of “restriction.” ing the period. The movie also of- even incorporate comments from YouTube Pierre Bjork ferent. That happens to me a lot. So I thought Golf Journal The game reached America in the late 19th Golf was big business now, and money fers brief but entertaining views viewers. The singer-songwriter Teitur, from the Faroe if you play a song like this, for example, with MARK FROST century based largely on the English variation; streamed in from flush and eager corporate of a trio of writers who would When he’s not touring, Teitur divides his Islands; right, his new album, ‘The Singer.’ minor chords, it can go into the music and tell the first clubs in New England established partners. High-end daily-fee courses cropped later become well-known. Mr. Har- time between an apartment in Copenhagen it differently. With “Great Balls of Fire,” I was themselves as bastions where the socially up like weeds, offering amenities that had re- rison, for example, is the author of and a house he’s just bought back home in the writing all these dark things, minor things, mind his own damn business. Angrier words prominent could remove themselves from mained out of most players’ reach. The trend the novella “Legends of the Fall”; Faroe Islands. Before his concert last Monday thank me.” and I wanted to write something about schizo- were exchanged, spilling over into issues of pol- teeming urban centers; these “country” clubs culminated in the appearance of a new breed of the 1994 film version starred Brad night at the Botanique club in Brussels, we sat Well, it was also with a sense of humor. I’ve phrenia, and then the words to “Great Balls of icy. Three years later, still gnashing his teeth at served as their Edenic sanctuaries. Although private club that catered to the super rich—and Pitt and Anthony Hopkins. for a chat with the singer as his bandmates pre- toured around, playing 200 shows a year for Fire” popped up—“You shake my nerves and Taft’s betrayal, former President Roosevelt their courses were designed—and they were charged accordingly; membership as conspicu- The producers of “Tarpon” pared for a soundcheck—and worked half- the last few years, being in front of an audi- you rattle my brain”—and it just made sense. threw his hat into the presidential ring as a last- taught the game—by generations of working- ous status symbol—that would have shocked failed to land a commercial distrib- frantically to replace a bass amp’s blown fuse. ence and coming to terms with what it means minute third-party candidate. The Republican class Scots immigrants, the upper class pater- the Old Money aristocrats of the early USGA. utor, and soon pirated editions be- to perform when you are the writer, and when Q: For your “Confessions” project, you vote, effectively split, resulted in the election nalistically came to think of it as “their game.” Most of the money for those courses and gan to circulate. “I was a fly fish- Q: You’ve been writing your own songs are you the artist. I’ve learned that, when you are writing music to YouTube videos. You of an obscure governor from New Jersey, Wood- The founding of the U.S. Golf Association in their membership fees flowed from super- ing guide in Key West in the 1980s for a long time. How did you get started? sing something, it has to be something that must have had to watch a lot of strange row Wilson. 1894 formalized this stewardship. heated Wall Street spigots; then greed, hubris and 1990s, and it was something I can always remember writing music and you know something about. It has to be some- stuff. President Taft continued to play golf Amateur championships came first, but the and the stubborn human inability to see danger you had to see,” says Marshall being interested in instruments. Especially thing that you’ve experienced—people that We actually got kind of hooked on them. throughout his life, helping to legitimize the USGA’s annual “Open” competitions encour- coming from a distance led to September 2008. Cutchin, publisher of MidCurrent. song forms. I remember singing and playing you’ve met, or things that you feel—or you’re The idea at first was to find all these really sport, although it remained within its firmly aged golf’s emergence as a “professional” Amid the economic wreckage of all this steroi- com, a popular Web site for fly along to all the songs that people sing when not really singing. I think there’s something mundane videos, that are confessional in etched class lines. (Teddy stuck to tennis.) sport and, as lower-class caddies like Francis dal excess, the future of golf’s high-flying re- fishing. The movie gathered dust they get together. It’s very typical in the Faroe very existential in that. You can only sing the some way. It’s a really new concept, people Forty years later, President Eisenhower’s un- Ouimet and Walter Hagen won championships, cent past seems at best uncertain. The grand for more than 30 years before its Islands that when you have a party, there’s a things that happen to you and that you are. posting home videos for everyone else to see: apologetic embrace of the game dissolved it attracted broader public interest. Then old clubs, built on sustaining cultures rooted co-director, Guy de la Valdene, de- catalog of songs that you sing all over again. What better than for me to write a song about I speak many different ones. For me it comes putting a camera on their fridge, filming their many of its elitist associations and golf com- Bobby Jones, while upper middle class and an deep in their communities, will weather any cided to restore it and then issue They’re usually folk songs or even just songs what it’s like to be a singer and sing in front of quite naturally. I also lived in England, just to dog sleeping, someone going for a drive and pleted its journey to middle-class respectabil- avowed amateur, transcended all social defini- storm, but many of those daily-fee courses had it as a DVD. “It’s exactly as it was with Faroese lyrics to famous, evergreen melo- an audience. get closer to the language. At the beginning, putting their camera in the car. A lot of it has ity. tions with his genius for the game and became already gone under; and the survivors face when we made it,” says Mr. de la dies, Beatles songs. I became very interested it’s because music that you’re listening to and beautiful aesthetics and it’s very interesting Presidents have played the game ever since its first international avatar. hard times. Valdene, who is the author of “For in them, and very close to them. So I learned Q: It took you seven years to write the things you’re trying to communicate, they are and it tells about the person. I think it’s a hu- with varying degrees of skill and obsession, but A second wave of private clubs appeared to Corporations will no longer have the same a Handful of Feathers,” a hunting how to play music that way, and I always songs for the album. Why so long? in English. It’s the language of rock music. man need: you want to share something that without fear of backlash or rebuke. Until May service an expanding white-collar class; they discretionary funds to express their affection book. wrote many songs, from an early age. They just sort of came together that way. I Then after that you think, “What am I saying you see. It’s very beautiful. of this year, when President George W. Bush— became the business world’s locker room. Hun- for golf. The number of amateur golfers has flat- Fans have helped get out the write constantly. I write a lot of things, and here? What am I trying to do here?” And you The idea of putting music to it is also very whose family ties to the patrician roots of dreds of cities built their first public courses, lined and with an injured Tiger on the sidelines, word via the Web. Cathy Ransier, Q: Some of the music you make has a very sometimes they take shape fast and some- realize you have to learn a couple of things interesting, because there’s stuff happening American golf reach back three generations— making the game accessible to all; thanks to so have TV ratings. A path forward can be co-owner of The Book Mailer, a cat- other-worldly quality ot it. Did the remote- times they take shape slow. It just depends on and get acquainted with the language and in it. Even a washing machine going around, announced that he was giving up the game. Pho- Jones, the game’s exclusive association with af- found in the recent victory of the U.S. Ryder alog retailer of fly fishing books ness of the Faroe Islands inspire that? what you’re trying to do. I write things down with what you’re saying. the colors falling in, you can orchestrate those tos of the commander in chief on a golf course fluence had begun to change. Cup team; a group of untested kids and sea- and related gear based in Helena, I think it’s a different angle to things—to and then rework them and get them into things. The main idea is to nail the fact that while our armed forces remain at war overseas, But many of those clubs would not survive soned veterans putting their egos aside, and Mont., says she has sold more metropolitan life, to other cultures. The men- shape. Some of the songs just weren’t ready Q: Do you ever think, maybe this song people are confessing things. It was also fun he had determined, were good for neither mo- the Crash of ’29. Coupled with Jones’s retire- playing their guts out for nothing but pride. than 1,400 copies of “Tarpon” tality there is quite different. It’s very dra- yet, that kind of thing, but I kept them around. would be better in one language than an- to make lyrics out of the comments. There was rale nor image. A few months later, that presi- ment in 1930, the Depression nearly killed the Captain Paul Azinger borrowed a page from the priced at $34.95 since early June. matic, the weather determines everything. Then they started to take shape. Then I wrote other? Just because of how the lyrics might one video where a guy was showing how to dent’s image appears beyond repair, and the nascent structure of the game. Jones’s own Au- Scots, who still play golf the way they’ve al- “It’s got a cult following,” she It’s very inspiring to be there. You’re just more “The Singer,” which sort of defines the other sound? make cappuccinos, and the amount of reac- U.S., indeed the world, faces a crisis of grave gusta National, a course built with Wall Street ways done on their local, minimal masterpiece says. That may change. Mr. de la used to hearing silence. If you’re in your house ones, and it all came together. Sure. It depends on who you’re talking to. I tions to it was stunning—someone’s aggres- portent and vast uncertainty; May 2008 sud- money for princes of industry, barely scraped tracks. Their game, taken to heart, teaches dis- Valdene says his niece has plans and it starts raining, everything can suddenly did an album in the Faroese language, and my sive, someone is emotional, someone is funny. denly seems like the good old days. by, aided by interest in a pro-am tournament cipline, equilibrium, modesty, moral rectitude to enter the movie in various film start shaking, and then it’s gone again. I think Q: Scandinavian artists have a long his- initial reaction was, “OK this is going to come It says a lot about the times we live in. Golf’s symbolic legacy as an indulgence for that Jones created to sell memberships: The and the lesson that any player forgets at their festivals. it really affects people who are from places tory of recording songs in English—some out in the Faroes and Iceland, because no one the wealthy appears to have come back into Masters. Through that troubled decade and peril: Golf, like life, is a humbling game. like that. more successfully than others. How diffi- else understands it.” But then you discover WSJ.com play. How it became “their game” to begin with then World War II, the game’s struggling pro- Mark Frost is the author of “The Greatest WSJ.com cult is it for someone to write songs in a dif- that people can enjoy it even though they may shed light on where it goes from here. fessional tour, gaining traction on the strength Game Ever Played” and “The Match,” and co- Q: The title track of your new album, ferent language? don’t understand the words. It’s still music; it On stage Golf, in the way it evolved from the Scots’ of stars Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan, held on creator of the TV series “Twin Peaks.” His next On the boat “The Singer,” is very personal, almost nar- For me, it’s been a case of speaking English still creates pictures in them. See video of an interview with Teitur pastoral relationship with their land, and the by its fingernails. book, “Game Six,” the story of the 1975 baseball Watch a film clip from ‘Tarpon’ at cissistic. What’s behind a lyric like, “I sing for many years. I used to read books in English and part of a performance at way they played it, began life as an egalitarian The Eisenhower era revived every aspect of World Series, will be published in fall of 2009. WSJ.com/Lifestyle about my loneliness and in return they when I was small. I’m very good at languages, Q: Your songs weave in a lot of styles, WSJ.com/Lifestyle pastime. Their courses were public parks the sport. Ike joined Augusta before the coun- Email [email protected].

W4 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2008 W13 v A Cultural Conversation with Arthur Wheelock / By Ann Landi v Taste 7 Fashion

Houses of Worship / By Peter L. Berger Lost in Rembrandt’s Shadow 7

Washington itive instincts were likely goaded of Peace” and “Mars and Venus,” Do not feel you are hopelessly by the secretary to the prince of reveal his success in this vein. Men’s style: Extreme banker Blessed Are the Poor? out of the cultural loop if your Orange, Constantin Huygens, who iii first response to the full-dress exhi- created challenges for the two Mr. Wheelock, a lifelong By Ray A. Smith “It was a peacock moment, when knowledges that his double- Poverty (of sorts) is suddenly Pentecostal megachurch in a sub- bition devoted to the 17th-century painters. “We think, though we’re scholar of Dutch art, is the very ORDON GEKKO is on the move America was really brash,” mens- breasted looks haven’t been a top in fashion. Politicians and com- urb of Johannesburg. The congre- Dutch master Jan Lievens, opening not sure, that Huygens sets up opposite of the peripatetic again. Even though turmoil wear designer Patrik Ervell says. At seller. The 34-year-old Mr. Stern- mentators blame the financial cri- gation of some 7,000 South Afri- on Oct. 26 at the National Gallery competitions for them, because Lievens. A sandy-haired, low-key Gon Wall Street has wiped out his runway show last month, he had berg, who says he sought inspira- sis on greed, not only by malefac- cans, black and white, created of Art, is “Jan who?” An amazingly there are all sorts of similarities in man with a big, engaging smile, some of today’s Masters of the Uni- models sport 1980s-style pompa- tion for his spring collection tors on Wall Street, but also by enough noise to give me a head- gifted and versatile painter, choices of subjects being made at he has been with the National Gal- verse, the character played by dours, trying to evoke the cockiness from looks of the late 1970s all the denizens of Main Street ache for hours. This was hardly a Lievens until recent this time,” the cura- lery for more than 30 years and Michael Douglas in the 1987 movie of stockbrokers and other corporate and early 1980s, neverthe- who live above their means, accu- congenial form of worship for me. years had slipped tor says. Lievens’s first became enthusiastic about “Wall Street” is looming large—in players in that era. less included more double- mulate useless possessions and de- But I did hear the sermon, deliv- through the cracks Restoring the four-foot-high “Cru- the northern Baroque as an under- men’s fashion. Not since he said that Retailers hope the bolder looks breasted jackets in his spoil the environment. It is not ered by a highly charismatic of art history. cifixion,” set against graduate at Williams College, greed was good have so many dou- will inspire consumers to go shop- spring 2009 collection. quite clear what a nongreedy Wall preacher. There were two simple Many of Lievens’s reputation of a stormy backdrop, where he studied with the German ble-breasted jackets, three-piece ping again. The styles also have the He says he admires men Street would look like. But for the but powerful messages. One, “God works were long at- Jan Lievens. is in the show and émigré Jakob Rosenberg. Because suits and colored shirts with white advantage of looking fresh to men who can pull off such a rest of us, after due repentance, does not want you to be poor!” tributed to Rem- can be contrasted Rosenberg had studied at Har- collars shown up in stores, in maga- under 30, who missed the extreme- big, showy style. 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection; Michael Bastian; Tom Ford the solution to our financial woes And, two, “You can do something brandt or inaccu- with Rembrandt’s vard, that’s where Mr. Wheelock zines and on runways. banker look the first time around. Still, Mr. Sternberg is held to be a more ascetic life. about it!” The New Testament rately labeled “student of Rem- interpretation of the same scene wanted to do his graduate work. Modern takes on these and other Some designers and retailers say and other designers, in- Above, the character If that is volun- strongly suggests brandt,” but scholarly detective in the exhibition’s catalog. He earned his doctorate there and iconic looks of the 1980s—think sus- formal, double-breasted or three- cluding Michael Bas- Gordon Gekko in ‘Wall tary, rather than that Jesus had a par- work is producing a more compli- But the mysterious relation- quite incidentally encountered his penders and paisley power ties— piece suits and contrast-collared tian and Antonio Az- Street’; left, three-piece compelled by cir- The prosperity ticular concern for cated portrait of the relationship ship between the two—was it a first Lievens in the dining hall—a have popped up in a wide range of shirts make sense even in an eco- zuolo, are tweaking suit and contrast-collar cumstance, it has gospel vs. the poor, but there between the two artists and a friendly rivalry? a bitter contest? painting of an old man inaccu- collections for this fall and next nomic slump. These styles, they say, the look, making shirt by Michael Bastian; the glow of moral is no suggestion fuller picture of Lievens as a re- a lifelong mutual admiration soci- rately attributed to (who else?) spring. The designers embracing can help men appear serious and their double- right, double-breasted superiority. “Green liberation that he wanted peo- markable talent in his own right. ety?—is only part of the Lievens Rembrandt. “We thought the the look range from avant-garde competitive at the office and on job breasted jackets suit by Tom Ford. is good,” says a lat- theology. ple to remain poor. From portraiture to history paint- story. “We purposely did not in- painting was by a student of Rem- Prada to preppy J. Crew, which is fea- interviews. Chicago attorney Fran- slimmer and ter-day Gandhi as The prosperity ing, landscape to still life, “he had clude comparative Rembrandt brandt, not realizing that Lievens turing five shirt styles with contrast- cis Kowalik, for one, doesn’t think shorter than the 1980s ver- he goes to work by preachers, however, a range of careers,” notes Arthur works,” Mr. Wheelock says. “We was never his student.” ing white collars. Designers pushing that’s far-fetched. A double- sions. In addition, they advo- ’80s started out all about,” bicycle. But if you are really poor, refer more often to the Old Testa- Wheelock, organizer of the exhibi- wanted Lievens to stand on his Mr. Wheelock landed a fellow- double-breasted looks include breasted suit “has a little more au- cate wearing the jackets in says Kevin Harter, Bloom- asceticism does not mean giving ment, which has some passages tion and curator of northern Ba- own, but we tell the story in the ship at the National Gallery in Thom Browne, Tom Ford, Bottega thority to it, a little bit of weight,” more informal ways—without ingdale’s men’s fashion di- up your SUV—it means you are that do suggest that God will be- roque painting at the National Gal- catalog and in the wall text.” 1972, and then began teaching at Veneta, Canali, Dunhill, Lanvin, Phil- says the 44-year-old, who owns a ties, for instance, or with rector. eating just one meal a day be- stow material blessings on those lery of Art. “We’re trying to lip Lim, Ralph Lauren and Valentino. number of double-breasted suits jeans. Also emerging this fall is cause it is all you can afford. who remain faithful to him. bring all that together be- Tom James, a custom-clothing com- and plans to buy more. “It says Some retailers are also a very different but equally in- Far more attractive to poor peo- As I left the church, I asked my- cause it’s so important to pany that visits men’s offices, says you’re not messing around.” showing three-piece suits, an- your-face 1980s look. For ca- ple, who are a majority of its ad- self: Would I really want to quar- get work from all the repre- orders for double-breasted suits But other designers say the bold other formal look that gained sual clothes, designers are herents, is the “prosperity gospel,” rel with these messages? There is sentative stages of his career rose more than 50% to 1,753 in the 1980s looks may be too much for to- currency in the 1980s. Brooks Broth- channeling punk. Bergdorf a version of Christianity asserting no sentimentality about poverty in and no one has done that.” year ended Oct. 14. day’s austere times. Some men are ers is carrying two more three- Goodman is gearing up for time for the working that material benefits will come to the prosperity gospel. There is an Lievens was a child prod- The clothes, of course, were all turned off by the extra fabric and all piece-suit styles than usual and mak- what men’s fashion director Tommy class, so it is interesting those who have faith, live a mor- appeal to people not as victims, igy. He studied with one of designed before the events of the the buttons on a double-breasted ing sure all of its stores have at least Fazio calls a “British version of the that that look is coming ally upright life and, not so inciden- but as responsible actors. There is the foremost painters and past few weeks. But some designers jacket. And a generally accepted one of the styles this fall. And Bloom- ’80s”—characterized by skinny pen- back when we’re going tally, give money to the church. also the confidence that generally teachers of the day, Pieter say they became fascinated months rule of thumb is that men who are ingdale’s put three-piece suits in the cil jeans, pants with zigzags of zip- through our economic crisis right Broadly speaking, this is what Max people know what is best for them- Lastman, and by the time he ago with the unbridled ambition overweight or short look wider in windows of its New York flagship pers, suspenders, fingerless gloves, now,” says Tim Bess, men’s fashion Weber called the Protestant Ethic, selves, better than any well-mean- returned to his native and decadence of the early 1980s. double-breasted jackets. store in early October. The look, bulky black boots and studs on ev- analyst with retail and fashion con- but with much less emphasis on ing outsiders. It is no wonder then Leiden—also Rembrandt’s The fact that that era came just be- Designer Scott Sternberg, whose combined with contrast-collared erything from belts to leather vests sultancy Doneger Group. “Both self-denial and more on hard work, that research data, from South Af- hometown—at age 14, he fore the 1987 stock market crash Band of Outsiders label is sold at Bar- shirts, “is very masculine and about and leather jackets. styles were about being very aggres- planning for the future, family loy- rica for instance, show that Pente- was in demand as an artist. isn’t lost on them either. neys New York and other stores, ac- power and luxury, which is what the “England in the ’80s was a rough sive.” alty and educating one’s children. costals have an unusual degree of The first gallery of the show The prosperity gospel probably self-confidence and optimism gives a notion of the teenage originated among the poorer ele- about the future. Lievens’s extraordinary pow- ments of the U.S. evangelical com- In 1968 a conference of Latin ers, including tenebrous por- munity. It is now a global phenom- American bishops meeting in traits of the Evangelists, a Avant-garde at auction enon, especially among the rapidly Medellin, Colombia, proclaimed a lusty genre scene of a young spreading Pentecostal churches in “preferential option for the poor,” man embracing a bare- HE CATWALK MOVES to mate: £4,000-£6,000); Paco Ra- Africa, Latin America and Asia. which since then has become an breasted wench, and biblical TChristie’s South Kensington banne’s futuristic tunic dress made Virtually all outside commen- important ingredient of Catholic staples like “The Feast of Es- Thursday when the auction house from linked aluminum panels (esti- tary, both by theologians as well as social teaching, and has influenced ther,” once thought to be by sells a private collection of 20th cen- mate: £5,000-£8,000); and Harry people in the lay media, has been many in mainline Protestantism. Rembrandt. “When I was a Ismael Roldan tury avant-garde fashion. Gordon’s disposable paper shift very negative, holding that the Liberation theologians interpreted graduate student in the The 250 pieces of vintage fash- adorned with an outsize cat on the prosperity gospel is a distortion of this as an option for socialism. But 1960s, this was a very fa- ion garments, headwear and jew- bodice (estimate: £600-£800). Christianity pushed by rogue it is helpful to pay attention to the mous Rembrandt,” Mr. Wheelock And Lievens alone is a com- elry in a sale covers design from a The 1970s and 1980s produced preachers who enrich themselves syntax. The option is for the poor. recalls. “It wasn’t ‘attributed to,’ it plicated trajectory of ambition 1960s influenced by the Space Age such contrasting fashion as revolu- by exploiting the poor. There is That is, it is an option to be taken was Rembrandt. Which shows and wily adaptation. He moved to the University of Maryland in the tionary T-shirts and softly feminine some validity to these criticisms. It by those who are not poor. that art history is an ever-evolv- The Hague to paint for the prince fall of ’73. The museum asked evening wear. Vivienne Westwood’s is certainly true that Christianity is Of course, the proposition is ing phenomenon.” of Orange and for the exiled court him to stay on as a part-time re- Collecting knitted jumper made from black and not a recipe for acquiring wealth. well-intentioned. But it is not sur- iii of Frederick and Elizabeth, the search curator, a job that eventu- MARGARET STUDER red wool with a skull appliqué But in that respect the prosperity prising that many of the poor are The exhibition proposes that in Protestant rulers of Bohemia. He ally evolved into a full-time posi- printed with “No Future” (estimate: gospel—usually seen as being on opting for a less patronizing mes- many respects Lievens was the ini- then traveled to England, where tion. He has managed to combine £2,000-£4,000) will be offered the Christian right—closely resem- sage. They do not think of them- tiator of stylistic and thematic de- he remained for three years, in teaching and curating ever since and pop art through the revival of ar- alongside Zandra Rhodes’s elegant, bles the “liberation theology” of selves as victims dependent on velopments that characterized pursuit of the patronage of (one of his former graduate stu- chitectural couture in the 1990s. It silk mauve-and-blue “shrug” jacket, the Christian left, except that the the compassion of the rich. I both artists’ work in the late Charles I. It was his bad luck to be dents, Lloyd DeWitt, did a lot of includes designers such as André with an estimate of £500-£700. latter’s enrichment program is col- have no idea how the current 1620s. “What we’re going to show followed four months after land- research on Lievens and contrib- Courèges, Emilio Pucci, Yves Saint From the 1990s, a black leather, low- lective rather than individual. Lib- mess in the financial markets is here is evidence that Lievens, even ing in London by Anthony Van uted an essay to the catalog). In Laurent, Ossie Clark, Issey Miyake cut bondage dress with gilt-buckled eration theology defined Christian- to be fixed. But I continue to be before Rembrandt gets going, is do- Dyck—a flashier painter and a spite of many shows of Dutch art and other pivotal designers. straps by Gianni Versace is esti- ity as essentially being a struggle convinced that capitalism pro- ing these powerful paintings,” says Catholic like the king—who gained at the NGA in the past decade, The collection comes from Resur- mated at £1,000-£2,000. of poor oppressed people against vides the only reliable mecha- Mr. Wheelock. The records also the sort of patronage coveted by Mr. Wheelock may still be best rection, a leading U.S. vintage fash- Men also come into their own capitalism and imperialism. nism for lifting large numbers of put Rembrandt back in Leiden, af- Lievens. The artist returned to the known as the organizer of the ion retailer with stores in New with a number of jazzy jackets, in- Leaving aside theology and people from poverty to a decent ter studying with Lastman himself, Netherlands, working in Amster- blockbuster Vermeer exhibition in York and Los Angeles, owned cluding two from Alkasura to moral philosophy, sociology pro- level of material life. In other in 1625, by which time the young dam and Antwerp, moving so 1995. “Thirteen years later people by designer Katy Rod- be sold together, one with vides a rather different perspec- words, if one is concerned for the Lievens already had a growing au- many times that even the most are still talking about it,” he says. riguez and Mark Hadd- red cherries on yellow tive. A few months ago, I visited a poor, one will adopt a preferen- dience for his work. “They may dogged of scholars have difficulty Will they be talking about away. satin and the other cov- tial option for capitalism. have shared a studio,” Mr. Whee- tracing his footsteps. (To put this Lievens years down the road? Mr. “This sale is about ered in frogs (esti- Weber believed that the eco- lock believes, and it seems certain in contemporary terms, it is some- Wheelock, for one, certainly hopes moments in time that mate: £500-£600). Pepper . . . and Salt nomic consequences of Protestant- they were close. “In a number of what as if a hotshot realist like so. “You can see really great paint- changed fashion,” On Dec. 4, Kerry ism were unintentional. The pros- Lievens’s works Rembrandt served John Currin picked up stakes and ings, really powerful bold work in says Christie’s tex- Taylor Auctions’ “Pas- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL perity gospel intends these conse- as the model, and we know that tried to adapt to suit several well- this show,” he promises. “Another tiles specialist Pat sion for Fashion” sale quences—material betterment for Lievens appears in Rembrandt’s heeled collectors—one thing for part of the story is about how an Frost. Bidding is ex- in London will offer a individuals, economic growth in paintings as well.” London’s Charles Saatchi, another artist works in 17th-century Eu- pected from museums, contrasting assembly of the aggregate. It promises poor The give-and-take seems to for Los Angeles’s Eli Broad, and rope and how all these paintings fashion collectors who often 20th-century items, from a “Fifty Fathoms” Tourbillon people that these goals are attain- have continued throughout their yet something else for New York’s that were once called Rembrandt view pieces as sculpture for 1930s luxurious pink coat dress (ref. 5025-3630-52) able. It is a promise likely to be careers. For example, both “Rem- Leonard Riggio.) With each reloca- attest to changing tastes and the display, contemporary de- with turquoise stone buttons kept. It seems to me that this em- brandt and Lievens were fasci- tion there are changes in style but evolution of connoisseurship. And signers seeking inspiration by Schiaparelli (estimate: pirical reality must be taken into nated by old age,” Mr. Wheelock seldom a drop-off in quality. as these pictures become Lievens and shoppers looking to £4,000-£6,000), to a gold and account in any evaluation of the notes. A Lievens painting of the Lievens’s ultimate aim was to and not Rembrandt,” he adds with make a strong statement at silver velvet suit for men de- prosperity gospel—even by theo- nearly naked Job, bearded face be a court painter in the esteemed a smile, “what does that tell us their next party. Christie's signed by Mr. Fish (estimate: logians and moral philosophers. cast downward, withered limbs “International Style”—an often op- about the Rembrandts we now Striking items from £1,000-£1,500). The Mr. Fish outstretched, may have been in- eratic meld of themes and influ- have in our collections?” the 1960s include Pierre label was founded by Mr. Berger is director of the Insti- spired by a 1630 Rembrandt por- ences that range from Titian to Cardin’s Space-Age in- Satellite cape, Michael Fish, a U.K. designer “Okay people—pagers, beepers tute on Culture, Religion and trayal of Jeremiah. Rubens. Several large-scale paint- Ms. Landi writes on culture and spired voluminous red circa 1965, by who pushed flamboyant WWW.BLANCPAIN.COM and all cellphones on.” World Affairs at Boston University. At a certain point, their compet- ings in the show, such as “Triumph the arts for several publications. plastic satellite cape (esti- Pierre Cardin. men’s fashion in the 1960s.

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THE JOURNAL CROSSWORD / Edited by Mike Shenk 67 Home of Sharp 6 Chamillionaire’s field 51 Tries 87 Stable mother paintings and a handful of sculptures to 69 Ring leader? 7 Old sneaker feature 54 Foam toy brand 90 Without feeling document Picasso’s admiration, some- the stunning and probably once-in-a-life- The same is true of Ludwig Kasper 0039 392 844 0033 [email protected] Across 22 Gabon’s president 34 Forever, seemingly 56 “The Spanish 70 Founder and keyboardist of 8 Roundabout route 55 Brown quickly 91 Around the 30th: Abbr. times to the point of obsession, for two time lineup of Titian’s “Venus and Cupid (1893-1945), who fit his aesthetic ideas the Earth Band ___ 1 Finito Bongo 36 Author of 2001’s Singer” painter 9 1974 hit from Spain 57 “ in heaven 93 Miniature hourglass dozen major artists, including Cranach, with an Organist,” Goya’s “Naked Maja” to those of the Third Reich. His giant 73 Mess up messages above, ___ earth 5 Destroy by 23 Winner of several “Fury” 58 Vermont-based 10 Spot for some surfers 97 Go by Courbet, Cézanne, Delacroix, Gauguin, In- and Manet’s “Olympia” is interspersed nude figures—the show includes “Little 77 Equip anew beneath”: 1 Kings degrees O. Henry Awards 40 Risk-reducing mail-order retailer 11 Above, in Austria 99 Deadly mushroom gres, Manet, Rembrandt, Rousseau, Van with several garish and crudely near-por- Girl with an Apple” (1933), “Standing 79 Harbor sight 59 Teed off 10 Crockett’s “Miami 25 Carnegie Hall position 60 Crest rival 12 It has little foliage 102 Kevin of “Weeds” Gogh and especially his Spanish prede- nographic late Picassos that look like the Boy” (1933) and “Spear Carrier” headliner of 80 Dorm duo 61 Satisfies Vice” partner 45 Struck like a water 62 Some 39-Down 13 Outlaw 103 Girl in a Beach Boys cessors El Greco, Goya, Zurbarán and secondary splashings of a spoiled child. 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They were widely admired by the 27 Observation 49 Celestial ___ 19 Dos minus dos 63 Crime writer 84 Not worth Roses” composer 68 CONTROL foe 104 Deplore one and often several works by each of until Feb. 1 offer Picasso’s multiple varia- Nazi leadership. 28 Lineups Seasonings offering Buchanan 86 Southern city in 1965 20 Dark Lord of the 15 Yahoo 70 Chutney maker’s supply 106 Reference section them, it earns its blockbuster status for tions on Delacroix’s “Women of Algeria” The other two artists in this show re- 30 Didn’t guzzle 50 Huey Lewis’s band headlines Sith 64 Lacking range 16 Cookie entrepreneur 71 Where seconds staple this personal pantheon alone, as well as (attheLouvre)and Manet’s“LeDejeuner fusedto toe the ideological and aesthetic 31 Vaccine target 52 Do 88 Western lilies 21 Destroyer 66 Singer Corinne Wally are important 109 Cash on hand? for its raft of fine Picassos. sur l’Herbe” (at the Musée d’Orsay.). lines of Hitler’s Germany. Ernst Barlach destroyer 33 Chief Ouray, for one 53 Perfect places Bailey ___ 89 Author who wrote “Demian” 17 35th anniversary gift 72 Make a mess of 110 Curly-leafed cabbages Laid out thematically, the exhibit —Judy Fayard (1879-1938) reached the peak of his ca- under the pen name Emil 18 Title character in Anne 74 Bunker, for one starts with self-portraits—mostly a reer during the Weimar Republic with Male Bonding/ by Pancho Harrison Sinclair 111 Current setting Until Feb. 2 Rice’s sixth Vampire 75 First name among works illustrating the futility of war. 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Kunstbibliothek Rome Until Feb. 1 art % 49-30-2662-951 “Bruno Munari” exhibits more than www.smb.spk-berlin.de 150 objects, including sculptures, art- works and graphics by Milanese artist with star ensembles Brussels and industrial designer Bruno Munari art (1907-1998). “Brussels Biennial” presents contempo- Museo dell’Ara Pacis rary art in various locations by interna- Until Feb. 22 tional artists including Abdellah Kar- % 39-06-0606-08 The power of movies when Hollywood greats are team players roum, Charles Esche and Anselm www.arapacis.it Franke. Until Jan. 4 photography % 32-2-5078-345 “Lisette Model and School: Photo- www.brusselsbiennial.org graphs from 1937-2002” presents 21 photographs by Lisette Model art (1901-1983) and over 100 works by “Corpus Delicti: Contemporary Art in artists she inspired, including Diane Ar- the Brussels Law Courts” exhibits art bus, Elaine Ellman, Larry Fink, Peter adressing ideas of justice and crime. 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Until Nov. 21 Museo di Roma in Trastevere % 32-2519-8677 Until Nov. 2, 2009 www.corpus-delicti.be % 39-06-5816-563 www.museodiromaintrastevere.it Cologne art Stockholm “Gerhard Richter” exhibits 40 paint- photography ings by the German artist (born 1932) “Nuevas Historias—A New View of with a focus on abstract works pro- Spanish Contemporary Photography” duced between 1986 and 2006. shows work by Spanish artists Jordi Museum Ludwig Bernadó, Isidro Blasco, Bleda y Rosa, Until Feb. 1 Alicia Martin, Mireya Masó and others. % 49-221-2212-6165 Kulturhuset Stockholm www.museenkoeln.de Until Jan. 25 % 46-8-5083-1508 Düsseldorf www.kulturhuset.stockholm.se art “As Far as the Eye Can See— Tours Lawrence Weiner” is a retrospective art of conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner “The Pleasure of Taste—French Paint- (born 1942). ing at the Time of Madame de Pompa- K21 Kunstsammlung im Hamburger Kunsthalle by 25 contemporary conceptual artists Palazzo Reale dour” exhibits 60 paintings by the Ständehaus Until Jan. 18 from Russia. Until Jan. 25 French masters Boucher, Greuze, Char- Until Jan. 11 % 49-4042-8131-200 Fundación Juan March % 39-0287-5672 din and Fragonard, all influenced in % 49-211-8381-600 www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de Until Jan. 11 www.comune.milano.it style by the patronage of the French www.kunstsammlung.de % 34-91-4354-240 courtesan Madame de Pompadour. www.march.es Munich Musée des Beaux-Arts Frankfurt Helsinki photography art Until Jan. 12 photography “Beneath the Waves of the Archipelago Milan “Kandinsky—Absolute, Abstract” is a % 33-2-4705-6873 “Jim Rakete: 1/8 sec.” shows black and Sea” presents underwater photography art major retrospective of paintings and www.tours.fr white portraits of celebrities by German of the Baltic Sea taken by Finnish diver “Seurat, Signac and Neo-Impression- graphic art by Russian artist Wassily photographer Jim Rakete (born 1951). and photographer Jukka Nurminen. ism” is a retrospective dedicated to Kandinsky (1866-1944), one of the Deutsches Filmmuseum Vienna Amos Anderson Art Museum the founding fathers of the Neo-Im- first modern abstract artists. music Until Jan. 4 pressionist movement. Kunstbau Lenbachhaus % 49-69-9612-2022-0 Until Nov. 16 “Festival Wien Modern 2008” is a con- % 358-9-6844-460 Oct. 25-Feb. 22 temporary music festival featuring the www.deutsches-filmmuseum.de % www.amosanderson.fi 49-89-2333-2000 works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Enno www.lenbachhaus.de Göteborg Poppe and Peter Ablinger alongside London works by Tony Conrad, Chaya Czer- photography photography nowin and others. “Graciela Iturbide” showcases the art “Still Lives—When Things are Dream- Oct. 26-Nov. 16 work of the photographer and Hassel- “Alan Aldridge—the Man with the Ka- ing: Photographs from the Collection” % 43-1-2420-0 blad 2008 award winner, who focuses leidoscope Eyes” features the artwork, presents still life photographs from www.wienmodern.at on the interactions between nature sketches, letters and films of the Brit- the past 100 years. ish illustrator and graphic designer and culture, identity and landscape. Münchner Stadtmuseum Source: ArtBase Global Arts News Service, Hasselblad Foundation Alan Aldridge (born 1943). Until Feb. 1 WSJE research. Until Jan. 11 Design Museum % 49-89-2332-2370 % 46-3136-8350-0 Until Jan. 25 www.stadtmuseum-online.de www.hasselbladfoundation.org % 44-2074-0369-33 WSJ.com www.designmuseum.org Paris What’s on Hamburg art WSJ.com subscribers can see an art Madrid “From Miró to Warhol: The Berardo Archivio Storico della Fondazione Jacqueline Vodoz e Bruno Danese expanded version of the European “From Leonardo to Piranesi: Italian art Collection in Paris” presents works cov- arts-and-culture calendar at ‘Multiplo Ora X,’ 1963, by Bruno Drawings from 1450 to 1800” exhibits “Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art ering five major art movements in the WSJ.com/Europe 100 drawings by Italian Masters. in Moscow, 1960-1990” shows works Munari, on view in Rome. 20th century. 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