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The Clog. The City Paper Staff Blog
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September 7

categories | 2008, Philaphemera

The Wrestler wins Venice Film Fest

A LITTLE YO IN VENICE: Rourke,
Aronofsky and Evan Rachel Wood.
labiennale.org

Back in February A.D. Amorosi wrote a piece on Darren Aronofsky's new movie, The Wrestler, filmed at Philadelphia's New Alhambra.

[There Will Be Blood ... and Weed Whackers. February 2nd 2008]

A few weeks ago Molly Eichel gave a peek into it's Philly inspirations

This weekend the movie won the Venice Film Festival, so congrats to all, including the New Alhambra. Pretty cool.

Ciao.

p.s. Π rules.




NYT on “We’re Taking Poe Back”

It's sort of fitting, given that it revolves around Edgar Allan Poe, that this story will not die.

Last year, CP ran a cover piece called "We're Taking Poe Back," in which Edward Pettit, a Poe scholar, argued that Poe, based on the fact that he did much of his noteworthy work here, should be buried in Philadelphia and not in Baltimore.

It created a flap at the time, and the flap endures with a piece in Friday's Grey Lady by Ian Urbina which fittingly excavates our now 11-month-old story, (well) in advance of a scheduled Jan. 13 debate between Pettit and Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House in Baltimore. (January 19 will mark the bicentennial of Poe's birth.)

In the NYT piece, according to Liliane Weissberg, a professor of comparative literature at Penn (and the Joe Lieberman of this debate? Nah, she's not being intellectually dishonest.), “Poe belongs to Baltimore because he is fully a part of that city’s lore," and "Philadelphia already has Ben Franklin, and that is enough.”

Survey

Pettit's counter:

“ ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’ ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue,’ ‘The Masque of the Red Death,’ ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ ‘The Black Cat,’ and ‘The Gold-Bug,’ ” Mr. Pettit said breathlessly, listing the works written by Poe while he lived in Philadelphia. “That’s why we deserve him.”

So what say you? Philly or Baltimore?


September 6

RNC Post-Game Link Round-Up