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Imagine If Walker Evans Had Had A YouTube Account

The current style of pants is too tight anyway:

A pervert with a Metro-Card and a camera likes to zoom in on the groins of male subway riders and then post his videos on the Internet, The Post has learned.

“The bulge on him just brings so much to the imagination . . . and the fact that he was oblivious to my filming is so great,” the 27- year-old filmmaker — who calls himself househead7d5 — gleefully recounts.

On another of his dozen clips, titled “sexy guy on 5 train,” as the subway pulls into 86th Street, househead7d5 tilts up from the man’s crotch, briefly, to his face.

“See this guy, and he sees me back,” says the description.

Because nothing shown on these videos isn’t already on public display and houshead7d5 is not earning money from his voyeurism, there is technically nothing criminal or actionable about his work, say attorney Rosemarie Arnold and other legal experts.

Posted: May 6th, 2008 | Filed under: Crap Your Pants Say Yeah!, Please, Make It Stop

Think “The Squid And The Whale” With Like 50 Percent Less Awkwardness And None Of The Jewishness

If by “pizzazz and energy” you mean inflexible food co-op rules and double-wide strollers, then yes, it will surely be a hit:

Producers are giving Park Slope the star treatment with a pilot by the same executives who brought “Sex and the City,” starring Sarah Jessica Parker, and “Melrose Place” to TV.

According to industry sources, Darren Star, who created those smash shows, has teamed with Sony and NBC for a proposed series about a group of affluent characters who live in the upscale Brooklyn neighborhood.

Sue Kramer, who wrote and directed the 2006 romantic comedy “Gray Matters” starring Heather Graham, Bridget Moynahan and Molly Shannon, is writing the script.

“It’s an hour-long dramady,” Kramer, who lives in Park Slope, told Page Six.

“It takes place in Park Slope and Park Slope is one of the characters in it. Park Slope has so much juice, just like Manhattan. It’s got a lot of pizzazz and energy.”

Posted: April 30th, 2008 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Crap Your Pants Say Yeah!, I Don't Care If You're Filming, You're In My Goddamn Way

If We Can’t Tightrope Between Twin Towers . . .

. . . then the terrorists will have won:

Philippe Petit, the French aerialist and juggler whose unauthorized 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers is the subject of the documentary Man on Wire, which plays at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, doesn’t really approve of the Freedom Tower. “I stay away from politics because I am just a street juggler,” he says, “but I can tell you secretly that I am very unhappy to not have two towers being built, because I could offer to dance again — a dance of freedom, of victory, of ‘We shall not be doomed.'”

Posted: April 21st, 2008 | Filed under: Crap Your Pants Say Yeah!, Makes Jack Bauer Scream, "Dammit!"

Arcade Fire As Latter-Day Men Without Hats . . .

. . . and Gossip Girl is Dynasty in a co-op apartment:

In fact, the show has resurrected the potential for scripted dramas to be effective social satire — to present a world more accurately than a “reality” program can. Gossip Girl presents a wealth-eye view of the city, but because it is a cartoon we can laugh along with the conspicuousness of the consumption. Living among the wealthy in New York is an experience of queasy ambivalence — we find their antics both mesmerizing and icky. But on Gossip Girl, we do not have to judge them, or ourselves. The show mocks our superficial fantasies while satisfying them, allowing us to partake in the over-the-top pleasures of the irresponsible superrich without anxiety or guilt or moralizing. It’s class warfare as blood sport. And, as Blair Waldorf might say, that’s entertainment.

Posted: April 21st, 2008 | Filed under: Crap Your Pants Say Yeah!

Just When You Think You Can Get Away With A Subtle Heart String-Pulling Literary Device, There’s Reality To Bitchslap You

Which is the post-modern existential condition of our 21st century city:

Of all days, Jane Pollicino chose Thursday to show up for volunteer work at the Tribute WTC Visitor Center opposite ground zero. The tribute center seeks “people whose lives were profoundly changed by September 11th” to lead visitors around the site and convey the personal dimension of the story. (Mrs. Pollicino’s husband, Steve, was a trader at Cantor Fitzgerald’s office in the World Trade Center, where he died.)

And of all places, Mrs. Pollicino came up from the subway at the exit on Church Street adjoining the yard of St. Paul’s Chapel.

“It took my breath away,” she said.

For there, on one corner of the great iron fence around St. Paul’s, were hundreds of tributes to the dead: photos, flowers, candles, stuffed animals, American flags by the dozen, Mass cards, F.D.N.Y. T-shirts and a firefighter’s turnout coat, interspersed with handwritten valedictories. Two nearby trees were even in leaf. It was as if seven years had rolled back all at once.

Closer inspection showed a few signs taped to the fence. They said, “Film set.” This remarkable evocation turned out to be a matter of stagecraft: an art-directed simulation for a location shot in the movie “Julie and Julia,” based on a book by Julie Powell in which she sets out to make every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” The brief scene on Church Street involves Amy Adams, as Ms. Powell, emerging from the subway and walking by the memorial-draped fence.

Posted: April 11th, 2008 | Filed under: Crap Your Pants Say Yeah!, I Don't Care If You're Filming, You're In My Goddamn Way
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