Almost Famous is another high-frequency film on my videolists on the iPod. I watch it on every trip.
Here are two of the best scenes of the film. If you are a hard-core music and literature lover, then this film is for you.
Both scenes feature the incomparable Philip Seymour Hoffman. Incidentally, the Times has a long feature on the actor today. Read it here.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Salt Lake City Healthiest City
Those of us who have experiential knowledge of Salt Lake City find the below enclosed article particularly true.
"If your New Year's resolution is to live healthy, you might want to move. A new study shows Salt Lake City, Utah, is the healthiest city for women, while Madison, Wisconsin is the best place for men."
Read more here.
Pakistan Girl Band Rocks
Interesting article on BBC News.
"But, like all other professions in the country, music remains male-dominated.
For women it is another matter altogether - raised eyebrows are the least possible obstacle.
Some have broken the barrier, none more so than the late Nazia Hassan, who took the sub-continental music scene by storm with her pop music in the early 80s.
There have been others who followed in her footsteps, although none have been able to reach those dizzying heights.
That may account for all the hype surrounding Zeb and Haniya, Pakistan's first all-female music band.
Another is the fact that their debut album, Chup (Quiet!), was recently released to rave reviews in Pakistan's major newspapers."
More here.
Old Greece From Female Perspective
"The main misconception is the notion that women had a universally mute and passive role in Athenian society. It is true that they lived with restrictions modern Westerners would find intolerable. Technically they were not citizens. In terms of civil rights, their status differed little from that of slaves. Marriages were arranged; girls were expected to have children in their midteens. Yet, the show argues, the assumption that women lived in a state of purdah, completely removed from public life, is contradicted by the depictions of them in art."
More here.
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