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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: The end of our Rope [1]

['Bill In Portland Maine', 'Sabrina Haake', 'Greg Dworkin']

Date: 2026-09-04  

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I recall seeing Rope around the time of its re-release after three decades of absence. If you haven’t seen it, I’ll try not to provide spoilers. It’s worth watching even though as Hitchcock says, it cannot be done as well in television. There are a vast number of film, theater, and literary treatments of the Leopold and Loeb crime and trial, as well as when I first heard of them as a child, I thought Leopold and Loeb were a comedy duo like Abbott and Costello.

Rope is technically beautiful as are all long take films because they test viewer attention and media reception. Complaints about the film are more about the camera than the acting, which technically is what ultimately counts in certain film theories. John Dall’s performance as Brandon reminds us of Trump’s malignant narcissism.

You can have Wonder Woman but Supergirl maintains certain gender asymmetries; why has there been no Superwoman? I won’t bore you with my discourse with an LLM as to whether that’s sexism or not. ( It tried to weasel around by claiming Lois Lane is a “super-woman” even if she’s not Superwoman).

More pop music that I have discovered for the first time by listening to Fasnacht and Karneval brass band covers of pop music.

” Paid My Dues ” is a song by American rapper NF. It was released on December 3, 2019, as the lead single from his first mixtape Clouds (2021). [1] Written and produced alongside Tommee Profitt and Saint X of Capital Kings, NF calls out critics and their hypocrisy, showing how he made his path to success

” Uprising ” is a song by the English rock band Muse, released on 4 August 2009 as the lead single from their fifth studio album, The Resistance (2009). It was written by Matt Bellamy, produced by the band and mixed by Spike Stent.

“Otherside” is a song by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was released as the third single from their seventh studio album, Californication, and confronts the battles addicts have with their prior addictions. Lead vocalist Anthony Kiedis wrote the song about former band member Hillel Slovak, who died of a heroin overdose in 1988. “Otherside” was released in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan in 1999 and was given a US and UK release in January 2000

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