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04
Jan
15

🔴 Passion & Passivity: Four Films

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🔴 Passion & Passivity

 
Jan 18, 2015
 

Crash, directed by David Cronenberg (1996).
sex, lies and videotape, directed by Steven Soderbergh (1990).
Bad influence, directed by Curtis Hanson (1990).
Secretary, directed by David Shainberg (2002).
 
I’ve been watching some James Spader films from the 1980s and 1990s (to fill the time until The Blacklist starts up again). My response has not been what I expected, especially to Crash, ‘sex, lies & videotape’ and also, Bad Influence and Secretary. This group seems to have a certain coherence, thematically. In all of these, I would say James Spader plays an innocent, even a sexual innocent. I am not saying he is sexually naive, but rather is caught up in situations in which sexuality is an externalized, even emasculating force with which he is trying to cope. In both Crash & sex, lies & videotape, he struggles with impotence; also in both of these, he is just gorgeous, almost feminized at times. He is, in both, more the subject of seduction than its perpetrator. In key scenes in each the camera lingers on his wavy blonde hair and handsome face.
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28
Dec
14

🔴 James Spader as Outsider

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Categories: 10.2 Review, 2 Major Theme and 3.1 Cultural
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🔴 James Spader as Outsider

–– Boston Legal to The Blacklist

 
Jan 7, 2015
 
In Boston Legal (ABC, 2004-2008), James Spader played Alan Shore, an often politically incorrect advocate in many cases involving “lost causes” (most of which, in the make-believe world of the Crane, Poole & Schmidt law firm, he actually won). His penchant for clarity and honesty was his weakness & his strength. In perhaps the most memorable episode, he even told “The Court Supreme” exactly what they needed to hear about the death penalty. Even his sexism was funny & endearing because it was – hey! – sincere. During the Bush years, Alan Shore’s truth-telling buoyed many a despondent liberal in the face of what Stephen Colbert dubbed “Truthiness”.
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19
Dec
14

🔴 Fathomless Eyes

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Categories: 2 Major Theme, 3.521 Love (Oxytocin) and 5 Media Context
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“… a submissive, sorrowful contemplation of the great irremediable things …”
Caption source: Jerusha McCormack (2013): Poem on the Mountain: A Chinese Reading of Yeats’s ‘Lapis Lazuli’ http://bit.ly/1AzmRTu

 

🔴 Fathomless Eyes: Neurobiology of the Gaze

 
Jan 7, 2015
 

“Love pierces the heart through the gaze of the eyes”

 

I can’t stop looking at James Spader’s face. I’ve noticed I am not alone in this… It’s as though there were 1000 masks, each one capturing *perfectly* an emotion you didn’t even know existed but that you instantly recognize, and he moves flawlessly from one to the next, sometimes donning several in a second. There must be a name for what he does – micro-acting? I think I saw “close camera acting” somewhere. Anyway, he has nailed it. I am riveted.
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14
Dec
14

🔴 “Love Gene” Bibliography

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Categories: 3.1 Cultural, 3.3 Historical, 3.51 Evolution and 3.521 Love (Oxytocin)
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🔴 Neurobiology of the Gaze: Bibliography
 
I can’t stop looking at James Spader’s face. I’ve noticed I am not alone in this…

Once a recovering academic, I am now in full relapse. I am posting an annotated bibliography I compiled (isn’t that exciting?), here: http://bit.ly/12ZWgEP

The bibliography is organized in reverse chronological in two sections: 1. Articles mentioning specific genetic markers (more technical), and  2. No mention of specific markers.
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Dominos
“Keen!”
“Stay with me”
Liz’s scar
Snatched
Finders fee
“Falling is death“
‘The truth matters’
“What’s he doing?”
“Please”
Foiled
Hit me. Hug me.
“The Box”
Trust …
“Rocco’s certifiable”
The whole truth
A man I happen to like
“It worked”
Foiled
Life is a carousel
Money to burn
“Eye of the Tiger”
Russian Roulette
“For now”
“We agree about something”
“Who are you?”
Sunbeam
“This is The Blacklist”
Alone in this world
Under the Greenwood Tree
“And ate her all up”
“What have you done?”
The spy who loved me
Evesdropping
Splayed
“What did you do?”
Crossing the line
“I do believe you”
“Become Reddington”
“… to the Top of the Blacklist”
Alaska
In trouble
Auto-da-fé
Secrets of the past
Dom
A job offer
Between good and evil
Partners
“I understand”
“‘If’ does me no good”
Cliffhanger
“Drop it!”
Inglenook
Ilya
Packing heat
Cigars with Cooper
The Epicenter
Old Flame
“Practice”
Just one night
“Don’t coddle me”
Misplaced Trust
“I’m your mother”
Penny for your thoughts
Cast and Crew
“Kaplan returns”
Sphinx
Moscow, Russia
Promise
“I’m all yours”
Cliffhanger
Targeted
Irukandji jellyfish
Files from the Archive
“A Black Muslim”
“May I kiss the ring?”
Hat trick
Talisman
Serial killers
“I have the identity of N13”
Packing
The Talk
“Checkmate”
Coming clean
Prognosis
“It’s you”
Her inner Stewmaker
Dead drop
Remembering Anne
“Everything about me is a lie”
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“What have you done?”
The Talk
“May I kiss the ring?”
Packing heat
Serial killers
Deadly truths
“The Box”
Just one night
Under the Greenwood Tree
Absolution
“A Black Muslim”
Cigars with Cooper
“I’m your mother”
‘The truth matters’
Ilya
Double speak
Misplaced Trust
Old Flame
“Mother”
Lethal injection
“It’s you”
“I understand”
“I do believe you”
A man I happen to like
Inglenook
“Katarina Rostova was N-13”
Penny for your thoughts
“I have the identity of N13”
Money to burn
Dominos
Cliffhanger
“Please”
“… to the Top of the Blacklist”
“No”
Foiled
“I’m all yours”
Evesdropping
“Keen!”
Prognosis
Sunbeam
“It’s not your fault”
“‘If’ does me no good”
“Checkmate”
“Because we’re the FBI”
“Rocco’s certifiable”
Dom
The spy who loved me
Nice to see you again”
Auto-da-fé
“Stay with me”
Slip-and-fall?
By @LIVington on Twitter
Cast and Crew
“We agree about something”
Splayed
Her inner Stewmaker
Sphinx
Russian Roulette
Between good and evil
Moscow, Russia
The “Russian Knot”
“What did you do?”

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Red: “Your little ‘Alliance’ will lose” (1:20 Kingmaker)
Arranged marriage
“They will come for you”
Evidence board
Death of Diane Fowler
On the run
James Spader, The Blacklist [5:8 Ian Garvey]
Unveiling
Dembe and crew blow up Jasper’s yacht to force him out of hiding.
Inspection
Liz will support Harbormaster Eugene Ames’ daughter anonymously. Red reflects.
Blindsided
Red and Naomi say goodbye
“I’m gonna make you famous, Lizzie”
True love
“Do I dare to eat a peach?”
James Spader in The Practice
“Quack, quack, bitch”
Oops!
“You are charged”
RoomInTheCastle: Megan Boone & James Spader on acting.
“I used to imagine my mother was a prima ballerina … “
NewRepublic, Mark Lilla (2014): Our Libertarian Age
Megan Boone for Capitol File (Nov 2014)
Stop the Bullying
Profile
“I was young … “
Graham watches his videos
Red & Earl recall old times.
“What is your location?”
Cult leader gruesomely killed by his son.
“Fitch”
Jennifer Ehle and James Spader, The Blacklist [1:14 Madeline Pratt]
Pumpkin
“Raymond, I do love … “
Liz relives the past
Stormy seas
Badass
“Secretary”
“Which is your dominant eye?”
Freedom Tower
Remorse
Christmas
Sizes & dimensions, Sorrento music boc, tiny box (“the Fulcrum”), 1990s-era microprocessors.
Lake Como
A woman I loved
James Spader in Tuff Turf
“Never to see her again.”
Kim Richards and James Spader in Tuff Turf
For sale
“Sundown”
Heart transplant
“Remember me”
Alan & Tara
Boston Legal: James Spader as Alan Shore – In court w Shirley (Candice Bergen)
James Spader at the Golden Gobes in 2014
Tumblr, Prema Kalidasi: Figment (Hindu)
Serial killers
Stuff of nightmares
You can’t both lead
Red and Berlin negotiate
“I can protect you”
Badass Cooper
Liz’s wedding
James Spader [2:10 Luther Braxton Part 2] The Blacklist
Heart transpant
Before: Black silhouettes [3:2 Troll Farmer]
Untitled – Scupture by Leslie Stefanson
Captive audience
Reunited
Blood ties
JS w Susan Sarandon
Masha & Katarina Rostova
The Sorrento music box
Leslie Stefanson and James Spader in The Stickup
Ever seeing eye
On the edge
James Spader – photo from The Blacklist 2:14 T Earl King VI, reimagined by HelloJS
Close call
Liz finds out Red was spying on her & he agrees to discuss the mysterious photograph with her.
Getting her back
Traitor
“Crash”
Red in red light. Liz in golden light. [2:9]
Jennifer Ehle and James Spader, The Blacklist [1:14 Madeline Pratt] Tegucigalpa by breakfast
Kate & the Hunter
Young Liz & Liz listen to argument in Liz’s memory recovery session.
Denny & Alan
The Lady Curie
Boston Legal: James Spader as Alan Shore – Not Amused
Tom and Liz.
Nick’s Pizza
Lotte Verbeek
Connolly to Denner: “You’re out of your mind.”
Bliss
Kim Richards and James Spader in Tuff Turf
♫ A 1000 times again ♫
“You were right, Marcus”
James Spader, The Blacklist [2:1 Lord Baltimore]
Per Capita GDP Growth: Free-Market vs State Capitalism (real through 2010, then projected)
James Spader, The Blacklist (c/o Getty Images)
James Spader and Megan Boone, The Blacklist [4:16 Dembe Zuma] c/o SpoilerTV
Polaris
Bunny
Persuasion
“You are so damaged”
James Spader in “sex, lies and videotape”
Fugitives
Flesh-eating butterflies
Scars
Partners in Crime
James Spader, The Blacklist [5:8 Ian Garvey]
Tombstone
James Spader and Megan Boone in The Blacklist [3:18 Solomon Pt 2]
In the dark
In mother’s arms
Blood on my name
Beth and Liz
With Apologies
Brandon Sonnier (one of The Blacklist writers)
Cat fight
“Can I have my shirt back?”
Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader in Secretary.
Tom becomes Christof
“I’m a sin eater”
“What a pleasure”
Red for Sale. “More trouble than he’s worth.”
Ranko Zamani
Tom’s fake passports.
“I’m gonna make you famous, Lizzie”
“Possessive of him”
Massacre at Kenyon Ranch.
Execution
… Dancing …
Liz will help the daughter of the man Tom killed. Red reflects.
Surrounded
“He’ll kill you …”
Reunion
“May I?”
Videotape
Torture porn
“Secretary”
Human trafficking
Mr & Mrs Kaplan
Ressler in charge
Evidence board
Migration of humans out of Africa, by maternal haplogroup
“How much you look like…”
Deposition
Fugitives
Climate: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
James Spader, The Blacklist [1:14 Madeline Pratt] “All there was was blood”
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