From: sakana-AT-stlnet.com
Subject: RE: What's wrong with mainstream sensibilities?
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:07:19 -0600


my personal (living) director obsession is steven soderbergh.  as far as i
know, he's had a very stable, happy life.  and it's certainly prosperous.
though he had some critical and popular disappointments after the insane
success of sex, lies, and videotape, those films (kafka, schizopolis, etc.)
didn't cause a personal, artistic, or financial downfall.  in fact, i
believe that kafka was made for the same studio that released out of sight
(which lost money) and erin brockovich (sp).  clearly people had confidence
in him.

just to name an exception.

martha fischer
sakana-AT-stlnet.com <mailto:sakana-AT-stlnet.com>

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>
> What great art can come out of a prosperous and happy life?  Look at the
> crap that comes from those kind of people versus the art that comes from
> say, Polanski, who has had tremendous amounts of pain through out
> his life,
> or Hitchcock who had a tortorous childhood.  While it may not be
> something
> we would like to believe true,(that one must suffer to be a great
> artist) I
> think for the most part it is.
>
> >



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