“Sex is easy; love isn’t”: That’s the theme of the new film “EASY” . It opens in LA this weekend at Laemmle theaters. We’ll speak with writer-director Jane Weinstock.
Watch the trailer for “Easy”: www.apple.com/trailers/independent/easy.html
Death, love and liberty in the American ballad: GREIL MARCUS and SEAN WILENTZ have been listening to some classic American songs, and now they have put together a CD of the songs and book about them, both called “The Rose & the Briar.”
Listen to the CD: www.sonymusicstore.com/store/catalog/MerchandiseDetails.jsp?selectionId=092866
Hope in the Dark is the title of a great book by REBECCA SOLNIT. She wrote it before the Nov. 2 election, but we certainly need it now. She’s an activist and writer who won a Lannan Literary fellowship and the 2004 award for criticism from the National Book Critics Circle.
Web extras: Friday is Buy Nothing Day: check “9 theses against corporate rule” at
http://stopshoppingmonitor.journurl.com/index.cfm/mode/article/entry/888/
