BE Spoiler (if that's possible now)

[Fiona Shnapple]

http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2013octdec/hoberman.html

Twin Peaks ....crazy?

Yeah, Maxine is a nut job. Over the rainbow, toys in the attic, her
dip-stick ain't exactly touching the oil no more and her elevator,
well, she's kind of like that Lady in the Whitehead Novel, The
Intuitionist, only that lady ain't really crazy after all.

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does Maxine send her kids to a school that has a curriculum in
> which each grade level is regarded as a different kind of mental
> condition and managed accordingly, a loony bin with homework? March
> graduated from Kugelblitz. The principal, Bruce Winterslow knows all
> his pupils by name and by thumbnail biography. Kind of an odd place to
> send the kids given the school choices in the neighborhood. The kids
> have friends at the best schools in the city, and they seem bright
> enough to pass the entrance exams at any of the elite schools. Tuition
> is not an issue. Maxine went to an ordinary high school, though
> founded by an extraordinary woman, Julia Richman. The school, now a
> Bloomberg Multiplex school connected through Real Estate transactions
> to Hunter, where Maxine went to college, and where Heidi teaches Pop
> Culture Studies, was in sad shape when Maxine was enrolled, her
> attendance was  understandably poor.
>
> Maybe the school, not on any of the streets Law & Order has filmed on,
> and therefore, not quite on the Google Map, isn't as reel as it seems.
> Or, is as mad as it seems. Unless, of course, it's a school in the
> family sitcom that, on one level, is pure fiction, beyond film, or
> after film.
>
> One of the world’s most erudite and entertaining film critics on the
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> J. Hoberman is the senior film critic for the Village Voice, where he
> has worked for more than thirty years. He is the author of Bridge of
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> Dream Life (The New Press) and the co-author, with Jonathan Rosenbaum,
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