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Cameron Crowe's cringe magic

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By Art Tavana
| The Spectator (World) Verified
Cameron Crowe’s long-awaited memoir The Uncool can be read intertextually as the real Almost Famous. The Uncool is also about lush California summers, grief, the unwavering support of a mother, cool big sisters, and Almost Famous: The Musical, but when you peel back the pages like it’s a vintage magazine, there’s an elegiac aroma. This is a crinkled love letter to a deceased paramour; in this case, the beating heart of rock journalism.
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The God that Failed Up: Review of ‘The Last Supper’ by Paul Elie

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By Art Tavana
| Washington Examiner Verified
Catholicism has become youth culture. As I write this, American youth are fetishizing the Catholic Church (what the New York Times called “New York’s Hottest Club”). Gen Zers are converting to Catholicism and posting about “sedevacantism,” the fringe-traditionalist Catholic belief that the papacy has been illegitimate since the Second Vatican.
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Have You Seen ‘Sinners’ Yet?!?

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By Art Tavana
| Medium
“Hey, omg, have you seen Sinners yet? It’s the best cinematic experience of the past decade!” OK, I finally did. It was sold out for a while, but now it’s not, so I saw it. I am not going to deconstruct this film’s allegorical significance — too reactionary, too political, too Los Angeles Review of Books. Also, getting too deep dilutes aestheticism in favor of moral implications like woke vs.
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