If you don’t have a chance to see the modernist show “From Cezanne to Picasso” featuring 100 pieces from the collection of turn-of-the-twentieth-century dealer Ambroise Vollard, you can still visit the Met’s site and see some excellent images.

Like this Derain:

London: St. Paul’s Cathedral seen from the Thames

Rent it or buy it, watch it, and savor it:

In 1982, Wilder was celebrated at a gala at Lincon Center. Michiko Kakutani wrote:

[F]or all their disparate forms, the movies share a distinctive point of view, a certain Wilder touch. It is a kind of acerbic wit, a willful desire to expose, through drama and often low gags, society’s venality and greed and lusts….

More often than not, his movies involve elaborate deceptions ending in the loss of innocence, and his characters tend to be unconventional, if not thoroughly disreputable.

”After the whole bit in drag,” said Mr. Lemmon, recalling his role as a member of an all girl orchestra in ”Some Like It Hot,” ”I played six more parts with Billy. These are the characters: a weakling who rents his apartment out for assignations, a guy who lives with a prostitute and pays her, a married man who follows dear old Dad’s footsteps - he arranges a yearly European tryst with another lady, a totally unethical newspaper reporter who’d stoop to any unsavory act to get a story, a cameraman in a neck brace trying to collect money for phony injuries and a loser who wants to kill himself because his wife is holed up in a sex clinic with her therapist.”

If you love this non-partisan super-democratic positively Ghandi-esque advice from a commenter at CampusJ  as much as I do, please pass it on.

Tensions between Jewish and Muslim students at UC Irvine peaked recently after an incident involving vandalism with swastikas and “vulgarities” (unspecified). Half a dozen Jewish students met with university officials to discuss both the incident and an atmosphere they described as intimidating to their persons and their freedom of speech. The officials were very sincerely sympathetic. Then:

…[S]ome students asked that Drake place restrictions on where MSU events are held, saying that if their events were held in classrooms as opposed to public spaces, their effect would not be as broad. However, Chancellor Drake told Jewish students at the meeting that he cannot restrict any club, that it would be “violation of law to prohibit certain speech.”
[Vice-Chancellor] Gomez emphasized that though hate speech may be present, he would not seek to curtail it, as “one person’s hate speech is another person’s education.”

Here’s the genius advice from a commenter on how to respond:

Akiva M Oct 27th, 2006 at 8:25 am

My suggestion? Take this opportunity to make Mr. Gomez understand the impact of his words. Stage a rally based on them. If possible, get together with the black student union, the latin american student union, the asian american student union (or whatever the campus equivalents are), but if necessary, go it alone.

The rally should be in a public space, and it should involve loud, repeated chanting of racist slurs followed by “one person’s hate speech is another person’s education”

So:

Rally Leader: “Kike go home”
Crowd: “Kike go home”
Rally leader: “One person’s hate speech is another person’s education.”
Crowd: “One person’s hate speech is another person’s education.”
Rally leader: “Monkeys Niggers, don’t belong”
Crowd: “Monkeys, Niggers, don’t belong”
Rally leader: “One person’s hate speech is another person’s education.”
Crowd: “One person’s hate speech is another person’s education.”
Rally Leader: “Raghead, towelhead, muslim scum”
Crowd: “Raghead, towelhead, muslim scum”
Rally leader: “One person’s hate speech is another person’s education.”
Crowd: “One person’s hate speech is another person’s education.”

(and so on, with slurs for hispanics, asians, etc. Then repeat from “Kike go home”)

Spend an hour chanting that on the lawn in front of his office, invite some press, and see if that doesn’t have an impact.

Akiva, my hat is off to you.