Well, well, well. I’m kind of amazed by what happened with the New Hampshire primary – what a horse race. I didn’t think Hillary would throw in the towel. Surprised by her victory – yes; shocked – umm, not quite. Will be very interesting to see what will happen now between her and Barack Obama (well, okay, Edwards isn’t out of it yet).
Oh, wow – The Met’s Philippe de Montebello will be retiring at the end of the year? Carol Vogel for the NY Times writes:
He allowed that his current job would be hard to top. “I’m the most grateful person on earth,” he said. “I’ve had the privilege to run the greatest institution in the world. How much luckier can you be than that?”
For the museum world, one challenge will surely be to start seeing the Met and its long-term director as separate entities.
“The Met is a huge organization, and too many people have been increasingly saying to me, ‘You are the Met,’” Mr. de Montebello said. “I am not the Met.”
NY Times art critic Michael Kimmelman has a nice tribute about Mr. de Montebello.
Marvel’s ending Spider-Man’s marriage to Mary Jane, by making it as if it never happened? Honestly, I’m hardly a comic book reader, but this is the dilemma of any series – how do you keep the tension going in a long-running series? Superman/Clark Kent marries Lois Lane, but is it still fun? (then again, Superman’s super, so to keep things going, the conflict is in Clark’s own internal battle, I guess). Who likes the happy hero?
But, I don’t feel that much more comfortable with superheroes who’s mired in the misery of his (usually “his”) life – Batman/Bruce Wayne’s practically psychotic, if his series or the various versions don’t constantly remind him of his family – the Bat clan. Then again, even though he has his foster dad in Alfred the butler and his foster kids in Robin (in all the variations) and Batgirls (in all the variations), he has his commitment issues with women – he just can’t be happy. At least that kind of makes sense in comparison to being cruel to Peter Parker and Mary Jane; you’d be a little nuts too if you were Bruce Wayne. And, come on – as geeky as Peter Parker was, his sarcasm/wit got him the girl of his dreams. Should we be glad that he’s spared of a divorce?
Okay, clearly I need to find other things to read about on-line!
The passing of Sir Edmund Hillary, who climbed Mt. Everest. The AP obituary made him sound modest but spirited. And, I especially like how Time magazine opened their obit with quite a majesty on how Sir Edmund and Tenzing Norgay got up there at the top of the world.