{"id":8226,"date":"2017-02-23T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2017-02-26T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T18:40:20","slug":"camille-on-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/23\/camille-on-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"Camille on Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Camille Paglia on Oscar Glamour Then and Now: “Grandeur of Old Hollywood Is Gone” (Guest Column)<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Camille Paglia<\/p>\n

Terry O’Neill\/Getty Images; Peter Kramer\/Bravo\/NBCU Photo Bank\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n

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Faye Dunaway, shown after her Oscar win. (Inset: Paglia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The social critic and author of the upcoming ‘Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism,’ writes that Elizabeth Taylor’s 1961 win was “a huge cultural watershed, a prefiguration of the coming sexual revolution,” which predated a new generation of “hip, smart and cynical” stars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a child, I had two pagan high holy days every year. The first was Halloween, where I advertised my transgender soul by masquerading as a matador, a Roman soldier, Napoleon or Hamlet. The second was Oscar night, when Hollywood put its dazzling glamour on heady display for the whole world.<\/p>\n

As I was growing up in the drearily conformist 1950s and early ’60s, it was hard to find information about popular culture, which wasn’t taken seriously. Deep-think European art films were drawing tiny coteries of intellectuals to small, seedy theaters, but flamboyant mainstream Hollywood was still dismissed as crass, commercial trash.<\/p>\n

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from The Hollywood Reporter Camille Paglia on Oscar Glamour Then and Now: “Grandeur of Old Hollywood Is Gone” (Guest Column) by\u00a0Camille Paglia Terry O’Neill\/Getty Images; Peter Kramer\/Bravo\/NBCU Photo Bank\/Getty Images Faye Dunaway, shown after her Oscar win. (Inset: Paglia) The social critic and author of the upcoming ‘Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism,’ writes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}