Where the Copy is Better than the Original
In a recent National Post column, Anne Kinston of "The Meaning of Wife" fame wrote a rather self-satisfied article on how Hollywood has appropriated her book cover design.
Kingston’s clever juxtaposition of the poster for Sarah Jessica Parker’s new movie with her book cover doesn’t hold.
“The Family Stone” is a bit of a farce, a comedy and in the end an awkward acceptence of marriage. Probably a second, if third rate Hollywood fare.
Kingston’s the “Meaning of Wife” is all seriousness and ultimately tinged with nihilism.
She doesn’t advocate marriage, rather spends hundreds of pages subtly degrading it.
It is a testimony to negative design that the Hollywood media artists have picked up on her obscure imagery. Copying can sometimes bring wonders, but in this case it only brought on mediocrity.
Still, I would prefer to sit through a movie with the charming (and married) Parker rather than read again the still (by choice, she adamantly declares) single Kingston’s depressing and dangerous contribution to society.
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