All the little demons lace up their ice skates...

Another freel­an­cing alert: my debut piece, after all this time, as it were, for Elle.com just went up recently. It’s a brief but I hope delight­ful sur­vey of gender-reversal in film, fea­tur­ing, among oth­ers, Anna Karina sort-of incarn­at­ing Richard Stark’s tough guy Parker in Godard’s Made In USA, a not-quite adapt­a­tion of The Jugger that was non­ethe­less close enough for rock and roll, or rather close enough for Donald Westlake to retain the rights to for a while. It gets more con­fus­ing, actu­ally (but I try to clear things up), and begins here. The assign­ment had any num­ber of attrac­tions, and the tim­ing of its pub­lic­a­tion does not dis­please; call me arrog­ant, but in one sense I see it as a kind of part­ing gift to Todd Anderman. But the piece can, I hope, be enjoyed without bene­fit of inside baseball. 

UPDATE: And while we’re at it, I’ve also got a review of sorts of Sofia Coppola’s very fine Somewhere pos­ted at The Daily Notebook, as it some­times pleases me to do. Again, enjoy. Catch up after the weekend!