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Did anybody watch Enlightened last night? I hope to watch it tonight. The NYT caught up with Mike White and I'm not religious in the slightest but his wacky brand of spiritualism can't entirely get on my nerves when it results in amazing paragraphs like this:
"When his friend Shirley MacLaine suggested he visit a past-life regression guide near Santa Fe, N.M., he went twice, then commissioned his artist friends Sam and Alison Demke to commemorate all 14 of his past lives in acrylic on canvas. Each painting is done in the style of the place and the era, but they all have one thing in common. In one painting, White appears as a medieval soldier dying in battle. In another, he is a Maori tribesman expiring on the beach. In a third, he’s a Gatsby-era alcoholic rake swimming to shore as his boat sinks. “And this is the last one,” he said. It’s a painting of a black woman walking down the beach in her bikini, smiling over her shoulder, and it’s hanging over his bed. “I was a Cuban waitress and I slept with all my friends’ boyfriends and I got an S.T.D. and no one would help me and I died in a flophouse. . . . But look at her face — it’s me!”"
Is there anything that story doesn't have? I knew it'd be good when Shirley Maclaine showed up, and I was not disappointed.
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i don't know anything about MIKE's past lives but i can tell you ENLIGHTENED is great
Enlightened is brilliant. I wasn't a huge fan of Laura Dern before but that has now changed.
Religion is very, very different to spirituality. It's not organized, there are no rules and the answers are all to be found within yoursel. This show stays true to this and also manages to be funny and actually very moving. Cant wait for the next episode!
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