Cindy Sherman is an artist known for her photographic self portraits. A bio on the Museum of Modern Art websight calls her “among the most significant artists of the Picture Generation, who came of age in the 1970s and responded to the mass media landscape surrounding them with both humor and criticism.” Madonna sponsored (whatever that means) MoMA’s 1997 exhibition of Sherman’s most famous series, Untitled Film Stills. It’s comprised of 69 black and white photos shot between 1977 and 1980, in which she’s posed playing various characters in fictional movies from the ‘50s and ’60s. That same year she also made her one actual movie, OFFICE KILLER.
This time Sherman pointed her camera at someone else: Carol Kane (THE PALLBEARER) as Dorine Douglas, sort of the Milton-from-OFFICE-SPACE of the Constant Consumer Magazine staff. Her late father (briefly seen as Eric Bogosian in flashbacks – a huge get since he’d already done UNDER SIEGE 2: DARK TERRITORY and BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO AMERICA) was one of the founders, but she’s kind of an under-appreciated misfit in the office, tucked away in a cluttered corner doing her copy editing. (read the rest of this shit…)
