Tyler Cowen: preference

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…Well, my wife, Linda, and I — may she rest in peace; she passed away from metastatic breast cancer in 2011 — we were married in 1983. We first met in 1974. We were together for 37 years. That was her favorite movie, and I love the movie. You know the story of the movie. It was an era in Hollywood of movie-making that I don’t think we’ll ever see again. I don’t know if we’re ever going to see it again. Wonderful characters, wonderful human aspiration, competition, excellence, the pursuit of excellence, dignity. What’s his name? Harold Abrams, the runner — Jewish guy in upper-class British society. He was somebody that I could identify with. I like that movie a lot. I also like Pulp Fiction. I mentioned Jackie Brown, but I do like Pulp Fiction. I like The Godfather I. I was going to report that I just saw a fantastic movie that reminded me of why I like movies. This is not my favorite movie. It’s The Banshees of Inisherin. This is a movie set in Ireland, about a friendship that goes rotten, and I won’t even try to say anything more about it. It’s quirky and weird in a certain kind of way, and yet, it’s deep and it’s unpretentious in a way. I like that kind of movie. What is another movie like that kind of movie? They don’t make them like that anymore. They don’t make movies anymore. It’s all whiz-bang and — [laughs] What is there in the black visual arts that is especially important or meaningful to you? For me, it’s Haitian art, of course, but I suspect your answer is different. I don’t know anything about black visual arts. We need my late wife, Linda, on the scene. Every piece that I have in this house of that sort of sculpture or sketching or painting is something that I inherited from a previous life when I was the green-eyeshade guy worrying about my research and whatnot, where my wife was a fine researcher in her own right and also had an aesthetic sensibility that she cultivated assiduously. It wouldn’t have only been black, but the black visual arts would’ve come into it, so I’m going to beg off. I don’t know anything.…

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