
A recent string of burglaries leads the authorities to suspect Robie because the burglaries follow his old modus operandi. Cary Grant plays John Robie, a cat burglar who is retired to the French Riviera along with the rest of his gang, all of whom have been paroled in recognition of their work for the French Resistance. Take Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 film, To Catch a Thief . His core concept is that of mimetic desire, a desire which one person acquires by imitating the actions of another. ” As a bonus prize, a Girardian take on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 To Catch a Thief :Īs you may know, René Girard is a theorist of imitation, desires, violence and sacrifice. Wait! Wait! Here’s also Bill Benzon’s “Crisis in Shark City: A Girardian reading of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws.

Clearly, Waters had reflected on why his first four marriages ended in divorce and identified a common flaw in all his exes: they weren’t “keepers.” He said only, “I’m so happy, finally a keeper.” This is less an ode to his new bride than a back-handed slap at his previous wives. Waters gave little clue when announcing his wedding on social media. That hardly sounds like a romantic setting, yet he was mysteriously drawn to her. It’s all about the circumstances: she was driving the car, up front with the security, while Waters rode in back. So what sparked Roger’s interest in Kamilah? Was it her lovely black hair? The way she held her head? Her entrancing perfume?Ĭuriously, when Waters recalls the attraction he felt for his future bride, nothing he says is about the woman herself. Waters spent most of their time together staring at the back of Kamilah’s head. There was something about her, but what could it be? It wasn’t love at first sight. I was in one place for two weeks and there were many transfers between the hotel and the venue. My security sat in the front with her and they talked, while I stayed in the back. I don’t know, something about her attracted me…” “I actually met her at one of my concerts a couple of years ago,” Waters explained. “She was driving the car that was taking me. “She worked in transportation.” More precisely, she was a chauffeur. The reporter asked, “Is Kamilah an artist?” No, Waters replied. Waters told the story in a widely-quoted 2018 interview with Argentine media outlet Infobae. In fact, during their first meetings, she kept her back turned to him. But it wasn’t her face that first drew Waters to Chavis. “Did anyone ever tell you that you have beautiful cheekbones?” That was the opening line rock icon Roger Waters used with Kamilah Chavis, the woman he married in October 2021.
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A longish excerpt from “Mimetic Desire and Serial Monogamy: the Case of Roger Waters“ over at Geoff Shullenberger‘s new blog, Outsider Theory : Anthropologist Mark Anspach (we’ve had guest posts from him here and here) considers Roger Waters, co-founder of the Pink Floyd band, and his recent marriage to his fifth wife. Mostly, he claimed, others do the choosing for us, without us knowing it. Why do we want what we want – especially in love? It was a question that preoccupied René Girard. He has been a nightmare for no legal reasons, and we’ve patiently put up with him.She’s a “keeper.” Unlike the other four wives. He’s looking to start some propaganda campaign based on nothing factual. “Waters has shown no respect or interest in his neighbors and has taken aggressive action to satisfy his convenience - not waiting for the court to evaluate the litigation he initiated.”īut a friend of Waters told me of the neighbor, “This guy is crazy and wrong and sad.

“We went to court, and the judge issued an order blocking him from using the illegal road he built,” a neighbor told me. One neighbor claims a 15-foot hedge was ripped out, and $50,000 damage was done to his gardens, irrigation and in-ground lighting. But Krupinski tore down the chain and paved the right-of-way, turning it into Waters’ driveway. Krupinski started driving trucks and bulldozers down the right-of-way, so neighbors put a chain across the lane. The trouble started when Ben Krupinski, the contractor hired by Waters and his beautiful wife, Laura Durning, began building a 14,000-square-foot house with a swimming pool, a pool house and a sunken tennis court. The legendary British rocker has been at war for three years over a right-of-way that gives his neighbors on Quimby Lane access to Sag Pond. If good fences make good neighbors, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame needs to put another brick in the wall - the wall he should build around his property in the Hamptons, that is.
