The film was described as "seventy-six seriocomic minutes of this poet/actor's buttocks absorbing light, attention, debris" by Wayne Koestenbaum, in Art Forum.
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In the 2006 film Idiocracy, a theatrical film from the year 2505 is depicted called "Ass" which, like Taylor Mead's Ass, consists of a pair of buttocks for 90 minutes.
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The situation of Buridan's ass was given a mathematical basis in a 1984 paper by American computer scientist Leslie Lamport, in which Lamport presents an argument that, given certain assumptions about continuity in a simple mathematical model of the Buridan's ass problem, there will always be some starting conditions under which the ass will starve to death, no matter what strategy it takes.
A typical spiv has been described as having: A duck's arse haircut, Clark Gable moustache, rakish trilby hat, drape-shape jacket,, and loud garish tie ... which all represented a deliberate snook cocked at wartime austerity.
In this documentary, Praunheim relies on extensive interviews with Brown, as she recounts her collaboration with Andy Warhol, Taylor Mead and others, as well as her friendships with Holly Woodlawn, and Divine.