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...NICKELL AND BART EVERSON, A couple of goofy, twentysomething guys from Bloomington, Indiana, are sick of small fame. For three years their satirical public-access TV show has played to critical acclaim in the greater Bloomington area, but it has never attracted the kind of national attention that would capture a slot on network TV. Though local sponsors chip in enough to keep Everson clothed, housed and fed, Nickell still has to support himself as a waiter. So the pair set their sights beyond broadcast TV, beyond cable TV, to the computer networks. Last week, as their 85th episode, Global...
...interest in other worlds--namely alien abductions--has brought him both acclaim and extensive criticism...
Lately, the titles themselves have become inscrutable and genuinely unsymbolic. Despite the critical acclaim for the movie, to what exactly does the title "Reservoir Dogs" refer? A particularly glaring category embraces those titles that combine a gerund and a person's name. The first of these were acceptably succinct, e.g. "Educating Rita" and "Eating Raoul." Not too difficult to figure out what these films were about, no. But then, a couple of years ago, came that cinematic treasure known as "Regarding Henry." So, it's a film about Henry. What about Henry? No one could possible know...
Condé is a visiting professor at Harvard this semester, although this fact seems to be known by few inside the University itself. The administration in particular has been remarkably silent on the whole subject of Condé's arrival and the critical acclaim Crossing the Mangrove has received. The book was reviewed favorably in both the Washington Post and Publisher's Weekly...
Savage argues that the critical acclaim received by Reservoir Dogs and other violent films indicates just how far into the core of our society this moral nihilism has reached. It is hard to believe that someone could be so naive as to think that a "thumbs up" for a violent film is equivalent to a "thumbs up" for violence. But that seems to be his argument. He further suggests that the deleteriousness of today's "cutting edge" films is advanced by the fact that "there are no 'good guys,' no right side to root for." This is called film noir...