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...local meatworks (Cockleshell). But most of all there's policeman's son Vic, who helps his mother clean rich people's houses after his dad leaves them, and later becomes a disenchanted lawyer. "In the end there was only a closed-down resignation," Vic says in Commission, "the adult making-do that I'd grown into...
...Bush, a lifelong New Hampshire, New Haven, Boston, Washington and Texas suburbanite, and with nary a whisper of rebuttal from his political opponents, has even managed to persuade most Americans that he’s lived on that ranch in Crawford his entire adult life, when he bought it in 1999 and only for use as a “summer White House.” Can you imagine how loud the cries of “phony” would have come had John Kerry attempted a similar real estate acquisition last year...
...Habbo's focus on teens and chatting is one reason, as is its price tag: it's free. Despite the no-charge admission, there are oodles of games to play and rooms to explore. Habbo also has some healthy rules: the site blocks all swearwords and has adult moderators. Teens can send private notes through the site, but exchanging real email or IM addresses is prohibited. (As with all online activity, kids find ways around the bans, so parental supervision is a must...
...that the predominantly liberal denizens of the world’s dominating film industry are homophobic. The problem is that by hiding representations of queers, be them human or shark, under a (pathetically transparent) veil of allegory reinforces queer-dom in culture as something that is adult, pornographic and too controversial to address directly. The question is, why can’t Lenny just be gay? Shark Tale’s makers already have him in drag and trying to cuddle with Will Smith, so what’s the problem...
Thus, Lenny the Shark can act just as gay as Jack in “Will and Grace,” but remember—this is a children’s film. The fact that Jack likes men is fine, but men liking men is a decidedly adult narrative element in Hollywood, and “Will and Grace” is marketed to adults. It’s fine that Angelina Jolie’s fish in Shark Tale is explicitly presented as a gold-digging, sexually charged vixen, but Hollywood fears that the mere mention...