Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Henry Dunster: His Life and Times--by Charles W. Allen, a seventh great-grandson of Henry Dunster, who was the founding president of Harvard. Sunday, April 5, 3 p.m. Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, 159 Brattle St. Free...
...percentage of the modern movie audience that knows and values such an antique and, even in its day, exotic film tradition is minuscule. What does the rest of the audience care that it exerts a continuing influence on films noirs and, for that matter, on Batman? For those people, Allen has recruited an astonishing cast, from Madonna to John Malkovich, from Jodie Foster to John Cusack, and they ground their symbolic characters in a recognizable reality...
Most important, Allen has inserted his own screen character, the wise schlemiel, into the proceedings, this time as a clerk recruited by a variety of vigilante bands, each with a theory about how to catch the night stalker. The clerk supplies what expressionism always lacked -- jokes. And his increasingly tense situation provides a sharp commentary on the fecklessness of ideological debate when a crisis is at hand...
Shadows and Fog ends -- perhaps a little too abruptly -- as so many of ! Allen's recent films do, with a touch of magic realism. But that too achieves a surprisingly apt stylistic fit. The scope of this short piece may be small, but it is also a vivid, vigorous and often entrancing movie...
Texas District Judge Michael McSpadden has a solution for rapists: castrate them. Steven Allen Butler, an accused rapist, had an offer for Judge McSpadden: Castrate me. Last winter, while he was on probation for molesting a seven-year-old girl, Butler was arrested for the rape of a 13-year-old. In October, after McSpadden aired his views on castration in the Houston Post, Butler's attorney proposed a deal. Instead of undergoing a trial in which he faced a plea-bargained 35-year prison sentence, Butler agreed to be surgically castrated if he could go free at once...