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...disturbing "tonality," according to the film's director, Darren Lynn Bousman. "This movie is too dark?" asks Bousman, a 27-year-old Elvis Costello look-alike from Kansas. "That's what I set out to do! It's a horror movie." Before altering Saw III to garner a more box-office-friendly R-rating, Bousman called up another director who specializes in movies people watch through their fingers, Rob Zombie, the tattooed heavy-metal vocalist. "I told him to talk to the MPAA as a filmmaker," says Zombie, 41, whose depraved gorefest The Devil's Rejects contains what many consider...
...want to clarify Middlebury College’s admissions policy as described in your editorial “A Box of Their Own?” (Oct. 13). While Middlebury College welcomes students from diverse backgrounds, it has no admissions policy related to sexual orientation. Middlebury accepts only those applicants who have demonstrated evidence that they will succeed at the college academically and who will make positive contributions to its undergraduate community...
...bathroom or to wash his calloused hands with bottled water. It’s an intense focus that leads some to erroneously conclude that he is blind. He doesn’t even look up when a toddler puts a dollar bill in the empty Kleenex box he keeps on the ground.Most pedestrians rush by, but a few tourists congregate beside him, listening.“I don’t like the sound of it. It’s very freaky,” says Eduardo B. Alonso, a visitor from Spain. “The sound is very...
...disheartened to see the editorial “A Box of Their Own” (Oct. 13). I am a gay alum and I am concerned about your decision to call being gay a “private” matter. Being gay is not a “private” matter in so far as discrimination is concerned. I am not entitled to many of the same rights that heterosexuals are—I cannot serve in the military and still live my life honorably, I cannot marry, and in many states, I am not even entitled...
...instead of yesterday’s news. Updating a show often leads to a schizophrenic production of an otherwise masterfully crafted work. Why mess with success?Well, partially to make money. New York producers have no qualms about infusing vintage shows with contemporary vigor, so long as the weekly box office figures creep inexorably towards seven-digit territory. A Broadway-bound revival of “Company,” which features an updated book, represents one such hybridization of the mothballed and the modern. Directed by John Doyle—whose recently transformation of Sondheim?...