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...Great Dictator. Chaplin made this satire on Fascism in 1939, and the polities are painful in their relative gentleness. But forget the occasional awkwardness: the man's heart was in the right place, and so were his incredible talents--particularly in a ballet of world conquest that the Fooey dances with a bouncing globe. With Jack Oakie. THE PLAZA...
...Great Dictator. Chaplin made this satire on Fascism in 1939, and the politics are painful in their relative gentleness. But forget the occasional awkwardness: the man's heart was in the right place, and so were his incredible talents--particularly in a ballet of world conquest that the Fooey dances with a bouncing globe. With Jack Oakie. THE PLAZA...
...Planet of the Apes( 1968) and its sequels. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), have already taken in $135 million at box offices round the world and become the objects of a minor cult. Next month. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes will find a huge readymade audience of ape addicts, including many intellectuals who enjoy the series' broad, cartoon-like satire of human faults. Keeping both the cultists and drive-in trade happy has taxed the ingenuity of the creators. The second film was planned...
...pictures have had deliberate racial overtones that are far from flattering to whites; the oppression of the apes has been equated with the denial of civil rights to U.S. blacks. In Conquest, the racial parallel will be explicit. The climactic uprising, says Dehn. "is a little bit like the Watts riot...
...cheeks. Then the questions start: How? How do I get a job, get a lawyer, get my husband to understand what I really feel, get courage? The hostility I get from men, saying that all I need is a good f- or a good beating-always some kind of conquest-or I must be a lesbian. And the lascivious part; the personally devastating things that people will just walk up to you and say. Even male politicians don't get the kind of viciousness that women get as routine. It is like being gang-banged in public...