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...America for a black President. But maybe there's an opposite factor at work here too--the 50 Cent effect. The impact of the Obamas comes partly from the unspoken contrast to a decades-old media archive of images of black people as problems or threats, from news to cop shows to hip-hop. Broken families, perp walks, AKs and Cristal...
...assassins, and this cast has some seriously talented standouts. The best, by a lot, is Alison H. Rich ’09. She played Samuel Byck, who, in Feburary of 1974, tried to hijack a plane, crash it into the White House, and kill Nixon. Instead, after killing a cop and a pilot, he killed himself.Byck had a habit of taping insane monololgues and mailing them off to people like Leonard Bernstein ’39, and this is how Rich spent her time onstage. Alone, dressed in a Santa suit, scarfing down cokes and cheeseburgers, her charismatic madness caromed...
...last episodes of the Shield, whose series finale airs Nov. 25, corrupt former L.A. cop Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) takes a meeting with a drug boss. Mackey has brought him a big dope deal with another gang--secretly setting him up in order to secure for himself an immunity deal with the feds for a list of crimes that starts with murder and continues the length of your arm. The kingpin offers him a drink to take off the "edge." Mackey refuses. "The edge is where we live," he says. "People try to convince themselves otherwise. It's just...
Mackey, clearly, is a bad cop. (Or was, until he recently turned in his badge as the series began its endgame.) That would not be interesting for long if it weren't for the fact that Mackey was also a very good cop. He nails criminals other police couldn't get--albeit using shady deals and the occasional beatdown with a steel chain. He's a shameless racist, yet he lives to take down crooks who prey on one of L.A.'s poorest and brownest neighborhoods. He's a brutal thug and a loving...
...long-held conservative claim that liberal university professors are indoctrinating college students is finally being exposed for what it really is: a political cop-out that sounds compelling but is ultimately hollow. The New York Times recently investigated the contention, revealing that not one but three sets of researchers found that “professors have virtually no impact on the political views and ideology of their students.” The conclusive results of all three studies will hopefully lay to rest the baseless whines thrown up by conservatives whenever the youth vote is not going their way. Conservatives...