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...film's most substantial charge is that the ratings system has two chronic biases: toward films from the big studios and against indie movies; and toward violence and against sex. On the first count, Dick takes a deposition from Matt Stone, who created South Park with Trey Parker. Stone says that when their indie comedy Orgazmo was slapped with an NC-17, they were given no hints in cutting the film to get a less proscriptive rating. Yet two years later, when Paramount was behind their movie South Park: Bigger, Longer Uncut, the board, according to Stone, offered explicit help...
...matter how unpopular he may be, the President of the United States can usually count on a respectful, if not a warm, welcome from local officials wherever he visits in the nation. And when he travels to what is arguably the reddest state in the nation, Utah, he would normally expect a particularly hearty greeting. So it was more than a little surprising for the rest of the country when on Wednesday Rocky Anderson, the city's Democratic mayor, "welcomed" President Bush to Salt Lake City not with a slap on the back and a chat, but with an estimated...
...Catholic Church to start disputing Darwin's basic findings, which Pope John Paul II in 1996 called "more than a hypothesis." Moreover, advocates of the teaching in U.S. schools of intelligent design - which holds that nature is so complex that it must be God's doing - should not count on any imminent Holy See document or papal pronouncement to help boost their cause. This weekend's private retreat is an annual gathering of the Pope's former theology students to freely discuss one topic of interest, without the aim of reaching any set conclusion...
...unfathomable ideas. James Louis Ndirangu Nairobi Your special issue on Marco Polo's travels was fascinating. I was born in Scotland, migrated alone to Canada at 21 and have had the privilege of working and living in Libya, Hong Kong, Kyrgyzstan and Japan. As a global citizen, I count myself fortunate to have learned so much about humanity from the diverse places I have lived. Ian A.M. Robertson Kobe, Japan Liam Fitzpatrick's article, "Noodling together," about the intersection of Italian and Chinese food in Hong Kong, was interesting, but the notion that Hong Kong kids are "pestering their parents...
...work habits are abominable. He is busiest when the sky over the city is a grey suspicion of dawn, the hour when streetwalkers quit, grifters count their take, busted junkies begin to jitter with the inside sweats. He is a loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard ... HE IS HARD-MUSCLED, HANDSOME, HANDY WITH A SNUB-NOSE .38, AND HIS HIDE IS AS TOUGH...