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...Francie never fully realizes how this imagery has eased him across the line separating delinquency from criminality. The scariest thing about this difficult, duplicitous movie is the invincibility of Francie's ignorance on this point and the vivid gloss this offers on our unending concern about the power of crud culture to bend vulnerable minds to its heedless will...
...good news is that for the first time since they were new, you can see Keaton's films without having to peer through the accumulated crud of illegal dupings. Among many centennial tributes, including Marion Meade's thorough, poignant new biography, Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase (HarperCollins), the best present is Kino Video's release of 10 cassettes that include all the great works, spiffily restored. amc, the cable movie network, will show the whole oeuvre on Oct. 4, Keaton's birthday...
...became a journalist because of John Conway," said Rosenfeld, who is deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Post. "Through his own example, he introduced me to the notion that an individual's sensibilities could come to terms with the crud world outside the comfortable cocoon in which many of us had lived...
...other channels are putting on what was once available only on public TV, public TV is increasingly putting on pop crud. Why is it so civilizing to underwrite broadcasts of Wall Street Week, Cary Grant movies, John Bradshaw new age lectures, the powerfully annoying Barney -- or Lawrence Welk reruns, which are now shown on 77% of PBS stations. Chief PBS programmer Jennifer Lawson says, disingenuously, that the Welk shows are legitimate as "an alternative to violence and gratuitous sex on commercial television." Local stations find it's those shows at the not-exactly-Susan-Sontag end of things that inspire...
...dons and high-culture fogies complained that culture is in decline? The pronouncement is always delivered with a mixture of fretfulness and self-congratulation: Americans aren't interested in Shakespeare, won't listen to Stravinsky -- and it's because of television, Hollywood, all the meretricious easy-access audiovisual crud. In fact, a strain of cerebral artiness is suddenly proliferating in the mainstream, a funny autodeconstruction that in the past decade has moved from European literature (Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler), to West End theater (Michael Frayn's Noises Off), to quality American...