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After taking over the non-profit theatre three years ago, the duo have been busy preserving the Brattle’s independence through a bill that primarily appeals to cult audiences, featuring film series with themes such as Humphrey Bogart, Czech Fantasy and Horror and the Bugs Bunny Film Festival...
...facilities attract the best researchers in Renaissance art history studies who hole themselves up here for a year of study. It is something of a cult to visit, marked only with a discreet note on the electronic security gate that opens into paradise for art scholars. Respect for the founder abounds: one veteran of the center is fond of using the term “Berensonian” and situating time with the terms “pre-Berensonian,” “post-Berensonian.” There are no signs that this is part of Harvard...
...Dick?s stories were not filmed in his lifetime, which ended all too soon, at 53, in 1982. Since then the cult science-fiction writer has became famous, widely-read and much imitated on the big screen. Lawrence Sutin?s terrific biography paints a full-figure portrait of the demonized genius. Even if you?re not a Philaddickt, the book is a swell read. (The Dick column provoked an aggrieved e-mail, which I?ll get to later...
MEANWHILE IN ABU DHABI... Back With a Whimper Fans of Comical Ali - former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, whose reality-defying comments on the Iraq war earned him a cult following around the world - were delighted to hear that he was back on the air. Sadly, in his first appearance as a pundit for Abu Dhabi TV, al-Sahhaf limited himself to quite plausible comments on Saddam Hussein's arrest, which he didn't even bother to deny. It's not clear, however, whether he has conceded that there are in fact U.S. troops on the streets...
...superstar Jay-Z, with whom Dash launched the company from his Harlem apartment eight years ago, or even Dirt McGirt, a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard, another player on the Roc-A-Fella roster. Dash listens to a fiddle and starts to bop his head; he has settled on the 1980s cult hit Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners, whose Irish lead singer introduces the chorus by belting, "Toora loora toora...