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A banal red light plays over them; in the middle is a table, perhaps a sacrificial altar, and the whole cave is strewn with what seem to be mummified joints of meat. These are not identifiably human; if anything, they resemble small legs of lamb. But they suggest the dread...
Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech) wants her substance and style to be Golden Age Hollywood. Like Sybille Schmitz, the German actress on whose life and perplexing death the film is based, Veronika is an aging movie star on the way down and out. For Veronika, the '40s were all beautiful...
So would it have been better to drop the horse and concentrate solely on mythology? At Michigan State University, Mr. Stockman switched majors from agriculture to history, and is no farm boy when it comes to the humanities. But the humanities can let you down too. He might have used...
Burgess's pert narrator, 81-year-old Kenneth Toomey, is a bestselling novelist and celebrated homosexual, who relates the semen-drenched odyssey of his life--an odyssey which spans more than 60 years, four continents, two World Wars, numerous gay relationships, friendships with the likes of James Joyce and John...
In the '70s, TV opened its cyclops eye wide enough to recognize that Americans don't spend all of their time on the Ponderosa spread or in suburban kitchens. Some people actually work for a living, and those people became the focus for some of TV's...