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...BULWORTH With public disgust at our mendacious public life at critical mass, Warren Beatty imagines a U.S. Senator who starts telling the truth about the powerful. He's nuts, of course, but the star, director, co-writer and rapster is in a reckless mood. His maniacally skillful movie is that Hollywood rarity: political satire with real, wounding bite...
Defenders of the Pudding frequently make the mistake of claiming an audience finds males in drag funny, but not females in drag. The humor arises from the supposed "lowering" of the male and from a ritualized disgust with male-male love. Examples of these prejudices abound in recent scripts, as do examples of racial prejudice, unshakably welded to sexist and homophobic discourse...
...impeachment with video snippets of Peter Rodino?s much-praised House Committee, which performed the same task with President Nixon 24 years ago. This is highly ironic, since Rodino himself has recently declared that President Clinton?s actions do not meet the criteria of high crimes and misdemeanors. Republican disgust and frustration was everywhere. South Carolina firebrand Bob Inglis accused his guest Schlesinger ?- perhaps the most respected historian in America ?- of having "a great deal of sophistication but very little common sense." Cold comfort for committee chair Henry Hyde, then, that Monday?s Supreme Court ruling would allow...
...wonder the National Enquirer is up for sale. Circulation and profits have been falling, in part because the rest of the media have become so competitive on stories that in years past none would touch. It is not surprising that many Americans view the media with increased distrust and disgust...
...agent in charge of the case--played by that paragon of sexy stalwartness, Denzel Washington--whose heroism lies largely in his ability to reconsider hasty conclusions. They provide him with an assistant of Arab descent (a quietly smoldering Tony Shalhoub), caught in a conflict between duty and disgust when the soldiery snatches his son because he happens to match a terrorist profile. They also add to the team a sassy CIA operative (Annette Bening) who knows more about these terrorists than she can tell because she's in love with one of them. Even Bruce Willis' Army general, leading...